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
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i would say this, chris. tennessee has now given th entire country an object lesso in critical race theory better than any ap history course eve could ve, right? everybody sees it now, everybody knows it now everybody gets exactly what is going on to harry s point about the supreme court, any argumen that this was about the quorum or the house rules in tennessee, the republicans took tha argument off the table for the rest of us when they decided not to expel the white lady, but they did expel the two black men, right so that, i think, opens them u to a legal challenge that is even more serious than how i thought it was going to rule three hours ago. yeah and i would even say and i don t think we have this actually, but correct me if i wrong, but there was one point elie, in which one of th republican said, this isn even really about the rules.
like, this is bold i would say this, chris. tennessee has now given th entire country an object lesso in critical race theory better than any ap history course eve could ve, right? everybody sees it now, everybody knows it now everybody gets exactly what is going on to harry s point about the supreme court, any argumen that this was about the quorum or the house rules in tennessee, the republicans took tha argument off the table for the rest of us when they decided not to expel the white lady, but they did expel the two black men, right so that, i think, opens them u to a legal challenge that is even more serious than how i thought it was going to rule three hours ago. yeah and i would even say and i don t think we have this actually, but correct me if i wrong, but there was one point elie, in which one of th republican said, this isn