dishonor. as republicans in that state would have you believe. what we are watching play out in the state of tennessee right now is really about a gross abuse of power. it is about anti-democratic hysteria. and above all else, it represents a new low that may soon be bested but at least as of today, it represents a new low in the republican party s race to the bottom. as we sit here today, a super majority of that state s republican lawmakers are poised to expel three of their colleagues from across the aisle. justin pierson, justin jones, and gloria johnson. their crime? protesting the epidemic of gun violence. in the days after a deadly mass shooting at a nashville elementary school. it is the stuff of third world tin pot dictatorships. no offense to them. apparently, the use of a bull horn without being recognized to speak is for republicans in tennessee an adequate enough reason to override the will of the voters and forcibly strip those lawmakers of their positions and d
the argument that mike pence was making was the best one legally. so i think what we re really looking for is when could we see mike pence in front of a grand jury and sarah cnn s learning that former trump national security officials from the department of homeland security , chad wolf and ken cuccinelli have testified to a federal grand jury about trump s efforts and desire to seize voting machines. after the 2020 election. they said that they told the president and his team that he had no authority to do so. this really speaks to how special counsel jack smith is zeroing in. on the various ways . trump tried to overturn his election loss. that s right. i mean, this is excellent reporting from my colleagues at cohen sort of looking at how the special counsel is digging into a bunch of these schemes the trump team considered to try to overturn the 2020 election. of course, we know that one of these sort of crazy ideas under consideration was seizing the voting machines, and
is the only issue at hand proceedings or some of the most secretive proceedings processes a non political process. this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda that is not the rule of law. its spirits. he s ready to go in and do what he needs to do. this is not a situation that he has any control over. i think right now he s beyond petrified to liberal prosecutor that s doing political revenge against a former president. that s not a precedent that you want to have more dangerous precedent to set here would be to do nothing. today it all happens. today is the day the day good morning, everyone seven am here on the east coast. we re glad you re with us. the sun is up. behind caitlin outside of 100 center, street street, caitlin, the manhattan criminal court house, which is where the world s attention will be on the former president today. yeah i should note that there are a lot of security here. there s a lot of new york police department officers, a lot of barricades. there i
violence i m a survivor of a workplace shooting to the people who survive whether you are physically hurt or not, i know that you re hurting, too we re here for you as well to the survivors and the families, our entire city is here to wrap our arms around you. the mayor of louisville, kentucky, consoling his grieving city after a deadly mass shooting there at a bank we ll have a live report for the latest on this tragedy in just a moment meanwhile one of the two tennessee lawmakers expelled from the statehouse for protesting gun violence gets his seat back. we ll have more on that development and what s next for other lawmakers straight ahead and also this morning we ll take you through the legal battle over a commonly used abortion pill as the justice department fights a ruling from a conservative judge in texas. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 11th i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire we begin with the second deadly mass shooting in two
won the week two. all in with chris hayes starts now. l in with chris hayes starts now. good evening from new york. i m chris. hayes i want to get ahead of the story. it appears this long week may be coming to a close and more ways than one. if grading on a curve, strong curve, would be speaker of the house kevin mccarthy had his best day yet today. i should say he still lost two more rounds of votes. he did manage to win over most of his detractors, including some previous hard-liners. and, for the first time, he actually won more votes in the democratic challenger, hakeem jeffries. so, clap. negotiations are still underway. they are adjourned right now when they reconvene just two short hours from now, mccarthy may finally become speaker of the house. they seem confident that is the case. we will see. but based on everything we ve seen, it s obvious, even if mccarthy does clinched the gavel, it will be a victory. this will leave him the weakest speaker in modern polit