democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee
stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
least a little of both. first shimon revealed that the school district police department had hired a former state trooper under investigation for corrections during the massacre. i should say lack of actions during the massacre. and shimon unveiled this video of her outside the school on th day of the massacre, talking to other officers. listen. an officer asked if her children attend robb elementary and lozano s response: yeah, my son is in daycare. he s not old enough. no, is my son had been in there i would not have been outside, promise you that. she said if her son had been inside the school, local i woul not have been outside him i promise you that. so last night we learned that that officer has been fired by th e school district to be fired the day after shimon try to get answers about why she been hire in the first place, given she was under investigation by the state. shimon had tried to get answers from the uvalde school dist district s director of student serv
it s important to understan that there is a sentence o white grievance that is fuelin the political discourse in america right now. it has to be confronted an addressed authentically. there is no mistake as you hav already said as to why would happen today happened. it s important to understand there are two parts of thi conversation they are both related. there is a conversation abou race which is taking place as we have already alluded to, this is an attack on democracy i don t care what your political affiliation is o what your ideology is. if you are now outraged at the way in which tennessee voter had their votes undermined and the decisions undermined by th actions of the state legislature, you cannot be i the same space the two things cannot exis together they do not work in the same way. justin, what are you goin to do when you wake up tomorrow? eat breakfast and go back t
the roadmap that proves, ordered least intends to prove the intent of fraud is there the intent to commit the other crimes is there. when you read, it it goes hand in hand with those 34 counts i that indictment. as usual, donald trump ha floated some possible defenses out there leading up to today. one of the defenses of floated by one of his lawyers in the last few weeks has been, he wa not doing this because of th campaign he was doing this to protect melania, to protect his wife from this crushing information if you were to ever get this information. however, in the indictment i says, in the description of th actions it says, donald trum said to michael cohen, delay the payment to stormy daniel if possible. delay the payment to her i till after the election because,