expulsion and cnn tonight starts right now, thanks for joining us. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. turmoil in the tennessee state house tonight to democratic state reps were expelled for so called decorum violations, but there s much more to this story. what we re seeing is a very dangerous um, step in tennessee. that should signal to the nation that this is if it can happen here can happen anywhere. it s hurting people killing people, and they re treating things like this is normal. we can never normalize the ending of democracy. should america be worried about what we ve seen here today? america should absolutely be worried about what we ve seen here today. okay. in a moment, i will speak to that. woman live representative gloria johnson, who narrowly survived the expulsion vote. this controversy started last week after three children and three school officials were shot to death at the covenant school. the democrats demanded action, and
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trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t
face backlash will survive it. and who are we facing backlash from honestly, it s people who i assume a year or two down the road if they re stopping at a gas station in the thirsty for beer, they re going to still buy the beer. okay but to be fair here, like there are some real serious issues here. you had a florida legislator this week, calling transgender people, mutants and demons and you have kid rock shooting beer cans because he s upset that they have someone who s transgender as a part of their you know, marketing campaign. what s happening is transgender people already filled targeted. they already face an outsized amount of violence. and here we are again. jennings something up for what for what? what is the endgame here, people exist. they should be able to exist in their bodies the way they are, and instead you re hearing these these horrible things about transgender people, and they are going to be targets of violence . the more this sort of thing happens. that i
the air from washington with new details and the brutal assault of the husband of nancy pelosi. police saying in the last 90 minutes or so that the person arrested for the attack will be booked on several charges, attempted homicide, burglary, more. nbc news has learned he shouted where is nancy before using a hammer on the speaker s 2-year-old husband during an overnight break-in at their home in san francisco. we have our team standing by with the new headlines and more and what sources are telling us, and why that is getting the attention of national law enforcement and capitol police. i m hallie jackson in washington. joined by nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, ryan nobles is with us on capitol hill and we re also joined by carmen best, former seattle police chief, and msnbc law enforcement analyst. before i get to all of you, our team, i want to make sure people know where we are and where we re going wi