good morning, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 9th. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your easter sunday with us. i don t i don t really remember the easter speeches from childhood. i just know i gave a lot of them. did you used to speeches? i remember that some of that may be in a break. all right. here s what we re watching this morning a weekend of religious celebrations, but also escalating tensions in the middle east. the israeli military has carried out retaliatory attacks in syria, and we re live in jerusalem, with the latest on that happening now. pope francis delivering his easter message after presiding over mass at the vatican, his message to the world is coming up. the department of justice is investigating after trove of apparent u. s intelligence documents were posted on social media. what the documents show and the potential implications for the u. s and its allies. we got a chance. and oklaho
in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in nashville, where key vote is likely tomorrow on one of the lawmakers expelled from the tennessee legislature, the national city council could vote on whether to send justin jones. you see right there, right back to his seat. he was one of the three state tennessee lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority. for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead to expelled. lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by a single vote. let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabel rosalia is isabel. um the national city council would have to suspend its rules to vote tomorrow on jones. what are you hearing at this point? does it sound like they might have the votes to put them right back into the state house? so ji
fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that
legislators. michael smerconish in philadelphia. it s hard not to jump to conclusions about the tennessee state house. the r word it needs to be reserved for clear and convincing cases of prejudice, discrimination or antagonism. against the person or people based on their membership in a racial or ethnic group. after all, there is an appropriate permanence to labeling conduct as racist. but from the outside looking in this short does seem to be such a case. three tennessee state legislators who engaged in roughly the same behavior were meted out disparate treatment. just days after 39 year olds and three adults were murdered in a mass shooting at the covenant school in nashville. these legislators led what was described as a disorderly gun reform chant that interrupted house proceedings. there seems to be no debate as to whether they broke the rules. justin jones of nashville, justin pearson of memphis and gloria johnson of knoxville the only difference between the behavior o
to 70% off guilt .com today. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john sitting in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. and today a new jobs report that seems well, just right. hiring cool. somebody is still strong and the unemployment rate matches a 50 year low just one month, but it s a report that tracks the feds blueprint for timing inflation. yet some new cnn poll numbers will share with you tell us most of you. you ll see the economy as weak and half of you tell us your bottom line is worse today. in the year ago , plus his timeline and no one else is. joe biden delays big choices about 2024, who delete his campaign where to put the headquarters and when to make his reelection bid official and is it a moment or a movement republicans exile two of tennessee s youngest black lawmakers from the statehouse over a protest demanding stricter gun laws. we thought they won today, but they don t realize they don t realize what they have started a movement. the