democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee
clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee hous republicans on thursda expelled two democrati lawmakers for breaking house rules and mounting a gun protest on the chamber floor surrounding my democrati colleagues, expelled state representative justin pearso had this message of hope for the future we have good news tha sunday always comes.
thirds vote, it s only happene three times before demonstrators today filled the halls of the state capital arguments from democrats did little to sway that republican a supermajority. this does not seem like america, to expel the voices o the opposition it s a signal of authoritarianism it is very dangerous the republican speaker of the house says today s actions were about the rules they did break rules by going to the well and showin that they were at the well they were speaking they pulled out a bullhorn before there was a recess. here is what justin jones said after all three votes t police this action is older. let s go every week to thi rotunda and remind them that we re not going to let this go they re expelling me today but they can t expel our movement. they are trying to silence people they can t silence thousands o us here who are demandin change no action, no peace! that is what he said a fe hours ago. let s find out what he has t
a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee hous republicans on thursda expelled two democrati lawmakers for breaking house rules and mounting a gun protest on the chamber floor surrounding my democrati colleagues, expelled state representative justin pearso had this message of hope for the future we have good news tha sunday always comes. resurrection is a promise. it is a prophesy it s a prophesy that came ou of the cotton fields it s a prophesy that came ou of the lynching jury it s a prophesy that still lives in each and every one of those in order to make the state of tennessee the place that it ought to be. i still got out because i know that we are still here and w
district sure, i think there s order like this all around the country, truth of the matter i that the act of voting and the act of political expression is awfully, awfully complicated , and it is tied up in policy, it s tied up in culture and would just, i think that w have to flip what you said as democrats and, realize that there is a deep responsibility that the party has to not - to always fight for what i morally just, to fight for the correct public policy but also to not push too far to the extreme for fear of a very rea possibility of culturall alienating a large majority of voters who share your sensible policy beliefs okay, for this extreme that you are talking about are just words. they re just cultural issues and, what i m talking about ar the lives of children. why isn t that the number on thing? far above what someone identifies who the health cares that s exactly the point i trying to make here.