a vote other voting rights governor greg abbot threatening to cut off paychecks if they keep blocking a voting restrictions bill. so what happens next? i'm hallie jackson. shannon pettypiece is outside of the white house. antonia, you're there in tulsa. talk to us about what's happening where you are. what is happening at oak lawn cemetery which i think is behind you. >> we're going to see researchers and archaeologists go to a back corner and begin a highly amendmented archaeological dig where they're going to excavate human remains they believe may be victims of the 1921 race massacre. they're going to bring the bodies up to study and identify and potentially connect them to family members. so what that looks like is bringing heavy machinery, a backhoe that is already on site, bring it on to the grounds, remove siel and move close to the coffins they already found. then you will see them get down in there with small tools, brushes, and start the painstaking and careful process of unearthing bodies for discovery. >> our best case scenario is if we can learn who these individuals are.

governor greg abbot says the bill will be back in november. it's one of nine bills to restrict voting now in the lone star state. texas republicans were fully prepared to sign the measure into law at the end of may had house democrats not successfully staged an 11th hour walkout to block the measure. republicans are being shamed to make the bill better. a provision to take away early voting on sunday to hinder church goers, absolutely not. one of the bill's architects he says it must be a typo. if so it's an awfully long and very specific typo. what about another provision that would make it easy for judges to overturn elections without any proof? why? that would be a horrendous policy says the same texas gop lawmaker. amazing. both of these things this lawmaker claims to be against he helped put in the legislation. actually fight back against republican and to have a spine because this week we saw senate democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema continue to hold the party's agenda to hostage. manchin was completely unmoved after a meeting with

now, greg abbot is one of the country's worst governors. he's up there with desantis and all those other freaks who like to engage in these culture wars, weird legislative battles where they're talking about how, you know, critical race theory is going to ruin your kids and make them hate america, and they freak out about, you know, dr. seuss books. greg abbot is a mess, so seeing him pass this kind of law just so he can score easy, cheap points with his base is not something going to be surprising. we need our administration, and we need the people in office right now to actually go hard on these people, to actually keep this conversation at the front of the debate and say in this bloody summer, in this bloody country and in this situation where people are less and less safe, we need to be making very, very serious steps here. and unfortunately, we aren't seeing very many. >> as you know republicans like greg abed say this isn't about the guns, this is about the mental health crisis in this country. that is the real problem here. but do yo

greg abbot also blamed president biden for allowing what he calls a very real threat to texans or to kill him up and picks up the story for us. texas has now officially issued a disaster declaration. this comes as the state is struggling to deal with the wave of migrant prison buttons. open border policies have paved away from dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffic and deadly drugs like friends and ill to pour into communities. meanwhile, landowners along the border a thing their property damaged and vandalized on a daily basis, while the button and ministration does nothing to protect them. in the surprise announcement, governor abbot revealed some shocking numbers. governor abbot said that law enforcement has made over 1300 criminal arrests. they have apprehended over 35000 the illegal migrants. they have seized 10000 pounds of drugs and over 100 firearms. they also said that law enforcement has seized over 21500000 lethal doses of fentanyl between april and january. now this comes in the biden administration has closed the remain in mexico program intended to cut asylum fraud

he's a conservative greg abbot. and just last week, he announced that he is going to be actually funding his state, the building of more border wall in texas. he also cited illegal immigration as his reason for signing into law a bill last week, allowing texans to carry weapons without a permit. he's been using a lot of anti immigrant rhetoric lately that a lot of activists are saying is very, very troubling and could potentially put people's lives at risk. so what you have here is really an event that is pretty heart warming, trying to bring attention to, to the, the plate of immigrants in the united states that are separated from their family members. but at the same sense you have along the border, there are some very contentious issues with the conservative local governor who wants to limit immigration at all costs. gabrielle is on the with the latest on that from washington d. c. k. thank you. or thing in the us, one of the many uncomfortable truths about race in that country is that several native american tri

another way to see it in the success that greg abbot and john cornyn and so many others say that theymainstream of the sanitized story that white historians told about the war and causes and aftermaths and the nobillity of the confederacy and the men that fought and killed to preserve some of the evil institutions. that version of history lost in this battle for this holiday, celebrating emancipation. the optimistic way to view this between the attack on education and voting, while also endorsing a holiday is that when they say they are losing their country or their vision of it, they are right in a certain way. they are losing. the can't critical race theory hysteria and attempts to reduce democratic participation are the attempts of a coalition losing the battle of ideas. let's hope they keep losing. f i. let's hope they keep losing. ♪ sometimes you wanna go ♪ ♪ where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪♪ ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ welcome back, america. it sure is good to see you. good night syra. night, drive safe. i love you. drive safe. ok buh bye mommy. you guys ready? you s

where to even begin with greg abbot?re trying to pass a piece of legislation that's one of the worst voter suppression bills in the country. this political anachronism threatened to cut payment for dems who walked out trying to preserve democracy. don't agree with your political positions? no problem upon, he can just defund them. then in may, the real-life version of every villain in the handmaid's tail signed to banning abortion as early at six weeks. most women don't even know they're pregnant, but clearly the governor did this because obviously he must really care about children, right? wrong. this week abbott ordered state child care regulators to full licenses from the 52 facilities that housed unaccompanied minors who crossed the board. he's creating a nightmare for facilities the government contracts with to provide a safe environment for children. right now, it's not even clear yet what will happen to the roughly 4,000 children housed in these facilities or better yet, what's going to happen to the unaccompanied

-mexico border along with texas governor greg abbot who is up for re-election next year and is launchingunds as well as private money to build more of that border wall, a plan that critics say is legally credible since protectioning the border is supposed to be a federal responsibility. joining me now is jonathan lemire and ashley parker. welcome all. jonathan, republicans are trying to highlight the issue of the border. you're seeing all of the governors jumping on the bandwagon including south dakota governor christy noem. she's deploying federal guard troops from a donation from an out of state gop mega donor. what is going on here? is this a wage issue that we've seen it to be in the last months? >> well, republicans certainly believe that it is, andrea, and the white house recognizes that this is an issue of some weakness for them and the gop to this point has struggled to lay a glove on this president. biden's popularity is according to polls ranked high. american people largely approve of his agenda and his covid relief bill is for the infrastructure bill with the washington drama

. >> shannon: breaking tonight, texas republican governor greg abbots issuing a disaster derek calculation abbots. tonight we continue our reporting on the dangerous criminals encountering mental law enforcement along the border. this evening, the pursuit of a smuggler carrying more than a dozen illegal immigrants in a single vehicle. here's more from mission, texas. >> a smashed up black suv covered in dirt sits on the side of a highway after rolling over during a high-speed police chase. inside 17 migrants being smuggled into the u.s. this is one of 300 vehicle pursuits texas department of public safety officers engaged in since march in the rio grande valley. but smugglers aren't just moving people. >> check out this particular to be video given to fox news by a law enforcement source who says it appears to show multiple drug smugglers cutting in and out of vehicles. meanwhile, more details are coming out about biden's wide reaching plans to make it easier to enter the u.s. the "new york times" obtaining a blueprint dated may 3 entitled dhs plan to restore trust in our legal immigration

-mexico border later this month with governor greg abbot.from this visit? >> it's all a stunt. this former president is -- just wants to be in the light and he misses it. this is more of a stunt with governor abbott and it's quite ridiculous, honestly, and i think there's a lot of conversation about whether they can even do this and if it's legal, not to mention a waste of taxpayer dollars on what we know is an inefficient border wall. if you talk to folks on the ground. we know that modern technology is going to be helpful and addressing those root causes and also making sure they re-open the legal pathways will also help -- let's remember that right now migrants are coming between ports of entry because they're being turned away at the port of entry which is legal. so we are looking forward to seeing title 42, as well. >> you mentioned domestic terrorism and the threat of that, let's get to it with the biden administration rolling out the first national strategy to combat homegrown extremism. it includes calling for more scrutiny of public

governor greg abbot signed a bill yesterday allowing anyone over the age of 21 to carry a handgun ashey are not prohibited from doing so because of felony criminal convictions texas joins 20 other states with similar gun laws gun control experts have announced permitless carry saying will increase gun violence >>> overnight japan lifted its state of emergency as cases fall in the country the announcement coming as tokyo begins final preparations for the olympics starting in just over a month japan has struggled since late march to slow a wave of infections, but daily cases have since dropped significantly, and the rate of vaccinations has increased sharply in recent weeks. >> this morning a chinese rocket blasted off sending a three-man crew on an historic mission into space. it is china's first crewed mission in five years. they are heading to an orbiting space station china is in the process of building. they will perform space walks, maintenance work, and critical testing of life support systems. >>> meanwhile, back here, we are learning disturbing new details on that mysterious d