gary tuchman is inside the state capitol just outside the house chamber joins us now. so gary talk about what just happened. anderson as we speak behind me there about 100. very angry people angry that legislators have been expelled from the house of representatives here. understanding tennessee state troopers right here. people back on the reason. standing here is because legislators door. now, legislative. any possibility of violence. peaceful dead lying down right here. people are watching you. fighting fastest cation. building. capital 50 people inside, leaving. the legislators are coming out right now, but that in the nuts. now walking out. how do you feel ? how do you feel right now, sir? not talking right now. let's get to work. mr representative. how do you feel right now? pretty chaotic as you can get back towards our camera. political nutshell. these people. have been expelled from the house of representatives. because thank you talked out of turn last week. seven days ago, they walked out of turn and not allowed to walk into the well of the house of represent

inside the state capitol to our gary tuchman standing by gary.nderson has gotten very quiet, especially compared to about 45 minutes ago, everyone all the protesters have been told to leave the capital building there were about 350 protesters inside here about 220 inside the chambers behind me and the spectator area, but another 122 150 in this area, so it's quiet now, but i can tell you is because of his quiet republican leaders just talk to us a few minutes ago. inside here. i talked to the republican caucus chairman asked him this question . i said if they would have apologized to you, these three representatives would you have been able to say okay, you can stay as representatives of this legislature. and he thought about it, he said, if they apologized, and if they were contrite, and if they said we won't do this again, i would have considered that. so that is a possibility. when we were listening to it today, there is a possibility. it could have stayed if they did that, but it's clear that these three representatives were not planning to b

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i'm gary tuchman with cnn. we were hoping we can give you a chance to have your say about these audiotapes. i would love to. uh but right now, i've been advised to give no comments as soon as is told i can make something available if you leave me your number i'll be glad to give happy to leave you the number but would you admit that that was your voice on these tapes have been told to make no conference bad about what happened. do you feel bad about the things that were said, sir, i've been instructed to appreciate you guys stuff and by very polite. i'm just wondering, you can just personally say if you how you feel, though, about it been in shark it to make no comment, because this could be a good time to say i'm i'm sorry. i made comments like that. that's not me. that's not who i am. i understand where you're going in, instructed to make no comments. hendricks has not resigned yet. the journalists they're talking about the father and the son who are the publisher and the reporters of this newspaper. the curt

it's anticipated they will be here to gary tuchman, cnn in nashville.ant to bring in now dr jonathan metzl for his expertise on gun violence research. he's a professor of sociology and psychiatry and the director for the department of medicine at vanderbilt university in nashville. he's also the author of dying of whiteness. how the politics of racial resentment is killing america's heartland. doctor met cell so good to see you. i mean, based on the research that you have done over your career, and for this book, let's look at what maybe you know, one of the roots of the expulsion of these black lawmakers. i mean, one of our previous guests touched on it, saying a majority white body with a cultural agenda wanting to lock into its rulings that are favorable to a white majority. do you see it this way or in another way. how do you assess this? well, i'm so glad this story is getting national attention that we're really debating the real issues about what's happening in nashville. i will say that even though people are kind of waking up to this now it's b

gary tuchman, cnn in nashville. as you just heard.ennessee republicans have rejected allegations that their decision to expel pearson and jones but not gloria johnson was racist. listen to what brian ritchie, a gop state lawmaker, had to say about that. it was too energetic, youthful males that were a little bit more animated while they were up there, and miss gloria johnson represented johnson stood there she when the they played, the video clearly showed her standing there not doing as much . and i think that suede other members to not vote for her, and that's why she's still there. had nothing to do with the color of their skin. i respect all three of them and their constituents that voted for them. i felt that they should stay. israeli authorities have mobilized reserve units after reporting to deadly terror attacks on friday, the latest acts of violence in a week of heightened tensions in televisa . police say a car hit a crowd of tourists before flipping over on a beach front walkway. italian citizen was killed and seven other p

gary tuchman, cnn in nashville.ly authorities have mobilized reserve units after reporting to deadly terror attacks on friday latest acts of violence in a week of heightened tensions until aviv police say a car hit a crowd of tourists before flipping over on a beach front walkway and italian citizen was killed and seven other people were wounded. police killed the driver. earlier friday, a separate shooting attack in the west bank left to british israeli sister's dead. and their mother seriously wounded in those attacks happened after israel struck palestinian militant targets in gaza and southern lebanon minister benjamin netanyahu says israel has been tested by its opponents , and he pledged that it would come out on top. mommy did say one thing. our enemies are putting us to the test again. and once again, they will discover even in this test that we stand together, united confident in our righteousness, and we will act together with the complete backing of our forces, the i, d f and the security forces who also

gary tuchman. thank you so much. president biden is also weighing in on the expulsions in tennessee. so joining us cnn's jasmine right is live in washington. so jasmine. first of all, what did the president have to say about this? yeah marvel president biden slammed those tennessee state republican lawmakers who expelled those two black lawmakers. in a statement late last night, the president, he called it undemocratic, shocking and unprecedented in every way. let me read you a part of the statement because it was pretty strong here, he said, rather than debating the merits of the issue, these republican lawmakers have chosen to punish silence and expect and expelled duly elected representatives of the people of tennessee. a strong majority of americans want lawmakers to act on common sense, gun safety reforms that we know will save lives. but instead, we continued to see republican officials across america doubled down on dangerous bills that make our schools, places of worship and communities less safe now. in the

cnn's gary tuchman is on the scene in nashville. gary this is a major show of support by the vice president a chance to reiterate the biden administrations calls for gun control. what is the latest in nashville? that's right, alex. this is a local political story that has gone extremely nationals last minute visit here. nashville tennessee by the vice president of the united states, kamala harris. she arrived at the nashville airport a short time ago, and she is now attending a meeting at fisk university, which is an historically black liberal arts college. he did invite the two legislators who were expelled from the state legislature yesterday after last week pro testing against the wishes of the republican majority. they violated rules, the republicans said, and they decided to expel those two state legislators socially meeting with that, but she's also invited every democratic state legislators here in the state of tennessee over at fisk university. it is expected that she will call for an assault style. weapons ban during this me

jake all right, gary, tuchman and nashville. thanks so much with us now quantity tombs. she's a member of the 40 member nashville metro, a council councilwoman tombs. thanks for joining us, so you're one of the council members who's going to vote to fill the seat on an interim basis of expelled former state lawmaker justin jones. are you going to vote for jones to fill the seat? and do you think that vote will happen on monday? so i'll absolutely be voting to restore representative jones to his seat and district 50 to the constituents of district 52 voted him in. i've heard no calls from anyone in district 52 that he shouldn't have that seat. in fact, we received a council members have received several, uh, probably hundreds, if not thousands of emails, already tweets and other communication from constituents. asking that he be restored to his seat on monday. i am very hopeful that we will vote on monday to restore representative jones to his seat. it will take a suspension of the rules because that's not our normal procedure in these types of circumstances, but i'm very

cnn's gary tuchman reports on the fallout. new energy at the tennessee state capitol after a day of protests, debate and consequential votes. thank you, mr speaker of the house standard recess until five pm on monday, april 10th 2023 democratic legislators had just been expelled from the tennessee house of representatives by republican supermajority in the hallways of the state capital in nashville. demonstrators yelling and crying, with some staging a dying in protest. as legislators filed out of the house chambers, a chaotic scene tennessee state troopers standing between them and demonstrators, yelling was loud but allstate peaceful. and then came the representatives who had been the subject of the expulsion discussions. justin pearson on the left gloria johnson in the middle. justin jones on the right. the two men expelled the woman surviving by one vote. they were punished by republicans for their demonstration on the house floor last week, calling for gun reform, walking up to the well of the chamber and protesting follo

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this is gary tuchman, cnn in nashville, tennessee.he republican speaker of the house , cameron sexton said peaceful protests are welcome. but what these lawmakers did detracted from that process and distracted the house from protecting children. here's what the democratic lawmakers had to say . the two black men who were expelled and the white woman who was not explains why she thinks she was bad. what happened today was a distracting the real issue. what was that? a week after mass shooting in nashville , rather than passed laws that passed common sense gun laws, my colleagues expelled myself eruption pearson because they're afraid of what we're giving voice to all these young people gathered around the capital manning his body changed millennials, saying that it's our time now and that we need substantive, urgent action to address this crisis of mass shootings. from the periphery in the back of the house. you gotta go to the well of democracy. democracy be true for everybody. it's not just. when the status grown not just those you a

i'm gary tuchman with cnn. we were hoping we can give you a chance to have your say about these audiotapes. i would love to. uh but right now, i've been advised to give no comments as soon as is told i can make something available if you leave me your number i'll be glad to give him happy to leave you the number but would you admit that that was your voice on these tapes? i've been told to make no conference feel bad about what happened. do you feel bad about the things that were said, sir, i've been instructed to make no , i appreciate you guys stuff and by very polite. i'm just wondering, you can just personally say if you how you feel, though, about it been instructed to make no comment, because this could be a good time to say i'm i'm sorry. i made comments like that. that's not me. that's not who i am. i understand where you're going. instructed to make no comments. so he's playing it cautiously. one person has resigned. the other three have not resigned yet. boris. gary i appreciate the insistence and you

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gary tuchman, cnn, new york. >> doorknob a cnn political commentator, and -- who used to work with tucker carlson, here on cnn, when they had co-hosted crossfire, which seems like many, many on to go in terms of the personality of tucker carlson. what do you make of carlson, from fox news? and how does what he said and did on that network, over the years square with the person you work with? >> that's a good question. in fact, he needs to do the news cousins when we hosted 20 years ago. and, look, most of the shots back, then 20 years ago. they were about one topic, the record. tucker was for, it i was against. it and he doesn't have those years anymore. kind of neoconservative, foreign policy. but he doesn't want to send weapons to ukraine to oppose putin. but he wanted to send troops to iraq to oppose sudan. and, domestically, he seemed to be a libertarian man. he seems not at all to be a libertarian now. i, mean gary just cover chapter and verse of. it the kind of things that he says it. fox there's a really, really different person. personally, we've got a long file. we disagreed on e

gary tuchman, cnn, new york. >> i'm joined by cnn political commentator paul begala who used to work with tucker carlson here on cnn when they co-hosted "crossfire" which many eons ago. what do you make of what happened and how does this square with the person you worked with on "crossfire." >> in fact you used to do the news cut ins when we were hostig 20 years ago. we were about one topic, the iraq war. tucker was for it, i was against it. he doesn't have those views anymore, the neoconservative foreign policy. he doesn't even want to send weapons to ukraine to oppose putin but he wanted to send troops to iraq to oppose saddam. domestically he seemed to be a libertarian then. he doesn't seem at all to be a libertarian now. gary just covered chapter and verse of the things he says at fox. he's a really, really different perpen person. we got along fine. unfailingly polite. the piece that resonated with me was trashing management. he is a guy who does not like management. he does not like being bossed or edited or corrected or supervised. and he certainly made comments, he didn't muc

cnn's gary tuchman reports on the fallout.ew energy at the tennessee state capitol after a day of protests, debate and consequential votes. thank you, mr speaker of the house standard recess until five pm on monday, april 10th 2023 democratic legislators had just been expelled from the tennessee house of representatives by republican supermajority in the hallways of the state capital in nashville, demonstrators yelling and crying with some staging and dying in protest. as legislators filed out of the house chambers , a chaotic scene tennessee state troopers standing between them and demonstrators, yelling was loud but allstate peaceful. and then came the representatives who had been the subject of the expulsion discussions. justin pearson on the left gloria johnson in the middle. justin jones on the right. the two men expelled the woman surviving by one vote. they were punished by republicans for their demonstration on the house floor last week, calling for gun reform, walking up to the well of the chamber and protesting follo