we can feel it, right? in the moment yesterday. that history was being made in the state of tennessee yes, of course it was shameful that it came to all of that. expelling two state lawmakers ostensibly on procedural grounds over peaceful protests but ask yourself this. if the ultimate goal of any demonstration is to draw attention, to shine a light on injustice, then who is really better off as we come on the air less than 24 hours later today the tennessee republican party or those three democrats of whom they sought to make an examine pl representatives justin jones, justin parson and gloria johnson, they lit the match that started a bonfire, one that burned from coast to coast as americans watch transfixed yesterday afternoon into the evening on the east. now millions across our country are infinitely more aware not just of the barriers to do anything more than nothing about the epidemic of gun violence but of rank anti-democratic fervor among republicans. we are still
she didn t make excuses for them i was on with her this morning on morning joe. i told you she d be on with me this weekend she said there s only one reason they treated me different. and she only was restored by one vote by one vote. she almost went with them. and i think that the multiracial, the interracial, intergenerational fight that they have put in front of those cameras really has energized the anti-gun movement in a marvelous way. which isn t just the democratic party in tennessee 71% of tennesseans, we know they re not all democrats or the legislature wouldn t look like what it looks like, are for gun safety legislation. more than 60% are for background 71% are for background checks. more than 60% are for the red flag law legislation the idea that these men represent more tennesseans than any of those republican members seems inconceivable to any of those republicans.
legislature wouldn t allow them. he s urged people and told schools you want mask mandates? do it. this is his republican challenger. he wants schools that are not requiring masks to act now. i m serious. you want to get your please, please, please think about this in the end. best way to do that is to put a mask mandate on. this is more of a trump primary challenge there. this will be litigated in every way. including in republican primaries. well, i mean, dewine during the course of the pandemic got fairly high marks before there were vaccines. but republicans in the state have been fighting him tooth and nail for every mandate or regulation he put in place. and you re right. everything when you talk about ohio republicans and the ohio primary, trump is the one the only word you need to know and
kids are getting ready to gook to school in the fall, but if they are under 12, they can t get vaccinated. now, permanently, having covered this for over a year and a half, i think it s clear we have to do whatever we can to get kids back to school in person. that seems a consensus, thankfully. what that means is adults work manager the schools need to get vaccinated. the schools need to take steps to minimize transmission among the children. despite a recommendation by the cdc that kids wear masks we re seeing pressure groups raging against school masking across the country. in fact, it took a judge to stop a ban on mask mandates on schools in arkansas because the republican legislature wouldn t repeal the law despite pleas from their own governor. he said he regretted it. thanks to an executive order from governor desantis.
that they would not come into play very often. for example, the penalization of employees for illegally seeking work. you wouldn t really see that being prosecuted unless you saw a specific investigation of an employer and they happened to find some employees that would be battling the law. the one that comes into play literally every day in arizona is the arrest provisions which, of course, is the one we have been talking about for the past two years. one of the other provision struck down, to criminalize being undocumented in arizona, as a criminal penalty misdemeanor, which is to convert a similar infraction to a criminal one. actually, no, it doesn t do that. it really is important to read the law, i know you guys have a lot of work to do. but what it did, the provision. it said if a person is committing the federal, criminal offense, then you are also committing a state misdemeanor, a criminal defense of exactly the same nature. it was already a crime to be in