morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
was indicted three days ago, but we ve had wisconsin as you and joe and i have been talking about all week, a red flashing alarm for the republican party in terms of the erosion of their support in county where is they ve counted on republican votes, and then just the extraordinary events in tennessee where we saw two young black members of the house is there expelled for a peaceful protest inside the well of the house of representatives, jen. that s crazy. that s right. it s a lot to watch. one voice matters. activism matters, so we ll see what happens on gun safety this could be a turning point. you can only hope it could be so for willie, joe, and me, that does it for us we ll see you monday for now, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser and this
consider political malpractice, and i mean that quite seriously. cantor was in even in the district. that tells you how poorly that was managed. it also says that this is and you were talking about this earlier that the gerrymandering of this district, this is what happens. it enabled brat to run a 0-issue campaign against eric cantor, to which he was very vulnerable, as we have just seen. to that i say, that is what elections matter. that is what activism matters. you don t want to vote in a midterm election, but this is a great cautionary tale. it also points to the fact that there has been we will talk about this later in the evening. there is a story about the tea party s demise, the tea party still living. i think the thing to understand here is the fear of the tea party challenge, even when they
and pent point and your point, that is their message coming home to roost. they went out too hard on immigration messaging, not maybe looking at a little something i like to call the census to see the way the country was changing and similarly had to do that in a number of negotiations you point out, ari, with the tea partiers to say we didn t mean this, here s what we meant. to get them back on board. at a minimum they need to rethink their messaging strategy. they painted themselves into the corner. that is well put. as we look over the incredible night in american politics such a reminder, people say elections matter which is true. activism matters, volunteering matters, turnout matters. this race, shifted by a few thousand voters, passionate voters, voters have strong feelings, wherever they come down, right, wrong, an incredible night in american politics. my guests thank you for joining our special coverage tonight.
poorly that was managed. it also says, though, that this is, and i think you were talking about this a little earlier, congressman moran made this point that the gerrymandering of these districts, this is what happens. because it enabled brat to run a single issue campaign against eric cantor to which he was very vulnerable, as we have just seen. and, you know, to that i also say to people, that s why elections matter. that s why activism matters. a lot of times you don t want to go out and vote in a midterm election. but this is a great cautionary tale. that s a great point. there has been a story about, and we ll talk about this a little more later in the evening there is a story about the tea party s demise, the tea party is still living, the mississippi race. and i think that the real key thing to understand here is the fear of the tea party challenge. even when tea party challenges don t work is enough to enforce a certain amount of biological rigidity in the house and caucus. b