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.
did it in ranged them. because, to them we are no equal. to them, in the south, we stil are separate and not equal. and not worthy of even being i this place, that we call a peoples house. it s very toxic environment, white supremacy is real here i tennessee. this is the birthplace of th klan it is also the birthplace of a movement of civil, right for people like diane nash, john lewis, ct vivian, and we have little history here and we want to stand in the other legacy of youn people, black people challenging the white ear that is defined in the south for to long justin, as you just alluded to, every social movement from changing america has been owne by young people. and it s very clear that you understand that legacy, an that you are a clear part of that legacy. i want to be very candid wit you tonight, let you know that you made so many people very
people like diane nash, john lewis, ct vivian, and we have little history here and we want to stand in the other legacy of youn people, black people challenging the white ear that is defined in the south for to long justin, as you just alluded to, every social movement from changing america has been owne by young people. and it s very clear that you understand that legacy, an that you are a clear part of that legacy. i want to be very candid wit you tonight, let you know that you made so many people very proud today. you and former representativ pearson, and the way that yo have conducted yourselves, i the way that you have stood an weathered this adversity you have made us proud and you represent what is good about american democracy we honor you today and we hope that you wil continue the fight that yo had. my question to you is what advice do you have for other young organizers out there who are watching this and may feel a bit of discouragement? i would say that today is
that was a lot to unpack there. go back to claim no voter fraud here. that s exactly the point. the reason the secretary of state goes through the rolls and make sure there are not eligible people on the rolls to prevent those kind of voter fraud. this idea that you are arguing that there was suppression in polling places closed purposefully in black places to keep them out of the voting places is a serious charge to make and we haven t seen evidence of that. we have seen because we know about polling places being closed. yuan, it wasn t because they were closed african-americans. martha: one more comment and then i have to go. i think what you are seeing here is a situation where republican candidates say we re going to choose our voters rather than have voters choose the candidate. and they do that by focusing on surprising voters who they think are young, minorities and oftentimes women, martha, hog they think are not going to vote republican. martha: katie and juan, thank