If it's Friday, unprecedented expulsion, Tennessee Republicans stripped two black Democrats

at their seats, but decide to spare their white colleague after all three rallied on the Tennessee

House floor for stricter gun laws. Two of the so-called Tennessee three will be here together in a

moment. Plus, taking on Trump, I'll talk to the only Republican presidential candidate who's

calling on Trump to drop out of the 2024 race after last week's historic indictment.

My one-on-one interview with Asa Hutchinson straight ahead.

And Israel fires back during the holidays, launching airstri strikes in Gaza and southern Lebanon in one of the most significant offenses since 2006.

And moments ago, Israel says a terror attack killed one and wounded several others in Tel Aviv.

Thank you. Welcome to meet the press now.

Happy Good Friday to those celebrating.

I'm Chuck Todd reporting in Washington.

It is sad to say, but the unprecedented party line votes to expel two democratic lawmakers from the Tennessee House of Representatives is a near-perfect distillation of the current state of American politics.

Polarization, pugilism, political theater, and yes, an undercurrent of racism.

Vice President Kamala Harris changed her schedule and is currently on our way to Nashville to meet with Tennessee state legislators. After late yesterday, while protesters shouted from

the gallery, the Republican supermajority in the Tennessee State House voted to remove two

young black Democrats, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for violating rules of decorum.

They, along with a third Democrat, Gloria Johnson,

led a gun reform protest on the House floor itself last week.

It was in violation of House rules.

They were immediately punished by being stripped of their committee assignments, by the way.

So there was an initial punishment.

All of this was just days after a mass shooting at a Nashville

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