republicans expelled to blac to democrats for protesting gu deaths as the texas governor promises to pardon the man o killing a black live protester. plus, a member of the centra part exonerated on crimina defendant donald trump and a closer look at the gop - providing three of trips t supreme court justice clarence thomas and his nazi artifact collection if you ve been watching this show since we launched over tw years ago, you know the core enterprise of this program has been to sound the alarm on the threats to american democracy. and to underscore had the gran old republican party constitutes the greatest threa of all this week, we ve got fou stories illustrate exactly that, indeed, we are sadly spoiled for choice let s start in tennessee where it man accused of molestin multiple young girls was ouste from the state legislature wait, no he wasn t back in 2019, after thos allegations came to light, the republican s the point to lead the education subcommittee this week, th
efficacious and safe way he says, the coroner s better. i, as a single judge no better i know where the expertise and the science resides. and this is gonna go back to the supreme court. and i m very concerned that th role on this in the way they did the epa case they re pejorative characterizations, the administrative state, as simpl in oppressive collection o agencies that runner-up shot over american states and american visual rights needs t be reigned in when in fact w have case after case, in which well-trained civil servants in this agency, who know what they re talking about put in policies that are good for public how with, good for civi society, and good for women. south i think this is part of broader role that people reall need to dig their feted an resist because this is the first of a longer battle. one former resistance, is you don t have to enforce the, stuff you have no implicatio to enforce we meagan hatcher-mays, wajaha
involved the suggestion that i ever worked to undermine the interests of the united states is false. yet the democrats keep skrut nying donald trump, from the former president of ukraine to moscow and wonder if they will find anywhere along here any evidence of something truly nefarious going on, or just what the white house has said all along, only a witch hunt. tom foreman, thank you. back with me now, cnn political commentator, and wajaha ali, from the new york times. roger stone, paul maa fort saying they will sevetestify. these are all people with tangental relationships with the campaign, paul manafort served
on how the white house responds. ana? athena jones reporting. i want to talk more about president trump s wiretapping allegations. they re not going away and as athena pointed out, they re escalating to an international audience now. it s likely things could get worse come monday when fbi director comey testifies publicly. joining me, new york times commentator, wajaha ali and managing editor of cnnpolitics.com zachary wolf and james jeffrey, former u.s. ambassador to iraq and turkey and a visiting fellow at waesht institute. zach, first to you, what answers could we have on monday? it will be the first opportunity for the fbi direct tore weigh in from a really official standpoint. it s pretty clear there s no evidence that he s going to know bombshell, it seems like we would have heard a bombshell to back up these claims that trump keeps talking about.
president of the united states engaged himself in one of these investigations, there would be hell to pay. that s true of the obama administration as much as it is true of the trump administration. presidents do not under almost all circumstances get involved in these things. so foreign officials looking at this, are wondering what s going on. is the president telling the truth? can they believe him when he talks about not korean preparations for an icbm or something iran is doing in yemen? this is very serious stuff. i want to read one other thing, speaker ryan telling cnn on thursday, we have not seen any evidence that there was a wiretap or a, is it fisa or fisa that you just said? fisa. court order on somebody in trump tower. so again, this is coming from a republican. who is privy to some of the information. wajaha to you. the hearing on monday is going to cover the broader issue of russia s meddling in last year s