now that the shelby county commission done their job. i m so glad we get to get back to doing our job and what is our job? to elevate the voices of the six kids the six people in nashville. three children who were just 9 years old. now both lawmakers expelled by republicans in the tennessee legislature have been reinstated, proving just how pointless that exercise was. state representative justin j. pearson joins me in just a moment and the two pillars of the republican party, trump and fox, are all friendly again and there are big new developments in both of their perilous legal situations. and late today, a new threatening letter is received by manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s office containing a suspicious white powder but we begin tonight with the triumphant return of the tennessee three. earlier today, the shelby county commission voted to reappoint justin j. pearson to his duly elected position, to represent the good citizens of district 86 not a single republic
we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba
we want to see the expansion of background checks and so many ore good laws that exist that most people want because they don t want their grocery stores to turn into war zones we don t want our churches to into war zones or schools to be war zones either we want to live safe in our community. whatever we have done in the status quo led us to this point. we need to do something different. sometimes us breaking decor rum of house rules in order to change the conversation and the state of tennessee and in our country to create more just laws that actually protect us yeah. as you wrote in your op-ed, it is something when decor rum allows someone from the well of the house recommend returning to lynching in the hanging tree but not to stand up for justice for the children who were in the gallery. i have to ask you about this because we watched these mainly older white men treat you all but particularly you and justin jones with utter disrespect. and you were their colleagues no matter ho