politicsnation tonight s lead, a dangerou precedent. robert right now, the eyes o the nation are on tennessee, o the eve of a vote that may reinstate one of the two democrats expelled from thei seats in the state house las week and tomorrow, a county counselor in nashville wil vote on the next step for on of those vacancies a majority of its members on record saying they will vote t reinstate former state representative justin jones, along with justin pearson, was voted out by republica legislators for protesting gun violence on the state hous floor earlier this month the first time in tennesse history that house members hav been expelled for chamber rule violations we will hear from jones in jus a moment here. just as we heard last nigh from tennessee state representative - johnson, a white democrat wh narrowly escaped her own expulsion. and she pulled no punches in our assessment of why her tw male colleagues did not. of course, along with th racial overtones of thes exposu
good evening, lawrence lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this ho
lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this hour including the latest
who are standing for the gun law lobby instead of representin gun safety for their constituents and so whether it is congressman john lewis, adam clinton powell, julian byrne colin kaepernick or others, th fact of the matter is, whether we take any, whether we raise salute, whether we sign petition or take a bull horn the other side wants to punish us they want to try to silence us but we won t be silenced in fact, black people are goin to save this democracy because no one else will and i am so proud of these young people for doing their part and we will stand with the every step of the way unti they are restored to their positions, and we work wit them to accomplish their legislative goals. and i think in my conversation with them, it not only restore their positions but do something about the gun laws i think they bravely said that
mark thompson, after reading what president obama just said it raises that question agai of, who is winning what we saw tonight, who i winning? as discouraging as th republicans are, and i think dr. king would refer to them a the children of darkness - ultimately, the children o light are going to win they are winning talking to many of the demonstrators there today an people who we had on the groun in nashville every day, ther is a strong feeling that thi will be defeated in court an that the tennessee supreme court will overturn this it reminds us of the thing same thing which happened with adam clinton powell when he wa expelled and had to be restored i m confident that s going t happen here. both justin s will be restored in a long run, we re going t win. we can t lose hope we. can t be discouraged