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very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
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and transmission of classified national defense information. that could carry a 15 year prison sentence. his father shouting quote i love you to his son during the hearing. lawmakers demanding answers to how he had access to such sensitive files. teixeira share them with a video game chat group before the spill that wider and social media. former director of national intelligence john ratcliff telling fox earlier this case is not like other high profile intel leaks. week ultimately ended up with the kinds of abuses that we saw with edward snowden and bradley manning using wiki leaks. jack teixeira is a very different situation for its individual initially thought it was as few as 50 documents taken one at a time from a classified facility. insider threats program is not really designed for that type of person who is not even trying to share that information publicly as the others were through wiki leaks. if our president by just back from his trip to ireland says he too wan