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senator amy klobuchar joins me in studio to weigh in on that, plus new ethics concerns about justice clarence thomas. and other hot button issue facing the senate, as they return to work this week and tennessee representative justin j. pearson is back on the job in the state house i will ask him about being bac at work with the sam republicans who expelled him and where his fight for gu safety reform stands now i have something to say. congress is back in sessio tomorrow after a two-week break, and they have their work cut out for them judicial nominations in th senate, controversy i...

By people in positions o power. who really are not concerned about doing things that benefi children or communities, eve at the behest of the governor. because they are mor interested in turning ou democracy into a mobocracy where mob rules. it gives them control over others and that is the culture that exists within the tennessee house, it has to b reformed my self and representative jones have 15-year bills reinstated and i am dedicated to making sure all 15 bills are relate to the legislation we are going to put forward re flag laws and legislation that would prevent these tragedies. >> pri...

Legislators across the south and across the country are trying to affect peoples lives the conversation is abou legislation, govern abilit after the demonstrations they have called on th legislature to pass red flag laws do you have an update on tha legislation? have you seen any bills come t the floor? >> the governor said he woul like to see their legislatur do something but he did not provide much to go on for the republican party the worry i have as we are going to continue to see the proliferation of our democracy

But let me give you the fact as i see it. number one, and she did th right thing saying she would step away from that committee. we need the votes, i'm on that committee. we have unable to confir judges for a month we can't do markups on legislation, that's when w pass the legislation number two, i talked to senato schumer last week. he made very clear he was goin to do this as soon as possible number three, it does need 6 votes. but if you look at the past, and i'm going way back here. but when bob dole resigned fro the senate to run for president, unanimous votes from the senator to fill tho...

With some of the democrati leadership in the house and in the senate and they told m then that right after th shooting happened, republicans came to them saying they wan to work on a bill together and that they have been workin on a bill. do you have any knowledge of those conversations? what is the democratic caucu saying now we have the governor calling for it where is the bill? >> there are a few pieces of legislation that the representative - they are working on to get i out of the committee i do know for myself, i ca speak to what we are about t do we will have several pieces of legislati...