United states of scandal with jake tapper new episode tonight at nine on cnn welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper, a year ago, a gunman armed with two assaultstyle weapons and a handgun, shot and killed three children and three adults. The Covenant School in nashville. It was one of the Deadliest School shootings in tennessees history. Theres led to a Renewed Push For Gun Control with thousands of people protesting in the state capital i dont three democratic lawmakers joined that protests and two of them were then expelled from the state house representatives. And unusual move that highlighted the power of the republican its in the state Legislature Tennessee is considered one of the most conservative states in the country, with some of the most restrictive laws and abortion and Voting Rights. But it wasnt always run by republicans for decades, democrats rule the legislature and the Governors Office than the party shared power until about a decade ago so how did this state e
The gop dominated house voting to expel two Young Democratic lawmakers they taken part in a Gun Protest Jones Representative Justin Pearson, both black were expelled from their seats representative johnson, who was white, was nearly spared it struck me. Surreal. Im like thats my home state legislature. I used to work in that building and now its being broadcast All Around The World i talked to my family who lives in tennessee, but i wasnt really on top of what was going on after the expulsion of that started paying a lot more attention i actually saw it as tennessee, again, being part of this national tug of war over the direction of the country and really over democracy itself. Expelling State Legislators is something that happens very rarely throughout American History presented also the gentleman shows no remorse. Its clear that he wants to be expelled. He and two other representatives effectively conducted a mutiny. A mutiny, which to this body into this state has been unknown in i
the dignified transfer on friday. to the families of the fallen, we are so so sorry [crying] for your loss, and we are forever grateful, for your sacrifice. and on that very sad note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see with the end of tomorrow. tomorrow the matchup of the year is set, and it s a rematch of 2020, the same thing even, the red team versus the other red team. that s right. the kansas city chiefs are set to face off yet again against the san francisco 49ers in super bowl 58. okay. all right. if you thought that was a wind up to the likely battle between president biden donald trump in 2024, it is also that as well. and that is because, bear with me here, a segment of right-wing media is convinced of the kansas city chiefs qualifying for the super bowl this year is actually a vast left wing conspiracy. this plot all centers around the relationship between kansas city tight
finally the votes. you can find that in bookstores not line right now. that is all in on tuesday night, all in starts right. now the body doubles are happening before any of the trials actually begun, which is the staggering part about all of this it s the ice beneath the water line. in terms of what this means for all the people that interact with it. this is happening to all of them. it s what it means to be holding up democracy in this day and age. you have to be prepared for a late night cell phone calls, threatening your family. thank you my friend. and thank you for joining us this hour. the matchup of the years set. it s a rematch of 2020. it s the same teams. it s the red team, versus the other red team. that is right. kansas city chiefs are set it s super bowl 58. okay. all right. if you thought that was a wind up to the lightly battle between president biden and donald trump in 2024. it is also that to. and that is because, bear with me here, a segment of ri
outfront next, the war coming to russia. putin and his forces on defense as the kremlin vows to exterminate ukraine. plus, republican kari lake still obviously won t accept she lost the race for arizona governor, giving a keynote speaking slot at the upcoming georgia republican convention. why? well, a top georgia election official who publicly rejected trump s claims of election fraud and bravely so is outfront and china s brutal campaign against its own people now at a boiling point as chinese officials take on mosques around the country. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront, the war inside russia. there s a bold, new front in the war and it is on putin s territory. a russian official just this hour announcing that russia s air defense system shot down several ukrainian drones over western russia. that s just this hour. right? earlier today smoke rises over belgorod. new video in from there. you can see on your screen, belgorod is the russian