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One Thing: What Tennessee Can Tell Us About Our Extreme Politics

CNN 5 Things

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News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

After the Tennessee legislature expelled state representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson for protesting inaction on gun violence last year, more people became aware of how the state’s Republican supermajority operates. However, there are Republicans and Democrats who say the current way of doing business is making it hard to get any kind of legislation passed. In this episode, we hear from grassroots lawmakers about how the gridlock is impacting their constituents and what it can tell us about our national politics ahead of the election in November.  Guest: Van Jones, CNN Political Commentator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong Being Speaker of the House is kind of a dicey proposition these days. I'll tell you why. Mike Johnson is that man, at least for the moment. But he controls one of the narrowest margins in house history, and there's this rule where at any time any one member can call for his ouster and his fate is put up for a vote. That's what happened to the

0:54.4

former speaker Kevin McCarthy last year. Well recently Marjorie Taylor Green from

0:59.0

Georgia took the first step to do the same thing to Mike Johnson. This is basically a warning and it's

1:06.1

time for us to go through the process, take our time and find a new speaker of the House that

1:12.4

will stand with Republicans and our

1:14.2

Republican majority instead of standing with the Democrats.

1:17.0

It remains to be seen if she'll actually call up her motion to vacate when the House is back from recess, so Mike Johnson is still the House Speaker for now.

1:28.0

But all this to say, it's one thing to be in the majority. It's another thing to be in the majority.

1:32.8

It's another to truly be in power.

1:36.0

Look no further than the State House in Tennessee.

1:39.0

My guest this week is CNN's Van Jones. He's a former Obama administration official

1:46.5

and current CNN political commentator. We're going to talk about what Republican rule

1:50.9

in the volunteer state can tell us about the stakes of our national elections

1:55.6

come November.

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