back home? and listen to this and unexplained delay in the start of a once in a generation trial as the news channel that made millions promoting the 45th president election lies is now under oath were following these major developing stories, many more all coming in right here. to cnn news, central. alright any moment now, opening statements are set to begin in the historic trial of dominion voting systems versus fox news in this sketch, the fox defense lawyer is on the right dominions attorney on the left defamation case could set legal precedent for journalists for generations to come. dominion we should remind you is seeking $1.6 billion for fox news. news is repeating false claims that dominion machines rigged somehow 2020 presidential election against donald trump flipping votes they claimed paying off politicians. the jury is now in place. the two sides were getting contentions contentious even before the opening statements, but now we have some sort of delay. cnn s da
lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk
good morning, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 9th. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your easter sunday with us. i don t i don t really remember the easter speeches from childhood. i just know i gave a lot of them. did you used to speeches? i remember that some of that may be in a break. all right. here s what we re watching this morning a weekend of religious celebrations, but also escalating tensions in the middle east. the israeli military has carried out retaliatory attacks in syria, and we re live in jerusalem, with the latest on that happening now. pope francis delivering his easter message after presiding over mass at the vatican, his message to the world is coming up. the department of justice is investigating after trove of apparent u. s intelligence documents were posted on social media. what the documents show and the potential implications for the u. s and its allies. we got a chance. and oklaho
federal judges split, throwing the future of a key abortion medication into question by the administration should ignore this ruling. how will the fda respond? health and human services secretary javier bezerra and democratic congresswoman alexandria koziol cortez next and political retribution. tennessee republicans expelled two democrats over their gun reform protests during session they think of the issues over we ll see you on monday, another flashpoint in the guns debate, baldy congressman tony gonzalez will join me. plus ultra mega, a defiant former president vows to fight charges against him as other ongoing probes accelerate . how are republican voters responding? do not go to the gutter avoided, it turns off the voters. i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering what doesn t become politicized these days, we just closed out and especially bitter and divisive week in american politics. on tuesday, former president donald trump was indicted
york today on the program. donald trump gets arrested. finland becomes a member of nato speaker of the house meets the president of taiwan. and unrest rocks the middle east again. all that and more with a great family. then i ll talk to the council on foreign relations. shannon o neill about her contrarian views about that much demise of globalization. former ibm ceo ginni rometty. on how to leave. but first here s my take. i m the father of two young women, so there s a part of me that would be absolutely delighted to see tiktok band. it is a scarily addictive app with 150 million us usually list including two out of three teenagers, but the more carefully i think about it, the more i worry and when i look at the legislation being proposed that would enable the government to ban tiktok. i see a frightening orwellian law. that should send chills down every american spine. the argument for banning tiktok is straightforward. it s owned by a chinese company and could be forced t