Way. By the middle of next month about a dozen more states will be early voting, which is to say we have truly entered a critical time in this unprecedenteD Campaign. It is not lost on kamala harris, who spoke to a Capacity Crowd of more than 10,000 people last night. In many ways, you heard me say before. He is an unserious man. The consequences of putting them back in the White House are extremely serious. Extremely serious. On the republican side this moment seems to bring out some ugly tactics and rhetorics that do not appear to have much strategic value at all. On Friday Donald Trump Address the Israeli American Council Warning that if he loses the election, it is jewish peoples fault. I did all of these things and i got 29 . I was not treated right. It is only because of the Democrat Hold or curse on you. You cannot let this happen, 40 is not acceptable. In my opinion, the jewish people would have elected me with the loss of i met 40 . That link which has raised fears that he cou
momentous showdown in tennessee . a white democratic lawmakers survives the vote to expel her from the statehouse, while republicans ousted two black lawmakers over gun protest what the white house is now saying at the sour, plus free luxury trips and lavish trips for more than two decades. yet supreme court justice clarence thomas failed to disclose any of them new reporting on who s been funding those vacations. and overnight violence is erupting in israel and now lebanon two days after israeli forces stormed one of islam s holiest sites live on the ground in jerusalem and beirut. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for christine romans. as always , we ve got a lot to get to. so let s get to it. we begin with the extraordinary actions of the republican controlled tennessee house today, expelling two democrats for staging a gun violence protests on the house floor last week. as everything. gallery erupting after the gop super
punished for staging a gun violence protests last week on the house floor just days after the elementary school shooting in nashville a vote to expel white lawmaker a woman in her sixties was also involved in the protest. did not pass. let s bring in cnn political analyst jackie kucinich washington bureau chief of the boston globe , great to see you, so let s let s just start here. how did this incident at the state level speak to larger national partisan debates around gun violence? abortion and obviously , there was so much more wrapped up here. right this really signaled an escalation in the partisan rancor that we ve seen both at the at the statehouse level, but also just the had the speed at which this happened. um really does is indicative of the place that we re in in terms of partisan flexing muscles at the at the at the statehouse level. yeah and you know the politics at the statehouse level there we
good idea and somewhere in the morning and within a couple of hours, two out of the eight dropped off and just pulled their name off the bill. one went on, my colleague, who came after myself, matt allen come also on wpro, and one state senator said i never led the bill, i did not know laura: of course not. now tara, rhode island is such a democrat-controlled state at the statehouse level, you sometimes have republican governors, they tend to be a little squishy, but i think it is time to try to take back these new england states. this is insane, what s happening. and there are great people in rhode island. i agree. i think we at least have to have some kind of a balance. we ve got a female republican candidate for governor who no one had ever heard of before, she just sort of landed here. i don t know. name recognition, rhode island is very much who you know, who you grew up with, i hate to say i know a guy state, but it is kind of and i know i guy state.
joined, now, by our chief domestic correspondent, jim acosta, who covered the previous administration. cnn chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins, is back with us. there wasn t applause when the vice president had the line, you know, we went back and we did our duty. the applause was backing the, you know, i m not going to let it, you know, basically, turn make me turn against the president. i m so proud of what we did for the four years. what else did the vice president have to say? well, anderson, he was, also, talking about how he supports some of these what they call election-integrity efforts on the state level across the country. that those are code words for, essentially, trying to fix the next-election cycle for republicans. because republicans, by and large, have been driving this process at the statehouse level. you know, anderson, one of the things mike pence did not talk about during that speech. he did not talk about how his own president tried to st