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.
right. what the hill are you there? for if not to just do the righ things is baffling and it s scary mark, good bet or otherwise republicans aren t stupid, s what are they doing? well i think i could agre with that sentiment, i m not s sure about the but i m, saying this wasn t an accident, this wa intentional. well, i think that it s a intentional result of a powe by republicans through the sor of gerrymandering that we ve seen in particular places like tennessee and nashville, where they ve got in the supermajority and, as was just pointed out, these people ar being elected, not their broad majority of their states they re being elected by primary voters who ve made u about 20% of just the primar votes. so, this is not representative of even the broad, because i ve been represented it for [inaudible]
stand up to the nra, they re unwilling to stand up to the extremist elements of thei base i ve taken tough votes, yo know, in my time, in publi life and, i assure each and every one of them, even if you los your seat, there is life after that and, you can least look at yourself in the mirror look at your family, and hol your head up high and so you fought for what you thought wa right. what the hill are you there? for if not to just do the righ things is baffling and it s scary mark, good bet or otherwise republicans aren t stupid, s what are they doing? well i think i could agre with that sentiment, i m not s sure about the but i m, saying this wasn t an accident, this wa intentional. well, i think that it s a intentional result of a powe by republicans through the sor of gerrymandering that we ve seen in particular places like tennessee and nashville, where they ve got in the supermajority and, as was just pointed out, these people ar being elected, not their broad majority o