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look at the us capitol. beautiful evening, actually, here in washington as we jue just moments awas. capity fm president biden and tonight s state of the union address. y frompresidengood evening from. i m brad there. good evening, everybody. i m martha maccallum. any moment now president biden will be announced on the house floor with the familiar callilia of the house sergeant of arms. he will make his way down cate, greeted by lawmakers all along the way. there you see mitt romney talking to joe awmakers manchin. seems like they re pretty engaged in some conversation ses that happens on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakersnh waiting a long time in the chamber. a lot of folkse chambe, you knos expressing themselves different ways. republicans, some of the more in buttons, die of about the bo. others dressed in white on the democratic sidemocratic in solidarity. let s set the stage now with white house correspondent i peter doocy with a preview of the president s s
if there is anything tha recent events in tennessee and other states have taught us, i should be that state legislatures are critical fo our democracy. i mean, it is where america policy is made and if we don t know who you re stat representatives are, you shoul get to know them because the are determining the future state houses create policies whose impact can reach beyond state lines and influenc entire regions, affectin peoples pocketbooks, education s abilities to make decisions about their own bodies and virtually every facet of lif you can think of beyond laws alone, how you state legislature s run has direct impact on you as well i mean, look at tennessee. more than 136,000 tennesseeans woke up on friday morning with a no representation in their own state house. that s because the republica majority expelled of the two youngest black male legislators, representatives justin pearson and justin jones, saying the violated house decorum rules all for demanding tha
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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