Missouri lawmakers react to historic special session

Lawmakers on both sides of the spectrum are reacting to a special session to consider impeaching Gov. Eric Greitens.

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{“url”:”https://twitter.com/travisfitzwater/status/992253705842868224″,”author_name”:”Travis Fitzwater”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/travisfitzwater”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;”This path is not the one I would have chosen for Missourians… Unfortunately, this is where the facts led. We will not avoid doing what is right, just because it's hard.” &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/Rep_TRichardson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;@Rep_TRichardson&#lt;/a&#gt; &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/moleg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#moleg&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;— Travis Fitzwater (@travisfitzwater) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/travisfitzwater/status/992253705842868224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;May 4, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}

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ABC 17 News is continuing to monitor lawmakers reaction and statements. We will update this developing story.