>> the gop dominated house voting to expel two young democratic lawmakers they taken part in a gun protest >> jones representative justin pearson, both black were expelled from their seats representative johnson, who was white, was nearly spared >> it struck me. surreal. i'm like that's my home state legislature. i used to work in that building and now it's being broadcast all around the world i talked to my family who lives in tennessee, but i wasn't really on top of what was going on after the expulsion of that started paying a lot more attention >> i actually saw it as tennessee, again, being part of this national tug of war over the direction of the country and really over democracy itself. expelling state legislators is something that happens very rarely throughout american history >> presented also the gentleman shows no remorse. it's clear that he wants to be expelled. he and two other representatives effectively conducted a mutiny. >> a >> mutiny, which to this body into this state has been unknown in its 227 year history. you simply cannot allow one much less a group of members to hijack proceedings on the floor of the house. >> what that represented was more norm erosion, legislative norms of bipartisanship that you don't expel a legislator because they say something that you disagree with. and this showed again republicans sort of out in front on those eroding norms. >> so you have a democracy index and tennessee is dead last why is that? >> when we think about electoral democracy, what i'm measure, we're talking about free and fair elections, where every individual voter has an equal say, an equal voice in didn't want the government does, and who is elected to office and so i use 51 different variables in this measure. all of this comes together to make tennessee the 50th out of 50 as of 2018? >> the makeup of tennessee's general assembly. it is a republican super majority, as you can see, that super majority holds true in the senate as well. >> it's becoming more and more difficult for democrats to be heard. you get >> to gerrymander. it gives one party control. so there's really no democracy >> with the super majorities we have in both the house of representatives and the state senate were able to pass legislation without actually negotiating with anyone on the other side of the aisle >> all right. well left her a long time ago, coming back and say very different place i just don't understand how did things get to that point. i hope i can find out this week hey didn't see them get younger. >> i have done since, when they happen, were you surprised? >> no. i wasn't surprised. >> they >> wanted to make an example of you can not come in here and do can you walk me through how you go from having a bunch of kids in a private school gunned down to two black lawmakers getting thrown out at the same like how did that happen? >> i think part of that goes back to the issue of the super majority the super majority can silence the minority and so the tennessee three felt like the only way for them to really be heard was to do something think completely an orthodox rather man, good to see you doing, sir. >> well, welcome to the people's house. >> that what it is hopefully it's good to see you. thank you for shining some light in here and what's going on. welcome back to your home state the first time you came in his building, how did it feel to you? i mean, do remember my first we can legislature the senate republican leader said, i just want you to know that you're worthless. you don't along here. and that was my welcome to this place. >> he said to your face? to my face >> i don't think people understand the level of youth activism which you were part of. >> i was arrested when i climbed up and we cover the statue nathan bedford forrest, the first grand wizard of the kkk and enslave or competitive general with a black sheet to say that this is not a symbol we want in our state anymore. >> but there's >> another statue over here of the first black lawmaker who entered into this building, exactly 150 years ago samson cable, the only statue of a person color, maybe someday >> you'll have many statues. you never know they were vandalize it >> how are you, sir? >> great to see >> a man in this lesson, the flesh? yes. and days back in the people's house jim nefise in turn. so last time i was here, democrats ran this place i believe it or not so a lot has changed anything different in the state of tennessee? >> probably one or two things are different than then at democrats are not in the majority, are not on the way to being speaker of the house. and the next couple of years here it's a long-term game. >> i >> think one of the biggest changes are transitions that have happened is the radicalization of the conservatives and republican party. >> i >> think we're seeing white supremacy codified in legislation in ways that probably would not this case in similar ways, then those are fighting words, those it's true proposed bill and soon as he legislature would make it illegal to display the pride flag and a public school representative >> genome bolsa will introduce that bill if i were to categorize are representatives in the republican caucus in the house i'd say you'd have the conservative members. those for a more conservative, those who are most conservative. and so when we're looking at legislation, it normally is debated between and among those different groups which those three camps to place yourself. i think i'm in the most conservative camp >> i don't know if you heard it van, but there was a recording released of their caucus meeting after our expulsion you just show the mentality they really saw this as a continuation of the civil war >> you hopefully, we're at war for our josh well, what so because they get us the southeast game over have you got to protect is pretty republic here as ceo, noah. all go to hell home >> i've heard that there was an audio that was leaked. i have not heard it, but i was in the caucus meeting, obviously tennessee does represent values that our country has held since its founding and so it cannot fall to the type of wokeness that we've seen go rampant and some of the other states that are not doing so well. so as goes tennessee in many respects, so goes the country >> they need everybody on the same page or as they're going to lose what they believe is some war. >> i don't want to sugarcoat it. there was some wall political uses of power when the democrats controlled the state house. but it wasn't this sense of, we got to win at all costs because our entire culture is at stake >> i hope braces a white supremacist wow backup your walk that the greatest has ceased watson disrespect to say that i chose to move to fire gallery has got to stop justin jones, who was expelled, then reinstated on monday. >> he has great democracy will win in the in and justin pearson has been reinstated now by tennessee county board >> do you feel like it can be effective lawmakers in an environment like this? >> a good lawmaker isn't the one that just gets a law passed. because if we wanted to pass a law to allow everybody to get an ar 15 tomorrow that might pass was that make it a lawmaker ahead into the shoeshine place, an arcade where the siddons we're that dissent is a message to the future. we may not have the votes. not but each time we dissent, we're letting the future know that there's still somebody who would not bow down to they were people who fought to make this state what it ought to be i'm just going to listen to you talk and i've just feel like, oh proud and also a little bit ashamed. because i don't think that my generation kept that same fire >> we talked so much about ancestors. you think about what they endured cured, and what they were called, depths away from earth, capital >> i think part of why people are so impressed with you, young people is that you didn't back down >> tennessee is the birthplace of the ku klux klan but also the nashville student movement so we have this dual history and i think that's really the history of america i really felt >> talking to those young justin's like i was talking to civil rights leaders from i'm a century ago, these young people made themselves people who cannot, there must have been how i felt to talk to a john lewis agreed to me, jonathan, justin, young people telling them older generation they need to do better. you don't realize sometime how far away you veered from your own values or your own true north until somebody reasserts it. and when a young person reassert said it's a specialty bracing, three to one charge. >> people but the good fight it together. >> you say in the right to >> major my goal is to make lines in the face. absolutely. okay. i believe. and looking your best at every stage and being okay. where you are >> miracle bomb is >> a game changer for mature skin. it's the product i've been dreaming about my whole life. >> my name is 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nashville and memphis this created a more moderate state with a divided state government. and the 2010 wave election, tennessee becomes unified republican for the first time since really the civil war and reconstruction it seems like 2010 was a really pivotal moment. obama came in 2008 nashville there were some counties that are ruby red >> today that we're actually obama counties and await here in our state we begin to see that shift after all of the birth certificate and the tea party and all of that hot, heated rhetoric if the message loud and clear they can't run that i believe those >> individuals who were on the fence or just holding on to the party just because they'd been democrats all these years. we're now aligning themselves more racially and culturally than they were with party identification. >> but it wasn't so much the views of tennessee has changed. i think you had the democratic party that was continuing to lurch towards the left. ear. >> one i really wanted to talk to you. i am a republican. good morning. >> you're being seen as the party, then the radical pro-abortion anti gun, soft on national security. jackson fire mental, i mean, to the point of extremism a lot of southern democrats now probably vote and identify more as republicans >> democrats become republicans, counties that they've gone blue for obama and suddenly become red yes absolutely. >> that's 2010 >> that's the worst year for y'all to get work because then they got they got a chance to redistrict that gave the republicans the power to gerrymander everything, correct? >> that's correct. du they use that power? they use it. do they abuse it? >> abuse it was surgical precision. >> tuesday night's results for decidedly republican. >> it's a paradigm shift in our state. >> republicans now have a super two-thirds majority in the house and senate. >> and in this moment, they start taking increasingly conservative policy changes around all sorts of policy areas. guns, health care, abortion, but especially when it comes to democratic institutions like voting rights and distracting what happens in tennessee is going to happen in nearly any red controlled state after this time period. but tennessee is really leading the charge in many ways. >> i didn't learn to pass with a late-night deal. tennessee lawmakers passed one of the country's most restrictive abortion laws >> the first state in the country to restrict drag show performances hennessy legislature has declared war on clear, painful >> in tennessee. the puzzle is, why do these parties stay in power and states when they're passing things that are not all that popular. and part of that reason is restricting democratic institutions like voting rights, even with things like strict voter id law below average, wait times for in-person voting. felon disenfranchisement in a series of other things that make it more costly and burdensome to vote a 60% of tennesseans and a presidential year will vote for the republican but if you look at the state house house, republicans have 76% of the seats. if you look at the state senate, republicans have been 2% of the scenes i think that creates a situation where people feel like it's useless are, you visiting nashville >> as he from natural to >> yeah. >> yeah. >> did you might have we talked to you. now. >> come on. come on. >> yeah. good guy grabbed >> i would say the word that comes along is asserting that just smear the disappear part of it is. does your vote counts >> yeah. >> does it make a difference, especially in bigger picture of tennessee? i already described he lives here's the redness of the red states. >> the rest of the red area authoritarian. >> the >> gerrymandering is definitely >> take nashville where when they drew the congressional lines instead of keeping a community together, they did what's called in the redistricting committee cracking and packing. so they crack nashville to create more republican districts and get rid of a potential democratic district >> this concept, political maps being drawn in a way that might tend to favor one party more than another has been something that's been going on since the founding of our country do you believe that? >> but for gerrymandering, you would be in the us congress >> absolutely i won 75% of the vote here in nashville i was doing well. >> but they deliberately created a district, had 14 counties because in two different states to make it impossible for you to win yeah, they crack nationally across every black community. the sounds too black vote and voices >> though the biggest city with a third of the economy doesn't have anybody from nashville in washington, dc this has been a democratic stronghold for close to 200 years and the three congressional districts that were made in nashville are all now represented by republicans you know, somebody like you should probably run for office >> i've heard that before >> what happens, to the golden boy of new jersey? >> i engaged 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their own constituency on this issue >> muscles parents from the covenant, a wealthy white private christian school or republican and they're the ones begging fractionate. they're out there were signs that say republicans for red flag laws >> but i think something so important, the blast mothers who've been grieving for a long time are the people on the front lines of the fight >> shaundelle is one of the steadfast mother the movement who was testifying in the legislature long before thousands of people gathered. she went there sometimes by herself, testifying before the lawmakers talking about her son akilah against this law. >> she's one of the strongest people i know. >> a deadly shooting this morning at a waffle house restaurant. four people are dead and four identified as taurine sunday ghrelin, joe perez, devaney, groves, and akilah de silva, 23 years old. >> it's five years not having my son here. son have pain probably never going to go away because he's not i remember going there by myself testifying, pleading thanking for my heart. >> it is impossible to imagine the pain i feel when your loved one is van murdered until you experienced it yourself. the pain is like no other >> ms herman we're out of time. thank you. >> didn't make a difference. now, lawmakers here at different clark take the role. >> mr. chairman, have seven eyes and to nose, carrying a handgun without a permit in tennessee is now legal for most adults i know you had another son that also was shot but survived >> someone asked him sip warm and after leaving the venue, someone started shooting outside. and there we go. that call again. your son, sean how's he doing now >> better. his recovering the bullet is still in the head. it's in his brain. it's gone through physical therapy so still sort is there there's so much more that is wrong. and that's the painful part because i'm grateful he's here, but it's not the same person and no family should have to go through that once, not twice. >> know. >> it's hard. >> but i have to keep going, keep calm we have four young people now lost their lives and it was like nothing but now we have the covenant shooting we're rich neighborhood. more people are showing up. tennessee gotten more attention now we thank >> you for the opportunity to come together tonight we're so thankful for the countless ways you've cared, loved our community since the tragedy on march 27th >> hi, everyone. thank you all so much for coming. i feel like this is how we really bring change in tennessee he is to have real conversations and in honest, safe space >> i grew up conservative. i was a gun owner after the shooting we realized our entire state and truly the nation is a disaster with gun violence >> on march 27, my daughter was in the third great class three of their classmates were murdered >> and i'm telling you, like, there are pieces of my daughter that are missing that all never get back. >> i thought no way it's going to happen to us. we're >> this beautiful school. >> and it wasn't, i'm not and it makes me so angry to be at special session, we met all summer >> with these men and women in privately, they say something thank and then publicly they go and do something completely different >> when you're meeting in person with someone, especially someone who is suffering from if you're a recent tragedy, you tried to be as empathetic in his understanding as you can be, and in the meetings that i've had with some of the covenant moms i've been very candid with everyone about what might positions are on the second amendment. >> republican lawmakers saying the governor's proposed red flag law is unlikely to pass after little children were slaughtered in a christian school there. >> this is a really sad day for our state. >> we're going to keep showing up every session and we're going to do that until we get change my name is melissa alexander. i would encourage everybody to not give up if there's a state like tennessee with gun-owners, with conservatives that can say look, this is not acceptable anymore. we need change >> if that can happen >> in tennessee, it can happen across the country and so it's up to us in this room. it's up to our state hey every republican is so afraid they're going to get a primary challenger who has been a side that there were week own guns. i want to take your guns away, that these associations don't even have to do anything anymore. it's, it's baked in. >> it seemed as though governor lee at first came out in. i think he honestly wanted to do is open. >> i think that we have an obligation to set aside politics and prod, and accomplish something that the people of tennessee want us to get accomplished. >> the head of the tennessee firearms association sat down with me on camera. if republicans support a red flag law will there be consequences at the ballot box from your group >> oh, absolutely. and i'm probably in the courts as well. >> all red flag law it says is that if what are your loved ones has a gun and is acting crazy? you can ask law enforcement to help >> their position is they would rather lock up the person than lock up their gun. >> that type of legislation is both ineffective and it's unconstitutional. and it's nothing that we would ever consider passing in tennessee. >> i want to have a chance to talk to somebody just as passionate that we need guns to be available in protecting their people are very well organized. you feel very passionately. the other way yet tradition of tennesseans to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes. preexist the founding of this date. this right come from god, not from government. >> you represent a growing force in this state you are a pardon organization called the tennessee firearms association. i think that's pretty well-respected group the last ten years, i would say that we've had some modicum of success and putting good conservatives and office that is giving us a leg up. >> you think everybody should be able to carry a handgun for it? i wouldn't bother you have no permanent that'd be fine for you, correct? >> we >> have that in tennessee have entered through right now so that anybody would all i think about those kids that were at that private school in nashville. i just don't understand why you aren't war moved by that. >> do you know what the largest loss of life from the school massacre in the united states was? >> i do not. >> okay. it >> was michigan when a gentleman ran for schoolboard, then he didn't win the race. he lays the underside of that school with dynamite and with gasoline, and that's the largest loss of life. there wasn't a single firearm used in that at all. >> well, first of all, i would be happy to support any law against blowing up a school. okay. so it gives we agree on that. >> and so therefore, >> passing a law does not take away a person's crime. >> but what you're saying does not make sense to me because people pass laws all the time. it's true they're all violated. but a lot of people in the middle are deterrable by what the law says. if i listen to you, i would think, well, why pass any laws? and i'm worried about you. i think you're going to take away more guardrails. i think we're going to have morphine. that's my fear. >> well i disagree with your premise wholeheartedly because i understand this that the only person that i can count on to protect myself from my loved ones is me and if the second amendment says you have the right to keep and bear arms for your common defense. what would be the next right that you would take away? >> i, think i'm more convinced than ever that i'm living in a bubble california and new york with guns being essentially passed out to everybody and no ability to elect someone to represent them and meaningful way. i mean it's a much tougher world here. i can see the disconnect a lot better >> las vegas wouldn't be here if it wasn't in constant state of evolution. >> immediately inaugurated a new hero for 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behind the scenes among them are in front of the scenes. the sumner county constitutional republicans, who are they? >> they ran as a slate for county commission. >> we advocate for god-fearing constitutional conservative, christian values, right? >> and their mission is to restore the county to judeo christian shouldn't values and fall a constitution literally i have sources who are very solid, moderate republicans, who are appalled at what they see happening >> we're not here to replace the republican party of sumner county our job in our minds is to take the republican party and pull them to the right >> there. illustrative of what happens when you have one party system, when you have a one-party state everything that goes on in sumner county is really wow. >> so these are hard right? groups. >> i mean, this is not just conservative, it's not conservative it's not anything i would call republican >> i understand how hard it is to try to change a political party's direction in 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republican. heard the term fascist throw around when it comes to republican, but i mean, good grief. it's to me, it's pretty fascist so tell people they have to take an injection. >> it felt like the government with overstepping >> what i mean, that's not a feeling that's that's i mean, that was a fact. >> so there was overstepping. so you need to step up. >> the truth of the matter was it wasn't that noble. well, i started in my house with some friends. we kind of network together and i think we were deciding like we're going to take out who are we going to run against forced to listen to us. people put a gun to my head and said, we're going to take your job if you don't comply that was gonna get fired over, taken a vaccine. and i listened, i got the message. so now we're going to threaten these politicians jobs. and now they listen. >> so you challenge existing incumbent republicans and you get 14 seats. >> yep. why did you >> feel as republicans you to challenge other people? well, who are also pretty much already republican, you claim to stand for individual liberties, which are not. you're not standing against the govern over h. you're either actively participating in it or you are acquiescing to it. in either case, got to go well, look, i spent a lot of time trying to move my party more in direction. i believed and so i respect you guys because it's tough. i mean, it wasn't till 2016 that the democratic party had any criminal justice plan at all. >> well, you did some work on this, right. but it was with president trump, the first step back, there's nothing more important than freedom, so thank i'm exported that. >> i appreciate that. >> i don't believe it, but i grew up poor, so i believe in criminal justice reform. so in six or seven kids that i grew up with, three of them didn't make it 40 one of them died in police custody. now, the cynical side of me looks at that and says, why didn't they get any attention? i think that these rural areas got totally forgotten >> i love all prepared to have a big conflict given everything i had heard about the movement, he represents these conservative, but he's not a clown. he's a great guy. it seems like a great guy. he felt like it says some wasn't serving and he stood up and fight back. i mean, democracy is supposed to be all about i think there's something really going wrong here where i don't see a lot of difference between yes the two justins or mr. shelf. this story just got a lot more complicated black women, lee yeah. >> you were to come me i may do it alone >> all right. >> thanks, everybody. we're going to do some power mapping, talk about the issues, the merit to us to our communities. >> so identifying who are the people, who are the institutions, who are your allies, who are the people that are movable that you can convince to be on your her side. >> all right so come on up >> let me get this >> the reason why we do it like this is the conversation. so after this, we're going to go into a discussion around let me just ask a couple of questions. >> where were we were in sumner county? but hey, why don't you go to sumner county? >> because we don't feel like me working. i feel like i'm always harassed by police was really happening now, is that there's some cognitive dissonance right? they really think that they're the good people in their mind. >> and i'm sure that they believe that we are in here doing some satanic witchcraft >> not me. >> i think that there has been an active effort to separate us so that we don't go to sumner and they don't come here and we all believe were evil. but that is actually not true. >> and they said they got together probably just like you ran for office, just like you trying to stop big corporate power should running over them and it was very disorienting to me because a lot of those people sounded like y'all. here's what i will say nobody is a villain in their own movie. >> you all right. >> thanks guys. appreciate you. >> so it's 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i'm, i'm going to lose. they need to be looking back and saying, i can run for office in my county. i have something to offer i just wonder what's the democratic party doing? >> nothing? >> laugh hard to imagine. >> well, to be honest, i think the democrats became very complacent with that super majority. folks who would like to vote democrat, they'd vote republican because they don't have any other option for whom to vote. >> on the one hand, you've got the gerrymandering and then you have no competition. anyway. that seems to make this whole thing a lot harder to fix all right >> well, leaving nashville jackson, tennessee, my hometown, i go back once a year either for thanksgiving during a christmas and a place like jackson, a political party, as an organized entity, doesn't matter a lot i was going to matter as what charge you go to what sports team you like that's gotten play a bigger role it's a small town. >> when i got a lot of people who've got a little bit more than you, a little bit less. people who are white people or black i can't get away from each other. so people do figure out ways to get along absolutely more talking my sister i left here 30 plus years ago he never left. so she's been here the whole time and she's seen the changes up close and personal when we were little you i'm telling you now, i wasn't always telling you. you're bigger than me and my protector >> i just morgan rimmer brand that must undo okay? >> dealer. we thank you for this food then at about you receive thank you for letting anthony angela have a safe trip over here and let them have a safe trip going back let's hear a man know about to eat onion >> no, ma'am. >> why >> make that? well it has to worry for you working for you, but they not eating the whole thing that a little bit so what i when i lived here, democrats ran the state, i come back. it's run completely by republicans. what differences that may just living here in tennessee, you having the republicans in charge? >> with memphis, you know, democrat run memphis >> the state. >> republican front of state values. i look different like now a gun issues anybody who lives, just go get a gun. that's how i govern made it. so you don't have to have a license, anything you just go get it. that's the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. and it affects big time because you always hear about shooting every day. >> and they used to be like telephones, couldn't get it done. well, now the way they have it set up, you don't have to have a background check to get a gun. >> it's those sound like a lot of problems in memphis when you look at the state legislature, when you look at the governor, do you feel like they are helping know i >> don't forget his name to represent a younger justice justin from memphis. justin pearson >> now, he's trying to see how his face he's trying to help big time. >> but when you go to nasri and is run by republicans, know, i just don't believe what they say >> they can be true of all time you know, it's funny. i think it's hard to hate up close i met with republicans and you sit there on immediately, people start trying to figure out a little bit more common ground there might be some issue that they could compromise on though, because some of those people are in counties here in tennessee, white folks, they thought they're getting run over to it's like they're getting their rights violated by big corporations developers, not type of stuff >> probably they probably are probably the most cynical and jaded person at ihs take all of the things you talk about. we could find common ground. everybody runs away from there is something building. i think this much extremism is starting to finally to create a reaction and response that overtime i think will be able to take in a better direction. i hope. but we had to come here on the ground and try to find it. is it's not obvious at this point, except for the two justins. they are quite obvious and not alone. they're not alone i'm headed back to california tomorrow. and being back it's been really bittersweet for me on the one hand, it's just good to talk to regular people fighting the fight. but manager feel feels like people are our way. and i don't see any dynamic that's going to bring people even closer together and that's really heartbreaking to me when i see something like this where there's hey, even the pretense of bipartisanship or even partisanship, just pure one party domination >> yeah. it >> makes me worried and if this adl spreads to more and more states were really in trouble because we need each other i think there's a discontent with the status quo on all sides. and so it seems like the energy levels going up by both sides. it seems like new voices are coming in from both sides. the question is, is it going to be more chaos or can the any common ground be surfaced >> tennessee is one of the 16 states and territories that will vote in this week's super tuesday primary are former president donald trump is expected to dominate in the past two presidential elections, the former president won the state easily with more than 60% of the vote. thanks for watching the whole story. i'll see you next time