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
House becoming so closely tied to one another. this goes back to it way you started the hour, talking about how way the trump s strategy is to throw so much at people they can t possibly pay attention, but this idea he s eroding norms whether it s democratic institutions, whether it s how the executive branch interacts with the other branches or here, whether it s how the president uses taxpayer funded resources to conduct his campaign, we ve got to keep our energy got to stay alert and focused on these issues because trump does. i agree we shouldn t give him anymore real estate in our heads than trump has. but at the same time we need to hold him accountable. nobody s done that yet and it s time. in cities across the countries we ve ben talking about bracing for the trump administration s targeted immigration raids from coast to