BUT, FIRST, IT'S DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN IN THE HOUSE.

[ BANGING GAVEL ] >> THE HOUSE WILL COME TO ORDER.

>> Mary: IT'S BACK TO DAY ONE IN THE HOUSE.

WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE AGAIN CONVENING ESSION AFTER THE STATE SUPREME COURT RULED REPUBLICANS CANNOT GATHER A QUORUM WITHOUT DEMOCRATS.

>> A QUORUM IS NOT PRESENT.

THE HOUSE IS ADJOURNED.

[ BANGING GAVEL ] >> TODAY HE MADE HIMSELF AN ACCOMPLICE IN THEIR LAWLESS EFFORT TO PREVENT THE HOUSE FROM WORKING.

DEMOCRATS JUST NEED TO SHOW UP FOR WORK.

THAT'S WHAT THE MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT SAID.

>> HOUSE REPUBLICANS NOW ON WEEK THREE ARE HERE TO DO THE WORK THAT WE HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO DO BY THE PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA.

WE ARE HEARING FROM PEOPLE ALL OVER THE STATE THAT OUR TAXPAYERS PAYING FOR MEMBERS, DEMOCRAT MEMBERS, NOT TO SHOW UP FOR WORK.

>> THE MINNESOTA HOUSE DFL THINKS THAT IT IS REALLY SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD.

WE JUST MATCH THE WILL OF THE VOTERS.

AND WE SEAT PEOPLE WHO WON ELECTIONS.

AND WE OPERATE AS A SHARED GOVERNING BODY WHEN WE'RE TIED.

>> WE SAW TWO WEEKS OF ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL POWER GRAB FROM THE GOP, AND UNFORTUNATELY, THEIR ATTEMPTS TO GRAB POWER AREN'T OVER.

>> SENATE MILLER, WILL YOU JOIN US?

>> Mary: OVER IN THE SENATE, WITH A POWER-SHARING AGREEMENT IN PLACE, A DIVIDE IS BEGINNING TO SURFACE.

ON THE DAY SENATOR NICOLE MITCHELL'S BURGLARY TRIAL WAS SET TO START, BEFORE IT WAS DELAYED DURING SESSION, REPUBLICANS ATTEMPTED TO EXPEL THE METEOROLOGIST FROM WOODBURY.

>> I BRING THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE MOTION TODAY BECAUSE WE ARE FACING AN UNPRECEDENTED SITUATION.

A MEMBER OF THIS ODY IS FACING CHARGES FOR FELONY BURGLARY.

>> NO MEMBER OF THE SENATE HAS EVER BEEN EXPELLED, SHORT OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE CRIMINAL PROCESS.

OUR SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ETHICS HAS MET, HAS HEARD THE CASE, AND HAS TOLD US IN THEIR CAPACITY AS OUR VOICE ON ETHICS, THEY WANT TO HEAR THE RESULT OF THE CRIMINAL CASE FIRST AND WHY, MEMBERS?

SO THEY CAN KNOW THE WHOLE STORY.

>> CLOUD IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO HANG OVER THE MINNESOTA STATE SENATE THROUGHOUT, AS LONG AS SENATOR MITCHELL IT HERE.

THAT COULD BE THROUGHOUT THE SESSION.

>> SENATOR MITCHELL HAS BEEN ACCUSED AND NOT YET CONVICTED.

SHE HAS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE DISTRICT SHE REPRESENTS ARE SPHWIELD HER REPRESENTATION.

HER COURT CASE IS NOT A MATTER FOR THE SENATE.

ENTITLED TO ER REPRESENTATION.

>> Mary: AND IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION TO REPLACE THE LATE-SENATOR KARI DZIEDZIC, DEMOCRAT PREVAILED, PUTTING THE DFL BACK ON TOP IN THE SENATE.

>> NO MORE FUNDING FOR TRANSGENDERRISM AND WOKENESS.

>> Mary: ALSO, GOVERNOR WALZ MADE NATIONAL NEWS, CRITICIZING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PLAN TO FREEZE FEDERAL FUNDS, WHICH HE LATER RESCINDED.

>> THIS IS NOT BOLD.

IT'S NOT LEADERSHIP.

IT'S STUPID, CHILDISH.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THE PEOPLE VOTED.

AND KAMALA HARRIS AND I LOST AN ELECTION TO DONALD TRUMP.