trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t
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
so it looks like people on both sides aren t really believing this but we heard from mykhailo po dol yak. one of the top advisers to the ukrainian president. and he said look, if this information was real, if the kremlin believed they had this real hard data that could actually turn the tide of the war, then the russians wouldn t have released it onto social media platforms like twitter and telegram they have would have held on to it, not told anyone about it and used it to their advantage and that s not what happened zbl sblulth fascinating. matt bradley, appreciate that. and that does it for me today i ll see you right back here tomorrow at noon eastern and sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. and be sure to tune in monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern for the premiere of ana cabrera reports. deadline: white house starts right now. hi there, everyone it s 4:00 in new york.