i say my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, are taking is to expel us for speaking about the issues of weapons of war on our streets. as protests raged outside the tennessee house chamber, republicans carry out their despicable act of expelling that democratic legislator, who wanted nothing more than to protect children from being murdered at school something republicans refuse to do now, expelled state representative justin jones who you just saw joins me moments from now and we begin tonight with an unprecedented and frankly shameful day in american politics the tennessee house took up resolutions to expel three democratic lawmakers, not for breaking any laws, mind you. they moved to expel these members for standing in the well of the chamber despite being ruled out of order by the speaker, and attempting to speak loudly against gun violence. and against children being shot dead in schools. something that literally just happened weeks ago in nashville. these three
them that argument of grace struck me in a very as very odd, as a very odd way to talk about the stripping of democracy from 200,000 constituents, and i wonder, you as a young activist, how that struck you, that strange sort of generational difference between justin jones and this older guard sort of call for grace you know, i understand a bit of the calculus, as reverend mark was just talking about, my dear friend was just saying. there s an understanding that we are in holy week, even though we re watching something deeply unholy happening an understanding that kind of bible belt, bible thumping mentality may be an opportunity to make an appeal, an appeal on grace, an appeal on so-called forgiveness, but personally, i don t feel that there s any forgiveness necessary because nothing wrong was done the only wrong done was the continued inaction and distraction that the tennessee gop has been pursuing during this hearing before now and what