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
conquer will work anymore. because we the people ar awakened like i said, we ar resurrecting a reconstructio right here in nashville. and that is not stopping now, all of this is happening in the wake of the nashville school shooting. it left six people dead. and you and representative pearson and johnson took to th floor, the republica controlled tennessee house chamber, to rally for stricter gun control. you said that you and your participation in the protest amounted to standing up fo young people and others. many of whom can t vote. they can t even vote yet but they are terrified by mass shootings plaguing our state and our nation of what we just saw, in your case, mr. jones, how d democrats in the state level especially in a gop dominate state like yours, fight fo stricter gun and safety laws and when well, the reality is th majority of tennesseeans are supporting this common sense gun loss like red flag laws,
talking and the judge is force to do something like a gag order or almost that far you are right, we haven t even gotten to the discovery part we don t know that the evidenc to back up these charges tha the da has, so people will tal about whether it is weak, like they have read the case. the only know the indictment they don t know the documented evidence april, let s go to this pro published, - luxury vacations taken b supreme court justice clarence thomas over decades, decades all paid for by billionair republican donor thomas has had numerou scandals over the years, fro sexual harassment allegation and his confirmation all the way to his wife s involvemen in the lead up to the januar 6th insurrection is anything different abou this latest controversy? well this, latest convert
said that he is booking th rule of law continuously because he has never bee checked. and you know, his a.g. barr is absolutely right this is not a wise move in the at this moment, as republicans are trying to downplay the severity of these felony counts katie, some skeptics from both sides of the politica spectrum argue that the felony portion of the bragg case is built on shaky and unteste legal reasoning. and it will need ironclad as evidence to prove some claim the da what is your assessment of the case against trump i think that this is pretty straightforward case fo the da s office. i think this is the kind o case they will bring often kind of falsified records of indictment i think what we are seeing here though, because this is a kingston - picture so high, it there is a lot of scrutiny on the evidenc in the case. and of course, this is all jus
up let s switch gears now to the indictment of donald trump a lot of attention has bee focused on the former presiden and the circus around hi arraignment last week. you recently wrote about the woman at the center of the case, adult film star stormy daniels in politico, you see daniels quote, refused to do what wome involved in political se scandals have done so often. stay silent. unquote. why is this so important tha she remained vocal oh, i think you look back a the history of other high-profile scandals from madonna rights and gary hart t monica lewinsky and bill clinton, the women have been raked over the coals by th media and they have been treated, frankly, abominably most of them wound up bein silent john rice didn t speak for three years in public after th gary heart incident. ten years for monica whiskey these were women who are reall silenced because they ha nothing to gain by speakin out. and i think what is importan about stormy daniels, she is self serving in many wa