party was leading the way an showing how to deal with folks and i think it s also the case that the way that that map i drawn in that state, the folks that took the vote today, ar pretty insulated on their way. it s just part of the. story absolutely, i gotta say it s tenure anniversary. week and when you started th show ten years ago, did yo think this is what you d b covering, this kind of disillusion of origin mccraw ticked principles a decade later. it s been a disturbin aspect of the last seven years or so with the coverage era. we re glad to have you with us thank you thank you to all of you for joining us here at home. this is what it sounded wa outside the chamber of the tennessee house of representatives. [crowd chanting] [crowd chanting] [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banne drag, kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislature voted to expel two democratic representatives f
democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee
, free, free, free, free the tennessee free you are fascists! you banned books, you banne rag, kids are still in bod bags [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banned, rag kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislator voted to expel tw democratic representatives fro the tennessee house. they voted to kick to democrat out of office. it was an unprecedented and it was a drastic move and it al started last week. that is when hundreds of schoo students came to the tennessee capital to call for new gu safety measures after a shoote opened fire at an elementary school in nashville. killing three 9 year old students and three adults. during that protests, a handfu of democratic law minister before the house chamber they had megaphones and they weren t shy about standing i solidarity with the protesters outside which was apparently a violation of the rules of th chamber. republicans pounced. they didn
and this time, today republicans held votes to expe three democratic lawmakers i total. one, white women, won a blac man, and won a black and filipino man in the, and they voted against expelling white representative gloria johnson but they voted in favor of expelling the tw representatives of color justi jones justin pearson and throughout the, day neither of the protesters know any of the democratic lawmakers lost sigh of what all of this is reall about. he called for you all to ba a solid weapons. and you respond with an assaul on democracy but you won t be victoriou because they are generations o young people who see what going on you say, to protest i wrong. because you spoke out of term. because you spoke up for peopl who are marginalized you spoke up -
that these three members wer encouraging protesters to spit on members or troopers - i mean you can t prove that the tennessee house has onl purge lawmakers to time sinc the 18 60s and this time, today republicans held votes to expe three democratic lawmakers i total. one, white women, won a blac man, and won a black and filipino man in the, and they voted against expelling white representative gloria johnson but they voted in favor of expelling the tw representatives of color justi jones justin pearson and throughout the, day neither of the protesters know any of the democratic lawmakers lost sigh of what all of this is reall about. he called for you all to ba a solid weapons. and you respond with an assaul on democracy but you won t be victoriou because they are generations o young people who see what going on you say, to protest i