joining me now is nbc legal analyst lisa reuben, along with the president of naral pro choice america we are waiting for them right now, but i want to let you know we re following both of these two stories so we will have the speech that we know vice president kamala harris gave at this university in tennessee, that was happening while we were waiting to come on the air, and this ruling came down just a moment ago let me tell you a little bit about this judge in his writings, matthew kacsmaryk out of texas has described being transgender as a mental disorder. he s called homosexuality disordered he has had sexual revolutionaries have made the unborn child and marriage secondary tothe desires of liberated adults he sided with a christian father that anyone under the age of 18 in the state of texas needs approval by their parent before getting birth control. he is a university of texas law school graduate who has focused his attention on the legal foundations for aborgtion righ
protest for gun control. their republican colleagues called it breaking the rules of decorum. the lead starts right now. debate and voting underway right now, as tennessee state house republicans try to expel three statehouse democrats, they protested on the statehouse floor in the wake of the nashville school shooting, but should they really be kicked out of office plus airspace over northern israel shut down after rockets were intercepted, fired from lebanon. this is just one day after israeli police raided a mosque in jerusalem all of the moves, sparking fears of a greater conflict and luxury trips. travel on yachts, all on the dime of a republican mega donor, a new bombshell report alleging that supreme court justice clarence thomas accepted at all and disclosed almost none of it. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start in our national lead any moment now the republican controlled tennessee state house will be voting on whether to expel three state house democr
russia and other countries taking aim at the u.s. dollar. promising an alternative currency of their own. then there s china itself inserting itself and more conflicts. playing everything from peace maker. we have you covered on growing frick tions in taipei. welcome. i m neil cavuto. we have a busy show. let s go to aishah hasnie on taipei trying to see what s going on. aishah? hi, neil. good to see you. so absolutely we expected to see some kind of response from china to these back-to-back meetings not only with kevin mccarthy but now this delegation that landed today. they re due to stay in taiwan for about three days. that is a number of days that china plans to inspect ships that are passing through the taiwan strait. on top of that, the people s liberation army, navy sent three ships to surround this island a few hours before the u.s. deligation landed. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul is leading this delegation. i asked him about those chinese ships duri
following the story. the protest happened one week ago and three democratic state representatives got in the well and held things up for about 50 minutes and used a bull horn, led chants from the crowd. that really enraged and angered a lot of republican members. they have a super majority. one week later they have voted to expel one of the three. voting pretty much on party lines about 72-25. they have the two-thirds majority. it s likely they re going to do the same thing to the other two. many voices in the house argued for moderation saying expulsion for a rules violation was too extreme. they call it had a nuclear option. but basically the argument was made by the speaker it was a mutiny and dishonor and it was an insurrection and one democrat is out and it s likely two more will be out by the end of the night. angry crowd around that state house and really lawmaker haves needed help from state troopers to get in and out of the building today and tensions continue to r
happening now to support pearson. any doubts about whether he will be reinstated. yeah that s what they believe that pearson will be reinstated . the energy is behind him, as you can feel with this yeah that s what they believe that pearson will be reinstated . the energy is behind him, as you can feel with this crowd that is marching a mile from the lorraine motel. all the way to the county. permission dude, look this direction that tennessee three are actually walking just ahead of us. this is actually been a nutrition giving with this weather right now because the weather has been so hot that several people have sort of passed out on this walk. we do know that they are planning to move people toward that county commission. we believe that will last about two hours, and then they will send back those minutes to the state capital. what a week. this has been to see democracy play out this way, with all three of these leaders now being catapulted into the top of the country, b