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after they took the house floor , demanding action in the wake of the nashville school massacre , plus more breaking news rockets fired into and from gaza tonight, tensions there at a breaking point. we ll take you there live and the district attorney who indicted former president trump tonight, taking on republicans, accusing them of attempting to undermine his criminal case. let s go, outfront. and good evening, everyone. i m bianna golodryga in for erin burnett outfront tonight, breaking news expelled . the republican led tennessee house has voted to expel one democrat and just moments ago it failed to expel a second and now the tennessee house is about to take action against the third. what is taking place is a dramatic act of political retaliation after the representatives justin jones, justin pearson and gloria johnson took to the floor last week to rally for stricter gun control after six people, including three children, were killed during a mass shooting at a n ....
these are live pictures of the tennessee house floor where a debate is underway over an extraordinary and controversial push for republicans in the state house. they are voting to expel democrats today because they broke house to corm rules. one of them, justin jones, has already been ousted. at this time, the debate is over gloria johnston, and the vote is expected soon in the fight over the third democrat, justin pearson, republicans going after democrats for using a bullhorn on the house floor as they call for tougher gun laws and did so in defiance of republicans who would not recognize the right to speak. all this comes after last week s deadly elementary school shooting that killed six in nashville. this is just a third vote to expel a tennessee house member since the civil war, an indicator of how rare and critics argue, extreme, this move is. protest are currently rocking the state capital. these children and the adults in the school will never forget this. th ....
dishonor. as republicans in that state would have you believe. what we are watching play out in the state of tennessee right now is really about a gross abuse of power. it is about anti-democratic hysteria. and above all else, it represents a new low that may soon be bested but at least as of today, it represents a new low in the republican party s race to the bottom. as we sit here today, a super majority of that state s republican lawmakers are poised to expel three of their colleagues from across the aisle. justin pierson, justin jones, and gloria johnson. their crime? protesting the epidemic of gun violence. in the days after a deadly mass shooting at a nashville elementary school. it is the stuff of third world tin pot dictatorships. no offense to them. apparently, the use of a bull horn without being recognized to speak is for republicans in tennessee an adequate enough reason to override the will of the voters and forcibly strip those lawmakers of their positions ....
david scott. effries. so here s the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime let s bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. that s right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because you have the tellers, the tally clerks in front of the chamber they are going through manually and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have ....
Every member voted as any member wish to change their. second now on whether or not to expel justin pearson will be announced. i 69 26 nays received the concept the concurrence of two thirds of members to which the house is entitled the constitutional state tennessee house resolution. 63 is hereby adopted without objection. the motion reads serious table pursuant to article two section 12 of the tennessee i hereby declare representative justin j . pearson justin pearson, as you re just sitting right there has been expelled with 69 votes in favor to expel him needed 66 votes. to announce a formal expulsion he has now been expelled, joining justin jones, ....