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good evening, lawrence lawrence >> oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low >> it happens to all of us its your show now you can do whatever you want with it. >> thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that >> have a great show, lawrence >> we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a...

democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court -- the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. im stephanie ruhle. tonight, w...

clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. im stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is ...

lawrence >> oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low >> it happens to all of us its your show now you can do whatever you want with it. >> thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that >> have a great show, lawrence >> we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawma...

house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we havent seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader >> it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will ...

unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. >> one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. >> yes, what a ticket. >> thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notoriou...

Reinstate representative justi pearson, he said this. >> we do not speak alone >> yes >> we speak together >> yes [applause >> we fight together >> yes >> - to expel us. you cant expel hope yes. >> now that the sheriff an county commission have don their job, i am so glad we can get back to doing our job. >> yes and what is our job? back to elevate the voices o the six people in nashville. the three children who wer just nine years old. >> in an op-ed piece in the ne york times today, titled def...

Justin jones expulsion the same thing happened toda in memphis, with representativ pearson, but he will not b sworn in as a member of th house until tomorrow >> the movement lives or die in memphis and here is a hollow place in this sacred place, we are showing the united states of america and the republicans in tennessee that the movement is still alive. >> hurray. >> we need to lift up thes amazing voices of these youn people we need a multi generational multi racial organizatio thats gonna se...