expulsion and cnn tonight starts right now, thanks for joining us. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. turmoil in the tennessee state house tonight to democratic state reps were expelled for so called decorum violations, but there s much more to this story. what we re seeing is a very dangerous um, step in tennessee. that should signal to the nation that this is if it can happen here can happen anywhere. it s hurting people killing people, and they re treating things like this is normal. we can never normalize the ending of democracy. should america be worried about what we ve seen here today? america should absolutely be worried about what we ve seen here today. okay. in a moment, i will speak to that. woman live representative gloria johnson, who narrowly survived the expulsion vote. this controversy started last week after three children and three school officials were shot to death at the covenant school. the democrats demanded action, and
cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the escalating crisis in sudan and the emergency evacuation of u. s government personnel and their families about 100. us special operations forces carried out the overnight mission today. the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and a rival paramilitary group more than 400. people have been killed, including one american state department estimates estimates there are about 16,000 americans in sudan. most are dual nationals, our correspondents, our position here and around the world to bring you all the angles of this developing story. let s begin with cnn s am kylie live from djibouti. sam djibouti s international airport is struggling to keep up with the sudden increase in flight volume. do this mass exodus from sudan. what more can you tell us about that? well, jim, it s not only the pressure, they say local off
god. hanging out on the discord server in a group they call thug shaker central. according to the new york times, it started as a place where young men and teenage boys could gather amid the isolation of the pandemic and bond. about half of them, according to the washington post , playing video games in their basements. for leadership. they look to the o g original gangster, a 21 year old air national guardsman his motivation. said to have been to inform and to impress, allegedly revealing state secrets that became his stock and trade and when his transcriptions of classified information no longer held the interest of the group. he shifted to photographing materials that should never have seen the public light of day on video. he s reportedly shown shouting racist and anti semitic slurs before firing a rifle. and said to be wrought over government action at ruby ridge and waco. after being arrested on thursday suspect jack to share a was charged friday with unauthorized reten
truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest but a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don t live in our city and don t care about what s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in deserve peace. we gotta say it. she was one of the four black mayors leading america s biggest cities who gathered at the african american mayors association conference. new york city mayor eric adams made a similar point. we need to be honest and forthright about the small numerical number of people who are repeated offenders we have about 2000. people in our city that are extreme result of recidivi
supreme court is considering the case of a mail carrier and evangelical christian who says his faith does not allow him to work on sundays. can he be forced to and few hours ago, i sat down with a group of dedicated fox viewers to see what they think of the $787 million settlement that fox had to pay for spreading misinformation about dominion voting systems. a show of hands . how many of you are surprised by the $787 million settlement that fox agreed to pay to dominion for broadcasting false information about the voting systems. none of you. okay we ll get to that. but we do start with yet another story of two teenage cheerleaders who made the innocent mistake of walking up to the wrong car in a parking lot thinking it was theirs as we all have at some point, but for that common misunderstanding, they got shot. i want to bring in my panel lz granderson from the los angeles times, alyssa farah griffin, former white house communications director, our law enforcement analyst j