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
law career helped me become governor. gave me advice on being a good dad. he s one of the people i talk to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. he was an incredible friend. we also lost julianna farmer, jim tutt, josh barrack, each amazing people whose families grieve them, whose community will morn and be miss. these are irreplaceable, amazing individuals, that a terrible act of violence tore from all of us. kentucky governor andy beshe making the comments about the mass shooting in louisville, hours before a fifth bank employee died at the hospital. we ll get a live report from louisville for the latest on the surviving victims and the investigation in a moment. plus, one of the two tennessee lawmakers expelled from the house floor for protesting gun violence gets his seat back. we ll have more on that development and what s next for the other lawmakers straight ahead. also this morning, we ll take you through the legal battle over a common
Quite a few republican lawmakers who risked losing control of the house floor yesterday because so many of them were up in New York City vying for a seat at Donald Trumps criminal trial. In just the last two weeks, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, along with representatives, lauren boebert, matt gaetz, bob good, byron donalds, andy biggs, mike waltz and matt norman have gone to manhattan to be seen on camera publicly supporting donald trump at the courthouse. Yesterday, so many went up that a Republican House oversight hearing to hold Merrick Garland in contempt had to be postponed nine hours. Then when it finally started, it abruptly stopped because Marjorie Taylor greene asked the democrats if any of them employed the daughter of the judge who was overseeing Donald Trumps trial. Do you know what were here for . Point of order. You the one talking about i think your fake eyelashes are messing up hold on. Holden. Order. Mr. Chairman. Thats beneath even you. I would like to move
trumpy, more establishment candidates into primaries, versus the gop primary electorate i think this is something that trickles up, really, to even the presidential level, as well. yeah. we see so much head-to-head polling showing trump doing well in the primary, losing to biden, and then governor ron desantis not doing as well in the primary but being neck and neck with biden or, in some cases, beating him. really fascinating. i know pennsylvania is going to continue to be center of the map for so many of us. the hill s julia manchester, thank you for joining us this ea early. and thank you for getting up way too early on this tuesday. morning joe starts now. today, i m hurt and i m hurting. i know so many people out there are, as well we lost four children of god today. one of whom was one of my closest friends. tommy elliott helped me build my
what he thinks. reporter: christie and trump, offering their own brands of straight talk. the latest polling showing trump in second place among republicans nationally. chris christie is starting out until the low single digits. as for the lawsuit, univision says trump s complaint is false and legally ridiculous. the company will vigorously defend the case. michaela? we will be watching. here is something to watch. tonight, trump is going to sit down with don lemon. they are going to talk about the fire storm and the presidential race at 10:00 p.m. the white house and cuba set to simultaneously announce an agreement to restore diplomatic relations. washington and havana set to reopen for the first time in more than 50 years. president obama and castro announced the relations in december. since then washington removed cuba from the list of country that sponsor terror.