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dangerous. i hope that as a nation watches, that we put this light on this to say that this should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering into very dangerous territory. >> one of the two democrats in tennessee expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse we're going to have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill, one of donald trump's most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena for the -- >> this isn't going to work well for jim jordan the prosecutor is going to explain why he wrote a...

reid wiseman added we can see the artemis 2 mission take off late next year that does it this hour, our coverage continues with alex witt right now ♪ very good to be with all of you. i'm alex witt in for katy tur. we begin this hour in tennessee where any minute now the state's republican-led house will hold a vote to remove three democratic lawmakers from office. those lawmakers are currently making their opening statements. you see one of them right there doing so state representatives gloria johnson, justin jones, and justin pierson participated in a protest on the house floor...

Accepting a bribe. republican ledgislators in tennessee voted to expel two black democrats in the statehouse from their protest on the chamber floor against gun violence the protests on the floor are forbidden. justin pearson and justin jones were expelled from the body, while representative gloria johnson, who is white, survived exp expulsion. here's what jones and pearson had to say before their expulsion votes. >> today is a lynch mob assembled to not lynch me but our democratic process. >> we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy let's talk...

Exp expulsion. it is a step that the tennessee state house has only taken twice since the 1860s, the first being a removal for the representative for accepting a bride, the other over allegations of sexual harassment, serious crimes both of them, compared to the quote disorder and dishonor that these three democrats are being accused of we're going to talk about the precedent their removal could set, and if other republican chambers could be following suit just moments ago, democrats inside that chamber slammed a move to show unseen video from the day of the protests ahead of the vote. >> if y...