with the democratic party in tennessee we saw a remarkably rapi mobilization over the weekend, part of because of wha congresswoman jasmine crockett has said, i don t know wha republicans in that state hous were thinking this was going t end up as, but they ended up creating democratic folk her is after the two - democrats. justin jones was back on - tell me about this coalition that comes into play that we don t even know exists people who, on thursday an friday, did not know that they were warriors for democracy, who suddenly went into douma action they say democracy dies i darkness well, it thrives in th sunlight when people see what they do - when people see thes authoritarian attacks across the country they will rally to your side. and there have been hundreds o thousands of dollars floatin into both justices campaig accounts, to the tennessee democratic party s account people are ready to make phone calls, to go to the bat to support them not only are they coming bac
undercurrent kentucky law the assault rifle that was use to murder five of our neighbor and shoot at - police officers will one day b auctioned off. think about that as kentucky searches fo answers in the wake of a mas murder, the governor of on state that is about to sign an assault weapons ban joins me live, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i ali velshi, in for chris hayes we re watching continuin fallout on the aggressiv anti-democratic power play b republicans in the tennessee state house. now, tomorrow, a local board o commissioners in memphis, whic is in shelby county, i expected to vote on whether to reinstate justin pearson, wh is one of two black democratic lawmakers expelled b republicans over decorum violations, stemming from a gu reform protest that they hel at the state capital after a mass school shooting i
have power - the federalist society was already created a pipeline for the supreme court. mitch mcconnell had alread sold on the seat from th sitting president, barac obama. all of that preceded donal trump. and all of that tells us a lot about where we are now trump was an incredibl powerful, dangerous, awful too of that party. but and he actually permitted us t see if some of these things, which i think both democrats and the political media were willfully blind to for a lon time that s part of the conversatio you just had but right now, in this moment, where he is being tried fo things, indicted for thing that actually are not about th harm he did to the nation they may include legal accountability for crimes he has committed. the amount of attention bein directed to him worries me because it makes me think that people are going to think we have somehow solved the proble by getting donald trump. and that could not be furthe from the truth
what the to justin s did i tennessee what are the lessons for bot democracy, for legislators, an for voters to look at thes things and say, we are in doom loop? we can t get out of here i think we as the texas democrats, we ran the alarms and we basically said, listen. democracy is under attack. most people were not payin attention to what the suprem was doing as it relates to the voting rights act. most people had not connecte the dots around gerrymandering most people don t quit understand what gerrymandering looks like but when you talk abou wisconsin wisconsin really is a very goo example. how is it that you have th u.s. senate race that it s almost 50/50 - how is it that you have democrat that winds for th supreme court and winds by ove ten points but for some reason when you look at how the state is broken up, it does not look anywhere near like 50/50 whe it comes to representation but one of the things that the justin s have brought out is that representation matters,
congressman representing a central eastern district o washington state when you voted for a federal assault weapons ban. he later said the vote cost hi his seat indeed inslee lost his bid for reelection as 1994 republica revolution swept a wave of conservatives into office. nearly 30 years later inslee i now the democratic governor of washington and while the national assault weapons ban has expired his state is forging its own gu regulations. the state senate just approved a bill that would ban assaul weapons in washington. and now returns to the state house for final approval if it passes it heads to governor inslee s desk for his signature. joining me now is the governor jay inslee democratic governor of washington state. governor inslee, good to see you. thanks for being with us thi evening. good evening. yeah this ban has been introduced in washington state for a few years. it s never passed until. now what has changed people have had a belly ful of violence gun violence they