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she says, because of the color of her skin. republicans pushing back. vice president harris making a quickly arranged visit to nashville, plus the new questions about if the expelled lawmakers could be reinstated. supreme court justice clarence thomas speaking out saying he did nothing wrong by accepting and not disclosing luxury trips over two decades paid for by a republican mega-donor. violence escalating in the middle east. two israeli sisters shot to death in their car in the ...

Chill being felt all the way to the white house tonight. priscilla thompson now has late details from nashville. >> reporter: tonight growing fallout in tennessee after last nights historic vote. two black lawmakers were expelled by the state legislature while representative gloria johnson was not. >> other than me being a white lady i dont know what else it was. >> reporter: the trio was accused of breaking house rules and disorderly behavior after protesting for stricter gun laws in the well o...

This country theres somebody there who is ready to sort of get them back within the lines if they really want to sort of act crazy. you know, the reality is one of the most important parts of democracy is that sometimes you lose. sometimes your candidate loses. not that you did anything wrong. not because they didnt have the best ideas but because we do operate on a system that involves the majority sort of making a determination and thats what were going to see happen on november 8th. >> rebecc...

Its not getting much attention. why? >> look, there are two templates at work here, lets flip the template on politics, if this were a republican administration with a white president and you had white people threatening african-american people you know theyd be in court in a second. the second template is, only white people can be racist, african-americans cannot be racist because of a slavery pass that were working out. you understand those two things, you understand everything about the story...

Its not getting much attention. why? >> look, there are two templates at work here, lets flip the template on politics, if this were a republican administration with a white president and you had white people threatening african-american people you know theyd be in court in a second. the second template is, only white people can be racist, african-americans cannot be racist because of a slavery pass that were working out. you understand those two things, you understand everything about the story...

The guy on the meg aphone, king zamir shabaz, the same guy at polling place with the night stick. take a listen to this. >> i hate white people, all of them. every last iota of a cracker, i hate it. because >> the official louisiana cracker on this panel, look it, this is a fringe-- even the old black panthers, not one symbolizes broadly-- >> king what? >> come on, this is ridiculous. >> im sitting here laughing, but, i mean, thats some pretty