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and the response to such calls from the republican stat legislature, in the republican governor has been thus far t just keep getting rid of law around guns, to keep getting them more and more prevalent and more more places, giving them to more and more people who previously, under othe laws, would not have bee allowed. to have them and that was the context a wee and a half ago, when three democratic state legislators some middle aged white women and two young black men, the three of them got wowed on the floor of the state legislature essentially, cheering on kid in the gallery who had come to peacefully, but very loudly, protest. that state legislature, only acting to make things worse, i terms of gun violence. even after that elementary school massacre in nashville you see the three stat legislators there, in th front. you see them there that picture, political headline as the whole country now i well aware, the republican dominated tennessee stat legislature th ....
is it freedom for kids to go t school and tried to socialize, and try to learn, and be scare to death that they might die that day well, that groups will fix i because it s gonna double th number of cops in schools. that s what he wants to do well, that will create a great environment. is that freedom? or is it freedom to have a congressman who can make a postcard with all his family holding rifles, includin ar-15s or whatever, is tha cool is that cool for republicans that is freedom. that s more important than protecting the kids? i don t get it coach gregg popovich take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow thanks to atone for joining us this hour really happy to have you here. on a new state like today, i will admit it is hard to kno we are to begin. but today is yet another day 1 place to begin is ....
Extreme action by republicans to expel them as legislators meant technically that local government in both of those two men s districts would have to appoint somebody to fill those empty seats in the interim until there can be a special election. well, fine then. today, the national metro council appointed justin jones to be his own replacement in the legislature. they voted to send him back to the seat from which he was just expelled. the vote was 36 yes, zero no. less than an hour later, justin jones had been sworn in again as a member of the tennessee state legislature in front of tons of people who showed up to the capital to cheer him on. by 6:30 p.m. he had marched arm in arm with those supporters to the doors of the legislature to take his seat. now a duly appointed member of the state legislature. ....
Acting to make things worse in terms of gun violence, eve after that elementary school massacre in nashville. you see the three stat legislators there in the front you see them there in that picture in the political headline as the whole country now i well aware, that republica dominated tennessee stat legislature that voted to expe the two young black male legislators who participated i that protest they decided simultaneousl that they would allow the whit female legislator to keep he seat, weird but tonight, she was the one a the door of the stat legislature, welcoming one o those young men back to hi seat justin jones, all wh represents part of nashville was unanimously selected by th nashville metro council tonigh to retake his own seat in th legislature, to become his own interim successor until special election can be held t permanently fill the seat from which he was expelled. he says he will run in tha ....
Successor until a specia election can be held t permanently fill the seat from which he was expelled, he says he will run in that specia election as well to permanently retake his seat justin jones selected to refil his seat temporarily, by a 3 to nothing he says he will run in that special election as well to permanently retake his seat. justin jones selected to refill his seat temporarily by a 36-0 unanimous vote at the metro council in nashville tonight. upon receiving that vote to reinstate him, he immediately joined with protesters outside too much backup to the tennessee state capital whereupon his colleague, gloria johnson, met him at the door and he walked inside and he retook his seat. that happened tonight. newly receded representative justin jones is going to join us here live on this show tonight in just a few minutes. you will want to be there for that. i should tell you, the young ....