republicans expel a democrat from the house legislature for protesting gun violence on the house floor right now to more democratic lawmakers are also staring down. expulsion votes, also breaking escalating violence in the middle east. israel striking gaza tonight after facing a barrage of rocket attacks, the israeli ambassador to the united states is standing by to join me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we begin our coverage tonight in nashville, tennessee, where a democratic lower democratic lawmaker, a democratic lawmaker was just expelled from the state legislature after protesting gun violence on the house floor. cnn s ryan young has been on the scene all day. for us, ryan. there are two more democrats who are also in jeopardy of being ousted tonight. what is the latest in nashville? alex. people are exasperate
um, rely on the fact that he made a compelling argument and that compelled speech. you know, she reached their practices, and some of them have the courage to break range and do what they knew of snow was the right thing. and just moments ago we saw justin pearson at the podium. we believe we assume he s still inside. speaking is extremely compelling speaker but now that we have had these split results of johnson surviving the expulsion vote jones being expelled. what do you think that means for representative pearson community? i think harrison is. a young man. he has a great potential year. he s going to be a one in already is a wonderful legislator. he would make his case he was fighting for the people for all the young people that still represented here today, and i m encouraged by that last both that he, too, will be able to sustain this expulsion. and if he is expelled , and we know that
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