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Considered for expulsion, has she started speaking so if i have to take that, i apologize ahead of time. but there is the what of this, right? and then there is how they have responded. and i mean, i don't know if you had a chance to listen to representative jones' speech, but there was a real awareness of the history being made in this moment by him >> and well see history made as she speaks about the gun violence in public schools that is yesis why she is being e out and why she is being silenced it is political silencing of those who are offering a message that this majority does not want t...

Be expelled and they will move onto the second lawmaker and the third and the third lawmaker repeating this process the next couple of hours until this is completed and the session has ended and the demonstrators you see and hear behind me have been here since this morning when the session gaveled in. they have been cheering when they hear their representatives, those representatives speaking and they have been booing when they hear things they disagree with. they are watching on a tv screen just back there. and they are not letting up. many will be here as long as it takes to make their voice...

The lawmakers halted proceedings and chanted "power to the people" as part of an anti-gun protest.

Voices of tennesseans who wanted the action on gun control who want to see the end of the epidemic of gun violence. we're tired of going to funerals were tired of having children having teachers having parents having grandparents and loved ones die from gun violence. when we know as a state, we can do something to prevent it because as a state we have passed laws like permanently carrie, we have laws that are in the works about lowering the age to carry a weapon that are making our state less safe, and we need to do everything that we can to lift up the voices and the people who are asking for...

Representative jones used a bullhorn to amplify their protestations and so given that it's broken the rule. presented johnson. what's your recourse? well, i mean, they it sounds like they are going to vote to expel you. well you know, that's up to them. we broke a rule. we spoke without permission. you know, you can read all of those things. but let me tell you what actually happened. what actually happened was we had been silenced that morning and not able to speak to the issue of the protesters. what their concerns were. we had listened to them. we had talked to them. they cried with us. and...