channeling energy and an outpouring that is the essence of democracy and is the essence of what makes this country great and my hat is off to him. and i think you re going to see your you re gonna you re starting to see some seismic shifts. and i hope they reverberate. we ll see just remarkable day remarkable few days for him as well. we ll see what happens with justin pearson s vote on wednesday. thank you for joining us tonight . cnn tonight with alison camerata starts right now. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . the ousted tennessee state. rep. justin jones tonight is reinstated. he was just expelled on thursday for protesting inside the chamber and demanding action on gun reform after that school shooting in nashville that killed 39 year olds and three adults. today we re setting a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence. then this morning, yet another mass shooting a 25 year old gunman opened fire
stepian s recorded deposition to try to establish key facts about today s theme, the big lie, that donald trump knew he lost election, but continued anyway to rally his supporters around the false claim that he had won. we re also moments away from the supreme court releasing new decisions possibly on the key mississippi abortion case. we ll bring you any of the big cases as we learn about them. let s start with today s hearing because this missing stepian throws a wrench into the committee s plans after laying out how this would play out during the first prime time hearing last week. indeed, it does. because as we ve seen before, in-person testimony is so much more powerful even than the clips they showed of ivanka trump, for instance, on thursday night as we were showing on friday in the hearings. so the appearance in person would have been much more impactful. of course we re excited for them and his wife and their impending new baby, but that is the reality of what ha
lose fat get lean, absolutely free, rugged 321321. i m jessica dean on capitol hill. and this is cnn. is he? apparently your fans in it? they are sort of very good fans. i hate to interrupt you guys, former president donald trump said to face another legal battle this week. this time, it s for a civil lawsuit filed by new york attorney general leticia james. multiple sources tell cnn that donald trump will sit for a deposition on thursday. the lawsuit alleges that trump three of his adult children and the trump organization, defrauded lenders, insurers and other entities for more than a decade . my panel is back, michael, i wouldn t blame you or our viewers for struggling to keep up. with the various trump legal challenges because they have no can t there. what do we have? we have? georgia is easy to
president was told to expect because you ll remember one of the things trump used to say was talking about how he had polling to the effect that he knew he was going to win. both nationally and in all of these states. that wasn t necessarily what the polling data was and we heard from one of the trump campaign s own election turns, one of the staffers who was paid to find the kind of fraud the former president was looking to find who said in a deposition on thursday, he couldn t find that. so it speaks to the idea that aides around trump were telling him he should not have expected to win this election and that could have helped establish his mindset in going forward with this fraud idea. the other piece of this, too, is the midterms. the key target for trump now in his vendetta campaign in 2022 is to unseat liz cheney. the key republican who has sought to elevate these hearings above partisanship and party and instead to make it more of a moral issue for the country. bill steppian is
urge the justice department to prosecute anyone who refuses to comply with subpoenas from the panel. now there are some signs of what could potentially be progress. schiff said today the committee is engaging with lawyers for former chief of staff mark meadows and former pentagon official kash patel to try to secure their testimony. as you noted, longtime trump adviser steve bannon has indicated he ll not appear until a judge resolves questions about executive privilege. now bannon was not part of the executive branch at the time in question and his blanket refusal to cooperate is unlikely to hold up. he s scheduled for a deposition on thursday. if he makes good on his threat not to show, just how fast could a criminal referral happen? let s take a listen. days, weeks, months in terms of when the criminal referral will come? it will come very fast if people refuse to cooperate. schiff noted unlike the past