you know, drink to a little bit done. great assignment, don have fun this morning continues right now. mike pence, headed to the witness stand and the boj s january 6th investigation. this would be the first time that a former vice president testifies about his former boss and criminal investigation. do you think that there will be more than he can shed light on, particularly when it comes to his conversations with the former president, having the vice president of united states with a special counsel under oath, i think adds enormous value. take our support for the people of taiwan seriously, the white house has tried to downplay the historic nature of the meeting, trying not to overreact, threatening to fight back of violation of its sovereignty. the speaker of the house, there is no place that china is going to tell me where i can go or who i can speak to. concern is mounting in the middle east after israeli police and palestinians clashed at one of islam s holiest sites d
that and more, we will be following all day on cnn, cnn s new central, thank you for joining us in its new central covering all of these stories, and it starts right now. we re keeping a close eye on breaking news is israel says dozens of rockets have been fired into the region fired into israel from lebanon. we re live there in moments will they be expelled one hour from now? republicans in tennessee will begin a vote to kick out three democratic state lawmakers. this all has to do with the debate over gun reforms and protests after nashville school shooting. and a training exercise gone wrong. in boston, the fbi breaks down the door of a hotel room throws. the occupant in handcuffs, pushes him into a shower and interrogates him for an hour. there s one problem, though. the fbi made a mistake those stories and many more right here on cnn news, central . alright the breaking news, everyone a major escalation in the middle east right now is really defense forces say dozens of
at the intersection of the second amendment, and the first protesters are rallying at the tennessee state capitol as three democratic lawmakers could lose their jobs today for doing this a week ago. democratic state representatives . justin jones, justin pearson and gloria johnson, using a bullhorn during a gun control rally at the capitol to call for action in the wake of last month s deadly shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead. the three democratic lawmakers are accused of breaking house rules at any moment. we expect their colleagues to vote on whether or not they should be expelled. cnn national reporter ryan young is live for us in nashville ryan lots of noise still ongoing, a lot of protesters that were with the lawmakers one week ago are back there today to support these three legislatures. yeah we really seen this swell fred. in terms of protesters, we have thousands earlier outside. now you can see this small crowd that s still behind me. som
from s&p sea world headquarter here in new york welcome to alex witt reports we begin this hour outside a serving court in washingto d.c. there you see protesters gathering, it s happening today, over the next few days as th showdown over reproductive rights returns to the nation s highest court. mifepristone, the drug at th center of this legal battle, remains available to women across the u.s., at least unti wednesday, while the court way the latest gop led efforts t ban the drug a new reaction this hour t comments made at the nra convention, including donald trump s remarks that mas shootings are not a gu problem. here s what to advocates for reform told my colleague jonathan capehart. camilla congress, and to se the cowardice from my go colleagues is just gross everyone is too comfortable. we walk around with our suits, we talk to our donors, w raised all of this money, an then we go on banded kne pandering to the nra are you kidding me the united states o america s o
good evening pete leading a group of republican democratic members of congress meeting but the taiwanese president at the reagan library, speaker mc carthy said it is incumbent on the us to continue arming taiwan to strengthen economic cooperation and to promote what he called shared values with th self ruled island that they continue to threaten. between the people of taiwan is america matter up found important to the free world and it is critical to maintain economic freedom, peace, and regional stability. for her part the taiwanese president painted taiwan as one of the front lines of the ongoing battle between democrac and autocracy. we find ourselves in a world where democracy is and we need to keep the beacon of freedom shining and it canno be understated. the meeting with leaders speak your mccarthy was following in the footsteps of his predecessor, nancy pelosi, went even further utterly and figuratively by traveling to taiwan for her meeting but the react