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Going to be a trial. and we were going to hear evidence and it quickly turned into somewhat of a circus we saw video that was shot by a member on the house floor, which is also against decorum. you're not allowed to have a camera to record any proceedings on the house floor when that was questioned, it was immediately turned that, well, that was during recess, so the house rules don't actually apply, and when we tried to use that same logic on the three members who did the majority of their speaking out during a recess, it fell on deaf ears the reality is these rules are meant to benefit the m...

Justin Jones and Justin Pearson both have clear paths to quickly retake their seats.

Violence, the mass murder that has just taken place in nashville. i think that's the focus but secondly, the vote dilution or creating a second class citizenship of the voters of the area where those two members come from is of grave concern. we are looking into what legal recourses can take place, but i think the representative pearson was correct, even if the shelby county commissioner reappoints him, the question is will he be seated and that becomes a true legal question that we're going to be looking into. >> there was a moment on the tennessee house floor i want you to respond to. it was...

Republicans, again, proved me right. how on earth can tennessee, can tennessee republicans, can the tennessee house of representatives say what they did was not racist, when the two young black representatives were ousted and the white representative was not and especially when representative johnson said flat out, "the color of my skin is what kept me in the" -- johnson said, "kept me in the house of representatives. >> right. >> listening to those men, representative jones and representative pearson, solidified why i have so much faith and hope in that generation generation z, they have put ...

Two Black Democratic lawmakers who participated in a protest responding to a mass shooting at the Covenant School killing three children and three adults were expelled from the Tennessee State House of Representatives. Former Tennessee Representative Justin Jones (D), who was one of the expelled, tells Andrea Mitchell: “Yesterday was a very grave day for democracy.” He adds that even if he is reappointed, he’s not sure he’ll get seated: “Cameron Sexton. as we saw last night, the Speaker of the House, is not a fan of democracy. And so the next step is up to him. We know that the voter...