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tennessee today. we just saw the third of three votes on expelled expulsion, i will take you through what happened today just so you know, whats happening right now, three members were voted on to b expelled two african american members one white member they expelled, successfully, with a two thirds vote, to the two black members and did no expel the white woman who wa up as well they just held that vote kicking out three democrat from protesting gun violence it started a week ago, whe...

morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emo...

dangerous. i hope that as a nation watches, that we put this light on this to say that this should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering into very dangerous territory. >> one of the two democrats in tennessee expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse were going to have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill, one of donald trumps most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena for the --...

against the white woman state representative who joined with them in the protests >> we called for you all to ban assault weapons. and you respond with an assault on democracy >> i can say to you, the movement for justice can never die because the heart for justice can never be killed. >> we will talk about what the republican-led legislature did and the states racial legacy with one of the ousted lawmakers. this hour, boiling point in the holy land on passover. ramadan and holy week...

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 t...

protest for gun control. their republican colleagues called it breaking the rules of decorum. the lead starts right now. debate and voting underway right now, as tennessee state house republicans try to expel three statehouse democrats, they protested on the statehouse floor in the wake of the nashville school shooting, but should they really be kicked out of office plus airspace over northern israel shut down after rockets were intercepted, fired from lebanon. this is just one day aft...

the road. hang on. hey soft! mr mr. clark please stop clock. mr. wendell, please. that is that is not appropriate. the suspension of the rules. request mr clerk. can we just go back? over what what that was. one second one second. alright, were gonna. be watching the proceedings here just to bring people up to speed state representative gloria johnson. ah again born just like a former state representative jones, not born in tennessee, moved to tennessee to go to college. he went to uni...

republicans expel a democrat from the house legislature for protesting gun violence on the house floor right now to more democratic lawmakers are also staring down. expulsion votes, also breaking escalating violence in the middle east. israel striking gaza tonight after facing a barrage of rocket attacks, the israeli ambassador to the united states is standing by to join me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. ...

russia and other countries taking aim at the u.s. dollar. promising an alternative currency of their own. then theres china itself inserting itself and more conflicts. playing everything from peace maker. we have you covered on growing frick tions in taipei. welcome. im neil cavuto. we have a busy show. lets go to aishah hasnie on taipei trying to see whats going on. aishah? >> hi, neil. good to see you. so absolutely we expected to see some kind of response from china to these back-to...

a side door and blew out the glass to get inside. chief correspondent jonathan has new information. what are we learning? >> reporter: we are learning that they believe this was a well-planned attack by the 28-year-old shooter. now identified as audrey elizabeth hale who police say was transgender. >> did she identified as transgender? >> she does identify as transgender. >> as a man or a woman? >> woman. >> jonathan: and tonight, we are seeing as you mentioned the moment when hale sho...