United states of scandal with jake tapper new episode tonight at nine on cnn welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper, a year ago, a gunman armed with two assaultstyle weapons and a handgun, shot and killed three children and three adults. The Covenant School in nashville. It was one of the Deadliest School shootings in tennessees history. Theres led to a Renewed Push For Gun Control with thousands of people protesting in the state capital i dont three democratic lawmakers joined that protests and two of them were then expelled from the state house representatives. And unusual move that highlighted the power of the republican its in the state Legislature Tennessee is considered one of the most conservative states in the country, with some of the most restrictive laws and abortion and Voting Rights. But it wasnt always run by republicans for decades, democrats rule the legislature and the Governors Office than the party shared power until about a decade ago so how did this state e
The gop dominated house voting to expel two Young Democratic lawmakers they taken part in a Gun Protest Jones Representative Justin Pearson, both black were expelled from their seats representative johnson, who was white, was nearly spared it struck me. Surreal. Im like thats my home state legislature. I used to work in that building and now its being broadcast All Around The World i talked to my family who lives in tennessee, but i wasnt really on top of what was going on after the expulsion of that started paying a lot more attention i actually saw it as tennessee, again, being part of this national tug of war over the direction of the country and really over democracy itself. Expelling State Legislators is something that happens very rarely throughout American History presented also the gentleman shows no remorse. Its clear that he wants to be expelled. He and two other representatives effectively conducted a mutiny. A mutiny, which to this body into this state has been unknown in i
control back to the top of america s minds. yesterday, gop members wer actually in nashville tennesse for a private donor retrea with the future of the party was a central topic. trump gave the keynote speec there last night according to a copy of his remarks, - former president declared that older republican is gone and i it s never coming back trump defined that old republican party as a part known for starting wars, cutting social security an medicare, are offering amnesty to undocumented immigrants instead as part of his big return to the white house, h vowed to crack down on the border, pledged to vote, kee men out of women sports. and not to the current anti-trans women within th republican party what went unmentioned in his speech, however, was abortio and climate change those are two key issues tha animated younger voters an voters of the other generation even though other speakers a the retreat urge the party t move on from trump, he doe remain at the top of the repu
. the note he left behind and how we live, streamed the attack as it was happening and new moves to freeze a ruling that could block access to a widely used abortion pill. starting this week, the u. s. justice department asking a federal appeals court to intervene and slamming at texas. judges quote , misguided assessment of the pills. safety welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news and let s get right to the breaking news, one of two african american democrats ousted from the tennessee state house is getting his job back. cnn s ryan young is joining us live from nashville. right now we re rallies clearly are already underway in the vote to reappoint state representative justin jones happened only minutes ago. what s happening now? wolf. we re in the middle of this crowd. right now. you can see the representative standing here at the top of the capital, getting ready to go
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