tonight, popovich's bleak. san antonio's first coach greg popovich is the longest tenure active coach and all major league baseball general. he's been with the spurs since 1996, and yesterday, he gave what may be his last pregame interview with his career. what do you choose to talk about? oops, no there was a gun violence tha has plagued our country, and specifically the nashville school shooting. he called for gun reform and criticize lawmakers by name. >> senator marshall blackbur commented after the massacre my office is in contact with federal state and loca officials. and we stand ready to assist in what? they are dead. what are you gonna assist with putting your brains off th wall, wiping the blood of th school room floor, what are yo gonna assist with?

is it freedom for kids to go t school and tried to socialize, and try to learn, and be scare to death that they might die that day well, that groups will fix i because it's gonna double th number of cops in schools. that's what he wants to do well, that will create a great environment. is that freedom? or is it freedom to have a congressman who can make a postcard with all his family holding rifles, includin ar-15s or whatever, is tha cool is that cool for republicans that is freedom. that's more important than protecting the kids? i don't get it >> coach gregg popovich take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thanks to atone for joining us this hour really happy to have you here. on a new state like today, i will admit it is hard to kno

we are to begin. but today is yet another day 1 place to begin is with today's american measuring this time it is louisville kentucky downtown louisville right next to the landmark minor league baseball park there. police say a 25 year old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank, either currently or very recently employed four of the people he shot wer killed nine were injured. and of those nine injured, three are considered to be critically wounded and because this is what it' like now in our country, absolutely awash i increasingly unregulated hig powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutel devastating, just catastrophic multiple murder scene at tha bank, while they wer responding to that call, the got a second call from les than two miles away, a cal

about multiple people bein shot at a nearby community college. one person dead there as well, one shot and injured and that shooting is simultaneous with, and unconnected to the other mas shooting in louisville les than two miles away. and then, yes, because this is what it's like now in ou country, when it came time for the mayor of louisville to tal to his city, to update peopl on what had happened, to try t convert the residents of his city after this awful day, the mayor of louisville, too, ha to remind everyone that he als personally just survived a shooting when a gunman entered hi campaign headquarters an started firing this was last year, last february, a man shot six times apparently aiming right at craig greenberg, miraculously, he did not hit him one of the bullets went throug the sweater the mayor wa wearing, graced him that closely. but he wasn't physically hurt.

he actually made a campaign ad out of that for the mayor' race in louisville >> with all this question, it' monday morning, the super bowl was the night before everybody is up late >> 9-1-1, what's your emergency? >> craig was in the office a man walked in. and fired six shots at craig i thought to myself -- did i kiss him goodbye >> that was a campaign a discussed here for the man who is the mayor of louisville his wife speaking about the da in which he himself wa targeted by shooting at hi workplace, at his campaign headquarters the mayor today spoke himsel as a shooting survivor in th midst of a mass shooting tha killed at least four people in his city with nine wer hospitalized, while at the sam time, another multiple shootin was underway less than two miles away because this is what it's like

now in our country and history, of course, when records that in the same month as these shootings today, as well as the nashvill elementary school gun massacre two weeks ago, within the same month of those things happening, republicans in north carolin overrode the democrati governor's veto, republicans i north carolina overrode th veto from the states democrati governor, so they could stri gun safety laws and that state get rid of gun laws and that state. so, now in north carolina, you don't need any sort of permi to get a handgun just grab and go whenever yo get the urge florida republicans also jus passed a new law that remove all rules around carryin loaded weapons on your perso in florida no permit, no training, no license, no fee, just grab and go like a bag of chips that's the kind of lawmaking response we are having i republican led states righ

now. here this past week at grimsle high school in north carolina, this is from every town in gun safety, kids here in north carolina saying they want gu reforms. they want to be protected from so much gun violence here is kids the same day at east lake high school in washington state here is kids last week at th colorado state capital here is el paso, texas, kids a eldorado high school in el paso, saying protect kids, not guns. this is last week in el paso here's two of the top ranked high schools in all of texas nationally ranked schools, yvonne ewell and irma randall, both in dallas, it's about the schools last week calling fo gun reforms. here's kids in uvalde texas, last week, where their elementary school massacre too the lives of 19 kids and teachers, kids in uvalde, just days ago, calling for gu reforms. here's kids at a university in

the south, franklin county tennessee, demonstrating just few days ago, staging a dragon on their campus, calling for gun reform, like so many other kids around the country. and here of course is national nashville, where after aforementioned elementar school gun massacre, thousands and thousands of tennessee kid protested last week, asking fo gun reforms. and the response to such calls from the republican stat legislature, the republica governor, as best carbon, ge rid of laws around guns. keep making them more and more prevalent and more and mor places, giving them to more an more people who previously under other laws would not hav been allowed to happen and that was the context wee and a half ago when thre democratic state legislators in middle aged white women and two young black men, the three of them got ousted on the floo of the house, essentiall cheering on kids in the galler who had come to peacefully but very loudly protest. that state legislature, only

acting to make things worse in terms of gun violence, eve after that elementary school massacre in nashville. you see the three stat legislators there in the front you see them there in that picture in the political headline as the whole country now i well aware, that republica dominated tennessee stat legislature that voted to expe the two young black male legislators who participated i that protest they decided simultaneousl that they would allow the whit female legislator to keep he seat, weird -- but tonight, she was the one a the door of the stat legislature, welcoming one o those young men back to hi seat justin jones, all wh represents part of nashville was unanimously selected by th nashville metro council tonigh to retake his own seat in th legislature, to become his own interim successor until special election can be held t permanently fill the seat from which he was expelled. he says he will run in tha

special election as well t permanently retake his seat. justin jones selected to refil his seat temporarily by a 36 t nothing unanimous vote at th metro council in nashville tonight. upon receiving that vote t reinstate him, he immediatel joined with protesters outside to march right back up to th tennessee state capital, where upon his colleague, gloria johnson, met him at the door and he walked inside, and he re-took his seat that happened tonight. newly-re-seated representative justin pearson justin jones is going to join us here live o this show tonight just a few minutes. you'll want to be here for that. i should tell you that the other young legislator who was expelled by the republicans, justin pearson, it is expected that he, too, it's going to be retaking his seat in the legislature. it is expected that he, too, would be selected as his own interim successor by the count council in memphis where he' from that is expected the day after

tomorrow on wednesday. once he, too, it's likely to see if republicans will try to throw him out again, since they're coming back. but as i said, representativ justin jones it's going to b here live with us tonight. we've got a camera going to hi at the state capitol i tennessee just a few minutes you will want to see that. and meanwhile, meanwhile, in news from gilead, rawls look a the going live tonight to th governor of massachusetts, maura healey maura healey has just made a dramatic announcement in massachusetts about what her state is doing, what your stat government is doing in respons to the radical turn that the american political right has just taken on abortion and i don't use the phrase radical turn their lightly o loosely. i mean, it really specifically and in a considered way, it is -- as an example to support my choice of that phrase, i submi

to you some of the current headlines right now in the great state of iowa. look at this -- des moines register, iowa stop paying for rape victims morning after pills and abortions. this is an actual headline fro an actual american state tha has actual american woma living in it until now, if a woman, god forbid, was raped in the state of iowa, and if she came forward to the police to repor that she'd been raped, the law enforcement process would kick in and she would be provided medical examination withou cost to her, and care for he injuries, and care for other potential consequences of he sexual assault, includin preventive care for an sexually transmitted diseases. also, emergency contraceptio to prevent any pregnancy occurring as a result of the break. until recently, that was the

standard while iowa now has a new republican attorney general, and under republican rule in iowa, the state has decide they will no longer give you emergency contraception in thi circumstance, because as far a republicans are concerned, i iowa, it is apparently their preference that you'll b forced to bear at the rapist baby now and this goes beyond eve abortion i mean, this new iowa policy under the republican attorne general, it's not only that it rape victim will no longer b provided and abortion, if sh is impregnated in the course o a rape, she will also not be provided emergency contraception. think about that for a second. emergency contraception is not abortion emergency contraceptio literally prevents a pregnancy from occurring if taken in the immediat aftermath of intercourse including, in this instance, rape so, for rape victims specifically, the fact that yo

have republican governors in your state, that means that as of now, the state no longe wants to prevent a pregnancy from occurring as a result o rape they want you to be forced t bear the pregnancy and the child against your will, after you have been raped, eve though it is within their powe to stop that and before this policy change, the state regularly took steps to stop it they are going to change tha policy because they woul rather you bare that pregnancy and the rapist's baby agains your will, and it is the choic of republicans and state government to insist upon that for you, despite what you want after you have been raped. iowa, a red state, we're still two as a red state, 61% of the public wants abortion to b legal in some or all cases not only has that republican government there now criminalized abortion, they're going after contraception, and specifically targeting rap

victims to start the targeting of contraception you cannot abort a pregnancy once it happens, even if i happens as a -- as a result of rape, saying they will n longer assist you with that as a rape victim, nor can you prevent a pregnancy from occurring by using emergency contraception. the state will no longer hel you with that either and this, again, is not just something brought that they're doing for the whole they are specifically targeting rap victims. so, like i said, the phras radical turn here is a considered phrase. i do not use it lightly. in idaho, also consider that republicans just passed a la late last week that threaten you with 2 to 5 years in prison, if you help someone under th age of 18 leave the state to get an abortion. you have to leave the state of idaho if you want to get a abortion because they have criminalized abortion there. but helping someone do so no is a new crime, and they'r

calling it, abortion trafficking. and it is 2 to 5 years i prison if you do it. you would think in the unite states of america that a state could not pass a law banning you as an american fro traveling to another state but that's the idaho republica idea of freedom. they are also going to try t use the law to bring crimina charges against doctors wh provide an abortion in another state, if that abortion is provided to a young woman wh has traveled there from idaho. now, in one of the states that has a long border with idaho's washington state, wher abortion is legal. that state democratic governor jay inslee, wrote a letter jus a few days ago to idaho' republican governor brad little. so, jay inslee, the democratic governor from washington, on the left side of your screen there, and brad little, that republican governor of idaho on the right side of you screen jay inslee's letter to bra little, basically for most o the letter, tells him what a bad idea it is for idaho t

pass this new law. but then governor inslee syste at the end of the letter thi -- he says, quote, we welcome idaho's patients and healt care providers with open arm here in washington but make no mistake, governo little, the laws of anothe state that seek to punis anyone in washington for lawfu actions taken in washingto will not stand quote, we will protect our providers, and we will harbo and comfort your residents who seek health care services that are the night to them in idaho we will harbor and comfort you people who need to flee your state in order to get care here and we will not be arresting our doctors, and nurses, and pharmacists my friend. radical turn, indeed washington is also the state where the attorney general led a federal lawsuit. you might have seen this las week it made big national news fo lots of important reasons. but it was a group o democratic attorney generals

led by the democratic attorney general in washington that filed a federal lawsuit abou the legality of the abortion pill that's how most abortions ar done in this country now surgical abortions are ver safe medication abortions using the so called abortion pill, those are even safer than surgical abortions. and that's how most abortion in this country are done well, last week, one conservative judge in texa tried to make the abortion pil illegal nationwide, when h tried to rescind fda approva for that drug more than 20 years after the fact, despit dozens and dozens and dozens o scientifically sound studies finding that it is safer than, say, tylenol or penicillin when he tried to rescind fda approval 20 years after th fact for that drug it was that competing lawsui that democrats have filed in federal court in washingto that resulted in a nearl simultaneous federal court ruling that went in the othe direction. and this was very confusing in

the initial moments when thi happened on friday but the bottom line of it is actually very easy t understand and very important, basically, on one side, you've got the republican lawsuit i texas which says the abortio pill will now be illegal everywhere and the fda's approval of that drug is hereby rescinded by me one brand-new judge in texas that was on the republican side on the other side, you've go the democrats lawsuit in washington state that says tha the abortion pill remains lega and that the fda is blocking - excuse me, the fda's block fro making any sort of change to its existing approval of tha drug so, you've got to totall opposite rulings simultaneously from two courts of equal stature that republican ruling telling the fda your approval of thi drug is rescinded. that drug is no longer legal i america. democratic lawsuit saying, hey fda, your approval of that dru stands you cannot change anything

about it those two rulings lay down simultaneously by judges o equal stature into different places now, because of that, this i likely going to the suprem court, and god knows what' gonna happen there but in the meantime, nobod knows what's gonna happen to the abortion pill, so that means by which most of abortions happened in this country, given those competing rulings. and today, there was court action in both of those case today, the republican case and texas, and the democratic case in washington state. but i mentioned a moment ago that we're gonna hav massachusetts democratic governor maura healey here i just a moment. the reason we're gonna b speaking with governor heale in just a moment is becaus part of that response to all o this right now, part of th response to this radical tur on the right, on abortio rights right now, is that maur healey and other democrati governors, and jay inslee, and gavin newsom, and othe democratic governors around th country, they are now moving

very quickly to try to get ahead of what republicans an conservative judges are trying to do, because republicans are not just trying to ban abortion, and criminalize abortion, even go after contraception in al the states where they contro the state government, they'r trying to do it nationwide they are trying to do it i blue states, too they're trying to do it even i states where there's democrati governance, and where people have voted through their representatives to make sure abortion stays legal and so, democratic governors are trying to move the defense mode and what that has meant very quickly, just in the last fe days, is that democratic led states, democratic governors have moved to literall stockpile these abortion pills before the republicans reall can try to ban them everywhere and a state house brisk on france today in boston, maur healey announced an executiv order to protect massachusetts doctors and pharmacists from

prosecution by red states. and also to announce a mas bulk purchase of abortion pill by the massachusetts state government >> abortion will remain safe legal, and accessible here i massachusetts. [applause] [crowd chanting] >> at my request, th university of massachusett amherst agreed to purchase approximately 15,000 doses o mifepristone [applause] that is sufficient to ensure coverage to well over a year this order was placed before the judge's ruling, and we expect to have the doses i hand this week -- [applause it is unnecessary. it is terrible it is terrible, and it is -- i would say unprecedented, but for the fact that we saw a supreme court last year revers row. but the good news here today i

massachusetts is that we're no going to tolerate this what's like that - >> we are not going to tolerat this massachusetts governor maura healey today speaking an boston she said today at that press conference, we are going t make sure we stay the course here in massachusetts and writ this out if you come here to mess wit our rights or our freedoms we're gonna take you on. massachusetts governor maura healey joins us live here next stay with us stay with us try bounce lasting fresh. bounce lasting fresh. yeah! it's the sheet. introducing astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. bounce lasting fresh. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid-free spray. while flonase takes hours, astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can [ spray, spray ] astepro and go. what causes a curve down there? is it peyronie's disease? will it get worse? how common is it? who can i talk to? can this be treated?

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by a federal judge in texas to try to effectuate a nationwide ban on one of the medication used for most abortions in thi country, democratic governor and multiple states are no taking emergency action to try to make their states havens, somehow, trying to preserv abortion rights in these states, even as republicans tr everywhere they can, for wha amounts to a de fact

nationwide ban affecting all american women at a press conference today in massachusetts, the governo maura healey said that her administration has bee preparing for that texas rulin sometime now she said the state just bought enough doses of the drug i question, mifepristone, to las more than a year and in addition to buildin this state stockpile o mifepristone, which severa democratic states are now doing, governor healey today also announced a new executive orde shielding massachusetts' doctors from republica -controlled states, like the latest example idaho, wher they say they want to now star prosecuting doctors outsid their own borders for providin abortions to women who wan them governor healey's executiv order today would protec massachusetts providers agains other states around the countr who want to come in to massachusetts and try an prosecute massachusetts health care providers during her press conferenc today, a reporter aske governor healey if she was worried about these action being challenged in court.

this is how she responded. >> no, i'm not concerned about litigation you know, look, i just want to be clear i mean, displays, this is th foundation of our country' democracy. you know, this is bedrock. and if you come here to mess with our rights, our freedoms, we're gonna take you on. we're certainly not gonna stan for that >> joining us now is massachusetts governor governo maura healey governor, it's really nice o you to make time to be with us tonight. thank you. >> oh, it's great to be with you, rachel. >> tell me about the practicalities of this decisio about mifepristone you asked university o massachusetts to buy thousands of doses of this drug, and t have them in hand in state before this texas ruling goe into effect, which could effectively ban th distribution of that dru nationwide tell me how it would work fo the state to effectively control a stockpile like that, of that drug >> look, rachel, as you know the battle to protect abortion is really being waged in the

states and democratic governors myself included, are steppin up to protect women's freedom. my goal here, and the goal o the last few weeks was, number one, make sure we had enough doses available to cover a many women as we needed to cover, either in the state, or coming into the state. and number two, take action to be really clear to providers prescribers, we're gonna b protecting your licenses we're gonna protect your malpractice insurance. and bottom line, we're gonna make sure that business as usual continues here i massachusetts. so, that's why, we requested our state university, i'm very proud of the university of massachusetts, who stepped forward for this book purchase we have had that in hand it will be available we've also worked with our terrific network of hospitals. massachusetts is home to s many great health care institutions, who are also buying mifepristone. and we will make sure that anyone who needs mifepriston has that available to them >> as you mentioned, massachusetts is a medical hub

for the nation and the world people literally literally com from all over the world in order to get the highest and medical care available anywher here in the state, here in the bay state. and i wonder, given that, give that reputation for excellence and the predominance of, not the predominance, but th prevalence of such excellent care and such good medical providers in this state, i wonder if you have specifi fears about where a state like yours is most vulnerable, in terms of republican states, an republican political actors, and conservative judges, tryin to effectuate a de facto national ban on thes procedures obviously, there's the questio of whether they will jus pursue that through federa legislation. but there's these other ways that they can approach it to try to cross state boundaries, get into states that have even when you want it to be a saf right, and try to take it away for backdoor means where do you think the biggest

vulnerabilities lie? >> well, you know, for the las eight years, i was attorne general here in massachusetts, defending women's access t reproductive health care taking on the trum administration time and time again. so, we've seen this playbook before i understand if you're out there and what this is causing in terms of we havoc acros this country but it's all the more reason why we need to be more stron here, rachel and, you know, i'm so proud of massachusetts. we believe in health care. we believe in science. we are home to some fabulous research institutions. we protect reproductiv freedom. we protect freedom and, so i hope we'll see mor states come forward and enac the same protections that we have enacted here, to make sur that women get access to the health care that they need and i also say to the rest o the country, come to massachusetts. we are a great state, grea place to live, great place t earn a living, great place t grow a family. and by the way, we're gonn protect your freedom and that matters right now, as we see this specter of so many states -- you just recounted

that earlier in the show rachel, of what is happening and it's the product at th ballot box it's the product of too many extremists, zealots out there, unfortunately, even in our courts right now but the solution to that is ye at the ballot box. but right now, on the ground in the states, making sure w band together. and be really clear. today i use mexican of authority as governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts. i am proud to be able to d that as a result women here ar protected, providers describers and are protected and i'm quite positive that we will see more and more governors in state leaders all across this country step up, because the majority o americans believe in this. they believe in this it's common sense. the other point here, rachel that is not getting enough attention, but is very important to me in a state tha relies so much on life sciences, or the global epicenter fo life sciences, with this court did, or what the supreme court might due to the fda, the idea

that some judge is gonna undermine years of medical expertise, scientific expertise, to further exploit, in a effort to gain political ground, it's just outrageous it's crazy time. and that's why i said what i said today and it's also more importantly why we took the action that we did today. >> i'm really glad that yo mentioned that i feel like fda approval is an idea that seems kind o esoteric for most americans, w take it for granted. but as you said, it is the bedrock benchmark. it is the thing that everybody in drug development everywhere in the world aims to word in terms of bringing new therapie to market, bringing new cure for new diseases, bringing anything to market is to get fda approval that something is safe and effective and if a safe and effectiv determination by the fda can b flipped, could be thrown out b an individual judge, saying don't like this because of, in some cases, my extremist wrong or religious views, that doe

undermine the basic idea of th united states of america, an the fda in particular, being the sort of gatekeepers in terms of what drugs, wha therapies, what medica interventions are safe for people to use. it seems like a really fundamental challenge to who w are in the world, and how we function and public health >> which is why i can't stan the idea that a drug that ha been approved by the fda for 2 years, a gold standard, coul suddenly be turned aside that's just ridiculous think about what that does t investment, venture and life sciences so, this obviously can't stand but more than that, rachel, my heart goes out to open acros the country, who are gonna hav to suffer, who are gonna hav to suffer for days and weeks months, some won't even be abl to get access to the neede care so, i just want to be really clear to women all across this country that there are peopl out there who hear you, who se you, and who will do everythin they can to fight, and mak

sure that your rights, you freedoms are protected they may not be right in the state you are living in, but know that other states lik massachusetts are out there, united, public, private sector non profit community, united and continuing to advocate for your freedoms. and meanwhile, we will work to everything we can to protect women who come here fo massachusetts for that neede care >> massachusetts governor maur healey, thank you very much fo your time tonight. i know this is just th beginning. i look forward to having you back to keep us up to date o this thanks >> thanks, rachel. >> all right, we've got much more ahead here tonight. the just tonight reinstate tennessee state representative justin jones is gonna join u live here next you're gonna want to see this. stay with us

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course of about an hour or s across two different seats o government first in the city of nashville and then in the state capital. but this is what it looked like this was late today when tennessee legislator justi jones was recently expelle from the state legislature b republicans. this is what it looked lik today over the course of about an hour, when he re-took his seat >> thank you, vice mayor i would like to nominate representative justin jones -- [applause] votes are in mister clerk, close th machines, take the vote. ayes, through the six. and --

[inaudible [applause] >> the constitution of thi state -- [inaudible [applause] >> [crowd chanting ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> no explosion, no attempt to silence us will stop us, but i would only galvanized an strengthen our movement. we continue to show up i peoples houses power to the people! [applause] >> just last week, republicans and the tennessee legislatur voted to expel two young men o color, two democratic member

of that body for participating in a protest against gun violence at the capitol. they committed a grave crime o being loud with othe protesters among other things, that actio by tennessee republicans, thei extreme action to expel them a legislators, well, it mean technically that local government in both of those tw men's districts will have to appoint somebody to fill those now empty seats in the interim until there can be a special election well, fine and then. today, about 5:30 eastern time the nashville metro counci council appointed justin jones to be his own replacement in the legislature. they voted to send him back to the seat from which he was jus expelled the vote, you heard it there was 36 yes, zero no. less than an hour later, b 6:15 pm eastern, justin jone had been sworn in again as a member of the tennessee stat legislature in front of tons o people which showed up to th capitol, to cheer him on by 6:30 pm, just 15 minute

later, he had marched arm in arm with those supporters to the doors of the legislature to in fact, we take his seat now, a duly appointed member o the tennessee stat legislature. i should tell you, we expect the county government in memphis and shelby county to take a similar vote on reinstalling the other ouste member, justin pierson, tw days from now, this wednesday. joining us now live from tennessee is the newly reinstated tennessee state representative justin jones. representative jones congratulations, sir thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you so much, rachel >> i have to imagine that with everything that you have bee through over these past fe days, this has to have been very emotional afternoon and evening. i do just -- if you forgive me i just want to ask you how you feeling, and how it felt to be back in that chamber >> well it's definitely been a emotional past few days, but i'm hopeful, i'm exhausted, bu i'm hopeful that we are seeing

a resurrection o reconstruction here in the south, that the decision tha was made on thursday, this a moral decision, this unconstitutional decision wa not the final decision, that the people of my count government and those of my district spoke and i'm honored to be representing them becaus my concern was that district 52, over 78,000 people would not have a voice so, i was honored to walk today, and be able to cast a vote for my district, give the people who sent me there to be thei voice. >> representative jones, you spoke with my colleague simone sanders over the weekend i heard that interview and it was interesting to hear you talk with her abou concerns that despite the fact that your local county government was effectively reinstalling you, making you your own interim successor there were worries tha attorneys from the speaker where threatening that you might not be receded until nex session. there have been worrie expressed that republicans i the legislature would seek t expel you again, throw you out

again on the same grounds as before are those concerns gone now? are all those matters settle as far as you can tell >> yes, well, you know, that i yes, yet to be determined. i'm grateful that my attorney, one of whom includes, the team includes former attorney general eric holder who sent a letter at 10 am central to the house speaker, informing the that they do not, you know, se any obstruction of me, representing the people of district 52. they sent a letter, puttin them on notice, we would respond if that was the case and i think that had a big impact on the speaker, as well as the thousands of people gathered here today, multiracial, intergenerational gathered from the metr courthouse to the legislature, to let them know that the worl is watching, and we're not going to allow their attacks t happen in silence. and we're still calling fo action on common sense gun laws that's what this was all about in the beginning and so, the speaker's threat against our democracy are bein met with this resurrection of multi racial democracy and it's really here happening

here in nashville, and i think it's gonna have reverberations across the south >> after you were in again today, i know that you calle for the speaker, speaker sexton, to resign, effectively for having orchestrated this, an also for his lack of action or indeed, regressive action when it comes to gun violence i have to ask you, is that something that you are going t continue to push forward do you have any sense that the speaker may actually regret th decision to expel you and your colleague, given the respons that it's had in recent days and including, as you say, those thousands of people in a multiracial, multi generationa display out today to support you. >> definitely. i mean, this house speaker there's a different energy i the capital today. and i was actually on th elevator with a member who filed the expulsion papers against me, representative but holes, and i asked him, did yo learn anything from this experience and he was silent. i think this is a time o reflection for the republica

leadership that they were so drunk and arrogant with powe that they are humble to sa that their attacks may hav been successful in the past, but this is a new day, a new time in tennessee. and there's a new movement rising, the south will rise new. so, the house speaker will definitely join with the coalition of people from acros the state, calling for his resignation, because he's th greatest enemy to ou democracy. but what's more important, w are calling for the restoratio of democracy in the people house. we don't need a speaker wh shots of microphones, who cuts off members from speaking, won't even let us vote, if w go join, you know, those protesting kicks off the committee, and w have a speaker who represent the opposite of democracy, which is autocracy and he has not, he's not fit t serve in that role and so, i don't members in the community calling for hi resignation. >> tennessee state representative justin jones, newly reinstalled in his sea tonight by a vote of his count council, who appointed him his own successor, which jimmy, ha a little poetry and it tha seems resonant, given your

eloquence, sir, as a representative, for your constituents and an advocate for the causes that are closes to you tennessee state rep justin jones, but luck to you thanks for your time tonight sir. >> thank you, thanks, rachel >> we'll be right back stay with us think i've got it! doggy-paddle! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ you got a minute? how about all weekend? let's go. ahora! i'm a miami hotel. i'm looking for someone who loves art deco elegance, good times, and unexpected flavors. someone who likes it hot but knows how to keep their cool. a white-sand beach where you can see the sunrise? way better than whatever you were going to binge-watch this weekend. and you could be here in half the time. find me at hotels.com there are some things that go better... together. hey! like your workplace benefits...

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hope people well my ag campaign was out of that building, and virtuall everyone in it, that's my bank yes, i know that there are steps that the polic department is taking to do things better after a recent report, but we certainly saw i think the very best from the today. and i want to thank them and all other law enforcemen officers who are responding an doing their best to try to sav some of my friends and man others thank you all. >> thanking them for respondin and doing their best to try to save some of my friends. that was kentucky governor and beshear, speaking today. it is a remarkable thing, that i suppose was probably statistically inevitable, give the number of mass shootings w know have in this country. today, the governor of thi state where this latest mass shooting happened had to announce that he personall knew multiple victims in thi gun massacre in downtown louisville

governor beshear said that one of the people killed today was one of the governor's closes friends. he said today, quote, tomm elliott help me build my law career, help me become governor, gave me advice and being a goo dad. he's one of the people i talke to most in the world remarkably, look at this florida senator rick scott republican senator rick scot of florida tonight, also tweeted his condolences to tommy elliott's family, saying he too, considered mr. elliott a friend, seeing somebody he's known for many years now, since we've come on the air tonight, just this hour, the death toll in today's mass shooting in louisville has climbed. i said at the top of the hou that of the 13 people who were shot today, four of them hav died since we've been on the air, another one of the people wh was shot has succumbed to thos wounds so, it is now five people dead and eight more injured in addition to tommy elliott the other victims have bee identified as jim tut, joshu

barrack, julian former, and no newly-diana eckert, whose name was just confirmed by loca police short time ago. among the eight other people who were injured, there is a 26-year-old police officer among them, an officer named nicholas from the louisville metro police department. he was shot in the head whil responding to the incident the officer underwentbrain surgery this morning he is in critical but stable condition. i should tell you, the officer as you could see how young h is here, he'd only been on the job for ten days when he reported from work this morning. according to local police, responding officers arrived on the scene in three minutes after first were alerted to th shooting they exchanged gunfire with suspect was killed at th scene. police have confirmed that the shooter was an employee of the bank they've also confirmed that he livestreamed his attack toda on social media, which is thing they do now. the mayor of louisville, craig

greenberg himself survived a shooting last year a gunman entered his campaig office on valentine's day last year, open fired directly at him, very nearly shot himself, a bullet went through hi sweater that he was wearin without hitting him. just a miracle the mayor thanked police officers for their actions today, calling today's event in evil act of gun violence. as i noted at the top of the show, as police responded to this shooting at the old national bank in downtow louisville, other police officers who were part of th call had to peel off because there was another deadly shooting two miles away, les than two miles away, a jefferson community an technical college. police say these two incidents while simultaneous, and whil less than two months apart were otherwise not related because this is how we americans, live now, two shootings went after the other less than two miles apart, a least six people dead in the two of them. this is business as usual, wit

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