they saw something they never have. before today, the house judiciary committee traveled up from washington to hold what they call the field hearing in manhattan. it was supposedly focused on crime in manhattan, which is interesting because the murder rate in manhattan is below the murder rate in washington, d. c. where the house judiciary committee is based. and it s lower than a number of big cities in republican controlled states like tampa or jacksonville or dallas or nashville or tulsa, oklahoma. so why did the judiciary committee headed by republican jim jordan come here because manhattan is where district attorney alvin bragg works and he brought charges against donald trump and jim jordan s doing all he can to protect the former president and ensure he becomes the next president of the united states. at the hearing today. jordan attacked district attorney brag , calling him soft on crime in response, bragged called today s hearing a political stunt and last week brag,
that s 184494200. wellcare medicare done well, melanie s nana in washington and this is cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with the formal expulsion of two black state democrats from tennessee s house of representatives. the expulsions coming a week after they let a gun reform protests from the house floor in response to a school shooting that killed six, including three children in nashville, justin jones and justin pearson. we re also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson. you see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what s next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we re hearing from t
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
closed captioning brought to you by flexible family of products will swift here this is flex superglue gets like super glue and the entire flexible family of products at flex seal products .com. moments ago, a vigil for the three adults and 39 year olds who were murdered at the covenant school two days ago ended in nashville. a city still in mourning. tonight was a moment for people to gather to console and to remember. first lady jill biden was in nashville tonight. earlier she placed flowers at the memorial for the six who were killed three children, all nine years old ali scruggs, the daughter of covenant presbyterian churches, senior pastor evelyn dick house and william kidney and the adults the head of the school. katherine coons. age 80. excuse me, 60 mike hill, who s 61, the school custodian. and cynthia peak, who was also 61, a substitute teacher. a city councilman now says he believes that koons may have died trying to protect the children. he says a witness told him
disney magic how the company and an outgoing florida oversight board quietly stripped away power from governor ron desantis . this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you, everyone for being here. i m amra walker in for kate baldwin. we begin in kentucky, where nine u. s service members are dead after two black hawk helicopters crashed overnight. these photos from local radio station w. kedzie show the crash site and trick county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee border. now, in these photos, smoke and flames and what looks like to be a piece of the wreckage. can be seen. officials say the choppers were on a routine. what was supposed to be a routine training mission with night vision goggles when they collided. let s get straight now to diane gallagher live at fort campbell, kentucky. diane what are we learning? i know. officials just held a news conference. that s right, aymara and look, they ve said that they have a safety team coming in from fort rucke