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
donald trump s alleged involvement in trying to overturn george s 2020 election results. congressman adam schiff on republican efforts to keep him from serving on the intelligence committee he just chaired. and the string of mass shootings in his home state. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. in about 15 minutes, we expect a sheriff s update on the latest mass shooting in california, the second in as many days. this time in half moon bay. the victims members of the aapi community. seven people are dead and another with life-threatening injuries after police say an agricultural worker opened fire on his co-workers at two farms. many of the workers live in these rural complexes with their families and children. some of the children witnessed the tragedy after they had just gotten home from school. nbc news has exclusive video of the moment the 67-year-old suspect surrendered in a sheriff s office parking lot. last night the county sheriff describing the
election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsin s senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many questions like what did ron johnson know about the scheme to set up false electors which is under criminal investigation by the justice department. here s johnson on capitol hill dodging questions from reporters. how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? no, you re not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. did you know what your chief of staff was doing? does your chief of staff still work for you, sir? can you expla
trump s obsession and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. leading off tonight s hearing expected to run two hours in prime time, new video of the attack. as well as live testimony from a british documentary filmmaker, embedded with members of the proud boys who captured the chaos. the night s first in-person witness captain police officer caroline edwards. she suffered a brain injury after she was knocked down by rioters. those images, the smells, the yelling, the chaos, the blood, i mean it was that day was a war zone. reporter: the committee is also expected to show recorded testimony from some of the 1,000 other key witnesses interviewed including the former president s daughter ivanka and her husband jared kushner. trap allys have blasted the hearing. this is a smear campaign. reporter: but overnight new audio recordings provided by the book this will not pass reveal kevin mccarthy less than a week after the january 6