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
house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we haven t seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, fo
unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, four, quote, parading without a permit. that was during a protes against segregation in birmingham dr. martin luther king was sentenced to a birmingham jail after the united auto worker paid his 160,000 dollar bail back, dr. king was release from that jail, eight days later. on april 20th. while in that jail, dr. king was in a dark cell, alone, wit no mattress, and was denied an phone calls. he was smuggled
i ret today.it really bears redg ery year on this day as possible. or bill lee of your st w issued an executiv ordeclearly in response ou actions. i m not his would ve ed withoou and this is executive order, a i read i i want you to clarify for requires 72 hours, fortin formation to be enteto system, that is umablylegal devy arrests or information lik what is it what doe executive order this executorder, actually met with the govern next to him when hplainethis the onlyue that executiv der is tspires when th governor leaves. and so we want long-lastin legislation. he s talking about som background checks. he starting to ask us in the legislature to push a red flag law, something democrats bee fighting for years but we know it s not enough. that s what we told th governor yesterday when we met with him i was sitting across for him i said governor, this is gonna take political courage and sacrifice. we know he s endorsed by the nra, he s very fringe extrem groups it s gonna take him pu
stands in the traditional dr king and he knows what it mean to be in this work and to hear that it s reminder that we are on th right side of history, tha this happened by accident, n one wanted to be expelled or wanted to be put in this platform, but we know that there s something beyond u working in this moment, that when he attempted to crucify democracy, it s really resurrected something we haven t seen in tennessee or i the south for a while. it stands with tradition o people like here in nashville, john lewis, he s from nashville, as for the student movement, diane, nash and when it were not came to nashville he said came to nashville to gai inspiration from the movemen here led by young people, thos with courage to city and as we stand, up those willing to get on the freedom rides after the were bombed and honest and so i m 27, and the younges lawmaker here, and i m just so hopeful for the days ahead and i hope more young people wil