very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
sderot, israel. how is israel expanding its ground assault? reporter: i sat down with israel s top tank commander to talk about how tanks are going to play a central role in the offensive in the south as today the first israeli tanks were spotted in southern gaza. as israel expands its ground offensive into southern gaza the brigadier general, the head of israel s armored corps, said tanks will once again be central to israel s war strategy. reporter: israeli tanks were at the tip of the offensive into gaza in october, clearing the way for infantry troops to move into dangerous and densely populated cities. ibrahim says this kind of coordination is a lesson learned from russian failures in ukraine. translator: we saw where they only fought with tanks alone they were more vulnerable. this overcomes almost every problem on the battlefield. reporter: israeli tanks are pushing through, not around residential buildings, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble to minimi
against gerschkovich calling them, quote, preposterous and unjust the post notes many of the people who signed the letter were independent journalists working for russian news organizations based outside their homeland meanwhile the new york times editorial board is out with a new piece titled, quote, the arrest of evan gerschkovich is further evidence of putin s brutality. the board writes in part this, quote, russia has a rich history imprisoning people on bogus charges other than to help keep a dictator in power. once again people are being arrested and imprisoned not because they committed a crime but because they got in mr. putin s hair or he needed a hostage or he wanted to send a signal an accomplished and widely respected journalist mr. gerschkovich was seized by the fsb on march 29th and been accused with no evidence provided of espionage. the kremlin s readiness to seize