washington. we begin this hour with the tempers flaring in nashville. where emotions are raw politics, much like the rest of the us bitterly divided republicans in the state house there voted to expel lawmakers were breaking decorum during a raucous but peaceful protest demanding gun reform that protest ignited by the nashville school shooting that left three adults and three young students dead. how the expulsion vote ended, has only added to the anger representatives justin pearson and justin jones. who are black, were expelled their fellow protester and colleague gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by one vote. cnn correspondent isabelle rose salas joins us now with the latest isabelle what happens now? i guess there is some hope that these two lawmakers who were expelled might get their seats back. and that is certainly a very real possibility. here, jim. right now the spotlight is on filling those two vacant statehouse seats, and what we re seeing is local lawmak
bombs itself hitting a city of more than 400,000 people, leaving a massive crater. and blowing a car onto a roof. so just how effective is the russian war machine? accidental bombing that is again raising that question. deadline day for a case with huge implications for the entire country is supreme court decision could drop it any moment on medication , abortion and the fate of a pill that millions of women have used for more than two decades. the worst kept secret in washington, president biden said to announce his 2024 campaign next week with the election of mere 564 days away that went fast. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. a powerful explosion overnight right in the heart of belgorod, russia near the ukrainian border , not the work of ukrainian forces, but a russian fighter jet with the brief flying through the air. the kremlin has acknowledged that one of its own warplanes accidentally dropped t
Almost every day in the United States senate giving a floor speech in his opening, where he would talk about the importance of this issue. So its a very big de for minority leader get our Mitch Mcconnell as well thats a really good point. All right, lets see what happens. Its good to see you, lauren. Thank you very much a new our of Cnn News Central and our special Live Coverage of Donald Trumps trial back in court starts right . Now cnn breaking news coverage. Of the criminal trial of donald trump here in New York City. I am not too far from the courthouse right now where trump is about to face a Hearing Being on a gag order that is before testimony resumes the first witness who will be there is david. He was on the Stand Briefly Yesterday he will get right back on that stand at 11 00 a. M. Today. But first very shortly, we can see donald trump walk through these halls, enter the courtroom, and then a hearing im going to if he has violated a gag order over the last several days with a
about nine times what it brought in in sales last year by comparison, trump media is trading at more than 1,400 times it sells last year and jim, look, this is not a trivial matter, right? it means trump s stake is worth around 4 billion. in this company. and there s a lot of real people who do own stock here and they would get hurt if gravity sets all right, we ll be watching that madigan. thanks very much. they should you relied on cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, right? now. trump s defense team is launching yet another attack on the special counsel in that case, jack smith and his office. it s the former president s latest bid to have the classified documents case tossed out. right now, judge aileen cannon is holding a confidential hearing. we re told with both sides ahead of today s public hearing at follows monday s back-to-back hearings were tensions flared between the judge and the prosecution at one point, cannon saying, quote, i don t appreciate you
Over here. it s quite surprising jim. and the reason it s so surprising is that these aircraft the s u. 30 34 is designed to go ahead and actually use a state be used as a standoff weapon. so as a standoff weapon it can use these missiles to go attack targets very far away when this weapon when this bomb came off, it was probably a weapon that was designed in the old soviet era and had been modified with gps and wings. and as a result of that those wings probably failed to deploy and it instead of going straight forward. it went down and hit an intersection right in the middle of belgorod . the us has this has helped as well. they re called j dams. you basically put some, you know wings on there that you can control. so what you re saying in effect it was meant to fire somewhere over here, stand off over the horizon and instead dropped on on russian territory . that s one possible scenario. the other scenario is that it was a deliberate act because it hit right in the intersection of a