morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
was indicted three days ago, but we ve had wisconsin as you and joe and i have been talking about all week, a red flashing alarm for the republican party in terms of the erosion of their support in county where is they ve counted on republican votes, and then just the extraordinary events in tennessee where we saw two young black members of the house is there expelled for a peaceful protest inside the well of the house of representatives, jen. that s crazy. that s right. it s a lot to watch. one voice matters. activism matters, so we ll see what happens on gun safety this could be a turning point. you can only hope it could be so for willie, joe, and me, that does it for us we ll see you monday for now, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser and this