politicsnation tonight s lead, a dangerou precedent. robert right now, the eyes o the nation are on tennessee, o the eve of a vote that may reinstate one of the two democrats expelled from thei seats in the state house las week and tomorrow, a county counselor in nashville wil vote on the next step for on of those vacancies a majority of its members on record saying they will vote t reinstate former state representative justin jones, along with justin pearson, was voted out by republica legislators for protesting gun violence on the state hous floor earlier this month the first time in tennesse history that house members hav been expelled for chamber rule violations we will hear from jones in jus a moment here. just as we heard last nigh from tennessee state representative - johnson, a white democrat wh narrowly escaped her own expulsion. and she pulled no punches in our assessment of why her tw male colleagues did not. of course, along with th racial overtones of thes exposu
a 16-year-old girl. roslyn joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes, that s what russia seems to still be carrying out in its war against ukraine. early today, russian forces bombarded the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding thousands of others. the shelling was concentrated on a number of apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. another he instance of vladimir putin s invading army violating the laws of war. ostensibly, it served as a particularly on the battlefield against russia and we recent weeks. perhaps, the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula, a critical supply route for the kremlin s forces, as you might imagine, a thin skinned putin has not taken these defeats well. on the contrary, he has renewed his nuclear saber rattling, unnerving weste
This. We have to warn here that it is hard to watch. [speaking in a global language] joining me now our correspondents who is live in israel. Nbcs foreign correspondent, molly, hunter is with us as. Well and the nbc security analyst. I want to start with you, rough. What casten what youre seen. Yeah, katie and just the last hour, Israel Security cabinet has formally declared a state of war in response to what tickles the murderous Terrorist Attack of gaza. They are talking about scenes like the one behind me. This is all thats left of what was an Israeli Police station at the heart of the city. It is overrun by gunmen. Katie, everywhere here, you can see debris from the Ferocious Gun Battle that follows. If my Camera Operator turns the camera here, you can see this is the remains of a jacket here. We dont know this belong to one of the hamas militants, or to an israeli soldier. Everywhere, katie, im not going to zoom in on, but in that tree there is still a body of one of these hamas m