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
back hanging by a tree we all know exactly what tha is we have heard comments about m black colleagues and jokes about fried chicken. you know, these things come up and it is not it happens regularly in ou legislature. what is your reaction t what you just heard, mr. johns and how significant was it t have a white colleague in this fight? one of the things that i spoke to her about and you and i hav talked about by phone is how this is interracial an intergenerational. this fight that has rallie around what is happening i tennessee. definitely. we are building a multi racial fusion, we are in the midst of a hopefully will will have national implications. what it means is that this white supremacist system being led by speaker cameron sexto is attempting to divid
average age is 57. it is easy to see how th raised voices of you can b used as viewed as a threat b an aging group of lawmaker fixated on turning back th clock. in their passion for addressin america s gun crisis representatives jones an pearson are walking the same path as the pac man school activist, sam fuentes, x gonzalez and david hawk an others, who are also in thei twenties now their commitment to public service gives their common cause of maxwell frost, th 26-year-old first gen z member of congress. his uncompromising vision fo congress is shared by a comi activist greta thunberg who, just turned 20 and these two lawmakers ar inspiring other black youth to get motivated and involved much like yolanda rené king wh
in we are today, christia celebrating easter at the same time, are celebrating passover and muzzle blazes and observing ramadan. whether you have no faith at all, you should determine at some point what you believe in and what you stand for and then once you do you shoul act. this we give you a chance to make choices in indiana, that that has al of this power, legislators, no just in tennessee but all over the country in congress, we ll be having their convention donald trump and ron desanti and republican leaders will be speaking in new york, national action network, organization out ahead, will have its convention