momentous showdown in tennessee . a white democratic lawmakers survives the vote to expel her from the statehouse, while republicans ousted two black lawmakers over gun protest what the white house is now saying at the sour, plus free luxury trips and lavish trips for more than two decades. yet supreme court justice clarence thomas failed to disclose any of them new reporting on who s been funding those vacations. and overnight violence is erupting in israel and now lebanon two days after israeli forces stormed one of islam s holiest sites live on the ground in jerusalem and beirut. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for christine romans. as always , we ve got a lot to get to. so let s get to it. we begin with the extraordinary actions of the republican controlled tennessee house today, expelling two democrats for staging a gun violence protests on the house floor last week. as everything. gallery erupting after the gop super
morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser right now the tensions that have been simmering in tennessee for the last week or even longer are boiling over this morning. protests are gaining steam inside and outside the state house despite the rain against republican efforts to do something that s only been done three times in that state since the civil war expel some of their fellow members specifically these three democrats are under fire for participating in fiery gun reform protests on the house floor last week. today they ll have a chance to defend themselves, but with a republican super majority can they survive the vote. we re live where that high stakes session is getting underway. major escalations in the mounting legal battles faceing former president trump former vice president mike pence saying he will not fight an order to testify in the federal probe. sources say the new york judge in the hush mone
unit describes his former boss now that he s defected. also, we re watching for a vote any minute now to remove three tennessee democrats for protesting against gun violence after last week s horrific shooting at the covenant school. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin with that unprecedented vote happening today in nashville nbc s lindsey reiser has been following this for us. what s happening on the house floor now, and where does the vote stand reporter: they went through the normal business of the day, hearing 29 bills now they re in a section of the proceeding called unfinished business and they re in a bit of a recess, it appears, but then each resolution to expel each member will be voted on separately the members will have a chance to defend themselves we have justin pierson of memphis, gloria johnson of knoxville and justin jones of nashville. you re looking at video here i was here at the capitol in nashville on this day
still early in that that we re going for longer. we don t really know the outcome. a q t, i think would be writing about q , e and q. t for 50 years, quite okay. diamond also says, however , that the u. s economy is strong and he feels hopeful about the strength of human capital in the u. s in paris and 11th day of violent clashes have erupted, especially on thursday between police and protesters against plans to raise the pension age to 64. forcing their way. demonstrators forcing their way into the building that houses blackrock, the world s biggest money manager, holding red flares, striking images they re firing smoke bombs and chanting anti reform slogans. they also set fires across the city, including the bistro frequented by french president emmanuel macron. cnn s saskia van dorn, his live in paris with
to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, but they have escalated further since yesterday, since wednesday after talks between the prime minister and trade unions have broken up. now, you ve seen that in those pictures, the hundred trade unionists who have been protesting, they stormed the whole of a building in central paris that is housing the office of blackrock, the u.s.-based investment firm. they were holding red flares they were chanting anti-reform and anti-government slogans. they were firing smoke bombs and fire crackers, spent about half an hour in that building and then they left elsewhere as you ve seen, i don t know whether you ve seen the pictures, but elsewhere in leone, protesters have been clashing with police have responded with fire gas, tractor drivers have joined the protests by clogging and blocking all the roads in that city, and then 100