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
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
Of democracy every legislature has rules, and rules for the quorum, rule for the conduct, rules for committees, and they also have sanctions for violations o those rules. and they are on a slidin scale. one can be reprimanded, one ca be sanctioned, one can b stripped of committe assignments, which all three o these representatives were o the day of their protest but the most extreme i expulsion because expulsion is a sanction not just agains representative, but against th voters who voted them into office justin pierson and justi johnson were just elected. they are in their first session. justin johnson was sworn in on january 10th this is what they did to these young men who just entered the state house. and if you heard - chris, i m sure that, you know your other guests can attest t this, this is part of a broade context of what has been happening in the house the silencing of democrati