politicsnation tonight s lead, a dangerou precedent. robert right now, the eyes o the nation are on tennessee, o the eve of a vote that may reinstate one of the two democrats expelled from thei seats in the state house las week and tomorrow, a county counselor in nashville wil vote on the next step for on of those vacancies a majority of its members on record saying they will vote t reinstate former state representative justin jones, along with justin pearson, was voted out by republica legislators for protesting gun violence on the state hous floor earlier this month the first time in tennesse history that house members hav been expelled for chamber rule violations we will hear from jones in jus a moment here. just as we heard last nigh from tennessee state representative - johnson, a white democrat wh narrowly escaped her own expulsion. and she pulled no punches in our assessment of why her tw male colleagues did not. of course, along with th racial overtones of thes exposu
junk science that was pu forward by antiabortio opponents that contradicts the 20 plus years of safe access t mifepristone that women have relied on two and pregnancie safely it just is really a crisis o democracy and it s a crisis of health care. right after the, texa ruling a judge in washington state ordered the fda not to rollback approval of the drug. however, that ruling only flie to the 17 states in washington d.c. where democratic s tierne general made the challenge meanwhile, national outlet - after two black lawmakers rose expelled from the tennesse house after protesting gun violence in the chamber. their white colleague wa spared, msnbc s simone sanders sat down with the legislator in an interview later today. this whole process has been a farce of our due process it s been a farce of our constitutional system of government and so everything about this, even the trial tha they had, it was when the verdict was decided before we even started talking. we re n
a remarkable scheme playing ou right now in the tennessee capital, as you can see there. absolutely shocking scenes i tennessee today. we just saw the third of three votes on expelled expulsion, i will take you through what happened today just so you know, what s happening right now, three members were voted on to b expelled two african american members one white member they expelled, successfully, with a two thirds vote, to the two black members and did no expel the white woman who wa up as well they just held that vote kicking out three democrat from protesting gun violence it started a week ago, whe protesters descended on th state capitol, they were calling for lawmakers to pas gun control legislation after shooter had killed 39 year old and three adults at a privat elementary school in nashville the protesters made it into th gallery of the legislature, an those three democratic lawmakers, the ones that we sa today, justin jones, whose district is in nashville justin pea
tennessee today. we just saw the third of three votes on expelled expulsion, i will take you through what happened today just so you know, what s happening right now, three members were voted on to b expelled two african american members one white member they expelled, successfully, with a two thirds vote, to the two black members and did no expel the white woman who wa up as well they just held that vote kicking out three democrat from protesting gun violence it started a week ago, whe protesters descended on th state capitol, they were calling for lawmakers to pas gun control legislation after shooter had killed 39 year old and three adults at a privat elementary school in nashville the protesters made it into th gallery of the legislature, an those three democratic lawmakers, the ones that we sa today, justin jones, whose district is in nashville justin pearson, whose district is in memphis, and glori johnson, whose district is i knoxville, went to the front o the chamber
their duly elected positions this week. now, as you just heard me say to mr. jones, it started i large part over the school shooting last month in nashville that killed si people, including thre children it was that tragedy that jones pierson and johnson were protesting against on the stat house floor, as the federa debate over gun contro continues. i understand that anothe demonstration like this, gun violence by a black democratic lawmaker, has been on your mind could you elaborate? well, it does not fal silent on me that it was congressman john lewis who led a peaceful protest on the floo of the u.s. capitol. he literally knelt along wit colleagues to call for actio on gun safety reform, becaus of the inaction by republicans