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
district sure, i think there s order like this all around the country, truth of the matter i that the act of voting and the act of political expression is awfully, awfully complicated , and it is tied up in policy, it s tied up in culture and would just, i think that w have to flip what you said as democrats and, realize that there is a deep responsibility that the party has to not - to always fight for what i morally just, to fight for the correct public policy but also to not push too far to the extreme for fear of a very rea possibility of culturall alienating a large majority of voters who share your sensible policy beliefs okay, for this extreme that you are talking about are just words. they re just cultural issues and, what i m talking about ar the lives of children. why isn t that the number on thing? far above what someone identifies who the health cares that s exactly the point i trying to make here.
which is that this issue is so them serious, we are talking about or daycare just had to lockdowns in the past week he s three years old it is that serious of an issue and there is other issues that are on this level of seriousness that it is absolutely critical that the democratic party state discipline, stays forthright and it s focused on thes issues and doesn t avoid the very real fact that in human nature it is possible that, at times people act irrationall and i pushed away by thing that they do find offensiv like extreme wokeness. and, so, yes we are not goin to avoid that. that is the absolutely predictable act of millions of people and we have to stop being surprised by it. i, unfortunately, need to stop this conversation because, if we continue with, can t talk about clarenc thomas tonight and, you bet your bottom dollar, we re covering that. max, rosemark mckennon, both o you, please, please come bac soon when we come back, all politic