good evening, lawrence lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this ho
lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this hour including the latest
many of my colleagues have responded to what i think is a great moral test and challenge of our time. some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter of a key putin ally was preplanned. a murder investigation is now under way after she died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and also considered an architect of the ukraine invasion and often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen has more. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stan
that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york tonight. donald trump loves to be worshiped that much has been clear since he came down those golden escalators. but this week was especially notable because it gave us a mountain of new evidence that he remains idolized by evangelical voters even after 34 felony counts for crimes associated with hush money payments to an adult film actress. the support is ironclad, 80% of evangelical say they support him today let s start with what happened last night in arizona. donald trump held a town hall in a phoenix mega church. now the opening homily called for the crowd to pray over the presumptive nominee, but it was the smite die enemy s message that really rang out loud and clear. listen we do pray for our leaders. but father, if our leaders will not turn to you, if he will not turn to your word, if he will not return to justice, we pray that you would bring those leaders down. all of those people, all those in
Trump tapped into those things and once he won them over, just because he s a person who doesn t abide by any norms he crashed through through one guardrail after another and they saw it and as i was saying earlier, i think at energize them and they they i think they view him as a person that ll bring a pistol to a cultural knife fight and their hatred for the left and the story they tell themselves in terms of the existential fear the democratic party and have joe biden the frame. this is the children of light against the children of darkness. god versus satan if you ve convinced yourself that you re in a struggle like that then there are an awful lot of ethical leinz are you re willing to cross. and they view donald trump is their warrior, their fighter, in a sense, their savior. they re quasi saver, their savior of life on this earth. and so it s almost impossible to overstate the