That the United States Congress Passed the freedom to vote act, and the john lewis Voting Rights advancement act. [applause] the fight for freedom, today and states across our nation, extremists propose and passed laws that attack the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body. Laws that would make no exceptions for rape or incest. Here in alabama, they attack the freedom to use ivf treatments. Women and couples, denied the ability to fulfill their dream, of having a child. And consider the irony, on the one hand, these extremists tell women they do not have the freedom to and an unwanted pregnancy. Extremists tell women they do not have the freedom to start a family. Let us agree, one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs, to agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body. [applause] the fight for freedom, that every person in our nation has a right to be free from the horror of gun violence. [applause] and yet today, these e
very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
right now, the breath of brutal video footage of the police encounter that ended in the death of tyre nichols has created a situation too big for the nation and its lawmakers to ignore. in washington, a congressional conversation around policing reform may be getting a shot. the congressional black caucus today calling for a meeting with president biden to discuss policing reform. as activists like myself are wondering whether nichols would still be alive if the last congress had passed legislation that emerged after george floyd s murder. and in memphis for the five officers now facing second degree murder charges in the killing enough tyre nichols. it is now set for february 17th. and in the so-called scorpion unit, those officers belonged to and memphis has now been disbanded. and in new york, after hosting the parents enough tyre nichols here on politicsnation, i m thinking about the eulogy of their son, i would deliver as head of the next tunnel action network in memph
santos. that is a new development, and a significant one, and that s worth watching in the days ahead. that s gonna do it for us, that s time for the last word with ali velshi. good evening ali,. that evening, my friend. i appreciate you reminding us about medusa, in the early days the, war your team really relied on medusa, to get the best reporting we can, get from people understand what s going on russia. these are the little pockets of resistance around which people cling. they come to, them out of medusa can stay alive, a number of russians who are going where this war, they don t really understand why they re in it in the first place, they re feeling the economic effects of it. they got to go and get good information from places like medusa. so i think it s important we draw tension to them, and i m grateful for it. thank you for saying, so and it also said that the russian diaspora israel thing, and be unable to get russian language, real news, independent news
violations, but because doj s apparently opened their own criminal investigation into the congressman, so they want the fcc to defer to that criminal mastication. there s been lots of news recently about republican congressman and a con man george santos, but doj trying to clear the field of other law enforcement agencies, because they ve got in those types of potential prosecution, that s a new development in a significant one that is worth watching in the days ahead that s gonna do it freshman elbow, now it s time for the last word the great ali velshi is in for lawrence, communing ali. i appreciate your minus by medusa, in the early days the war her team really depended amadou city give us some of the best reporting we can get from people who understood what was going on in russia these are the little pockets of resistance around which people cling. they come to, them out of medusa can stay alive, a number of russians who are going where this war, they don t really und