politicsnation tonight s lead, a dangerou precedent. robert right now, the eyes o the nation are on tennessee, o the eve of a vote that may reinstate one of the two democrats expelled from thei seats in the state house las week and tomorrow, a county counselor in nashville wil vote on the next step for on of those vacancies a majority of its members on record saying they will vote t reinstate former state representative justin jones, along with justin pearson, was voted out by republica legislators for protesting gun violence on the state hous floor earlier this month the first time in tennesse history that house members hav been expelled for chamber rule violations we will hear from jones in jus a moment here. just as we heard last nigh from tennessee state representative - johnson, a white democrat wh narrowly escaped her own expulsion. and she pulled no punches in our assessment of why her tw male colleagues did not. of course, along with th racial overtones of thes exposu
people marched for, that people blood for, that people sacrificed their lives for six decades ago, we stand to lose if we don t roll up our sleeves and recommit ourselves to this fight. because whether it s about voting rights, whether it s about to love who we want, to pray where we want, to identify how we want, again, those maybe god given rights. but they will be removed if we don t steal ourselves from the fight. and that requires christians and jews, blacks and whites, people of all persuasion, again, to dig deep, to double down, and to march forward. that s ultimately what it s about. i m curious what you thought about some of the themes of the yolanda rené king speech. the only grandchild of martin luther king, only 15 years old. what struck me as the confluence of issues. it s not even just about civil rights anymore, she folded gun violence into the fold. she folded climate change into what she wants to see, and
average age is 57. it is easy to see how th raised voices of you can b used as viewed as a threat b an aging group of lawmaker fixated on turning back th clock. in their passion for addressin america s gun crisis representatives jones an pearson are walking the same path as the pac man school activist, sam fuentes, x gonzalez and david hawk an others, who are also in thei twenties now their commitment to public service gives their common cause of maxwell frost, th 26-year-old first gen z member of congress. his uncompromising vision fo congress is shared by a comi activist greta thunberg who, just turned 20 and these two lawmakers ar inspiring other black youth to get motivated and involved much like yolanda rené king wh