Carlos Warner News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

that and more, we will be following all day on cnn, cnn's new central, thank you for joining us in its new central covering all of these stories, and it starts right now. we're keeping a close eye on breaking news is israel says dozens of rockets have been fired into the region fired into israel from lebanon. we're live there in moments will they be expelled one hour from now? republicans in tennessee will begin a vote to kick out three democratic state lawmakers. this all has to do with the debate over gun reforms and protests after nashville school shooting. and a training exercise...

from the prison at guantanamo bay. neither change satisfied critics on the right in congress or on the left while he was speaking. >> why don't you sit down and i will tell you exactly what i'm going to do. thank you ma'am. ma'am, thank you. >> the second voice you heard there was code pink's medea benjamin, less than impressed with president obama's new drone policy or his plans for prisoners at guantanamo. >> there are 102 people on a hunger strike. desperate people. you are the commander in chief. you can release guantanamo today. >> john: medea benjamin was escorted out of the ev...

today's birthdays include david beckham, dwayne the rock johnson and inglebert humperdinck. this is "viewpoint." >> john: i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." good evening. last resort of the powerless prisoner, a hunger strike. since february, a major hunger strike has been building momentum at the military detention center at guantanamo bay. the hunger strike began as a response to what the detainees described as raids by guards where copies of the koran were mishandled. it has grown into a protest against the obama administration's policy of holding the vast majority of detain...

in fact, this fight is just beginning. >> john: one of the first broadsides came from one of the most prominent gun violence victims in recent years. former representative gabby giffords published a blistering editorial in "the new york times" where she called out the senate gun bills' opponents as cowards and i quote... and where the courage issue was concerned, one of the background checks bills' sponsors, west virginia senator, joe manchin, clearly seemed to agree. >> things don't go right in any election i get to go home. i get to go home to my family, my children, my grandchildr...

Swayed. here's retired general james spider marks this morning on cnn responding to that op-ed. >> let me tell you, that guy has no rights. i have no sympathy for that guy. he is a prisoner of war. he made a very bad choice leaving yemen and going to afghanistan and getting into a fight post 9/11. i'm not going to attribute any veracity to that guy's op-ed piece. he has no rights. he is a prisoner of war. there is a job that needs to be done at gitmo. and they chose the conditions under which they are living. >> joining me now is carlos warn, a federal public defender who represents 11 of the ...