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remarkable scene tonight in the tennessee house of representatives were waiting for a vote. i should say actually vote has just taken place on whether to expel the last of the three democratic legislators. ah we re still waiting on the results of that vote for a gun violence protests that they held the last week on the floor of the house in the wake of the mass shooting the covenant school just a few miles away. representative justin pearson of memphis, who has just been speaking he now his fate hangs in the balance will be up to report to republicans who control the two thirds majority needed to expel him to decide his fate expelled earlier today, representative justin jones of nashville will talk with him in just a moment a measure to expel representative gloria johnson, knoxville failed by a single vote. to the nation. keep watching. we re losing our democracy. we need to make sure that we stomp out this march to fascism. absolute power corrupts. absolutely and we ca ....
Later, they re expelled. listen to what people are saying. no justice, no peace. take a look. two representatives expelled. the other one. gloria johnson survived by one vote, gloria johnson, who is white. justin jones, with black have said on the record, they believe it is something new with skin color. we don t know the answer to that. but two of the three legislative expelled no longer representatives elected by tens of thousands of people in their districts. now been expelled from the house of representatives by tennessee state legislative anderson back to you and gary. what what are their options now? the two legislators who have been expelled, will they run again? here s something very interesting and you re going to talk to justin shortly. he ll tell you if he s going to run again. tennessee law if he ....
That we stomp out this march to fascism. absolute power corrupts. absolutely and we cannot forget that. as on everything folks feel like there s a difference in the. you want. i will answer your question i might have to do with the color of our skin. we should point out that justin pearson. now it s the voters just taking place has been expelled as well . so to tennessee democrats have been expelled gloria johnson as you saw the third she survived her vote just by one vote. what happened today? the expulsion of two representatives in the tennessee state house has only happened twice since the 18 sixties. the last expulsion in 2016. was for a lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct this time was for violation of the rules of decorum. gary tuchman is inside the state capitol just outside the house chamber joins us now. so gary talk about what just happened. anderson as we ....
Process. that s part of he plays politics and doesn t follow the rules that prosecutors and judges are forced to follow where they can t respond to most of these charges he makes, and it s very difficult for a judge say this judge warned in new york, he warned trump s lawyers and trump was right there listening to it. but the problem is anderson. there s really little ways to enforce it. he is not likely he can bring trump in and put him in jail, particularly for the offenses thus far. if trump did something horrendous, he might, but it s just very remote. so judges have difficulty enforcing this sort of gag and keeping people behaving. john dean carl bernstein, i appreciate it tonight. thank you up next. more violent demonstrations in the streets of paris why people are upset and demanding changes coming up. everyrybody in hocke, you know, it s gordodo st. john guy s a legend. he s like hockey experience. expert tnt ....
Leaders just talk to us a few minutes ago. inside here. i talked to the republican caucus chairman asked him this question . i said if they would have apologized to you, these three representatives would you have been able to say okay, you can stay as representatives of this legislature. and he thought about it, he said, if they apologized, and if they were contrite, and if they said we won t do this again, i would have considered that. so that is a possibility. when we were listening to it today, there is a possibility. it could have stayed if they did that, but it s clear that these three representatives were not planning to be contrite. they were asked several times during the hearing. do you think you did wrong? do you think you did wrong? and they said yes, stepping into the well is against the rules. talking without being told you could talk is against the rules, but we needed to do it for the constituents in our district who elected us or they just told me was they have constitu ....