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 from t
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and neither myself nor my wife made any political contributions. um and, uh, excuse himself, so it is probably yeah, i don t think he should recuse himself. i just think it s unfortunate. i think it s gonna it s gonna give supported one more thing to hang on to. but no, i think if he feels that he s impartial if he feels he can still be impartial, then no, i don t think he should be accused himself and then house republicans are also widening their investigation to the manhattan district attorney s office. um, you know, following this indictment could this in any way impact the criminal case against trump? i mean, clearly any kind of subpoenas, the d a s office will be able to say it s an ongoing investigation. we can t talk about it. so you know they re not going to reveal anything. but is it just a distraction? or could it actually undermine the case? well it is definitely distraction. i think it s pretty outrageous. um, i hope it doesn t interfere with the case so far brag, seems to
public statements about the investigation strongly suggests that brags prosecution of president trump is politically motivated. trump world also questioning in the impartiality of the judge on the case. one marshawn they brought these bogus political charges against president trump. and then he finds out that this judge actually donated to biden s campaign so that at least raises the appearance of impartiality. the appearance that this judge could be not be impartial against president trump. according to filings, marshawn donated small amounts to democratic fundraising efforts in 2020. including $15 to joe biden s campaign that caught some legal experts by surprise. the dollar amounts here are quite small, there could be an issue at least about the appearance of a conflict of interest. the judicial ethics rules say that you want to avoid any situation where it could look like a judge might not be impartial. trump also taking aim
of this and just saying he s not going to participate in this, but it s outrageous that the congress, the republicans in congress, are trying to interfere with the state it will not. it will that can fundraise over. it s one more thing that they can throw in the air. try to distract what the underlying issues are, and that s been trump s strategy all along, is constantly trying to attack his. the people who are who are trying to investigate him and to throw a lot of smoke up to try to, you know, cause confusion. give people reasons to say this is unfair, but i know that of the things that have happened in the last week or so. you know congress republicans in congress attacking the district attorney , i think is really outside the lines. it is really congress interfering with, local investigation. hmm hmm. hmm and then switching gears to another trump investigation this week, former vice president mike pence , announced that he will not appeal a judge s decision that