morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser right now the tensions that have been simmering in tennessee for the last week or even longer are boiling over this morning. protests are gaining steam inside and outside the state house despite the rain against republican efforts to do something that s only been done three times in that state since the civil war expel some of their fellow members specifically these three democrats are under fire for participating in fiery gun reform protests on the house floor last week. today they ll have a chance to defend themselves, but with a republican super majority can they survive the vote. we re live where that high stakes session is getting underway. major escalations in the mounting legal battles faceing former president trump former vice president mike pence saying he will not fight an order to testify in the federal probe. sources say the new york judge in the hush mone
today s show i thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, mike pence creating new legal problems for donald trump just days after the former president s arrest and arraignment in new york. pence now reversing course and deciding not to appeal a federal judge s order to testify in the special counsel s appropriate into the january 6 insurrection. my interview with kevin mccarthy at the reagan library getting his reaction to the trump indict mement in indictmet do you worry he could lose the general election because of this and the other investigations that are potentially more serious? if someone wants to play with indictments, it helps him to campaign better. i look at his numbers. i m not sure if the democrats think this is helping in a manner what i know, it hurts the nation what he says about china as china reacts today his decision to forge a bipartisan approach to the relati
this morning protesters also stormed the paris office of black rock that s the world s biggest money manager, and video showed protesters entering city hall with red flares and smoke bombs. yesterday rat catchers hurled rodent cadavers at city hall the interior ministry says today more than 11,000 police officers have been deployed across the country. 4,200 in paris french president macron survived a no confidence vote over the plan two weeks ago let s go to nbc s foreign correspondent claudio lavanga, and french journalist for lci. she was a spokesperson for president macron s campaign in 2017 claudio, first off, what s happening? what are you seeing? reporter: hey, lindsey, while the protests have been going on for weeks in france, and especially after in the past 11 days, after the prime minister used special constitutional powers to push through that reform that you just mentioned
protesters blocked the access way to paris charles de gaulle airport. certainly that gives you a sense of how protests are escalating in france. laura, what can you tell us here about how significant this moment is? i can tell you at this moment that in paris the situation is not really good because a few minutes ago, there was fire and there were some grenades which have been fired near a restaurant on the left bank in paris. and that s really important because the restaurant was the restaurant where the french president macron celebrated his victory of the second round of votes in the 2017 presidential election wow again, a few minutes ago you had the restaurant , which has
promised president tsai unwavering support here s what he told andrea mitchell after the meeting do you worry that meeting with president tsai in the united states is going to further escalate the tensions? it shouldn t by any means i would sit down with president xi macron is sitting down with president xi we re making sure the rhetoric doesn t get higher, we re looking at how can we deter that war does not happen, right peace through strength the meeting drawing a strong reaction from beijing, with the chinese foreign ministry accusing tsai and mccarthy of promoting taiwan independence. the ministry said china would take measures to defend its national sovereignty joining me now from beijing is nbc s janis mackey frayer. how significant have these meetings been for the taiwanese government and what is the reaction in beijing? reporter: well, it is important for taiwan s government to shore up the support that it can. certainly from the u.s., in the