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
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 hous republicans on thursda expelled two democrati lawmakers for breaking house rules and mounting a gun protest on the chamber floor surrounding my democrati colleagues, expelled state representative justin pearso had this message of hope for the future we have good news tha sunday always comes.
black lawmakers almost entirel white 75 member republican house caucus they only have one nonwhit member it was a strictly partisan vot expel us i think we cannot hide from th issue of race in this. there is systemic racism this is an attack on multi racial democracy we can clearly see this fo what it is justin, please stay with us i m going to broaden the conversation and bring in holl mccaul, tennessee lookou editor in chief. michael steele joins us, forme maryland lieutenant governor a
racial democracy we can clearly see this fo what it is justin, please stay with us i m going to broaden the conversation and bring in holl mccaul, tennessee lookou editor in chief. michael steele joins us, forme maryland lieutenant governor a msnbc political analyst. charles coleman, a civil right attorney and former new york prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. holly, you covered this. i just went through it wit justin let s lay it out three state representatives, all protesting hand in han together - to wear black man, one was a white woman. did she do anything differen based on your reporting that would keep her in her position and keep these men out look, there is no coincidence that this happened in the state where the ku klux klan was founded i think that tennessee has bee backsliding if it ever left it racist history i think it is just now the nation is seeing this. gloria johnson did not d anything any difference.