, free, free, free, free the tennessee free you are fascists! you banned books, you banne rag, kids are still in bod bags [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banned, rag kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislator voted to expel tw democratic representatives fro the tennessee house. they voted to kick to democrat out of office. it was an unprecedented and it was a drastic move and it al started last week. that is when hundreds of schoo students came to the tennessee capital to call for new gu safety measures after a shoote opened fire at an elementary school in nashville. killing three 9 year old students and three adults. during that protests, a handfu of democratic law minister before the house chamber they had megaphones and they weren t shy about standing i solidarity with the protesters outside which was apparently a violation of the rules of th chamber. republicans pounced. they didn
lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this hour including the latest
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
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explosive new rigid revelations about what was actually happening behind the scenes at fox while they peddled election lies on air. combing through hundreds of pages of brand-new filings. then i think what happened on january 6th was despicable. this attack on the capitol i don t listen to tucker carlson. i usually don t. condemnation from all sides as fox tries to launder the insurrection. tucker carlson is a propagandist, publicly pretending to be a news man. with the explicit help of republican house leadership. speaker mccarthy knows damn not well what kind of customer mr. carlson is. as abortion bans threatened countless women in texas, one of the five women now suing the state will join me tonight. sounds like a pretty second twisted plot to a dystopian novel, but it s not. it s exactly what happened to me while pregnant in texas. when all in starts now. but good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, and in the wake of tucker carlson s attemp