dangerous. i hope that as a nation watches, that we put this light on this to say that this should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering into very dangerous territory. one of the two democrats in tennessee expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse we re going to have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill, one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena for the this isn t going to work well for jim jordan the prosecutor is going to explain why he wrote a book saying that, actually, d.a. bragg didn t go after donald trump aggressively enough. but, you know, if you have them, smoke em, jimmy. yeah. this could backfire on jim jordan we ll explain. and we ll dig into the bombshell report exposing lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor. boy, willie, the clarence thomas stuff keeps coming out
it is almost as if they are addicted to losing look, i m sitting here in ozake county, wisconsin, used to be a 68% republican county. now, it is evenly divided. we ve been telling ourselves for some time, nothing matters donald trump could shoot somebody in the middle of fifth avenue, and people would still vote for him some will. but this is the problem with the republican party it is in this bubble it is in this hermetically sealed, alternative reality, so they don t really understand, i think, how they are looking. every one of the issues you just mentioned, they are doubling down on election denialism if they go with donald trump, they re going to be looking back and airing the grievances of 2020, opposed to talking about the issues that they claim to care about, right? the issue of abortion, a six-week ban down in florida legislation? wisc
i fell off the turnip truck outside of 30 rock a couple of years ago and brushed the dirt off and walked upstairs, and phil griffin needed somebody to polish his shoes so i got a job. it s way beyond my pay grade to figure out, why is it that two of the lawmakers got expelled in tennessee yesterday, but one didn t i m a simple man can you explain that to me i m trying to pick up i m not good in sudoku, so sometimes i don t pick up trends and i don t see where things are going maybe you can help me out with what happened yesterday and why one was allowed to remain in and two were expelled. well, phil griffin told me when you fell off the turnip truck, you didn t bump your head i think you can figure it out with me. that is, clearly, one was white, two were black
and we ll dig into the bombshell report exposing lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor. boy, willie, the clarence thomas stuff keeps coming out. of course, if this had been lain kagan or justice sotomayor, somebody on the left, the right would be squawking like crazy. here with clarence thomas, it s just one breach of ethical conduct after another, stepping over one line, then another, then another i guess there s just nothing that can be done. and for decades it s been going on for decades i had the same thought, joe. for a party that likes to talk about wealthy overlords controlling people who make decisions, see george soros, for example, this story actually has that, which is someone who is paying a supreme court justice we don t have
there. i m curious for people watching, if this does happen, if these two colleagues of yours are thrown out of the house and the will of the voters are overturnedr districts, one from memphis, one from nashville, or what is the recourse exactly here? yes immediately, that would be an appointment from the metro council in nashville or county commission in shelby county. then, within a few months, there would be a special election for that seat. we re expecting those young men to come back that is my hope. tennessee state representative gloria johnson, thank you very much for coming on morning joe this morning. we appreciate it. i want to go to charlie sykes. charlie, you know, i had somebody call me yesterday and say, well, you know, you look at wisconsin, and that seems to be you put that in the good silo that s where we re going in the