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trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state's youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair's removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee's black caucus whose chairman called the decision a...

count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump's attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. >> reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there's am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they're close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president's...

>> also new this morning, surrounding new details surrounding former president trump's efforts to overturn the election, a georgia district attorney tells 16 so-called fake electors they are now targets of this ongoing criminal investigation in fulton county, georgia. it is a notable escalation. we'll explain why. and it comes as another election denier just secured the republican primary for governor in maryland. trump-backed candidate dan cox known for encouraging former president trump to seize voting machines will face off against the democratic nominee there in november. let's b...

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my name is dwight bashir and i'm the director of outreach and policy at the commission. and i know many of you are looking forward to this week's the irfa summit, which has officially got underway. we have with us the co chair of the irfa summits congressional advocacy day. so i wanna invite him, just for a minute, to say a few words. amjad khan. [applause] amjad: good afternoon everyone and welcome. this is an amazing event. on behalf of the international religious freedoms summit on the steering committee, ambassador sam brownback and dr. katrina lantos swett. we welcome all of you...