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
he asked for support on behalf of food bills has sent to congress and he said should virtually eliminate poverty as a source of malnutrition. 2,000 delegates to the conference streamed into a washington hotel. they included corporation executives, welfare mothers, labor leaders, doctors, young social activists and mexican americans and bureaucrats. some lobbied for ideas to end hunger. the conversation was opened by president nixon. he said now is the time to do something for the estimated 15 million americans too poor to buyan enough food. until this moment, in our history, as a nation, the central question has been whether we as a nation would accept the problem of mall nourishment as a national responsibility. that moment has passed. on may 6th, i asserted to the congress that the moment is at and hand to put an end to hunger for itself for all time. and speaking for this administration, i not only accept the responsibility, i claim the responsibility. i, richard nix
Need to change that ratio has just got an turbo boost from what republicans did i want to point out one other thing. gloria johnson, who was so eloquent on this program earlier, one reason she cares so much about gun violence is that she was a teacher. she survived a school shooting in knoxville, in i think 2008/2009. so this is a this is an intensely personal issue for her. it should be a personal issue, i think, for everyone. the tennessee legislature has not heard the last of it you know, the thing is, there is and i agree with gene this is a moment that s just going to expand out. charlie, we look at january 6th. before that, the election denying, right everybody was fretting about that, for good damn reason it ends up the election deniers
Knoxville, tennessee. and before we go tonight, a moment that touched all of us. the today show with a special holiday greeting to al roker as he continues to recover after a lengthy hospital stay a sleighing song tonight oh jingle bells we all look forward to his return. th s nightly at