in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in nashville, where key vote is likely tomorrow on one of the lawmakers expelled from the tennessee legislature, the national city council could vote on whether to send justin jones. you see right there, right back to his seat. he was one of the three state tennessee lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority. for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead to expelled. lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by a single vote. let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabel rosalia is isabel. um the national city council would have to suspend its rules to vote tomorrow on jones. what are you hearing at this point? does it sound like they might have the votes to put them right back into the state house? so ji
after another judge rules in favor of the pill will the supreme court decide the issue? is there a mole in the pentagon the race to find out who may be leaking top-secret intelligence the department of justice and pentagon now investigating. it puts ourselves at risk. it puts our allies at risk. china s major escalation, launching massive military drills off taiwan s coast just as u.s. lawmakers visit the island our correspondent is there. gunfire at the beach. six people shot, most of them teenagers enjoying a senior skip day. video shows the chaotic moments shots were fired. terrifying new footage of trees falling at the masters. are these the luckiest people on earth? watch as three trees just barely miss them. bam, trees are falling on the ground. why play was halted again today. and the need for speed. the new push across the country to raise the speed limits how fast is too fast announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good even
no problem coming out and lying the world. we just saw that with this chinese spy balloon. it s the nature of a communist dictatorship to lie to their own people, to lie to the world. that s republican senator dan sullivan of alaska responding to a new report from the energy department on the origins of covid. we ll take you through the latest developments in just a moment. plus, ukraine says it needs more fighter jets as the war entered its second year, but the pentagon and president biden do not appear ready yet to make that commitment. and meanwhile, the first lady seems to give away the president s plans for 2024. we ll show you what she said. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, february 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll start with the new report on the positives of co-vichltd according two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the federal energy department says it has, quote, low confidence th
said about six truckloads of soil were headed to michigan. officials in michigan said they never received a warning about those shipments. a representative saying our priority is to keep the people we represent safe. with me now is congresswoman dingle. how did you find out about these reported shipments to your state and what can you do? it began in the grapevine late afternoon yesterday that we have two different sites in my district. one is an injection well, which is accepting liquids. the other is a contamination site in belleville township. i quickly made some calls. the governor was not aware of this either. we spoke to each other very quickly. we learned that the governor of ohio had posted it on his website that they were headed for here. i called everybody. i called the epa, the norfolk southern and demanded answers. we very quickly realized that no one had been given a heads-up that it was coming here. there are issues related to the injection well, specifically
charges against him impact the 2024 race. he said he will plead and he pled not guilty to charges and came only hours after she was indicted. take a listen. donald trump: the only crime i ve commit side to fearlessly deupon fended our nation. radical left lunatics want to interfere by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. this is a persecution, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of falsifying document to hide hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is alleged from august 2016 to 2017, trump organized catch and kill through false business entries. one instance $30,000 was paid to a dar doorman. alvin bragg spoke with the media detailing his case and told reporters he is keved in what they have found as previous das and previous prosecutors declined to go after the charges. i m doing this for 24 years and i m no stranger to rigorous, complex investigations. i bring cases when they re re