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Lets go straight to capitol hill, our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles is watching all this unfold. We have heard a lot of powerful debate going back and forth on representative greene. So explain to our viewers where things stand right now, ryan. At this moment, wolf, were just awaiting the vote on the house floor that will determine the fate of Marjorie Taylor greene. This is a vote of the entire house. A simple majority will be enough to remove her from both the education and Labor Co...

violence. the expulsion has thrust these two young black lawmakers into the national spotlight. president biden inviting them to the white house. but what happens next for them? well, in a moment, were going to hear how they could be right back in their old seats as early as monday. and after jeremy renner talking about his recovery after that, seven tons , snowplow nearly crushed him to death. his doctor will be here to explain how renner was able to survive. you remember the pain? al...

family is nowhere to be seen. and youre somebody like donald trump. its possible you cant rule it out. lets put it that way. i these people that see him as indestructible at age 78. hes going to write himself back into the white house. i think thats also far fetched. consider. what do you think of that? yeah im sorry. i was getting some bad audio, so i couldnt catch what you said there. anderson he said you were a great person, adam. i said you were a great person caught that part. tha...

99 seats 75 republicans. so if you look at 2020 numbers, tennessee voted for trump 60 40 , but their statehouses 75 24, then if you look at their u s house reps they have 98 of them are republicans 89% of the u. s. house of reps. of tennessee republican which speaks to the gerrymandering issue. i mean, this is lit up and reminded folks of some larger issues in the system here, and i didnt matter. right so again, theres going to be people who are dusting off their state constitutions as well to t...

Gloria johnson escaped expulsion by only one vote, right. i mean, were ultimately talking about the difference of a handful of votes here with seven people sort of made the difference, but but the bottom line is this. its a supermajority in the in tennessee house, right? theres 99 seats 75 republicans. so if you look at 2020 numbers, tennessee voted for trump 60 40, but their statehouses 75 24, then if you look at their u s house reps they have 98 of them are republicans 89% of the u. s. house o...

Schools, roads, important federal funding that could be denied particularly communities of color. we have seen that the new evidence coming off about the potential motivation for the question being to make the electorate more white and more republican. that is concerning. the court has to make sure it makes the right decision and the revolver requires that the citizens of question be the for the right reason. we have seen the lower court say that the trump administration acted in back. >> lets t...

Incompetent. >> neil: obviously youre not a fan of how theyre going about this. jessica, one of the things is, lets say democrats were to retake the house. it does not look like they would make nancy pelosi aed least their leader. >> yeah, its complicated. theres going to be a change. a face off with tim ryan and nancy pelosi. i dont know if it will be tim ryan again but a time ryan eses person to move in. he has to run for a new district after the gerrymandering issue. but people will be lookin...

>> hes in one of those districts that voted for obama in 2012 and voted for romney -- im sorry, mr. trump in 2016. so the reality here is he voted for it. it might be a vote that he regrets. and for what? because the senate is sure to change it which is going to put him in even more of a box. first and foremost we have to give him some applause for having a town hall because a lot do not and his is in a district that is very split. in eastern iowa a lot of working class folks there, blue collar ...

Richards just now saying the demographics of this country have changed in relation to these matters. that still doesnt appear to have sunk in to the republican party or, indeed, to other conservatives around the country who wish to push forward with this kind of antagonistic approach to women. >> well, i mean, i think it gets to, you know, cosmically speaking the whole gerrymandering issue. you have people in elected positions coming from districts that dont, you know, in the aggregate reflect t...