was indicted three days ago, but we've had wisconsin as you and joe and i have been talking about all week, a red flashing alarm for the republican party in terms of the erosion of their support in county where is they've counted on republican votes, and then just the extraordinary events in tennessee where we saw two young black members of the house is there expelled for a peaceful protest inside the well of the house of representatives, jen. >> that's crazy. >> that's right. it's a lot to watch. one voice matters. activism matters, so we'll see what happens on gun safety this could be a turning point. >> you can only hope it could be so for willie, joe, and me, that does it for us we'll see you monday for now, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage it's 10:00 a.m. in new york, i'm lindsey reiser and this

morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. >> we are still here and we will never quit >> we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy >> a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i'll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson

who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. >> why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colleagues? >> i'll answer your question it might have to do with the color of our skin. >> also this morning, intensifying violence in the middle east as the three biggest world religions mark some of their holiest days of the year we're live in jerusalem as fears grow on a potential wide scale conflict. and the march job numbers are in the u.s. adding 236,000 new jobs last month unemployment inching down slightly we'll tell you what it means as the fed weighs another interest rate hike next month we're going to begin with that intense fallout in tennessee after those dramatic expulsions of two black democratic lawmakers. nbc's priscilla thompson was in the state house in nashville through all of the drama, yesterday throughout the night she joins us now priscilla, we're waiting for a

press conference with the tennessee black caucus it sounds like there's buzz going around, though, the possibility of one or even both of these lawmakers essentially getting back into that chamber behind you very soon what do we know? >> reporter: that's right, lindsey. i'll walk you through the process. now that representative justin jones and justin pearson have now been expelled, their counties have been tasked with appointing someone in the interim. what we heard overnight from the mayor in nashville is that the metro council does plan to hold a meeting on monday to announce the vacancy in their district, and he tweeted hinting at the fact that representative jones could be appointed as that interim representative tweeting, i believe they'll send brother jones right back to continue serving his constituents but jones said earlier today that it may not be that simple i want to play a bit of what he shared >> the question is will they

seat us? because we've heard from the other side that they may not seat us, even if we win a special election, that they won't even allow us to be seated, so then we'll see another affront to democracy i don't know what to expect from this body, but i hope that the nation sees and the alarm is blaring loud if it can happen in tennessee, it can happen anywhere >> reporter: certainly still some uncertainty about what happens next and what you heard representative jones talking about there at the end is precedent, and i asked him about that, and he said he feels like this sets an incredibly ca dangerous precedent, and it could be something we begin to sea in state houses around the country as tennessee is being used as an example of what is possible to other gop-controlled legislatures so much up in the air here for now there are more than 100,000 voters who remain -- voters and residents who remain without representation in these two districts of those expelled lawmakers.

lindsey. >> priscilla thompson, thank you. >> now, i want to bring in the one democrat to survive that expulsion campaign by a single vote, gloria johnson, and derrick johnson the president and ceo of the naacp so representative, first to you, how are you doing this morning how are your colleagues doing, and how do you move on from this, representative johnson, and go back to work with the people who made it clear they don't think you belong there >> yeah, you know, that part of it is going to be interesting, but they've been doing that a while. i've stood on the floor for 45 minutes with my hand-held up and they didn't answer me. i voted against -- i was the only member in the body to vote against the republican speaker and they put me in a closet for an office. with redistricting, they drew my block out of my precinct so that i moved less than a mile away back into the district i lived in for 30 years to run for office >> and just after the demonstration before any due process, they limited your access to the building so you

didn't have access to your. >> within three minutes after the vote on justin pearson and justin jones, they were removed from the website, but they didn't turn my badge back on or my garage opener, so i still -- my scooter is in the garage right now, and colleagues asked them to, you know, either meet me there so that we can open it up so i can get my scooter, get back in the building yes, i still don't have access. >> wow, representative, we heard you say earlier that race played a factor in this the speaker of the house accused you of bringing political racism into this. here's why he said you survived and your colleagues didn't. >> that's a false narrative on her part actually, she separated herself from the other two and said i didn't yell, i didn't scream i just stood there with them alongside them >> obviously the resolution was

written differently, and your actions were characterized differently in the resolution to expel you. how do you respond, representative >> you know, in my defense what i said was the resolution with my name on it were not accurate, but we've stood together i made it very clear that we stood together we were of one heart, all of us have in our hearts that we had to address this issue, and just because when i'm standing there the way that i do it looks different than the way they do it i'm a 50-year-old woman. they're young kids from a generation they're from a generation that have grown up with gun violence in their schools, in their communities. i had gun violence, i was actually teaching when we had a school shooting in knoxville at central high school, so i've experienced it myself.

so we are all passionate about it, and the idea our voices were silent, that we weren't able to speak to those protesters, tell them we saw them, we heard them, it was weighing so heavy on our heart, we just had to do it. >> derrick, tennessee state house majority leader said yesterday that members didn't look at the ethnicity up for expulsion. the optics are impossible to know what are your thoughts on what we saw in nashville? >> what we see is diverting attention from sensible gun con control. you use race to divert the attention and that's what we witnessed yesterday in tennessee. it's always been for southern states, a mechanism not to advance progressive public policy in the interest of all your constituencies as opposed to dealing with the gun

violence, the mass murder that has just taken place in nashville. i think that's the focus but secondly, the vote dilution or creating a second class citizenship of the voters of the area where those two members come from is of grave concern. we are looking into what legal recourses can take place, but i think the representative pearson was correct, even if the shelby county commissioner reappoints him, the question is will he be seated and that becomes a true legal question that we're going to be looking into. >> there was a moment on the tennessee house floor i want you to respond to. it was a moment where republican state representative andrew farmer scolds justin pearson and pearson responds let's watch. >> tennessee general assembly, that's why you're standing there because of that temper tantrum that day for that yearning to have attention. that's what you wanted well you're getting it now.

>> you all heard that. how many of you would want to be spoken to that way >> errick, what's your reactio to that exchange >> again, in a southern context, i live in the state of mississippi. when you have a white male speaking to a young black youth in that way, those are the racialized tropes to try to shift the support of tennesseans to their position. as this young man, this brilliant young man somehow is acting out of place, that they're acting uppity, which is a rationalized trope at the end of the day, we have two primary issues here. what is the state of tennessee going to do about sensible gun control. that's the primary issue secondarily, how are they going to maintain a sense of decorum when they're acting in a way in which they remove members for having a voice he was duly elected by the citizens of his district

he has a right to have a voice as elected official. it's not about a popularity contest when you're speaking to substantive policy issues. it is about the position that you represent and the constituency of who you are representing. >> and right now representative, your colleagues in the black caucus are holding a press conference we're monitoring that, and we'll bring you updates. you you've mentioned how this is a personal issue to you. this is a personal issue to so many we are at the point where virtually no one is untouched by gun violence how do you see you, your colleagues, your constituents keeping up the pressure for change >> well, you know, these young people are amazing, and i think they're going to keep up that pressure and keep it up hard they say they're coming back on monday i believe that they will be there, and justin jones and ju justin pearson will be there as well and i -- you know, i'm just going to do everything i can to make sure that they come back.

it doesn't concisely say you can't come back in the same general assembly so i think there's going to be probably a legal argument there, but i think, the lawyers i've talked to, think that it is entirely possible for them to come back. i'm hoping that's what happens you know, they connect so well with their constituents and with the young people, and i've known justin jones for probably ten years since we were fighting together to pass medicaid expansion in tennessee and i've come to know justin pearson later, but they're such brilliant young men, passionate about the issues, knowledgeable about the issues, and we need their voices and my colleagues are pushing back against that. i think that, you know, someone said to me, one of the republicans said something about our tone our tone are you kidding me

those men were brilliant, and it wasn't about the tone. >> well, representative, one thing that i'm really struck by is still there's unknowns about this process there were unknowns before it, even during it, and now after it and it just goes to show how really unprecedented this is happening three times in the history of both chambers since before the civil war tennessee state representative gloria johnson and derrick johnson, my thank you to both of you for your time. more to get to in 60 seconds including israel launching rare air strikes in lebanon we're following the intensifying violence in the middle east as tensions rise during this holy week. plus, with the new jobs report out this morning, what it could mean for how our country tries to tackle inflation. island hopping around indonesia in a yacht, gifts portedly accepted by a supreme court justice but not disclosed. we'll dig into propublica's reporting next

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this morning growing fears of a wide scale mideast conflict with escalating violence in the middle of ramadan, passover and easter holy services two women were killed and a third injured in the west bank today after an alleged palestinian shooting attack. that after israel launched new air strikes in gaza. israel taking that step after militants from lebanon launched nearly three dozen rockets at israel yesterday and after israeli police raided the al-aqsa mosque in jerusalem's old city on wednesday. nbc's raf sanchez is following all of this for us from jerusalem. this is some of the worst violence in the region in years. so what's happening, and why is it so concerning given the timing around holy week? >> reporter: well, lindsey, all tensions are higher.

the violence actually started here earlier this week at the al-aqsa mosque complex today this chaotic situation has been spreading across the region from lebanon to gaza and now to the occupied west bank >> this among israeli jets pounding targets in gaza and unusually southern lebanon the wave of air strikes across two regions aimed at the hamas militant group, which israel said was responsible for a barrage of rockets from lebanon on thursday. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying the country's enemies will pay the price for any act of aggression. the attack from lebanon the biggest since 2006 and sparking fears of a wider conflict. most of the 34 rockets were intercepted but some got through, and overnight, yet more rockets fired from gaza. the escalation began wednesday when israeli forces stormed the al-aqsa mosque in jerusalem,

islam's third holiest site images sparking fury across the muslim world israel says extremists barricaded themselves inside the mosque stockpiling rocks and fire fireworks. >> this is the lion's gate it's one of the main entrances to the al-aqsa complex heavily armed security forces control the way in and out the violence disrupting muslim worship during the holy month of ramadan and marking a grim start to the jewish holiday of passover and with easter just days away, prayers for peace now more urgent than ever and lindsey, as we speak, israeli forces are fanning out across the west bank in a massive manhunt looking for the gunman responsible for killing those two israeli women earlier in the day, wounding a third

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inflation and a strong jobs market joining me now is nbc's business and data reporter brian cheung walk us through these numbers and what it means for the economy. >> there's a lot of numbers. 236,000 jobs added in the month of march, how does that compare to previous months it's a bit of a slower pace compared to the over 300,000 we saw added in the month of february this is still what a lot of economists would consider to be a healthy clip of adding jobs. now, where do we see the job gains specifically in this economy? we saw a lot in bars and restaurants, leisure and hospitality adding about 72,000 jobs in the month. we also saw some job gains in health care adding about 34,000 jobs not all industries saw gains in the month of march when you take a look at retail trade, for example, actually contracting by about 15,000 jobs this would be jobs at the mall, for example. now, the story on the way to market still looks good with the unemployment rate at 3.5%. when you take a look at where we get the price pressure story, inflation is where a lot of americans are feeling the negative side effects of this

economy. when you take a look at how much more people are getting paid, 4.2%, that's the increase in average hourly earnings in the month of march compared to march last year. that is a pretty strong number, although it's lower than the pace of inflation. so the way that prices are going up at the store is still outpacing how much your wages are going up, which really underscores the weird economy that we're in right now, lindsey. >> thank you so much for helping us break that down joining us from the white house, national economic council director lael brainard this morning the president released a statement on the report he said this is a good jobs report for hardworking americans. today's report shows we continue to face economic challenges from a position of strength how do you explain what we're seeing right now >> yeah, i think it's a really nice jobs report, 236,000 jobs created in march, and that is bringing unemployment down, so unemployment is at 3.5%.

that's a record low. we're seeing unemployment among black workers at also just a historic low, and so generally i see a lot of positives in the job market if you think about it, we've seen 12.5 million jobs created in the first two years of the president's term and those are good paying jobs, and they're bringing americans back into the labor force, so if you look at the numbers of americans that are in the labor force, it's at a 15-year high for working age americans. so all in all a good report. >> i'm always wondering whether a good report for the jobs front could potentially mean bad news overall for inflation for the economy. we've got an inflation report coming out next week how do you view this report in terms of how businesses, large banks are viewing where the economy is headed? >> so i think generally this report is consistent with steady

and stable growth. we're seeing some moderation we're certainly seeing reduction in inflation that has been quite welcome, and of course we're very focused on bringing costs down for working americans you know, you've seen the president bringing insulin prices for seniors down to $35 a month, working on other prescription drugs we've seen prices at the pump due to some of the policies that have been taken down about 1.40 since last summer. we're seeing reduced health care premiums, so we're very focused on bringing costs down for americans as inflation comes down more broadly. >> we're still seeing several industries, particularly tech, dealing with pretty significant layoffs. since october, almost 538,000 jobs have been cut globally according to bloomberg help us make sense of the job

gains despite these layoffs and is the white house concerned about specific industries right now? >> of course during the course of the recovery we saw very, very strong hires in some industries lower hiring in other industries, so from month to month, you're going to see patterns with, for instance, life insurance and hospitality still trying to get back to the level of employment they had prior to the pandemic. some other industries that may have over hired rethinking a little bit, but generally speaking, when you look at the overall jobs numbers, another 236,000 jobs this month, 12.5 million over the course of the first two and a half years that's a strong record overall. >> lael brainard in your first interview since becoming chair of the economic council. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, lindsey. yachts, private jets, international luxury

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justices, and in some progressive corners calls to impeach justice clarence thomas after a report in propublica detailed alleged decades' worth of luxury trips thomas and his wife have taken including to exclusive resorts and exotic islands all funded by a billionaire republican donor and not publicly disclosed i want to bring in nbc senior legal correspondent laura jarrett. nbc news has not independently verified this reporting. >> the issue is really one of transparency, lindsey. nobody is saying a supreme court justice can't have friends or go on swanky vacations. the issue is why he didn't disclose it. that's what's raising eyebrows it reads like the pages of travel and leisure, an exclusive resort in upstate new york, island hopping around indonesia via yacht, rides on a private jet, luxury vacations for a sitting supreme court justice all provided by billionaire gop

m mega donor harlan crow, a long-time friendship to clarence thomas. >> reporter: reporters from propublica pored through flight records and interviewed staff members to piece together more than two decades worth of thomas's extravagant trips, virtually none of which he ever disclosed. >> we don't have any direct evidence that anyone has used these trips to try to influence justice thomas there's an enormous amount we don't know about what happens on these trips. >> reporter: nbc news has not independently verified private flight records and a spokeswoman for the supreme court did not comment, but the jet setting lifestyle stands in stark contrast to the more modest image thomas has sought to project. >> i prefer going across the rural areas. i prefer the rv parks. i prefer the walmart parking lots to the beaches. >> reporter: in a statement to nbc, crow called thomas and his wife ginni dear friends who have

never asked for any of this hospitality. crow says he never sought to influence justice thomas on any legal or political issue unlike other federal judges, supreme court justices don't have an ethics code and don't have to disclose meals and stays at private homes or other entertainment that is personal hospitality. but the disclosure exemptions were updated last month to clarify trips on private planes must be reported. >> this is innocuous and liberals to have this is horrible and i'm coming down here in the middle by saying it's not as clear as you might suppose. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers are renewing calls for stiffer ethics rules even with that ethics change though, who polices these justices >> exactly they police themselves you hear about calls for impeachment. there's no political will in congress for that, and even to get new ethics rules passed, again, would require congress to move here. democrats are obviously upset about this, but the question is what's really going to happen.

>> okay, laura jarrett, thank you for that resure. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is describing a rm house subpoena to a former prosecutor in bragg's office who investigated former president trump's finances bragg said it's an effort to undermine his criminal case into trump. dasha burns is following this from near mar-a-lago also joining me is carol lamb a former federal prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. dasha, what exactly are house republicans looking for and what else did d.a. bragg have to say? >> reporter: this subpoena was directed at former prosecutor mark pomerantz now, the reason that congressman jim jordan who's heading up this investigate is targeting him is because he says that he is uniquely positioned because of his role as previously directing the investigation into trump's finances that he's uniquely

prof positioned to provide relevant information to the committee here let's take a step back, pomerantz actually resigned a month into bragg's tenure he says because he felt that bragg did not move quickly enough to charge trump in fact, he wrote a book called "the people versus donald trump" where he wrote, quote, that bragg failed to recognize the case he had to be brought to vindicate the rule of law and demonstrate to the public that no one can hold himself above the law. now, jordan and the committee are hoping to use pomerantz to argue that bragg was under political pressure to indict the former president bragg, of course, responding to this, you read part of the statement. he called it unprecedented campaign of harassment, intimidation he also said that this will not deter us from our duty to uphold the law saying that these elected officials would better serve their constituents and the country by doing their jobs in

congress now, prior to this subpoena, the committee had asked pomerantz to come and testify he had rejected that request now, the subpoena, i'll leave it to the legal minds to tell us just how -- how enforceable it actually is, but clearly this battle between thiscommittee and bragg is not quite over yet, guys. >> carol, is there any precedent for congress to investigate an active criminal case like this >> i'm not aware of any precedent. this is really, really a mess, so with the subpoena to mark pomerantz, now of course is the fact that pomerantz wrote a book about the goings on at the d.a.'s office in new york city, over the objections of the district attorney. that does open the door a bit to the fact that he's already made these allegations public and as jim jordan has noted, you've already said these things

publicly, so why won't you come and talk to us about them now. if the d.a.'s office wants to come in and object to a formal appearance, which this would be a formal appearance by mark pomerantz in front of congress, it can do that this will then set up a sort of court battle, i think, about whether a congressional subpoena can be enforced in these kinds of circumstances, and we're just going to have to see the way the courts rule on that. this is not -- this is not a situation that has arisen before >> kacarol, we've also learned that judge juan merchan who presided over trump's new york arraignment, made a campaign donation to president biden's 2020 presidential campaign it was for $15 are the optics problematic here? >> i think the optics are a bit problematic. to be clear, the donations were

made in 2020 before judge merchan had either the trump organization case assigned to him or obviously this case, but it is troubling optics, i think, for any judge to have made a political contribution, and then to have a party who is either the beneficiary or not the beneficiary of that political contribution before that judge in court now, it was a trivial amount of money and this is a trial level judge. the judge in this case is not the ultimate trier of fact, the jury is, but the judge does call some balls and strikes during the course of the trial, and if there's a conviction, the judge is responsible for sentencing. that is all subject to review on appeal however, it is probably not the best course of action for a judge to have made political contributions while a sitting judge with the possibility that such cases can arise before him. earlier this week, "the new york times" maggie haberman

report that had he is worried about the probes currently underway with the georgia 2020 election interference case bothering him personally his aides are worried about the mar-a-lago documents case. which of these other investigations do you think is more of a legal threat at this point? >> the interesting thing about investigations and about criminal prosecutions is that there are cases that, yes, you can say if there's a conviction, it will be the, quote, more important case, but the cases the prosecutors tend to take to trial are the cases where there is the best evidence sometimes those are the smaller cases. sometimes those are the larger cases. there's no use in taking a case to trial if you don't have the evidence that's going to prove it so if given a choice between a very large case with somewhat weaker evidence or a small case with stronger evidence, i think nine out of ten times, the prosecutor's going to go for the smaller case with the stronger evidence, so it's important to keep that in mind when

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abortion ban proposal down from 15 weeks, and in idaho, governor brad little signed a bill making it a felony to help a minor cross state lines to get an abortion here's part of what the cosponsor of that law told nbc's blayne alexander. >> it's important the state has an interest to make sure that minors are protected, abortion is illegal in idaho with certain exceptions, and the parents are informed about an abortion that's being pursued on their child's behalf >> joining me now, planned parenthood president and ceo alexis magill johnson. thanks for being with us so many developments over this week over abortion rights. idaho creating a new felony with this law, abortion trafficking what is the impact this will have for women and girls in the state and for health care providers? >> well, i mean, thank you, lindsey, for having me here today. the idaho law is just absolutely shameful the governor has signed a bill

that now holds young people hostage in their own state it criminalizes trusted adults that young people are relying on to help them get access to abortion when they may need to conceal the procedure from their parents and prevent them from leaving the state for care it also goes a step further, if you know the idaho attorney general has also issued a legal opinion claiming that health providers can't provide patients referral out of state, and so really, i mean, blatantly unconstitutional in our opinion, right, denial the ability of providers to use their own voice and free speech to give the guidance and care their patients need so the disruption that we will see because of the idaho law the fear and chaos it will create for not only patients but also providers. it's really just shameful and alarming. >> is there any kind of legal response that planned parenthood is preparing >> yeah, planned parenthood and

the aclu have filed a lawsuit seeking an emergency junction to stop the attorney general from applying this opinion, and you know, and we're continuing to pursue all of the options available to us on the other parts of it. but you know, as you named in the beginning of this segment, it just seems completely out of sync with where the majority of americans are. we see governor whitmer who ran so compellingly on preserving abortion rights, a repeat of a 1931 law we saw janet protasiewicz win by a landslide on the notion that she would be able to protect abortion rights and democracy, and yet, the opposition, the gop continue to double down on creating restrictions around abortion rights. it doesn't make sense. >> we're running out of time, but let's look ahead to texas. we're still awaiting a verdict on that case regarding access to

the abortion pill. how big of a decision is this for the abortion rights fight and movement, and how will it affect women in other states >> it will be a momentous decision when it comes down. what we know is that what happens in texas doesn't stay in texas, and if the judge does something to create an injunction in terms of how we cannot get access, it will impact not just what's happening in texas as we know it it will impact what could be happening in california and new york and illinois and other areas that have become access states for people who are traveling out with all of these restrictions we know, look, we are, you know, just a few months into the state legislative session, and in 2023, and there have been over l continue to remove access for many people to the best of hospital way of providing medication abortion. >> alexis, we'll be watching for

that thank you for your time. we're following a new proposal from the biden administration about allowing transgender students to participate in school sports the new policy proposal would forbid, outright bans on transgender athletes, but would allow teams to create some limits in certain cases. the controversial proposal comes after a pair of major developments in transgender rights in the u.s. in kansas, republican lawmakers ove overrode a veto to ban transgender athletes from sports from kindergarten through college. the supreme court rejected a bid by west virginia to enforce a similar ban that would have stopped a 12-year-old transgender girl from running for her school's track team. nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli joins me now mike, a lot of developments here this is coming as the white house is putting out this new proposal explain what the white house is calling for and the response. >> well, this proposed rule that was announced yesterday by the department of education is very clear about what is not allowed.

states or individual institutions of higher education, schools that receive federal funding will not be allowed to impose as they put it one size fits all bans on the participation in sports by transgender athletes it does, however, allow generally speaking for the potential there could be some restrictions that fall under specific criteria. for instance, the specific sport that we're talking about the level of competition, the grade level, the age of the athletes in question, broadly speaking according to a fact sheet from the department of education, it may be likely that no such restrictions would be allowed for elementary or grade school level, but that when we're talking about especially collegiate athletics, there may be relevant restrictions that could apply. it points to the facts like the governing bodies like ncaa have guidelines about where or not transgender athletes can participate in the sport based on the gender in which they identify the new policies conform with

the olympic movement and that likely would fit under this new rule proposed by the department of education now, we are hearing from groups like the human rights council, the prominent lgbt rights group applauding the white house's move here, saying that they want elected leaders of all stripes to do more to fight as they put it for our kids, but we have also heard from governors like kristi noem of south dakota who signed into law such a ban, saying i'll see you in court, to the president. this is, in fact, something that will likely go to the courts as we have seen over the course of the last few weeks another conservative group pointing out that a conservative-leaning appellate court last year said title and authority only applies to sex, not necessarily gender identity. so, more to come here obviously. >> mike memoli, thank you for following that for us. up next, a shocking case involving a california dermatologist and her husband. the allegations that she poisoned him with drain cleaner

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handed up an indictment this week authorities say the husband caught his wife red-handed, when he started feeling ill and decided to set up cameras in their kitchen. these screen grabs from a hidden camera released by prosecutors allegedly show a california dermatologist trying to poison her unsuspecting husband by pouring liquid drain cleaner into his tea last july 45-year-old yue emily yu of irvine, california, was indicted earlier this week on three felony counts of poisoning, and one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury lawyers for her husband say it is the culmination of years of ab abuse. >> the evidence is going to show that she was a long-term perpetrator of domestic violence, was physically, verbally and emotionally abusive toward dr. chen and his children. >> reporter: yu's husband, dr. chen, a radiologist alleges in april 2022 he first started

to notice a strange chemical taste in his morning lemon tea soon after, according to his lawyer, he began suffering from gastritis. so chen installed hidden cameras in the kitchen and on three separate occasions in july he found his wife pouring liquid drain cleaner into his tea testing confirmed the substance was consistent with liquid drain cleaner. >> i don't think she was trying to kill him. i think she wanted him to suffer. >> reporter: yu, who denies all of the allegations against her, was arrested, charged, and is currently free on a $30,000 bond her attorney contends the draino was being used to combat an ant problem they were having and that all of the allegations should be viewed within the context of a troubled marriage and divorce proceedings. >> dr. chen basically engineered these events in order to take an unfair advantage of dr. yu in

family court >> reporter: according to the indictment, yu is required to self-report to the medical board of california, which will determine whether she will be allowed to continue to practice medicine her attorney said she plans to plead not guilty in an arraignment on april 18th. she faces a maximum sentence of eight years and eight months if convicted on all counts. back to you. >> our thanks to erin mclaughlin that does it for me this busy week tune in this hour on monday when ana cabrera joins the msnbc reports lineup with the premiere of ana cabrera reports every week day at 10:00 a.m. eastern good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart fallout after the stunning vote in tennessee the republican-led legislature expelling two out of