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
i say my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, are taking is to expel us for speaking about the issues of weapons of war on our streets. as protests raged outside the tennessee house chamber, republicans carry out their despicable act of expelling that democratic legislator, who wanted nothing more than to protect children from being murdered at school something republicans refuse to do now, expelled state representative justin jones who you just saw joins me moments from now and we begin tonight with an unprecedented and frankly shameful day in american politics the tennessee house took up resolutions to expel three democratic lawmakers, not for breaking any laws, mind you. they moved to expel these members for standing in the well of the chamber despite being ruled out of order by the speaker, and attempting to speak loudly against gun violence. and against children being shot dead in schools. something that literally just happened weeks ago in nashville. these three
Representative, tennessee stat representative, justin pierson after he preached a whol sermon and i will note that tha justin jones that you saw on the screen, that was not us. that was on msnbc. not only this state legislatur vote out just in pierson, duly elected state representative who was elected by more than 70,00 constituents, they couldn even get his name right. they confuse justin jones fo justin pearson and put the nam up that was a feat we were taking from tennessee, so we had th right name up. that was just in pearson if you all are going to do wrong and you re going to do evil, please at least get thes brothers names right they re two different people learn to tell them apart you re telling on yourself racism is alive and well in th state where the ku klux klan was born lord jesus, right before easter, and that is tonight s read out tennessee state representative gloria johnson, will join yo tomorrow all in with chris hayes starts right now. get it right, y all. thank y