very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll 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 to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
my baseline answer would be, yes, if only because congressional subpoenas are broadly, broadly authorized under the law. and the standard is as long as it s anything that congress could potentially make legislation about, and that s why you see in jim jordan s letter he lays out those foundations and their fear behind it as ewell we need to think about whether we need to enact laws to protect a president and lay out that foundation, then that s going to signal to a court reviewing it, well, it sounds like this is within congress purview because it s so broad. anything you might have legislation on, that could be virtually anything danny, i want to pick up on what andrew was saying in that clip, which is we know where pomeranz stands intellectually on this case he thinks it doesn t go far
Favor, according to that transcript. let s get more on this historic house vote today and all the impeachment news. a member of the foreign affairs committee. thanks so much for joining us. what s your reaction? how important was this vote on the house floor today? what s it mean for your inquiry going forward? first of all it s a very somber day, wolf. it s not anything any of us are celebrating. we came here to work on issues important to the american people and health care and infrastructure and other issues that we have been passing legislation on. we also swore an oath to defend the constitution and today we kept that oath. we passed a resolution that sets the rules for the public stage of this impeachment process. very soon the american people will be able to see and judge all of the evidence that i have seen in these depositions. and they ll be able to ask
Something that our legislature has been able to get to or pass legislation on, but frankly i would listen to the iacp. they are the professionals get people away from 19 yeerd like this. all you have to do is listen to the soldiers, this is weapon of war. they don t see how it can belong on the sheets. we ll have more chance to talk about this. stay with us. outfront next details still coming in about this deadly shooting. we ll talk to a student inside the school. her stetale of survival will be next. the whisperer? why do they call him the whisperer? he talks to planes. he talks to planes. watch this. hey watson, what s avionics telling you? maintenance records and performance data suggest replacing capacitor c4. not bad. what s with the coffee maker? sorry. we are not on speaking terms.
This person was trained as an enemy combatant to take us down. harris: at your level, studying antiterrorism, how does this change the game in terms of what you re doing? we ve seen this all over europe and in this country, using vehicles to go after people, this is not something you can stick a piece of legislation on, are we going to keep people from renting cars? what do we do? what we have to do is begin to think about adding more and more law enforcement officers on the streets. we need an increase in human intelligence assets. we did that with organized crime. our eyes on suspects. harris: the push back on that usually and often is that you don t want to look like a militarized zone with people in uniform and weapons on our streets. what you re saying is we ve done this in this country before and it worked for those times that we needed it to, what would it look like? we ve done it before. i was in israel and there are