Welcome to hannity. After a second assassination attempt on president trump secret service finally gave an update on the failures at the butler rally back in july. The site of the first assassination attempt. More on that coming up later but first our country is at a tipping point. This is an inflection point for the usa. We are now only 46 days away from the most consequential election in our lifetime. Mail in voting is already underway in several states across the country. Today early in person vote in began in the commonwealth of virginia where brandnew poll by the way released this morning shows the race is a statistical. Look at that. At this moment at least. Now trump is pulling far ahead of where he was at this point in the 2020 election, across several key battleground states. Take a look. In pennsylvania for example which could be the state that decides the election and early voting is happening now. Trump is pulling 3 points ahead of where he was at this point in 2020. He did
lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk
in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in nashville, where key vote is likely tomorrow on one of the lawmakers expelled from the tennessee legislature, the national city council could vote on whether to send justin jones. you see right there, right back to his seat. he was one of the three state tennessee lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority. for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead to expelled. lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by a single vote. let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabel rosalia is isabel. um the national city council would have to suspend its rules to vote tomorrow on jones. what are you hearing at this point? does it sound like they might have the votes to put them right back into the state house? so ji
fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that
shawn. army sergeant daniel perry says he fired that day in self-defense. he claims that the protesters surrounded his car while he was driving through downtown austin and basically ran into a black lives matter protest. his lawyers argue that he had the legal right to open fire after one of those demonstrators raised an ak-47 and pointed it right toward him, so he feared for his life. christina coleman has the very latest. christina? reporter: hi, eric. texas governor greg abbott says he has requested the state s board of pardons and parole to expedite its review of this this case after army sergeant daniel perry was convicted of murder for killing air force veteran garrett foster, a black lives matter protester. it was an emotional day in court after the verdict came down on friday. members of foster s family could be seen crying and hugging the attorneys that they worked with. some eyewitnesses strongly kiss piewpted perry s claims in this case. they testify that foster