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
the public reaction to the pardon but also to wha preceded net the supreme court going essentially up against nixon directly on things lik the white house tapes which le to his resignation was the public reacting to those things in a way that showed him sympathy or inclination towards one side o another in those previou fights the country - one month to nixon resigned in august of 1974 he d been quite popular. his parole rating has droppe about 20 or 25% people were so angry. thursday there s some people who think that nixon and for made a deal where nixon woul leave office and fort wort respond by giving him th presidency some people even think tha ford russo frayed of what nixo might have on him or be able t retaliate and other ways they did this out of fear of nixon and wanted to make sur that he did not have nixon as dangerous enemy may be the bottom line is not like very bad people to be president. and if you do, make sur there s a big legal proces we re seeing i
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
this case, there would be no trump presidency these were the crimes accordin to federal prosecutors in thei charging documents on michae cohen, these were the crimes that were committed in order t defraud voters, in fact, in th presidential election. these were the crimes that wer committed death so prosecutors put, it to affect presidential election. the other crimes that he is in line now to be charged with, was only commendable after h won the presidency these are the crimes tha allowed him to rig the electoral college. i m so glad you said that lawrence, because too many people have been talking about this case as if it is not a bi deal especially as contrasted to th case in fulton county, georgia and jack smith s special counsel case into the januar