friday agreement was signed, t bring if not an end, at leas some long overdue respite from the decades of fighting an violence and terrorism i northern ireland it leaves tomorrow t commemorate the good frida agreement. it will be back on friday. now it is time the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel it is on msnbc you just had reinstate representative justin jone from tennessee i am going to have the not yet reinstated representativ justin pierson join us as ou first guest tonight. and so it is remarkable to see how fast this story has move and to see that reinstatemen tonight was just really, reall exciting as a video. i am glad you relayed it the way you did during our hour. that document you gave us. well, i have to say, seeing people on the lawn of the fron
order. michael steele is the forme chairman of the republican national committee, davi pepper is the former chairma of the ohio democratic party and the author of laboratories of autocracy, behind the lines, both join me now. i gotta ask you, michael what s your looking, and wha you re smiling about a week ago, nobody in this country knew who justin jone was. they did not. and thanks to these ignorant republicans in this legislature, we all do. and we stand with them and we ll look forward t continuing this conversation what struck me in the clip, an forgive me for sort of chuckling on the way into ou conversation, was the shee contempt on the speakers face. when he said, power to the people the sheer contempt when he put the gavel down you are out of order you know, that drippin condescension in the sense tha i picked up from him, that all of this means nothing. all of this means nothing. the fact that they re even threatening to withhold fundin to pierson s district if the re-a
of that body for participating in a protest against gun violence at the capitol. they committed a grave crime o being loud with othe protesters among other things, that actio by tennessee republicans, thei extreme action to expel them a legislators, well, it mean technically that local government in both of those tw men s districts will have to appoint somebody to fill those now empty seats in the interim until there can be a special election well, fine and then. today, about 5:30 eastern time the nashville metro counci 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 jus expelled the vote, you heard it there was 36 yes, zero no. less than an hour later, b 6:15 pm eastern, justin jone had been sworn in again as a member of the tennessee stat legislature in front of tons o people which showed up to th capitol, to cheer him on by 6:30 pm, just 15 minute
us will stop us, it would only galvanize and strengthen our movement we will continue to show up an the people s house, power to the people [applause] all right, that s out o order. michael steele is the forme chairman of the republican national committee, davi pepper is the former chairma of the ohio democratic party and the author of laboratories of autocracy, behind the lines, both join me now. i gotta ask you, michael what s your looking, and wha you re smiling about a week ago, nobody in this country knew who justin jone was. they did not. and thanks to these ignorant republicans in this legislature, we all do. and we stand with them and we ll look forward t continuing this conversation what struck me in the clip, an forgive me for sort of chuckling on the way into ou conversation, was the shee contempt on the speakers face. when he said, power to the people the sheer contempt when he put the gavel down