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, yes. straight now to our correspondent isabel rozelle s live in nashville this morning. good morning, isabel. what roadblocks could be standing in the way of jones and his supporters. good morning to you don the goal of metro council today during its special meeting happening later on in the evening, is to appoint jones back to his seat. now i spoke with the city council member jeff syracuse, who tells me that he is confident that there was enough support within the council to appoint him but there is a tricky part right before that appointment vote in order to get to the appointment vote, they first have to vote to suspend a council rule that prohibits someone being nominated and appointed within the same meeting. it only takes two council members to object to the suspension of the rules for it to fail, and then we don t get to the appointment vote and we re told by syracuse that if it fails, it could take four weeks until they are able to
i think it s important to understand our tlur body works, it works with order and rules, you take order and rules out, it doesn t work. and republicans narrowly failed to expel johnson, a white woman who says she played a lesser role in the protest and fomenting accusations of racism, claims that republicans deny. under tennessee state law, the two democrats who were expelled are able to run for reelection so the people will have the last word on this one. griff: as they should. charles watson live in nashville. thank you. molly. molly: a ukrainian woman captured by russians is now back in her home country. her emotional story up next. i count on personalized financial advice from my ameriprise advisor. she knows my goals and can help me
statehouse over a recent gun control protest. charles watson live in nashville with the latest on all of that, charles. a good evening jon. they were more protest today in support of gun reform and in support of the three tennessee lawmakers who were the subject of expulsion hearings earlier this week. today about 150 people comment many of them parents and students march the steps of the tennessee state capitol with the signs at many enchanting things like this is what democracy looks like and there were a lot of tears as they victims of school shootings express their anger about what they say is a lack of action on gun control in the wake of the tragic school shooting here in nashville where a gunman killed six people and including three young children. take a listen to one young woman who says she is genuinely afraid she could be next. and scared, and i am angry that i even have to do this.
trying to put political racism in there, there was nothing on this. they were all given due process. she separated herself from the other two and said i didn t have the mega phone, i didn t yell, i didn t scream, i just stood there with them, alongside them. and as you mentioned today, vice president harris will travel to nashville to speak to lawmakers and advocates on how to push gun reform forward. as for pearson and johnson, under tennessee state law they are eligible to run for re-election for their seats when the special election is held probably in a few weeks from now, anita. and justin jones says he will be back, so we ll of course be watching all of that. charles watson live in nashville for us, thank you, charles. john: interesting to see, anita, the vice president is going to nashville to meet with the two expelled along with a number of protestors, i don t