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.
respect, they cut off ou microphones, wouldn t let us talk on committees, making hostile remarks in elevators, had a member yell at me an tell me i am effing disgrace that s alicia s, they see us a not worthy of being unequa colleague. to go back to the firs question, is because the speaker s house ethics told us that if we are appointed the may not see this, may no allowed to be seated, that i another attack on ou constituents and community voice. so to come back here wil definitely be challenging bu it is something that is wort it to speak from our district, fight for my district, that is what this was about at the end of the day, 70,000 people in the most diverse districts that s what led me to the well and i know that my colleague as well speaking for our peopl and so no matter what we hav endured here we know it s goin to be worth it for this ne south that we are trying t build, a south that is based o a multi racial democracy, huma rights, based off of a futur
funhouse of toys and want to take all of our fun stuff. never mind that nashvillians have voted on multiple occasions that they like havin 40 council members, it s a big council but guess what constituents like it, the stat has decided they don t lik that because the state council decided not to approve havin the republican national in 2024. retribution has been flowing for months now could be because all sort of people that weren t born an bred in the deep deep south ar building roots down in nashville, charles, do you wan to weigh in? you talk about the proces that may take place putting you back and having special election so that you can return to the state hous can you talk about how - after an experience like thi go back and work with your republican colleagues, what is that like after you have endured along with representative pierson what yo experience today yes, i mean, it s going bac into this very toxic wor environment but that s how i has been all session and that