good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
dangerous. i hope that as a nation watches, that we put this light on this to say that this should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering into very dangerous territory. one of the two democrats in tennessee expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse we re going to 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 for the this isn t going to work well for jim jordan the prosecutor is going to explain why he wrote a book saying that, actually, d.a. bragg didn t go after donald trump aggressively enough. but, you know, if you have them, smoke em, jimmy. yeah. this could backfire on jim jordan we ll explain. and we ll dig into the bombshell report exposing lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor. boy, willie, the clarence thomas stuff keeps coming out
joining the msnbc reports lineup with the premier of anna cabrera reports at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we look forward to that. chris jansing reports starts right now. hey, everything,body, good you, i m yasmin vossoughian in for chris jansing in new york city tennessee democrats saying the world is working as they slam republicans for expelling two black representatives from the legislature. their message to protesters outraged over it we re also now learning the vice president traveling to tennessee as well to meet with lawmakers there amidst all of this going on. also, new allegations about supreme court justice clarence thomas allegedly taking advantage of half a million dollars worth of gifts and trips from a republican mega donor the new report from propublica and how thomas is responding. and the latest jobs report shows a good, not great number as hiring falls to roughly half of what it was a few months ago. what it means for the economy and your wallet coming u
the road. hang on. hey soft! mr mr. clark please stop clock. mr. wendell, please. that is that is not appropriate. the suspension of the rules. request mr clerk. can we just go back? over what what that was. one second one second. alright, we re gonna. be watching the proceedings here just to bring people up to speed state representative gloria johnson. ah again born just like a former state representative jones, not born in tennessee, moved to tennessee to go to college. he went to university of tennessee at knoxville became an activist more traditional path for her knox county democratic party chairwoman and then elected to the tennessee house, which includes knoxville. tennessee um and she and two of her colleagues in the wake of that horrific covenant school shooting christian school were three little babies, 39 year olds and three students, three faculty and staff were murdered. by a disturbed individual. um she took to the floor and disruptive manner that was made me th
these are live pictures of the tennessee house floor where a debate is underway over an extraordinary and controversial push for republicans in the state house. they are voting to expel democrats today because they broke house to corm rules. one of them, justin jones, has already been ousted. at this time, the debate is over gloria johnston, and the vote is expected soon in the fight over the third democrat, justin pearson, republicans going after democrats for using a bullhorn on the house floor as they call for tougher gun laws and did so in defiance of republicans who would not recognize the right to speak. all this comes after last week s deadly elementary school shooting that killed six in nashville. this is just a third vote to expel a tennessee house member since the civil war, an indicator of how rare and critics argue, extreme, this move is. protest are currently rocking the state capital. these children and the adults in the school will never forget this. this is