including speaker sexton, during the last election cycle.y mccall of the tennessee lookout told me many house republicans felt misled by speaker sexton in his quixotic attack on the democrats. i guess they should get in line with the other folks who he seems to be misleading, including the people of his district and the people of tennessee. joining me now is holly mccall, editor in chief of the tennessee lookout. and thank you for coming back. i wanted for you to say more about this speaker has there been any kerfuffle inside of the state about the fact that he does appear to have broken the rules about having to live in the district he represents >> well, first of all, i'm glad to be back i'm always happy to run my mouth in front of you and your audience so just in the last week or two, this news has come out about speaker cameron sexton not living in his district now, i will point out there's a bit of gray area most lawmakers in tennessee have an apartment in nashville if -- i would say more than 50 miles outside of the district. that make

at performative politics now, cameron sexton or ron desantis because the whole world saw cameron sexton fall on his face trying to make a point around this, but nationally what it means is the stain of tennessee republicans is now put on all republicans nationwide for this reason. they demonstrated last week to the country that they are wrong on gun policy. fundamentally wrong on gun policy even worse on the question of race as they silence two millennial legislators of color, and they exposed their raw bias toward true democracy and representation when they silences the constituents of these members. this is a remarkable moment to define the republican party. i think you're seeing people across tennessee realize that and acting with their feet and their voice. >> and to stay with you for a second, david, the thing that's remarkable, i'm watching justin jones hug and embrace people of all races, white, black, young, old, that are all hugging him because he's fighting for them the thing is that this whole fight was about these two young black men and the 60-year-old white woman fighting

cohost of the clay travis and buck sexton show, buck sexton!eers and applause] >> kat: when he's not having people killed you can see him modeling wrangler jeans, former cia operative and author of the new book company rules, mike baker! [cheers and applause] >> kat: and he inspires children to abandon their dreams. comedian joe devito! [cheers and applause] >> kat: all right, joe, you're the comedian so i will a go to you first. i truly don't believe there is such a thing that we can't joke about. >> joe: no, not at all. like you said sometimes the things most difficult to deal with you have to say jokes about it. and the people who complain about that, you have to look at totalitarianisms. they've not known for their sense of humor. once you get sallen alone he's hilarious. knock knock, it's the kbg. people say laughter is the best medicine, usually people with terrible insurance. yeah, i think it's important. i think we need to laugh. the tougher times get the more you look at things you can laugh at, such a great experience on share with ot

that their majority black populations and progressive populations do in fact, the speaker cameron sextonalled himself at one point an overseer and these are people in positions of power anf bill lee who we're dealing with. what is going on in the south is you have politicians who will vote for them rather than the people who are supposed to be choosing their elected officials. situations that we get in and in the south these are the situations that we get in, and in the south in particular, we need to pay attention to what's happening with the state legislatures. this is a battleground because if it's gun violence, abortion, education or health care, the south continues to lag behind and the people in positions of power are hurting us. >> there's a dramatic political lines here that have been drawn that we're going to show graphically in a few minutes, but i want to get to the last few questions for the both of you. representative jones, do you plan to accept a reappointment if it is indeed the case, and if not, do you plan to run any special election to come back? >> yes and yes you kno

and speaker sexton's office said publicly it will follow the councils vote.tall will take place wednesday. [cheers and applause] >> what has happened with our county commission, their leaders in nashville who are threatening our county commissioners in shelby county withholding $350 million worth of funding if they reappoint me. this is the culture that we are up against. this is the power structure we are up against. >> i believe the spirit of what we are seeing is really a spirit to take us back to this time where people like me and people like pearson cannot even get into that building and be seen as equal members. >> our thanks to representative jones, former representative pearson and representative johnson for speaking with us. coming up... chris tucker on his hot new movie, "air," and why this is the type of role that he has long wanted. ♪ ♪ the idea of michael jordan, going to offer? >> no budget. >> as and nobody will get any money. ing. it's so good. it makes it look like i have magical powers. magic eraser and sheets make cleaning look easy. detect

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speaker sexton represents an enemy to democracy. multiracial democracy.e is trying to bring us back to a tennessee in our past, the same tennessee where the klan was founded. we say no longer will we sit by and be silent. it is time to rise up not just -- we did not go up there as individuals. we represented the people of our district and our state, the young people came and vote, the people said we need a voice and that is why we walked up to the well. we hope what happens today, that you, the brother pearson tomorrow to walk him into those chambers. we are walking into hostile territory. where young black voices are not welcome. we're not going to be able to survive that alone. we need to let them know that the world is watching and it does not stop this record tomorrow or next week something is changing in tennessee. something is changing in our state that will restore democracy and get rid of these forces that are trying to take us backward. amy: after justin jones justin pearson and well as gloria johnson spoke outside the lorraine motel in memphis,

let's turn to former cia analyst buck sexton, also the co-host of the clay travis and buck sexton showk, the founder of turning point u.s.a. charlie, i have been following what you have been writing about today. at what point do these revelations actually make a difference that this was a massive watergate style cover-up from the beginning inside our agencies? >> that's exactly right and it was public-private. they pulled out all the stops. remember the laptop was unexpected development they thought they had 2020 scripted from the lockdowns, mail-in ballots, relaxed signature verification thresholds. they thought they had everything according to plan and the glitch in the matrix, the input of the formula they didn't expect was all of a sudden that hunter biden let's say had a little bit of a memory loss and left his laptop at a laptop repair shop in delaware. instead of validating it they knew they had to get to election day whatever it took. therefore they wrote this fake letter that was then used as a censorship excuse to extinguish people like myself. i lost access to my twitter in

the well and speaker sexton gaveled you out of order? >> from isla -- from my recollection, the speaker gaveled to recess almost instantaneously. much that occurred on that video was not while we were in session, that was after the speaker gaveled a recess. what we did at this well, was during a recess. >> but at the time, you entered the well, we were in session. my question specifically, which said you would answer my question specifically, you approached the well, began to shout in the well, and the speaker gaveled you out of order >. r. >> i can't remember how many times he gaveled me out of order for doing my job. but he chose to silence members as he had done throughout that day. >> do you understand to speak from the well, you are able to speak because speaker sexton recognized you in the wealth to be able to speak? >> i'm able to speak because the people of district 52 sent me here to speak. speaker sexton is not my constituent, he is not a king, he is not hard. though he may want to be. he is my colleague. so the people who of d

speaker cameron sexton, can move on over or we will move over you because we are moving on. of nashville, tennessee, we hope you join us in the people's house because no matter what happens here today, we need people to show up in the chamber and let them know we will not allow him to stand in the doorway like in the past. we won't let him stand in the doorway of democracy anymore. happy easter monday because we are resurrecting a movement across this state. forward to and not one step back. whose house? >> our house! amy: after the swearing in, justin jones immediately called for the resignation of tennessee house speaker cameron sexton. jones' support or sign as they enter the capitol and walked up the steps to the capitol. >> ♪ i'm going to let it shine everywhere i go i am going to let it shine ♪ amy: as they walked up the steps of the tennessee capitol in nashville, representative jones took his seat on the house floor a secession was ongoing. arm and arm with tennessee -- are in orbit tennessee gloria johnson who nearly missed being expelled last week. he raised his fi

who elected them, a republican supermajority vowing to punish them republican house speaker cameron sexton link thei peaceful protest t insurrection with no investigation, n consideration of a censure o some other legislative penalty tennessee republicans wielde their power to call for th expulsion of the duly electe tennessee three. well johnson narrowly survived the expulsion vote representatives justin jones and justin pearson, the tw youngest black male legislator in the body, did not moments later, on the capito steps, their resolve was stronger than ever >> they thought they won today they don't realize, they don't realize what they've started they started a movement they can't stop, they thought tha we were creating good troubl there, we're on the outsid now. >> sometimes to get from the periphery in the back of the house, you have to go to the will of democracy. and demand that democracy be true for everybody and not just with rich white men in suits >> if the republicans goal was to silence these goo troublemakers, it was far from a success. the tennessee threes expulsion sparked

his return comes less than one week after house speaker cameron sexton fast tracked this extraordinaryunishment, not deployed since the 1800s shelby county commissioner lowry said the expulsions were hasty and brought about an unfortunate outcome. that outcome helped expose how deeply undemocratic tennessee has been really for decades. and how quickly republicans are capable of acting when it's about their own angry feelings just not on doing anything to stop mass shootings. ahead of today's vote, the tennessee three rallied supporters where they promised that this is not the end but rather the beginning of a much bigger -- a much bigger movement. >> the movement lives or dies in memphis here at the hallowed place, in this sacred place, we showing the united states of america and the republicans in tennessee, that the movement is still alive. >> we need to lift up these amazing voices of these young people we need a multiracial, multigenerational organization in the tennessee legislature. >> something is changing in our state that is going to restore democracy and get rid of these forc

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and poor white communities and silencing them and they're more beholden to the nra than people like sexton. >> do you plan on running in the special election? >> yes. i would be honored to accept the appointment of the shelby county commission and to run in a special election, and i've already heard that people in the state legislature and in nashville are threatening our shelby county commissioners to not reappoint me or they'll take away funding for project that the mayors and others have asked for and this is what folks have to realize is the power structure is always wielding against the minority party and people. >> there may well be some constitutional rights that have been violated here and the federal courts could be looking at. ? exactly? justin jones and justin j. pearson, thank you for sharing your views with us. >> thank you very much, we'll keep fighting. >> turning to the unprecedented scene that played out in new york city on tuesday as donald trump became the first president charged with a crime, 34 felony counts stemming from alleged hush money payoffs he made to adult fil

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tennessee state house speaker cameron sexton. he likened your behavior during the protest last week to the january 6th insurrection. i just want to play that for our viewers, and then ask you about it. two of the members, representative jones and representative johnson had been very vocal about january. 6th and washington d c about, um what that was and what they did today was equivalent, at least equivalent, maybe worse, depending on how you look at it of doing an insurrection in the capital. was what you did worse than than or equivalent to the insurrection in the capital. i mean, it is a completely ridiculous statement from representative speaker sexton that that is trying to incite a reaction what we're doing with the opposite. we were calling for the end of violence were standing with our constituents demanding that we take action on gun violence in our community because it's not the first mass shooting in national and won't be the last until this body hacked with our people. the legislators grievances of these young people.

we are calling on house speaker cameron sexton to resign. a speaker of the house. he is an enemy of democracy. and john more than 1000. people marched with him all the way from city hall and then walk through that front door. and then, of course, when they swore him in right there on the steps that he went and got his old plaque back and went into that. see the battle here won't stop for quite some time because, remember, they were appointed back to the seat and we're told that will have to be a special election. so this process is not over just yet, but you can just tell by the energy that's surrounding the city right now that they believe they have finally sort of cracked the surface in terms of getting people. understand what's going on in the state. and this process tonight that you just saw was for representative jones . in a moment, i'm going to speak to representative justin pearson. what was the timetable for his possible reinstatement? well, they are talking about wednesday. so of course there was this talk across the state about whether or not what could

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what do you make of his calling on the house speaker cameron sexton to resign. but what do you make of him, saying he got in the elevator with a republican today? who who kind of try to say it wasn't my idea? responsibility for it does that? i mean, can't you just see that scene i can. where are the republicans with any moral courage? where are the republicans who were willing to take responsibility for their bad actions or for the things that backfire? i mean, you can absolutely see a circumstance where the speaker of the house said that the lieutenant hey, you take this bill up. it's your job. you do this. if you want to sort of stay in line and keep your committee assignments to do the things and you know what? when you look somebody in the eye and they can't respond back. they? no, they didn't. they didn't. they didn't do the right thing. they know they were wrong. and that young man is so remarkable. and it's absolutely channeling energy and an outpouring that is the essence of democracy and is the essence of what makes this country great and my hat is off

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. >> now, the letter sent to republican house speaker cammeron sexton, lawyers representing both jones and form everywhere representative justin pearson of mommy physicians urendle the speaker to promptly swear in both members of the -- as -- members of the general assembly should they be reinstated and cam them, quite, the same benefits, rights, duties and liberties as any other member sexton's office tells fox news that email they will be seated as representatives as the constitution requires. we just saw jones arrive to the tennessee state shows just a few moments ago. he will be a part of the session tonight, bret? charles watson live in tennessee. thanks. also breaking tonight. china's military says it is ready to fight. after completing large scale combat exercises around taiwan. the drills, followed a week in which taiwan's president met with the speaker of the u.s. house in california. and the congressional delegation visited taiwan. the biden administration says china's actions are an overreaction, senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot begins our coverage on this to

a privilege duratio of gun violence in our communities, and instead o addressing the issue, kare sexton the republican party is doing things that are dum democratic in order to silence the voice of people who ar exercising the first amendment in a peaceful way, to -- present day. >> your colleague justin jones told rachel maddow in th previous hour that he was on a elevator just today with one o the republicans who initiate this resolution to expel you and he said, i asked him, di you learn anything from this experience and he was silent. can you imagine a moment lik that, that will be in your future, as you expect to b reinstated on wednesday in one of those elevators in th capitol this week or next week with someone who was part of the initiative to get yo expelled can you imagine what you might ask them in a moment like that >> yes i would ask them wha legislation are you going to pass to make sure that you don't have more children and families suffering the brutality of gun violence. what actions will yo deliberately take to ensur that your communities ar actually protected and not

you're now calling for cameron sexton's resignation.you had pushed and successfully push for the removal of the blast of nathan bedford forrest from the state capitol rotunda. he was the first grand dragon of the ku klux klan, the ku klux klan born in tennessee. you ultimately won your battle but cameron sexton voted against removing the founding grand wizard of the ku klux klan's bust from the state capital? were you able to hear that question? >> i just missed the last part. amy: you won the removal of the bust of the founding grand wizard of the ku klux klan nathan bedford forrest from the state capitol rotunda. the house speaker, whose resignation you continue to call for, voted against removing his bust, ku klux klan born in tennessee. is that right? >> that is correct. what we are sick in tennessee is this battle of us representing a new south, us south that does not worship symbols to white supremacy and the confederacy. we were trying to represent a south that represents multiracial democracy and human rights that affirms the di

trio as decorum-shattering renegades, unfit to serve one more day, including house speaker cameron sexton in my opinion, they should be expelled. >> reporter: state rpresentative gloria johnson another targeted democrat. >> did you know in the moment how angry the republican leadership was? >> i knew they were angry, sure. >> reporter: prosecutorial republicans charged the three had brought disorder and dishonor. >> mutiny on the house floor. a mutiny which, to this body and to this state, has been unknown in its 227-year history. >> reporter: the mood turned angry. >> grow up! >> reporter: raw, incendiary. jones accused republicans of >> o mber si in th y. chamber who was found guilty of domestic violence. no expulsion. this is the people's house, and we will not bow down. >> reporter: but now he bows out, expelled in a vote along party lines. looking on, america's political world, including the white house. >> the fact that this vote is happening is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. >> reporter: republicans spared state representative gloria johnson but expelled lawmaker ju

service equal years in thi branch of government, as equal in the house chamber so i hope cameron sexton wil do the honorable thing and tha is to resign and to bring some order and decency integrit back to the house. i don't think his own member are even comfortable with hi serving, at least a few i've talked to and so i hope that w see better days ahead, but n matter what i know that we mus continue to push and these young people to restore th heart and soul over democrac in tenneee >> let's lto what to raphael waid about you presentaierson i >> these are young people, still in their twenties, and you know, i remembered tha there was another youn preacher by the name of martin luther king jr. who was 27 years old, the age of thes young legislators, and the res is history so you never know th difference that your voice wil make, but i'm glad they decide to stand up and buy some strok of grace and human resilienc they have captured the imagination of the whole country and i hope pushed us closer to finally getting some common sense gun safety laws passed in the congress and the kind of mo

>> that's the question that's something that we don't know cameron sexton, the speaker of the house, is not a fan of democracy. the next step is up to him we know the voters right now, 78,000 people this my district, 78,000 people in representative pearson's district, they are without representation they have been silenced. that's the crime that's happening. these young people were silenced for standing and calling for common sense gun laws. they are not being heard our districts are being silenced this is attacking democracy on so many levels then to refuse to seat us after expelling us, it's saying that tennessee is on the border or is already faced with authoritarianism >> i want to play something that really touched me last night on stephanie ruhle's show our viewers who may not have seen it can see what happened when the former republican chair, michael steele, he was talking to you last night. >> you represent a future that america has been leaning towards for a long time. your generation will change this country. your generation will mark this moment and every last one of thos

>> speaker cameron sexton has not put me on any committees i was able to go back to my office and gete asking to be treated as full members, something he never treated us as. like i said, cameron, he has taken a step too far i hear members of his party calling for his resignation. that's a step forward for our state. to remove him --center democract step in the movement and get these common sense gun laws. >> is it safe to assume that justin pearson has the votes and will be positioned to be sworn in again as you were and joining you there? >> i hope so that's why we're going to memphis in stand in solidarity hopefully, we can be back. it's about the 78,000 people each of us represent, not being able to have a representative vote for them and speak on their behalf hopefully, democracy will prevail. we are almost there. i'm on the interstate right now. no matter what happens, this movement must continue we must hold these anti-democratic forces accountable. we must pass common sense gun laws we must uplift young people who are trying to resurrect a movement, a reconstruction here in th

sexton compared the actions of three tennessee lawmakers standing in the floor of the house in which, to what happened on january 6th his accusations are both laughable and deeply insulting on january 6th, hordes of trump supporters violently assaulted police, destroyed public property, and defecated in the capitol. in tennessee, three democratic lawmakers spoke out of turn because the speaker turned off their microphones and silenced them oh, and they had a bull horn, totally the same as a violent insurrection, right? here's the thing they don't actually care about decorum. during justin pearson's expulsion, republican andrew farmer lectured pearson on how he should behave his comments burr dripping in condescension and disdain. >> just because you don't get your way, you can't come to the well, bring your friends, and throw a temper tantrum with an adolescent bull horn don't stop by commandeering the wealth while we're conducting business that's why you're standing there, because of that temper tantrum that day for that yearning to have attention. that's what you wanted well, you'r

today we send a clear message to speaker cameron sexton that the people will not allow his his crimes against democracy that happen without challenge, calling on house speaker cameron sexton to resign. a speaker of the house. he is an enemy of democracy. christine just a lot of passion and a lot of people who showed up. just put support not only justin jones, but justin j. pearson they both are focused on this idea of getting common sense. gun laws passed. justin pearson is hoping that back in shelby county in the memphis area on wednesday that that city council vote to put them back in and then both will have to face a special election to have their seats guaranteed. christine all right, ryan and for us, thank you. ryan wall street journal reporter evan gersh. novich has now been officially designated by the u. s state department as wrongfully detained by russia. herskovitz was arrested in late march charged with espionage last friday. the state department designation allows the administration to explore options such as a prisoner swap to secure his release. cnn's claire sebastian jo

cameron sexton, who led the charge to expel jones and justin pearson. listen.ay we send a clear message to speaker cameron sexton that the people will not allow his his crimes against the marks of that happen without challenge. the people of nashville have spoken today through their council members. and this morning, representative gloria johnson, who survived that expulsion vote. she is also calling for section to resign. meanwhile tomorrow, the tennessee three could be reunited. shelby county commission will decide the future of justin pearson and whether to send him back to his seat. kate isabelle. thank you so much for that, john. new fallout over luxury trips. supreme court justice clarence thomas accepted from republican mega mega donor harlan crow for years and did not disclose the senate judiciary committee says it will hold a hearing in the coming days. the panel's democratic chair and 10. other democratic members are also urging chief justice john roberts to open investigation. in a rare statement friday, justice thomas said he was advised early in hi

new generation and new ideas and new beliefs in order to guide us into the future, so what cameron sexton kathy park in nashville, kathy, pearson and justin jones are back in the state house. they walked in together. sounds like they want to get back to work, especially regarding gun control. >> reporter: good morning to you and welcome to the team, first off. that's right these two men, exactly one week ago they were expelled from the tennessee state legislature, and as you mentioned just a few moments ago, we witnessed a swearing in of justin j. pearson. he was introduced by both his mother and father in the swearing in, it took just a matter of minutes, and as you mentioned, he has walked in to the state capital building, and he's standing by to walk into the house floor. but yesterday it was quite an eventful day in memphis, the shelby county board of commissioners voted unanimously to reappoint pearson we saw hundreds of supporters gather there, many of them traveled with him. this morning we understand they have entered the capitol building as well, and we know that the house speake

we are calling on house speaker cameron sexton to resign. a speaker of the house. he is an enemy of democracy has really shifted now to justin j. pearson he says. he's hoping shelby county puts him back in office. that can happen on wednesday, so both members who were pushed out of their seats may get their seats back. there will have to be a special election. so this is not over just yet, but both members said today we should be focused on what's going on in this country, especially when it comes to gun violence with the mashing that happened in louisville. they're hoping that the country gets behind this and make some changes to some laws. ryan young, cnn, nashville, tennessee. joining me now from nashville quantity tombs who sits on the city's metropolitan council. thank you so much for being with us. thank you. so in a speedy and unanimous vote by the nashville council, tennessee state representative justin jones was reinstated after he and fellow representative justin pearson were both expelled last week holding a gun control protests on the house floor. so wh

. >> will: cam won sexton was there yesterday and he joins us now.ell that day what's your reaction. >> that's a false narrative on her part. she had two attorneys in the well. if you go back and look at the opening her attorney john mark reynolds came out strong and made a lot of points that she was not as active as participant as the other two. she didn't grab the bull horn. she'll didn't scream and yell. she didn't lead the protest to the well. [broken audio] evidence of all three they were able to make their statements and have representation. some of the members felt she was not as active participant in leading the protest in the house. >> will: in fact, isn't that the argument she made to you she wasn't as active as the other two expelled. i went to the well as long as this microphone was on i stood with them. as long as this microphone was on they spoke and didn't yell. and when we called a recess i think that's when the mega phone came out. i absolutely never yelled. this is about me as i understand it. i didn't speak in a voice as any other