and therefore that was listen enough to throw it to the state legislature. even if, and i make this point, because even if courts wouldn't go along with that, if there had been a republican house, that -- the members of the house couldn't have accepted it. it's not clear that the courts would have overturned it. it gives enough air of respectability that it could have been a very thin reed upon which we could say he won but he lost. >> the speech on january 6th. he said it wasn't particularly close. i remember alex preen made this observation, a sharp writer who said the these is was that there's a right way to install the president, which is to come up with legal arguments conservative judges are willing to sign on to. this is the sort of embarrassing stunts loser democrats do. basically like you screwed this up, you did all these crazy things and you summoned a bomb to chant "hang mike pence." there's a way to do this that haunts all of us and informs your piece. >> oh, yeah. you know, had the election turned on pennsylvania and had the election been close

department of justice that the legislature can call itself back into session. doing it. they can do that on their own. and remember the no, remember that line, on page four, from what happened the previous day. trump assuring the attorney general that the georgia legislature is on our side. so the problem here, the problem that emerges. how dare this happened on my vacation. the problem that emerges. is that this was not some cockamamie famine see, like the pillow company die says, the whole supreme court will rule nine to nothing that trump is the lord emperor. this is not like the qanon in arizona saying we found bamboo shoots in the bathroom trash. therefore biden magically is not the president anymore. this is not giuliani being like there's 8000 dead people who voted, i mean 16,000 dead people. i mean 1 million dead people who voted. and therefore biden is not president. this is not some of that nonsense like we have seen in the months since the election, from the president supporters, people working for him. this is an actual plan. , the letter has places

he says to them, quote, georgia legislature is on our side. the reason that is so bad, that single line is such a doozy, is because of what we now know happened the very next day. that call where trump says say the election's corrupt and leave the rest to me and georgia legislature is on our side, that call was december 27th. the very next day there was a letter. abc news was first to publish this letter. it's dated the day after that call. after that call with trump saying just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me, that call where he says the georgia legislature is on our side, the very next day, december 28th, we now know, an apparently very trumpy senior figure at the trump justice department, a man who ran the civil division, a man named jeff clark, drafted this letter that was to be sent to the governor of georgia. the head of the state assembly there and the head of the state senate there. dear governor kemp, mr. speaker, and mr. president pro tell. the department of justice is investigating various irregularities in the

years in the legislature. i know that the one thing legislators respond to is political pressure, the fear of losing their job and having just seen the governor lose his job. will be a unique opportunity to bring fundamental reforms on issues like the cost of living, rising crime rates and school choice. congressman oc what is something tangible and specific that you can actually get done? so the governor's got immense authorities within the agencies and departments of the state. first thing i'm going to do is i'm firing the guy that's preventing the construction of new water storage. then i'm firing the guy that is trying to release through regulatory changes. the prisoners who have been righteously convicted. and have not yet served their terms. the state board of education. the governor has a number of appointees on there. that group controls the curriculum that has presented in our classrooms. i'm replacing the people that are there who are giving us all these foolish things that our kids don't need. we're

their plan is to say that state legislatures can overturn the popular will. in bush versus gore, rehnquist's opinion says it's the state legislatures that have the right to elect a president. we're going to have the justice department say it's corrupt and have rib state legislatures vote for a slate that would elect trump. the really scary part, chris, is what if republicans do this again in the future and try to defer to state legislatures to elect a republican candidate even if the democrat wins overwhelmingly the popular vote in those states. >> so this is unearthed by the house oversight committee. my understanding is as of today this is being moved over to the january 6th committee. but i've got to say -- first of all, i want to know if that's right. b, i've got to say i think jeffrey clark should be under oath tomorrow and mark meadows should be under oath tomorrow and we should hear from these people who should answer some questions under penalty of perjury about the role they played in attempting a coup. >> absolutely. i think they both need to answer

and we'll hear from travis clardy, who is a representative in the texas legislature and diego bernal, member of the mexican american legislative conference. the witnesses will please rise, be unmuted, be so we can swear them all in wherever you are, please raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give us is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. >> i do. >> i do. mr. raskin: let the record demonstrate all witnesses answered in the affirmative. representative thompson, you are now recognized for your testimony. before you begin, i want to recognize, also, the presence of our distinguished colleague from texas, mrs. lizzie fletcher from houston. representative thompson, you're recognized. ms. thompson: thank you, chairman raskin and ranking

a member of the legislature for 5 years. you mention the 12 million dollars in additional billion dollars in additional funding this. >> you call your plan to reduce homelessness. can you define treatment and what would happen to those folks who refused to come. >> career politicians in the celebrities in the insiders who have controlled the state for so long and illustrated. you know, one of their worst. i was driving down imperial boulevard in san diego the other day and the tents are all over the. forced him to get treatment. i'm a businessman. i want to use common sense. not just treat the symptoms. in other states. what it cost to build in california. largest tax decrease in california history, 30 billion dollars. 25%. >> regarding the minimum wage equipment or wage ought to be 0. what is 3rd party have to do with how to can sitting people decide to exchange services for money. >> i support some level about their, you know, full price of a floor for. >> i'm going to take issue with your premise. by the way. undecided as

that is no legislature except jeannette rankin. on this issue, one newspaper reported that she raised her voice alone. so, when the name jeannette rankin is recalled, she's likely to be linked to these two facts. she was the first women in congress, and the only member to vote against both world wars, and it is right to do so. these two facts formed a core part of rankin's identity. but she's more than the 2 votes and more than the first woman in congress until her death at the age of 92. she returned again and again to the capital, to testify, to protest. she continued to fight for the rights of others, whether they were women, children, or copper miners in montana. she took the fullest rule possible in the democratic process and fought for others to do so as well. for that she also deserves to be remembered. in this talk, i will focus on rankin's time in congress and her experiences in and around the capitol. but first let's briefly consider her years in montana and her work with the suffrage movement before montana women got the

you just talked about the wisconsin legislature redrawing their maps in secret. is that a common practice across the united states or is this something that only happens in wisconsin? guest: i would say it is common that the process is not transparent. and i also would like to make the point, i thing my article gets into this, that gerrymandering has been happening since the early 1800s. politicians have always gerrymandered. democrats, republicans, you know, one of the experts i quote in my speech said gerrymandering is an equal opportunity activity. but what is most concerning i think is in the past decade, we have seen republican leadership use gerrymandering as a nationwide strategy to stay in power and wind districts. so it is not something that is just scattered here and there but it is something -- and they openly talked about this too. this is not secret at all. in 2010, there was a program called red map that specifically they bragged about switching districts to republican districts, republican-majority districts. the outcome of this is that even in wis

republican state legislatures have proposed or passed more than 400 voter suppression measures this year alone. as we have seen too many times before, this attack on voting rights is rooted in white supremacy. civil rights leaders have fought for more than 200 years to expand access to the ballot box. it's the nations it proudest traditions but since the earliest days of reconstruction, we have seen how whites missy rears its head when communities of color make their voices heard in our election. today, cynical politicians are spreading false claims of voter fraud for their own political advantage. the countries rejection of a white supremacist resins, a president who embraced hate, distinct democracy and incited a deadly insurrection in our very capital has given rise to a voter suppression drive by republican state legislatures across the country. it's time to reject these attempts once again. we need to set a strong national standard for voting rights. we need to and partisan gerrymandering and we need to reform our campaign-finance system so that a few large corporations and the weal

and now it has spilled over not just to the texas legislature but to so many.s won't tell others legislative bodies. you don't just have to stand and take it if you the numbers. that's why we are doing everything we can to slow town and give the opportunity to take a close eye to see what republicans are doing to us. >> let me ask you about something that we're seeing happening at the, we're seeing it in texas. we're seeing it increasingly in states around the country. we're seeing it at the national level in washington, d.c. and that is, people turning to direct action. people taking to the streets. people, including members of congress engaging in civil disobedience and doing the montgomery style marches. putting themselves at risk of arrest. putting themselves in a nonviolent way out in the public eye in a way that puts their bodies on the line and put themselves at risk. i want to know how that plays in texas. whether you think that does pluck at people's heart strings. or whether that might harden some people's hearts because they don't want to be swoeshld

keep in mind, the republicans running the state legislatures are a receptive audience, they're the same people who in michigan went completely nuts over the governor's public health measures, or the legislators and arizona who are running the sham election audit, or in georgia who just passed a law to make voting much harder. they're all ears, generally. much more so than the courts. so finally, after flailing in those courts, really got, nowhere they realize that there's a much better avenue. just have the department of justice give state republicans the official greenlight to say, elections tainted by fraud, gotta send was under electors. again, this is not rudy giuliani at four seasons landscaping, or talking about the ghost of hugo chavez in the voting machines. this is a possible path to stealing the election. luckily, it took them a while to get. there and i frankly don't have the words to describe why the cataclysm this all would've been. if that letter had gone out and state republicans had taken to signal in a number of these states and sent their electors. because then you wou

shouldn't they press advantage where they've got control of the legislature and government to maximizeosition the democrats have. if we fightÑi for fairness, if make sureq that we get the numbr of seats that we're entitled to in both the state legislature a fair criteria, democrats and progressives will do justlp fin but republicans have to cheat in order to win, so, yeah, they'll try do what they can in texas, florida, north carolina. they'll bring raced theq qmargin. the constitutional amendment in florida we'll use in litigation as well. but there's no need for democrats to do anything other than to fight for that which isó fair. if you fight fair and if we arei] successfuln that fight, democrats will do, as i said, just fine. we don't have to cheat. order2tm win, and that's why they are in favor ofçóxd partis they know ifçó substantial numbs of people vote in this increasingly number,fá increasingly more diverse, rural america, that they don't stand a chance of winning. theyçó understand that. >> let me ask youçó what you ma as a former senior administration official, as senator ob

i am in my 25th session of the legislature. and i have been privileged to represent persons in my district. in one of the members said, you should not be here. you should be back in texas doing this and doing that, those sorts of things. and i listened carefully. i'm here because this is the seat of democracy. my people i represent has a right to be able to vote on abridged, just like all of you. you may not want to recognize it, but we are supposed to have those rights. that is why i'm here. i'm here fighting for them. and i have the right to fight for them. someday am hoping i don't have to keep fighting this fight to my grandchildren and my grandchildren's children and i have to keep repeating these struggles. i was born in texas. and i can tell you, just for my testimony as a child, my grandmother used to work and earn two dollars a week. out of those two dollars a week she used to save pennies and nickels in order to buy a poll tax. the poll tax was created to give people an opportunity to invest in public education suppor

hr one would strip away authority the constitution grants state legislatures. in your oath of office for texas, you swore to preserve, protect and defend the constitution and laws of the u.s.. the framers wanted authority for determining elections to rest with state legislatures, not congress, not appointed officials, not other elected officials, specifically and only state legislatures. i can't fathom why you would want to cede power granted to your state back to the federal government. and i hope the people of texas are watching and understand what our witnesses are trying they think the federal government knows better than texans how you should discuss your elections -- how you should carry out your elections. the media try to paint u.s. heroes, but you are not. the truth is, you persuaded people in your districts that you should represent their interests. you signed up for it than texans put their trust in you and now you are failing them. you should be getting on a plane and flying back to texas in coach, like the rest of us, unlike the private jet you use

in the legislature? >> yes i think that's a correct read.nd smart political figure in our states. and he knows his conference in the assembly conference. from what i have heard the numbers are all lined up? >> those governor cuomo have the same information about these vote counts? >> i have told him that. i was very direct with the governor as to where support was. in that he did not have the support in places that he needed. i was very clear about that. and i've always been very clear in honest and open about matters like. that >> did he indicate there is any stage, any possibility of him resigning at some stage perhaps. if articles of impeachment passed. or if the assembly impeach is him, might he resign before a senate trial? >> we did not have that specific conversation. i can only tell you from knowing him and as best i could from reading the language over a phone, and hearing when he had to say. that he certainly understands the realities. he's hopeful, i think he can turn things around. never count out andrew cuomo. we have seen his p

is that your reading of the vote right now in the legislature?. the speaker carl hasty is you know a very practical and smart political figure in our state. and he knows his conference and the assembly conference. from what i have heard the various members are all aligned that way. >> does governor cuomo have the same information about these vote counts? >> i've told him that. i was very direct with the governor as to where support was, and he didn't have the support anywhere that he needed it. i was very clear about that. and i've always been very clear and very honest and open with him on matters like that. >> did the governor indicate there was any stage, any possibility of him resigning at some stage perhaps if articles of impeachment pass or if the assembly impeaches him might he resign before a senate trial? >> you know, we didn't have that specific conversation. i can only tell you from knowing him and from as best i could reading the language over a phone and hearing what he had to say that he certainly understands the realities. he's hop

>>well i've been in the legislature for 5 years and so i would know exactly what we need to do on daystart to fix the problems that have broken our state government and what i would do is i would call a special session of the legislature because i just rushed the injured for the year, but henry calls over but a governor can call a special session of the legislature and what i do is i defy the political pressure that's been created by a successful recall by this call for fundamental change by the voters haven't served 5 years in the legislature, i know the one thing our state's politicians respond to is political pressure the fear of losing their jobs when they see the governor has just lost his job and there's another election around the corner in 2022 and that will be the optimal moment to actually demand action on the part of the legislature to finally address the fundamental challenges that are causing california's quality of life to deteriorate homelessness the rising crime rates the soaring cost of living are failing public schools, this is a moment where we can actually start to

abc news did an analysis of all the anti-voting bills that republican legislatures have passed.ey found was startling. i didn't expect the number to be this high. using data from the nine partisan voting rights lab, they found nine states that have stripped the power of overseeing elections away from technocratic non partisan parts of state government. and instead handed the administration of the elections over to partisan actors. essentially passing into law a partisan takeover of the administration of elections. right? how the votes are tallied. who decides what votes are counted and the actual counting. that shift in power has happened in nine states already this year, all passed by republican legislators, all signed by republican governors. those are done, nine of them, on the books. and, you know, all the things that we are talking about, bottom line standards, protecting the right to vote, keeping partisan influence out of election administration, even doing away with partisan gerrymandering, where republican run state legislatures to's electoral districts in a way that gu

a total end run around the legislature which is mr.ohnson out, we know the time and place of election lies determined by state legislatures. are you going to look at that fact? was that done in a constitutional manner? are you going to look at that, for example? >> i am not familiar with the situation in pennsylvania. but we are looking across the country to understand why are lawmakers changing the rules and -- it is not partisan, but to make sure that those changes are not -- >> will you look at changes made to election law prior to the 2020 election? will you look at that or are you only looking at states who were going to revert back to where they were prior to the 2020 election? >> we are looking across the country at existing laws, at new laws, at laws that have been put on the books recently that are now being taken away. the sole goal is to ensure that all eligible americans have access to the ballot and that they have access, it is free from discrimination -- >> everyone at this hearing shares that goal. but we also have -- we

they have to look at the legislatures. state legislatures are overwhelmingly male.re isn't a legislature in the country that has over 50% women. over 50% of the population to me the state courts could be representative and congress needs to be representative. we still have 25% women in congress even though it's the highest number it's ever been. so, the tierney of the angry white man i think is true in many of our democratic institutions and we need to work hard to change that. that is the most critical thing that we as individuals can push here because everyone out there tonight who's joined us people say what can i do and one of the first things you can do is work to elect people that care about this issue and that will be our champions. >> tuning in tonight, that would be even more awesome. >> we talk a lot about that. i think representation and champions will put this issue first. to the most insidious kind of ban on abortion funding and for a long time overturning the hyde amendment basically taking it out of the federal budget considers the third rail and what

so now at 2100 state employees who work for the texas legislature in a branch, will be without health insurance is taken already has the highest number of uninsured texans. so unless the governor takes action, we will continue to see the erosion of humanity in the state. >> thank you. and you decided that led to these outages including - >> we are going to have to go boating your time has expired so i'm afraid we'll have to cut it off there but we invite you to continue that line of questioning in written questions to the witnesses if we could. >> thank you and i yield back. and i think the witnesses again. >> and thank you mr. davis. so what i would like to do is to give, you have already gone, i'll give you 30 seconds for any closing thoughts including the ones on zoom. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. every other process to give 90 devote. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. nineteen. >> it going to leave this hearing to cover congress life, but you can watch the hearing any time at cspan.org. in the senate were today and the more than 1 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. provides money over seve

but we also see that the legislature has changed significantly because we have more women elected. and we saw that that cultural change shifted the way people were treated. that staff were treated. and that fear of getting into an elevator alone, to be caught in a room alone, it has dissipated a little bit. at least in some of our offices. >> right before his resignation, governor cuomo's attorney spent more than 40 minutes pushing back on many of the allegations in the ag's report. and then governor cuomo said things like this. >> i take full responsibility for my actions. i do hug and kiss people casually. women and men. i have done it all my life. it is who i've been since i can remember. in my mind, i've never crossed the line with anyone. but i did not realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. the report said i sexually harassed 11 women. that was the headline people heard and saw and reacted to. the reaction was outrage. it should have been. however, it was also false. >> what do you think? do you give him credit for the apologies? and the explanations he made? a

one practical idea i point to is something a lot of state legislatures do now, more than 20 state legislaturesow committees to control some floor time. so that once a month in most cases, a certain amount of time that belongs to the committee, to the chair and the ranking member, or different legislatures do this differently, where generally speaking what happens is that legislative proposals that have passed the committee, so they have some support the reflect some of the breadth of the largest legislature -- larger legislature, can move to the floor regardless of whether the party leaders want that or not. that time belongs to the chair or committee. that means the work of the committee, especially when that work is somewhat consensus driven, has the support of a large number and some state legislatures require there be a super majority on the committee for a bill to meet the requirement of that time, can actually get to the floor. and that means members don't have to think about whether what they are doing will satisfy the party leader. they can see this work can get somewhere. if we can wo

the governor tried to circumvent the legislature. i was a member of the legislature for 11 years. very disappointing to see the way the governor neglected to communicate with the state legislature, the state legislature passed a series of bills reining in his ability to pass mandates on the people and private businesses, he disputed that. the supreme court ruled in the favor of democracy, in favor of the legislative branch and balanced government. i think it was the right decision by the supreme court and hopefully the governor will try to communicate with the state legislature and rule in a democratic manner and not in a dictoral manner which is the way he tried to rule with respect to these mandates. jillian: thank you so much for waking up early. we appreciate your insight. carley: turning to our other big story, fox weather, the number of deaths climbing to 22 people as raging floodwaters went through middle tennessee. jillian: up to 17 inches of rain fell in humphries county in less than 24 hours. floodwaters destroying vehicles, homes and schools. several looters were arrest

is this not something the legislature could change if they wanted to? >> i believe they would need to have a constitutional amendment for this. kristen: they have the numbers, don't they? they have the numbers. >> this may require some sort of initiative. make these changes. does that matter too much? would they rather have the blowback, or would they rather keep moving forward and hope that this was a unique event? kristen: let's talk about that. is recall will most likely be a republican because there is no democrat on that list. it is probably going to be larry elder who is a talk show host. what does it mean if you have a republican in that office? people think of the things the governor normally does, and it lets say they get unhappy with how he's handled covid, but what are some things a governor has power over that people don't think about that perhaps they should as they are deciding? >> the big one will be all the appointments, specifically the big concern has been, let's say something happens with dianne feinstein, or she steps down. i assumed

the new york state legislature was considering impeaching him if he did not step down.is lieutenant governor will now take over. she will become new york state's first female governor, and serve out the remainder of the term in office. anchor: the taliban has taken another afghan provincial capital on tuesday, the eighth in less than a week. it is the capital of a province north of kabul. tens of thousands of people fled their homes for the relative safety of other centers. fighters in another city in the southwest of the country, there is a fierce gun battle. they are trying to stop the rapid advance of the taliban as u.s. troops complete their withdrawal by the end of this month. joe biden said that afghans will have to fight for themselves and that he does not regret the imminent withdrawal of troops. earlier, i spoke with our international affairs editor about the worsening situation. reporter: the u.s. is not reversing its decision to pull out. that withdrawal is 95% complete now, according to the u.s. government, and the u.s. allies have pulled out of again a stan

those legislatures and really legislatures from across the country have come to washington just as theyon. they can't get this done in their states because as reverend warnock pointed out in the clip you featured, some people don't want some people to vote. and that is really, really put in stark focus in georgia where their laws literally say the runoff period where warnock and ossoff won and registered 70,000 people, they changed the law just a few months ago and said you can't register people. you can't vote on weekends during the runoff, and you can't give water from non-partisan volunteers to people who have stood in line for five hours, six hours like the people we met when we were down there for a field hearing. what the for the people does and your question is can we focus it on what really matters in these states to get at all of these heinous things that are going on to stop people from voting? my answer is yes. and that is what we're doing right now with senator manchin. and let me be very clear, he has publicly said that he supports the disclose act to focus on the dark mone

constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for in the amount that may be imposed for purpose of the residents of the homestead of a purpose who is elderly or disabled and in the amount of that reduction. >> i i move to postponeconsideration until 3:00 today. >> will the gentleman yield for a question? >> i yield for a question. >> why are you moving tore postpones.r.2? >> why is that in order to take it up? >> i believe in this body and i see mowings to postponeevery session and this is no different. >> there is no particular reason? >> i provided you my reason. >> for what purpose? >> i reyect the motion and request a record vote. >> moves to s.j.r. until 3:00 p.m. and clerk will ring the bell. 26 nays, the motion to postponeprevails. >> s.b.1. >> relating to election integrity and preventing fraud in the conduct and increasing penalties providing civil penalties. the chair recognizes mr. mu rmp rmp. >> it is a privilege to be in front of you today and give you some of the history law in texas. in 197 #, texas voter registration. texas was one of the first states

now imagine that happening, jerry talked about in republican-controlled state legislatures.trump. it is the official position and i don't say that with an exaggeration, it's the official position of the republican party one that the election was somehow fraudulent. liz cheneys of the world but very few prominent republicans will come on your station or any other station and say, look, joe biden is the real president for goodness sake. it's also the official position of the republican party that january 6th wasn't a big deal. just think about that for a moment. so as we end, we have these voter suppression laws and the laws that make it possible for the state legislatures to not just play with the electoral college votes but to simply decide we don't like this election outcome, we're going to change and give those votes the republican in the electoral college. we're in this crisis very, very deeply. and what almost made trumps coup possible was the insistence by so much of the punditry it can't happen herism, apple pie this is america. which is a dramatic misreading of americ

it is not respecting our elected legislatures who are the ones that are supposed to write the laws. you can come to a range of policy conclusions about what the best response is but the people making those key policy issues, especially on the most important issues today, should be the elected representatives and not the court. host: was the california religious assembly case the only covid related case that made it to the court and the past term? guest: no. there were a whole host of them. i think the last caller alluded to, there were election related cases but particularly religious freedom related cases. because of the timing of things and because of the length of time it takes to bring a court to -- a case to court, none of them coming to mind offhand came up in the process of regular, all the way to or arguments into a decision. they came up to what is coughed -- what is often called the shadow docket. it would be a case decided by a lower court, either a state or federal court, and there was not time to appeal it up. maybe there would be a stay of the law in the certain case o

he has asked for state legislatures to override the will of the people.isconsin, in arizona change the election results, and he had, you may remember, i think it was 167 members of congress who voted along with him when they were counting electoral college votes. now things are lining up. those who had the courage to stand up to trump, people like brad raffensperger, secretary of state of georgia, those who were pushed out or to the side for censure, they are being replaced with people and laws that will make it easier to subvert the will of the people if that's what the political pressure puts on them to make them do. >> i think people look at that and say in the words of sinclair lewis, can't happen here. but it can. i don't think people understand how out of date our federal election laws are, frankly the constitution is in terms of presidential elections, at least. but these states, they can get away with it, right? >> well, you know, the constitution itself says that states -- state legislatures can literally take away the power of voters to choose t

i understand that state legislature might - that state legislature might impeach, i don't know that forta. this is what mr cuomo had to say in response to the report. i want you to know directly from me that i never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. i am 63 years old. i have lived my entire adult life in public view. that is just not who i am and that's not who i have ever been. laura nahmias is a journalist who has been following new york state politics and the accusations surrounding the governor's office very closely. i asked what she made of the new york attorney—general�*s report. the report from the attorney general office today from independent investigators was incredibly damaging to andrew cuomo politically. it laid out in expose the detail the allegations of 11 women, nine of him either worked or still work in state government and it not only laid out a narrative of their allegations of unwanted touching and inappropriate comments and groping, it also included several hundred pages of dependencies attached by the independent investigators th

it is always the intent of the legislature. rep. davis: there is no question we have that ability.ant to make sure as we move forward, it is your intent that would not happen in this bill today. rep. murr: it is not my intent. rep. davis: thank you. rep. murr: [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] for what purpose? >> with the gentleman yield for questions. rep. murr: high yields for questions. >> just to go back to some of the provisions in the bill, the plain meaning of some of the language on prohibition on drive-thru voting. are you familiar? rep. murr: yes. >> are we prohibiting drive-thru voting in this bill? rep. murr: i hate to ask you a question, but for purposes of the clarification, are you talking about current voting -- >> in the structure part. but we did in harris county, in response to covid to kathy try to make it simple so folks who had a fear of contracting the virus had an opportunity to use a temporary structure to be able to vote. are you aware of that? rep. murr: i am aware that, there was testimony that spoke to that topic. >> in the bill, it talks about struct

so a statement this election was corrupt to push republicans in the georgia legislature to send different electors to washington and perhaps create momentum for an end game. now all that dust being kicked in the air in december makes a lot more sense. chris. >> charlie savidge who's done great reporting on this, thank you so much. really appreciate it. >>> for more on this over attempt to corrupt the justice department i'm joined by clar mccaskill and stuart stevens, author of the book "it was all a lie how the republican party became donald trump." claire, let me start with you. i read this letter a bunch when it came out and it took my breath away. i think if it came out there are odds it would be such a scandal because it's such a scandalous document it would have precipitated a backlash greater than its effect. but it's a coup in black and white that, you know, came pretty close. >> chris, as i read the letter i kind of got sick to my stomach because this was a lawyer at the highest level of the department of justice. and what he laid out there as a lawyer is so offensive. i mean, you

next we will hear from the honorable travis clardy, a representative in the texas state legislature. finally will hear from diego bernal, texas tech representative and number of the mexican american legislative conference. witnesses will rise and be un-muted so we can sway them in. please raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give us is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so hope you god? >> i do. rep. raskin: let the record demonstrate that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. without objection, your written

since cuomo will be stepping down august 24th, adding that the constitution doesn't authorize the legislature to impeach andrey move an elected official who is no longer in office. >> the purpose of the impeachment of the investigation was to investigate whether there were grounds to remove the governor. so it would really just be a tremendous waste of government resources and millions of dollars. >> reporter: but speaker heastie said the inquiry did under governor'ses made against the government which could likely have resulted in articles of impeachment had he not resigned. the evidence concerned accusations of sexual harassment, misuse of state resources to write his book and the misleading data about nursing home data during the pandemic.

. >> never before has there been an attempt by state legislatures to take over the ability to determine who won. not count the votes, determine who won. we have election officials across the board that they're deciding to push out of the way. >> on friday after a meeting at the white house, biden, kamala harris, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer all, quote, agreed on the moral imperative of passing

of democratic congressmen and democratic state legislatures in texas.tween fairness. democrats don't have to cheat. we don't have to gerrymander. republicans do. and people need to focus on less, less rural. >> not every state though, has the colorado fairness statute. iowa does as well. and it is unclear what the ballot initiative in florida means. let me focus on florida. do you they is a fairness standard that you're going to have to go to court to uphold? >> i suspect we probably will as we did in the last decade. there is a constitutional provision in florida that requires that redistricting be done in a fair way. it is something that had to be taken to the florida supreme court. the last time that democrats and progressives won you have to face a more conservative supreme court. i hope the judges on the supreme court will focus on precedent, will focus on following the law, following the constitution, and come up with a fair result. i don't expect that we will see from republicans and the legislature, or anything close to fairness. i suspect it wi

says of the state legislature chooses to not impede or remove cuomo it will be sending the signal ofs behavior but not consequential. the message is clear: sexual harassment is wrong unless you're sufficiently politically powerful because in those circumstances people are willing to avert their eyes and pretend it didn't happen. where do you put the odds on him leaving office either by resignation or impeachment or sticking around? >> i think it's 50/50. i live in virginia, so i remember when governor northam was on the ropes and every democrat in the state was calling for him to resign. today this moment, he is still the governor. we don't know what's going to happen to andrew cuomo. there were not calls for impeachment and the rattling of those charges in the virginia state legislature like there are in new york. so we really don't know. i think one of the open questions is, i saw that piece just before the segment, regarding chris cuomo. the open question is will both cuomo brothers have their jobs after this? one of them or neither of them? i remember the cuomo brothers comedy ho

earlier this summer republicans in the wisconsin legislature passed a series of bill restricting whourn absentee valid ballots requiring them to send i.d.s to request an absentee ballot and prohibiting clerks from clarifying things on absentee ballots. but he vetoed those bills saying that in recent years we've been used as a petri dish for republican plans to undermine democracy. well, not anymore. wisconsin governor tony evers joins me now, governor, thank you so much for coming on the show. tell me about these bills that you veto today. what were republicans trying to do and what was it so important for you to veto them? >> well, they go to the heart of democracy, and thanks for having me tonight, and i did this with great pleasure but also great thoughtfulness, would they have proposed comes to the heart of our democracy, which is voting, and you mentioned several of the issues that the republicans took up, now the irony here though is this, many of these items became law or practice by republicans. suddenly, they have an election when things don't go their way and now it's part