gloria? gloria: thank you so much, lisa. developing news out of sudan where the united states has evacuated everybody from its embassy in the capital. this comes as a cease-fire order has fallen apart. still thousands of americans are on the ground as the country enters its second week of fighting. abc7 news reporter allison cos eck has the latest. >> as the conflict in sudantensl sa t department of defense is considering using droneland sudan and possibly sending navy slips to evacuate any americans who make it there. that's as an estimated 16,000 americans remain in sudan including about 70 u.s. embassy personnel. though the state department says a larger scale evacuation isn't in the box, the u.s. military has evacuated and closed the american embassy in sudan. senior administration officials call that a difficult decision and said efforts would continue to assist americans still trapped in the country. these two children are stranded with their aunt. >> we try to protect the embassy. we send them many e-mails. we try to

gloria: exactly.projects around the state. spencer christian checks in how the project is doing. reporter: we first visited dutch in the county last year, the recently restored title marsh was already flourishing. hiding among their use was a criticalesring carbon, a key benefit of restoring wetlands in the age of climate change? >> where trying to inhale more carbon dioxide and they are excelling oxygen we need. reporter: dennis at the university of california, his team play sensitive instruments to measure greenhouse gases and other data in multiple ways. he says the results after more than a year of monitoring shows the tidal marsh is acting as a powerful carbon sink drawing co2 into the ground where it should remain sequestered instead of contributing to climate change. >> we are probably in 1% tidal -- tile of the ecosystem in the world with the largest clt taken up in a year. reporter: karen thorne and her team for the united states geological survey took additional measurements discovering whil

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we believe that gloria made it by one vote. what we understand , as it takes two thirds we have a 99 member house. it takes 66 votes to expel. i'm a little confused about whether it's 66 of the whole house or two thirds of what's present. but right now, it looks like gloria survived. and that is that the size of the huge that's huge. i mean, it sucks that they took out justin and they may take out justin pearson later. but for them to not have a clean sweep is big for us. it's been like two. generally, it's been a very defeating day. who are you about? charles offerman. voting rights activists focused on protecting voting rights in tennessee with my organization that i work for organized tennessee glow. has this been going on to the community in my daily life? i want to make sure every tennessee and vote counts and to have 200,000 tennessee ins have their vote ripped away today. it's sickening. and for us to at least be able to save 70,000 folks votes that's big. i hope i hope it's a nail in the coffin to this extreme legislatu

jerushah gloria: love you. so gloria: [speaking foreign language] jerushah: thank you. jerushah: it's very hard. candice: her daughter, jerushah, reported her mother missing from their san mateo home hours earlier. jerushah: i was so conscious of the temperature, and i just remember i kept thinking, "oh, she's probably so cold right now." i can never, you know, forget what i saw at the hospital. the person that i saw in the bed had brown hair. like, that can't be my mom. but when the nurses, you know, led us closer to the bed, i realized that it was actually dried blood. jimmy: i just killed someone. i have nightmares. candice: jimmy maerina was the driver behind the wheel. months after the accident he's talking with us about it for the first time. jimmy: i lost weight. i couldn't eat. candice: the police report shows gloria was at fault for this collision for being in the road, but maerina believes if he was able to see gloria earlier, he might have been able to avoid her. jimmy: they have to change those headlights. the headlights are the main issue here. candice: hav

jerushah gloria: love you. so gloria: [speaking foreign language] jerushah: thank you. jerushah: it's very hard. candice: her daughter, jerushah, reported her mother missing from their san mateo home hours earlier. jerushah: i was so conscious of the temperature, and i just remember i kept thinking, "oh, she's probably so cold right now." i can never, you know, forget what i saw at the hospital. the person that i saw in the bed had brown hair. like, that can't be my mom. but when the nurses, you know, led us closer to the bed, i realized that it was actually dried blood. jimmy: i just killed someone. i have nightmares. candice: jimmy maerina was the driver behind the wheel. months after the accident he's talking with us about it for the first time. jimmy: i lost weight. i couldn't eat. candice: the police report shows gloria was at fault for this collision for being in the road, but maerina believes if he was able to see gloria earlier, he might have been able to avoid her. jimmy: they have to change those headlights. the headlights are the main issue here. candice: hav

gloria johnson survived by one vote, gloria johnson, who is white. justin jones, with black have said on the record, they believe it is something new with skin color. we don't know the answer to that. but two of the three legislative expelled no longer representatives elected by tens of thousands of people in their districts. now been expelled from the house of representatives by tennessee state legislative anderson back to you and gary. what what are their options now? the two legislators who have been expelled, will they run again? here's something very interesting and you're going to talk to justin shortly. he'll tell you if he's going to run again. tennessee law if he decides to run again and he wins again, he can't be charged and the same parts again. it's interesting. it's double jeopardy. select you again. you can't be expelled it on this chart. however they could find other charges to expel that doesn't mean he wouldn't be expelled again. just can't be expelled of this charge of disorderly behavior. that's what the republicans are saying. dis

you see, i believe that that that is gloria johnson there on the left state representative gloria johnsona democrat. um the action that they're taking right now is to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of tennessee ins. who will now not have state representation in the statehouse . that's a former state representative jones embracing with soon to be former state representative gloria johnson. on the floor of the tennessee state house in nashville. what is motivating the legislators? is this act of civil disobedience. this act of violating legislative decorum and not the murders of these three individuals, three students. ah nine year olds at at a christian school in memphis or the three faculty members, six individuals murdered that is not prompting the state legislature to act. it is these state representatives, these three democrats being rude. i mean, that is unusual. i would think that. i'm not talking about gun control, but i would think there would be some action taken to try to figure out how to protect the students and faculty. yeah let's first things first. jake when you think

it's really been quite a day i know gloria johnson survived, thankful for that.ens with justin pearson, but for these republicans in tennessee to do this, and for them to be so evangelical and as bible thumping as they are, to not realize the irony in trying to expel three today on the eve of the day when tomorrow, when three were crucified simply for standing up for what is right and trying to end gun violence in this country very proud of justin he's a generation behind me, but we came up in the same church with james lawson, and marion barry, nonviolence for the national sit-in movement so justin is really following in the footsteps of those great people, and i couldn't be prouder of my young brother. >> britney, one of the things i definitely noted is a generational difference. in this state. it was a state where the klan was founded. it was also the place where the nashville student movement, as mark was talking about, was founded. there's a lot of history here. obviously, memphis, tennessee, has its own dark history in had civil right movement i think about

i had representative gloria johnson on this show. i will show you a little bit of what she said 24 hours ago. she revealed that hr had come to see her and hr told representative gloria johnson if she resigned yesterday before this national and internationally televised debacle led by and produced by republicans in the state of tennessee, if she resigned quietly and went away, she could keep her full health care. but if she faced a vote and were expelled she would lose it. i think that there is some reptilian instinct in the gop that know this is horrific optics for the gop not just in tennessee but all across the country. >> well they ought to recognize how horrific it is. and it is punitive. and it is performative. usually when politicians engage in this kind of performative maneuver, it is in order to make themselves look good or look strong. this makes them look petty, petulant and vindictive. i'm trying to think of the politics of tennessee, is this going to win republicans any swing votes? is this going to help their electoral p

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gloria said it herself. — response to that? gloria said it herself, the _ response to that?t herself, the only difference is the skin colour, they expeued is the skin colour, they expelled the two youngest black lawmakers, the caucus of 75 members, only one non—white member. in the whole session they made us feel unwelcome, they made us feel unwelcome, they have talked about that we should not, talk about systemic racism, that we cannot be a full authentic selves and represent our diverse district and so, this is clearly racism from the republican caucus and speaker sexton in particular he really was the fourth in hand behind putting this expelled before expulsion.— behind putting this expelled before expulsion. you've now lost your _ before expulsion. you've now lost your seat _ before expulsion. you've now lost your seat and _ before expulsion. you've now lost your seat and the - before expulsion. you've now lost your seat and the aim . before expulsion. you've nowl lost your seat and the aim was to achieve some sort of progress on gun reform. what are your plans now for a

gloria johnson survived her seat with 65 votes. just one vote saving her seat, folks, i have to tell you the optics there, as gloria johnson referenced herself, perhaps the only white out of the three congress members there. and representatives that had been saved her seat. so there you see it. tennessee house voting to expel two of the three democratic lawmakers for their objection. to gun legislation. two weeks ago. this is the culmination of that. this is a historic moment right now, as you're safe playing out state legislature there in tennessee. we will continue to follow the breaking developments, this breaking story that is happening right now and unfolding before our eyes. our breaking news coverage continues right now with a c 3 60.

gloria johnson is here gloria, you're live on msnbc if you want to say a word or two. >> well, we've are moving in the right direction. we need these two young men's voices so badly in tennessee right now. and i'm just so excited that i believe it's going to happen for both of them and we are here to fight we're here to fight gun violence and to make sure that our children are safe in our communities and make sure that everyone is safe in our communities. >> amen. >> without gun violence. >> the tennessee three is going to stick together. >> we're sticking together >> it's the tennessee three, gloria johnson, folks, as we await. this is the door this is the chamber. and we're awaiting the opening of the chamber as justin will be allowed in >> if you're just tuning in to msnbc, this is live footage of justin jones, who has been reinstated to the state legislature in tennessee the national metro council has voted to reinstate him he has a multiracial coalition of supporters who have flanked him as he walked into the state legislature, preparing to retake his seat in that body, a body t

frankly, gloria was only saved by one vote. that was probably the vote o justin pearson who was later expelled >> holly, the rest of us wil accept - you have been covering tennessee politics for decades what did you see tonight tha you want the rest of the country to understand abou tennessee? >> you know, tennessee leads the way in backwards and discriminatory legislation we have one of the - we have the strictest abortion ban in the state tennessee is governor bill lee was the first governor to sign a ban on certain types of drag performances and dra performers our gun laws are almos nonexistent except to create lags for gun laws. i'm going to point something out that i haven't heard mentioned on any other show. the governor has talked openly about the fact that his ow daughter shot herself in the head with one of his weapons when she was a teenager. he has talked about this publicly the fact that that happens and his friend was killed just las week and this state cannot eve address anything, they can't even say the word gun.

gloria rodrÍguez is in the newsroom with a preview. it is going to be a big event but it is not only hippie hill. many in the bay area will be marking 4/20. the cannabis industry brings in hundreds of millions of dollars to our local economy every year. it is fitting that the phrase "4/20" came from it came from a group of teenagers who would smoke every day at 4:20 p.m. it will be at hippie hill, the center of the 1920's culture and -- 1960's culture and hippie movement. it will be lit at the 4 hippie hill festival. 2000 people all drawn by their passion for pot. >> regardless of recreational use or adult use, it is still medicine. 4/20 marks the date to participate and partake in the medicine. gloria: it is going to have djs and more. >> we have a wellness and health area so you will be able to do a ganja yoga. gloria: what is that? >> yoga and a joint. you get medicine. i will try to partake in it. gloria: many oakland businesses will have celebrations on their own. they are highlighted in the oakland cannabis trail. >> this year's

gloria rodrÍguez's live in the newsroom with a preview of the event.is not only hippie hill, but many in the bay will be marking 4/20 today. the cannabis industry brings in millions of dollars to the local economy every year, and it is fitting that the term 4/20 has roots right here in the bay area. the story goes that it came from a group of marin county teens who would smoke every day at 4:20 p.m., the term 4/20 was later popularized. it is only appropriate today's festival will be at hippie hill. the center of the 1960's counterculture and flower power movement. this 4/20, you will cloud of smoke over san francisco's golden gate park last year. it will be lit at the 4/20 hippie hill festival. the organizer tells me they are expecting about 20,000 people, all drawn by their passion for pot. >> regardless of recreational use or adult use, it is still a medicine. 4/20 marks the date to participate and partake in the medicine. gloria: it includes comedians, djs and more. >> we have a wellness and health area now, so you will be able to do yoga. it is yo

gloria thank you. the arraignment for the man accused of killing cash app founder bob lee has been postponed again. abc7 news was in the courtroom in san francisco yesterday when nima many appeared before a judge. his attorney asked to delay proceedings until next week because she needs additional documents. do my job effectively. i need the police reports. it's like that's why i said that sort of thing. like it's not rocket science. if the police are going to make an arrest, they are duty bound to make these materials available to defense counsel. we have provided discovery on a rolling basis as we do in every case. it has been set for tuesday. san francisco police say many stabbed bob lee to death in the early morning hours of april fourth on main street near harrison. the two the two knew each other, and momentum system may have been the subject of an argument between the men before the stabbing. lee let's take a look at your morning run for cast if you're trying to get out there this morning. it is

gloria good morning. kumasi what that vice principal did is getting praise this morning as far as the victim, we're told that she was being cared for at a local hospital and we are waiting to learn her condition. meanwhile all counselors will be here at the school today to help students cope with what happened. here's what we know so far. we're told that officers say they got a call from the school around 1 p.m. yesterday saying that there had been a stabbing at northgate high school in walnut creek. police say a ninth grade boy stabbed a ninth grade girl. one mother says her son heard the commotion and then saw vice principal not only help catch the teen stabbing suspect, but helped hold him down. our vice principal was the one that was able to tackle him. we were around the sophomore, the softball bleachers, and then we see our vice principal running towards something. we're like, what's going on? like, it's kind of goofy, like what's going on makes me feel better. i think about him personally. that jus

jones and pearson both voted out gloria johnson, surviving by a single vote, why representative johnson believes that she was able to keep her job while her colleagues were not. he's alex perez leads us off tonight from nashville. tonight vice president kamala harris, traveling to tennessee to meet with the democratic representatives, ousted by the state's republican led house from the house of representatives, the futures of those representatives now in the hands of local officials in their districts, who had the power to reappoint them. representatives justin jones, justin pearson and gloria johnson all faced expulsion after they violated decorum last week. we will not be fine, interrupting proceedings demanding gun reform. leading a crowd of demonstrators through the house floor. jones and pearson using a bullhorn, black lawmakers expelled but gloria johnson, who is white, surviving removal by a single vote difference in the outcome. i will answer your question i might have to do with the color of our skin justice will come those protests coming on the heels of the deadly nashville e

yeah and we're about to listen to state representative gloria johnson. ah who is going to speak in her own defense and talk about why she should not be expelled. she's being there being questions asked of her by her colleagues. let's listen in. represented window with burns, wendell but representing window the road. hang on. hey soft! mr mr. clark please stop clock. mr. wendell, please. that is that is not appropriate. the suspension of the rules. request mr clerk. can we just go back? over what what that was. one second one second. alright, we're gonna. be watching the proceedings here just to bring people up to speed state representative gloria johnson. ah again born just like a former state representative jones, not born in tennessee, moved to tennessee to go to college. he went to university of tennessee at knoxville became an activist more traditional path for her knox county democratic party chairwoman and then elected to the tennessee house, which includes knoxville. tennessee um and she and two of her colleagues in the wake of that horrific coven

justin pearson 69 gloria johnson 65 votes. you agree with that, that this the reason that she was spared and they were not is because they are black. well look. gloria johnson is very outspoken and she's been in the state legislature and around a lot of these legislators long enough to know their character traits. but if you just look at the issues that have transpired doing this , this 113 general assembly on during black history month, the same house of representatives sought to change the name of the street bearing john lewis's name to donald trump boulevard. the same representatives wanted to add lynching hanging by tree. as a means for execution in the state. this this body has continuously shown that it will attack african americans and african american issues. the speaker of the house had a very public dispute with the former caucus chair about whether or not he was racist or not. so i think the general public can look at all of those things and come to their own conclusion about whether or not this the supermajority ha

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. this is not something that is going to go away. >> these protests have been going on all week, prompting some odd and tone deaf responses from republicans, like this one to a group of students. >> so you're not going to like my answer and i'm going to say that straight up. it is not about one gun. if there is a firearm out there that you are comfortable being shot with, please show me which one it is. >> join

[cheers] they put gloria johnson and justin jones and me on trial.ut they ended up putting themselves on trial. [cheers] [indiscernible] guilty of white supremacy! guilty of patriarchy! guilty of supporting the nra over people. guilty of not expanding health care. guilty of not giving educational resources. guilty! guilty! guilty! [indiscernible] that people have got a message, we are going to build this movement. we are going to build this movement. we are going to build this movement. you and you and you and you and you, we are going to build this movement. we're convinced there is a different vision for shelby county, for tennessee, for the south, for the united states of america. i believe it is a vision of the people have been pushed to the periphery coming to the well. the people who have been marginalized, coming to the well. i believe [indiscernible] [crowd noise] amy: justin pearson speaking wednesday in memphis after the shelby county board of commissioners voted to reinstate him to his seat in the tennessee house of representatives less th

i mean, gloria said it herself.r, that they expelled the two youngest black lawmakers. their caucus of 75 members, the republican caucus in tennessee, has only one non—white member. in this whole session, they've made us feel unwelcome. they've talked about, you know, that we should not, you know, talk about systemic racism, that we cannot be our full, authentic selves and represent our diverse districts and so, this is clearly racism from the republican caucus and speaker cameron sexton, in particular, who really was the force and hand behind pushing this expulsion vote. so, you've now lost your seat and your aim was to achieve some sort of progress on gun reform. what are your plans now for achieving that reform, now that you're out of office? i mean, we had thousands of young people there who are going to return on monday and now, whether i'm inside the chamber or outside the chamber, i'm going to stand with them and demand that my colleagues act because what we were calling for was a ban on assault weapons, thes

gloria johnson. up next final debate and vote involving representative johnson. >> i move adoption of hr 64. >> you are recognized. >> i request that the clerk read the resolution. >> house resolution 64 to expel gloria johnson from her seat. whereas the article of the tennessee constitution punishes the members of disorderly behavior. [reading the resolution] >> representative johnson, you are recognized in the well with your attorneys. all three of you have 20 minutes for comments. whoever wishes to go first, you are recognized. >> mr. speaker and members, as a believer i must recognize that today is the day of betrayal. let's go straight to the charge against her. i would like to direct each of your attention to the next-to-last paragraph on the first page of house resolution 64. at approximately 10:49 a.m., represented johnson and her colleagues having gathered at her desk moved in unison and again shouting without recognition. i challenge the author of this document to come to this well and to t

gloria could have easily said, "i'm not going to be expelled" but she stood with us and that's what solidarityhat's what is so threatening. speaker speaker of the house came in 610 denying that torres played a role in an interview on fox news. >> that's a false narrative, it's unfortunate, she is trying to put political racism in this. they were all given due process. >> the lawmakers expelled after protesting last month's mass shooting at covenant, a christian school in nashville. >> we are about to hear from officials in nashville, three 9-year-olds and three staff members shot and killed by a shooter. >> is this what democracy looks like it? >> within days of the shooting, protesters overtook the capital demanding gun reform. and the three lawmakers joined in periods of >> paint a picture of what was going on and how did you get swept up into it? >> thousands of children and students and parents and grandparents, clergy, community members came to the capital. the largest protest we have seen in a decade begging us to act. people wanting to transform their grief into policy change, and to ac

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amy: they were called the tennessee three but the third democratic representative, gloria johnson of knoxville, who is white, narrowly survived a vote on her expulsion. thursday's extraordinary proceedings were interrupted at times by thousands of protesters who packed the house gallery to support the lawmakers and their efforts to stem gun violence in the wake of the march 27 mass shooting at covenant school in nashville, which left re-adults and three nine-year-old students dead. president biden condemned the expulsions as shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. after headlines, we will go to nashville to speak with one of the expelled state representatives justin jones. supreme court justice clarence thomas is facing renewed calls for his impeachment after a propublica investigation revealed he failed to report frequent luxury trips paid for by the billionaire harlan crow. for more than two decades, thomas frequently joined crow aboard his private yacht, jet, at his private estates, and at bohemian grove -- an exclusive all-male retreat in california. the junkets likely vio

capitol to demand action their calls were echoed by tennessee state representatives justin jones, gloria johnson, and justin pearson >> we are tired of the silence that is going on in this place and the reality is there are some people who are silent they're dead there are three 9-year-olds who will never serve in this general assembly, who will never be able to march, to protest, to raise their voice about this issue there are three folks who are just going to work to serve children who are dead because someone with an assault rifle went into the school and shot 152 rounds what reason does any reasonable person have to have an assault rifle? >> instead of listening and doing something, republicans moved to expel two of the tennessee three. justin jones and justin pearson, the two young black men. shocking undemocratic arrogant and blatantly racist silencing of dissent just think about it. the republican party of tennessee moved with lightning speed to punish these two young black men because they chose to fight for their constituents' lives and fight harder for the lives of those republ

do you know who gloria johnson is? does anybody know her? who is gloria johnson? i can't johnson is a school teacher, a public school teacher. a special education school teacher. she's a sister, she's a daughter, she's an american. she's a tennessean. she's a farragut graduate, a graduate of the university of tennessee and a girl scout. she's not a felon, she's not a sex offender, she's not a target of a federal grand jury investigation she's never had a single ethics violation not one time in her service in tennessee. she's never broken the public trust. never. not one time. many of you in this room including me do not agree with her political stances. many of you don't. some of you do. many don't. however, she doesn't work for you. she works for the people that live on broadway, nadine, washington avenue and west hills. those are the people that sent her here. the author of this documents wants to take falsehoods and subvert the will of 70,000 voters. i'm sure most of you will be surprised that you vote with this woman 80% of the time. 80% of the time, the membe

gloria? gloria: this is heartbreaking. last checked, the baby girl was in the hospital in critical condition. police have not made any arrests in the shooting and police have not given us a sups -- a suspect description. in a surveillance video, you can see them running to the fire station take out -- to get help. they say a 15-month-old in a honda was struck by one bullet monday night. caitoan eig othe aulside of their family store across from the firehouse for when it happened. >> just heard a lot of screaming outside so we went out and there was like three girls and one man. i was very sad because i have a little sister. >> it was painful because i have a sister. i don't want that to happen too. gloria: sue: oakland fire fighters -- gloria: oakland fire fighters say the toddler was shot in the stomach area. police believe shots were fired near east 15th street, close to franken park and franklin elementary schools. and is a couple blocks from the firehouse. police have not said what led to the shots being fired. officer

tennessee state representative gloria johnson is with us. you back thank you for making the time. it seems for republicans i your state may have hit th nail a little too hard on th head with this one draw th line for us between what happened to you, what happened to your colleagues, and anti democratic policies includin gerrymandering that we'r seeing in tennessee? >> absolutely, and thank you for having me again, so we can talk about this importan issue. we are concerned, seriousl concerned about the slipping o democracy in tennessee, an even though our legislature wa really, in the first part, was on their best behavior, they allowed more debate, i did not see them ever allow this entir session, and possibly th previous session so, that was very interesting. but they could not hel themselves when it came to the resolutions to expel us. and if you watched closely the way that the questions wer asked, and how i was treated differently than my younge colleagues, who are both young black men, it was very clear i was apparent as they were bein

justin pearson on the left gloria johnson in the middle. justin jones on the right.he two men expelled the woman surviving by one vote. they were punished by republicans for their demonstration on the house floor last week, calling for gun reform, walking up to the well of the chamber and protesting following the horrific school shooting in nashville last month. republicans saying their behavior was disorderly and as a result, they made the decision to kick the two men out of the legislature. so what does the woman who survived have to say about that? i think it's pretty clear. i'm a six year old white woman and they are too young black man. the chairman of the tennessee black caucus is sam mckenzie. the world saw the options. i don't have to say a word about the fact that our two young african american brothers were unfairly prosecuted. information evidence introduced inappropriately. but they handled themselves like true champions. republicans deny a racism allegations, some saying that gloria johnson was not leading the protest effort. last week, one republican le

gloria said herself, the only difference is our skin colour.ngest black lawmakers. their caucus of 75 members in tennessee has only one non—white member. in this whole session, they've made us feel unwelcome. they've said we should not talk about systemic racism, that we cannot be our full authentic selves and represent our districts. so this is clearly racism from the republican caucus and speaker cameron sexton in particular, who was the force behind the expulsion. so you have now lost your seat and you are aimless to achieve progress on gun reform. but are your plans now for achieving that reform now that you are out of office? we had thousands of young people there who are going to return on monday. now i am going to stand with them and demand that my colleagues act, because we were calling for a ban on assault weapons, weapons of war. and they responded with an assault on democracy. that's shameful. in england, i don't think people can buy an ar—15, but in tennessee, it is easier to do that than to get health care. that is shameful. this i

gloria has been doing that for years, and the two justices ar doing that now, they are newly electedepublica controls, majority control when i was there the democrats always had a majority, sometimes a narrow majority. the senate always was majority, and how she won in the house. now they're just five senators out of 33. there is about 23 or four or five reps out of 99. the republicans are drunk with power. they are running over th minority and they are doin pretty much what they want what they did with guns, makin them more available in our state, is unhealthy. what they have done with the appointment of judges electing -- the legislator taking away fro the system that we had working for over 200 years - close to 150 years - they change that have more control over the judiciary democracy has been at risk what happened over this past week, we are ashamed of th tennessee general assembly of the state of tennessee. i've had other times where i'v been ashamed of the state from actions, but never of th general assembly like this this was beyond -- these people should be allowed back in,

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pearson, justin jones, and gloria johnson.ere it was an honor just to meet you all in person. we have been covering the story from day one because of the unprecedented nature of what happened to you. before i get to that, i'm going to ask each of you, the white house today. meeting for you, being there, and what do you think you got from it and what did you hear from the president and vice president. >> a very meaningful day for me, district 86, and the people we're fortunate to represent to go into a place built by formerly enslaved african american folks, speaking about the voices of the marginalized and those being too often excluded in situations like the one we're in dealing with the issue of gone violence, the need for gun control, and the need for gun reforms. today, hearing from the president and vice president about the reality that this issue cuts across party lines, that it isn't just a democratic or republican issue, it is a moral issue about whether or not we're going to care about kids, whether we're going to car

we're also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson.ou see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what's next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we're hearing from the former representative justin jones and justin pearson and current representative gloria johnson, who have really decried the actions of the republican colleagues, calling it vindictive, oppressive and racially motivated. of course, pearson and jones. they are young black men. they were the ones that were expelled, while gloria johnson, who survived a vote is a white woman. here's what jones had to say about the exposure. i think what happened was a travesty of democracy because it they expelled the two youngest black lawmakers, which is no coincidence from the tennessee legislature because we are outsp

he walked through a sea of supporters with his colleagues, gloria johnson and justin pearson, the tennesseerassmann is there in nashville and will start us off tonight. what a day. good evening, mark. >> reporter: good evening, norah. this debate was barbed and bitter for hours but i had a surprise twist. republicans expelled two democratic lawmakers but spared one other involved in last week's disturbance. rancor ruled. there was an era of vengeance from both sides. >> ayes 72, 25 nays. >> i hereby declare representative justin jones of the 57 represented district expelled. >> reporter: and with that announcement, tennessee state house, contracted by one member, and america's political divide widened. >> the world is watching tennessee. >> reporter: the days first target for republicans, state representative justin jones. >> no action! >> no peace! >> reporter: no peace since this moment last week. jones, 1 of 3 democrats with a bullhorn, commandeering a legislative session, angry about last week's slaughter of the innocents at nashville's covenant school. the super majority republican mem

just in the last few minutes, a surprise twist, after republicans voted to expel jones, gloria johnsonrvived her vote of expulsion by one vote. they are still arguing about the third democrat, and there is an air of vengeance on both sides. >> i-70 to 25. >> i declare represented justin jones of the representative district expel. >> reporter: with that announcement, tennessee state house, contracted by one member, and america's political divide widened. >> the world is watching tennessee. >> reporter: the days first target are republicans state representative justin jones. >> no action! >> no pes! >> no action! >> no pes! >> reporter: no peace since this moment last week. jones, 1 of 3 democrats with a bullhorn, commandeering legislate of session, angry about last week's slaughter of innocents at the school. the super majority sobbed the trio as decorum-chattering renegades come unfit to serve one more day, including house speaker cameron sexton. >> in my opinion, they should be expelled. >> reporter: state rep senator gloria johnston another targeted democrat periods did you know how

cnn senior political analyst gloria borger joins us now for more on this, so gloria what's notable is the silence from most republicans on what in theory right as a victory for them. restricting abortion access is something that they have been fighting for decades now, and here it is before them. and yet nothing that caught the bus. yeah. what do you make of it? well i think you're not hearing them being vocal. there are some republican candidates. mike pence, for example, who's very vocal on this issue wants to nationalize antiabortion laws, but for independent suburban voters, there are two issues that don't help republicans. and that is donald trump, who is in the headlines right now and the issue of abortion. they know that seven out of 10 americans believe that the abortion pill should be readily available. most women in this country who do you opt for abortion used the abortion pill. they also know that abortion pills are used for miscarriage. and right now, they don't want to get in the middle of this fight. they want to let this go to the supreme court and let the supreme cour

sister gloria said it best the only difference is ski color. they expelled the two youngest black lawmakers almost entirel white 75 member republican house caucus they only have one nonwhit member it was a strictly partisan vot expel us i think we cannot hide from th issue of race in this. there is systemic racism this is an attack on multi racial democracy we can clearly see this fo what it is >> justin, please stay with us i'm going to broaden the conversation and bring in holl mccaul, tennessee lookou editor in chief. michael steele joins us, forme maryland lieutenant governor a msnbc political analyst. charles coleman, a civil right attorney and former new york prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. holly, you covered this. i just went through it wit justin let's lay it out three state representatives, all protesting hand in han together - to wear black man, one was a white woman. >> justin, what are you goin to do when you wake up tomorrow? >> eat breakfast and go back t calling folks and talking to them, what happened today, i think awakened

a third, gloria johnson, was not.epresentative johnson said she things it has to do with the colo of their skin. do you agree with that assessment? >> i certainly understand how some might think that, and that very well might be the case, but i don't know what's in my colleagues' heart and don't want to speculate on that. i will say my colleagues lost two strong voices yesterday and i hope they return very soon. >> republicans said they broke the rules of decorum are protesting on the floor. do you think they should have faced different consequences? >> well, people break decorum or house rules on a daily basis. what they did was approach the well of the house without permission from the speaker. i think in anyone's estimation, that is a very minor offense or breach of house rules. others who have served in the recent house in recent years who have not been punished for anything have done far worse, including several who are under federal investigation and have had criminal charges brought against them. just this year

gloria has more on that. gloria: at least two people had to be escorted out of the antioch council meeting last night after exchanging words with the mayor. residents and public officials commented on alleged racist and homophobic text messages sent between police officers. our media partner, the bay area news group, obtained a report of dozens of racist texts shared between two dozen officers over two years, showing officers joked about harming black residents. one offer to buy a private dinner for anyone who shot the mayor, who is black, with a projectile used on protesters. they congratulated each other on the violence used in arrests. it's part of an fbi and district attorney investigation and has not been made public but community members are reacting to news about the text. >> it's disgusting. it's vile. and we are not going to tolerate this. it put a hole in me. >> what is happening, i can't believe it. it's disgusting. it's more than discussing. >> they have no business. >> to all the officers involve