fraud. stone may regret letting the cameras roll in that room. there is new video from that session and we have it for you exclusively later tonight. we begin with news on a story that i can tell you some on the right are hoping the nation forgets. the kind of story they re hoping that you news viewers and citizens will forget because we live in a time of growing inequality and corruption. take supreme court justice thomas blatant taking and grifting gifts from insiders, or billionaires, shaping our politics and clashing with anyone who dares disagree with the power they think they bought over our democracy, or this ongoing rolling trumpian takeover of a political party which has resulted in rallying the gop around rank, transactional calculus, self-interest as a kind of new norm to be minimized or even defended. and i ll tell you this as introduction to some really important stuff we re about to show you. the modern republican party has long embraced capitalism, sure. bu
it s not even the only pending case involving trump in th state of new york. at some point this coming week donald trump is expected t travel back to new york from florida to be deposed in relation to a civil lawsui filed by the new york attorney general, letitia james last september, james filed 250 million dollar lawsuit against trump, his three eldes children, and the trum organization, accusing them of fraudulent business practices. in an earlier deposition for james s investigation last summer, trump refused to answe most questions, pleading the fifth more than 400 times. then, on april 25th of thi year, just 16 days from now, a trial is scheduled to begin in one of the two civil lawsuit that been filed against trum by the author and columnist, e jean carroll a few years ago, carol published a book in which sh accused the former president o raping her in the dressing roo of a luxury manhatta department store in the mi 1990s. trump denied careles accusations, saying they
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
and the gop s dog and pony sho comes to manhattan jim jordan s desperate attempt to attack the man holdin donald trump to account. good evening, i m mehdi hassan tomorrow morning in a court in wilmington, delaware, fox will finally be put on trial for it lies the media giant is facing landmark defamation case fro dominion voting systems, who allege that fox knowingl pushed false claims that they re voting machines rig th 2020 election. they didn t. and the days and weeks after that election, fox and its hos devoted hours of primetime t coverage to the voting machine company. to minion voting systems. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems now, over two years later fox terrific tucker carlson, and sean hannity, and even found a rupert murdoch me if i themselves on the witnes stand. and the stakes here could no be higher.
more mass shooting including another one overnight in alabama at a birthday party. new flash points in a fight fo abortion rights, and mor disturbing revelations about supreme court justice clarence thomas we will dive into those issues during our exclusive interview with senator bernie sanders, coming up first. plus the daily shows jorda klepper knows a thing or two about nra convictions, and mag republicans. i will get his thoughts on the culture of guns, and the peopl who still support donald trump and i spent the day with congressman jamal bowman at th school he founded in new york. spoiler alert, he does not think teachers should carr firearms it feels a lot like the new cycle is spinning really quickly. we should not lose sight of th fact that each major story thi week could have a direct impac on both our country, and our lives. and on our health, the court system continues to battle ove access to a key abortion pill. and in the shadow of that fight, florida governor