of my district. the most extreme measure, expel a member not for an ethics violation, but because of a rule of the and so that s what we saw again. it was what happened today was distracting the real issue. which was that a week after mass shooting a national rather than passed laws that passed common sense gun laws, my colleagues expelled myself, pearson because they re afraid of what we re giving voice to all these young people gathered around the capital, the manning his body changed. millennials think that it s our time now and that we need substantive and urgent action to address this crisis of mass shootings. representative justin jones. i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thank you so much. joining us now cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein he s a senior editor at the atlantic. also audie cornish, who is with us here at cnn. so audio, uh let s just regroup here a little bit, remember for folks who are just joining us justin pearson, justin jones glory johnson. all
two youngest black lawmakers, republican supermajority because we still have our constituencies , young people gathered here for demanding that they act and small shootings. that s why we re being spilled, not because of crime, not because of the ethics violation because these young people who are demanding that we act students a week after nashville was terrorized by school shooting covenant elementary school rather than address the issue of banning assault weapons. my former colleagues, republican supermajority are assaulting democracy and that should that should scare all of us across the nation. tennessee state house speaker cameron sexton. he likened your behavior during the protest last week to the january 6th insurrection. i just want to play that for our viewers, and then ask you about it. two of the members, representative jones and representative johnson had been very vocal about january. 6th and washington d c about, um what that was and what
the school students a week after nashville was terrorized by school, shooting covenant elementary schools and rather than address the issue of banning assault weapons. my former colleagues, republican supermajority are assaulting democracy and that should that should scare all of us across the nation. tennessee state house speaker cameron sexton. he likened your behavior during the protest last week to the january 6th insurrection. i just want to play that for our viewers, and then ask you about it. two of the members, representative jones and representative johnson had been very vocal about january. 6th and washington d c about, um what that was and what they did today was equivalent, at least equivalent, maybe worse, depending on how you look at it of doing an insurrection in the capital. was what you did worse than than or equivalent to the insurrection in the capital.