politicsnation tonight s lead, a dangerou precedent. robert right now, the eyes o the nation are on tennessee, o the eve of a vote that may reinstate one of the two democrats expelled from thei seats in the state house las week and tomorrow, a county counselor in nashville wil vote on the next step for on of those vacancies a majority of its members on record saying they will vote t reinstate former state representative justin jones, along with justin pearson, was voted out by republica legislators for protesting gun violence on the state hous floor earlier this month the first time in tennesse history that house members hav been expelled for chamber rule violations we will hear from jones in jus a moment here. just as we heard last nigh from tennessee state representative - johnson, a white democrat wh narrowly escaped her own expulsion. and she pulled no punches in our assessment of why her tw male colleagues did not. of course, along with th racial overtones of thes exposu
marked its first 100 days in power. democratic congressman gre casar is here to help us grade their work plus, double trouble special counsel jack smith s investigations into trump ar both ramping up, and his forme top aides are finall testifying before grand juries then, a worst of the wee first. ted cruz makes his debut appearance facing off agains lindsey graham who s gonna take the top spot? i am ayman mohyeldin let s get started. bear with me here for a moment, professor ayma mohyeldin has some grading t do this week, kevin mccarthy an the maga-controlled hous marked 100 days in power, 10 days of score settling for far right virtue signaling, an circus like hearings at a pace that would put the wrangling brothers to shame. it has been such a hectic 10 days that it is easy to forget that all the individua episodes of bedlam the gop unleashed in the holes o congress just a few short months ago, house republicans required a excruciating 15 ballots to elect kevin mcc
reports. we begin with breaking news on two deadly mass shootings in this week s five hours i louisville, kentucky two killed and four wounded an in dadeville, alabama, fou dead in a quote multitude of injuries let s join shaquille - with the latest. jack, welcome. what are you hearing about the latest from the shooting i alabama? we expect to get up som officials in that hour but i sounds like that press conference has been postpone at this point. what we know is pretty muc what you said at this point. in dadeville, alabama, fou people were killed in multiple a multitude of others injure in a shooting that happened at a birthday party in danville alabama. again, this is an extremel small community, tight-knit, a it has been described. we did hear from officials earlier this morning during an emotional press conference, an one of the fears here, we don know who the suspect is and we don t know what weapon was used, one of the fears that multiple students, multiple young
okay, the good liar confronting nra attendees with facts. it s just a taste of what they heard. i ll be talking to them late on in the. our you don t want to miss o what some of them got. they re also ahead, the latest information on a leak of classified documents and the 21-year-old at the center of i all. and then asked the supreme court faces wednesday midnight deadline of its stay involving a key abortion pill, republica 2024 candidate, wants to tal about everything else except abortion rights. we have that coming up as. wobbly begin once again with two mass shootings overnight daybell, alabama, four peopl are dead and multiple others injure after a shooting at a birthday party. two others were killed i louisville, kentucky, afte shots were tired there into crowd of hundreds gathered in park the shaq brewster is following both cases shaq, let s talk through som of this. here we are talking about mass shootings in the country starting first in alabama, i m still waiting
biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness tampering by trump world was shocking, it wasn the last week hear about it. in december, the committee released transcripts o closed-door depositions with witnesses. through those depositions we found out that former whit house aide, mark meadows, an star january six com