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that s 184494200. wellcare medicare done well, melanie s nana in washington and this is cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with the formal expulsion of two black state democrats from tennessee s house of representatives. the expulsions coming a week after they let a gun reform protests from the house floor in response to a school shooting that killed six, including three children in nashville, justin jones and justin pearson. we re also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson. you see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what s next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we re hearing ....
pair of dueling decisions, creating a flash point in the fight for abortion rights. in texas. a federal judge is halting the fda is more than two decades old approval of the drug medford pret zone, one of the main medications used to provide abortions. but less than an hour later. conflicting court ruling out of washington state the federal judge, they re protecting access to the drug in 17 democratic led states and the district of columbia, which suit to protect the medication. the two decisions are the most significant on the on abortion since the supreme court overturned roy roe v. wade last summer here with us now is cnn senior supreme court analyst joan baez. cubic joan. good to see you also, you re the author of the new book, nine black robes. so two rulings now two very different decisions. what happens next? well, this puts the abortion issue right back on the path to the supreme court. attorney general america ireland last night that the government is going ....
breaking overnight, russia launches the largest missile attack in two months on ukraine killing at least 20 civilians. this morning ukraine is promising to fight back. here at home, water continues to rise across the midwest and what is being called a slow moving disaster. there is widespread flooding along the mississippi river. and the worst is yet to come. former vice president mike pence testified before the special grand jury investigating former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll play for you what trump had to say about it. and a tense back and forth between donald trump s lawyer and the woman who says trump raped her which he denies. what it was like in the room during e. jean carroll s cross examination. we begin this hour with that breaking news out of ukraine. overnight, a deadly wave of air strikes, 20 people were killed including three children in a strike on a residential building in the central ukrainian city of uman acc ....
going to balance of nature .com and don t forget to use discount code, cnn. hello everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in new york. welcome to the cnn newsroom and we begin in the middle east, where tensions are boiling over into bloodshed on what s considered some of the most sacred holy days of the year for the world s three major religions, recognizing easter, passover and ramadan. israeli defense forces launching major retaliatory strikes in both southern lebanon and gaza this morning targeting sites belonging to the palestinian military group hamas, and just moments ago, an official told cnn that the operations in the two areas are now over as long as there are no new rocket fires. and these attacks happened just hours after dozens of rockets were launched from lebanon in what s considered the largest barrage fired from there in nearly two decades. this all follows the israeli forces led raids earlier this week on one of islam s holiest sites. the al aqsa mosque in je ....
region. we ll get a live report from kyiv. this afternoon the house january 6th committee will hold its fifth public hearing on what it has learned so far about the attack on the u.s. capitol. today s hearing will focus on how former president trump tried to use the justice department to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election but failed because of pushback and resignation threats, like this one from former acting deputy attorney general, richard donahue. the president said, suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rossen, with him, jeff clark. what do you do? i said, sir, i would resign immediately. there is no way i m serving one minute under this guy, jeff clark. donaghue will testify today as well as steve engel. adam kinzinger, one of two republicans on the panel, will lead today s questioning. committee chairman, bennie thompson, says the panel will wait until later next month to hold more hearings because it needs to look through new eviden ....