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we can feel it, right? in the moment yesterday. that history was being made in the state of tennessee yes, of course it was shameful that it came to all of that. expelling two state lawmakers ostensibly on procedural grounds over peaceful protests but ask yourself this. if the ultimate goal of any demonstration is to draw attention, to shine a light on injustice, then who is really better off as we come on the air less than 24 hours later today the tennessee republican party or those three democrats of whom they sought to make an examine pl representatives justin jones, justin parson and gloria johnson, they lit the match that started a bonfire, one that burned from coast to coast as americans watch transfixed yesterday afternoon into the evening on the east. now millions across our country are infinitely more aware not just of the barriers to do anything more than nothing about the epidemic of gun violence but of rank anti-democratic fervor among republicans. we are ....
i m in tennessee on a family vacation, visiting my sister in law, i have been lobbying in d.c. since we survived a mass shooting in july. i have met with lawmakers, how is this still happening? how are our children still dying and why are we failing them? those frustrated comments came following yet another deadly school shooting in america. this time, it was in nashville. where three young children are among the victims. we ll have a live report from the devastated city in just a moment. these tragedies always bring gun legislation and proposals to ban assault-style weapons back into the spotlight but given the current balance of congress any meaningful action remains unlikely. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, march 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville, tennessee. where six people including three children are dead following a school shooting that s left a community sh ....
house to capitol hill with the collision of two historic and deeply connected events. the first, the ongoing crisis over the house speakership still unfolding in the house at this moment, which just voted to adjourn until 10:00 pm tonight after 13 votes took pl. and the speaker was still not elected pickett is something that has not happened in american politics in 164 years. since before the civil war. the second event, the anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. the worst attack on the united its capital in centuries. the commemoration today took place at the white house where pres. joe biden awarded the country second highest civilian honor, the presidential citizens will to 14 people who were instrumental in making sure that american democracy survived the coup attempt by the ex-president and his republican allies. it is group that includes first responders, officers, as well as election workers like ruby freeman and shane mossberg we have a chance to speak to tw ....
degree on property that ought to be returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. new york times points this out, quote, her ruling seemed to carve out a special exception to the normal legal process for the former president and reject the justice department s implicit argument that trump be treated like any other investigative subject. there are significant questions on how her new ruling will work, especially since the special master is permitted to review documents based on trump s claims of executive privilege. they re claims that have been rejected by the current head of the executive branch, that would be president joe biden. from the times reporting, quote, after trying for months to get the documents back from trump, the national archives, the agency that safeguards presidential records told his lawyers in a letter in may that both the justice department and the biden white house did not believe the former president s ....
for god sake whose side are you on? the head-spinning republican ideological switcheroo as president biden, the democrat, slammed the maga threat to the rule of law. while trump s republican pal threatened riots in the streets. plus, at any moment we re expecting the doj s response to trump s request for a special master for the classified documents he stole and stasheded a mar-a-lago. also, there was a time when republicans campaigned with messages like morning in america. now they think americans are lazy bums. not sure they would even want to govern a country of such supposed slackers. senator elizabeth warren joins me. we begin tonight with president biden in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, near his hometown of scranton sending a sharp rebuke to the maga agenda calling out the republican and the right as the real threat to the rule of law. now it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi, threatening the life of law enforcement agents and their families for simp ....