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
do it for us tonight thanks very much for being here now, it is time for the last word. with the great lawrenc o donnell. good evening good evening, rachel. you know, when i heard elizabeth warren say that sh wants banking to be boring, thought mission accomplished my entire life, i ve considere those two words have alway gone together, banking and boring and of course, until one o them fails and so, here we are. listen, you are either person who is excited by the movement, or you are lulle asleep by it i mean, yeah i took a lot of economics in college. and definitely, like, put in m hours in terms of learning it. but i can t say it ever move me or give me feelings that said, on days like this you ve got to i mean, you need somebody like elizabeth warren, somebody who s like katie porter, who i on our air earlier tonight, to both explain what s going on but you also, i, think point the finger at the people who did wrong here, that got us to trauma like we ve had over th
ashamed with yet another episode. let me start by saying t representative jones, you stan for something bigger than what happened today on a so man levels you represent a future tha america has been leaning towards for a long time. your generation will chang this country your generation will mark this moment every last one of thos bastions who voted you out wil rue that moment, whether it in tennessee, whether it s anywhere else in the country your generation has an opportunity to do somethin different. what we are witnessing now should not stand it cannot be allowed to stand. not only does it make a mocker of your service, a mockery o your leadership for your constituents, it makes a mockery of the ver
these guys, the ventur capitalists, the investors who have been absolutely pleading, insisting that the fed and the fdic, the treasury departmen bail out the banks these are the same guys who ve been saying, look, we need t get the government off our backs. if the government stands aside then we in silicon valley will give you flying cars and wha have you they re the same people who say, it s absolutely unfair to give college students debt relief and yet, the other adage i quoted was, where you stan depends on where you sit these guys thought they were sitting in the captain sea until all of a sudden, the needed government to step in and save them. banking has traditionally
51% have positive feelings towards socialism, only 45% have positive feelings towards capitalism. we conducted several polling. what we showed in our last poll more people learned about socialism those numbers went down. the more we shared information about capitalism numbers went up. that s the bigger point. the way in which capitalism is being practiced today. that s not being effective. overall we look at the overall electorate 18 plus. 50% or so think the system is okay or needs to be further deregulated. america is split. but younger people who overwhelmingly believe the system is broken and we need more government control of thing like health care, education, housing and that sort of thing. once you read the history book socialism is less appealing. ron you live in a real city. you stan in line for coffee.