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democratic state representative rafael anchia of texas. one election audit in arizona is not enough so the arizona state senate is gunning for round two. the republican led state senate is close to signing a deal for the second review of maricopa county's 2.1 million ballots from the 2020 election. this time it would be all electronic using a new and essentially untested technology to scan the original digital images of ballots. this is one tough story to follow, which is why we constantly turn to jen fifield, reporter for "the arizona republic" who got up extremely early for us to help us make sense of this. jen, what is going on here? you have another audit going on of the same ballots? to the rest of us outside of arizona, it feels like republican state legislatures are just going to keep counting the maricopa ballots until there's a different outcome. >> well, that is what it feels like to me covering this story, too, since november. what is really going on is they said that they want another

>> joining us now is texas state representative rafael anchia. he is a democrat representing the western corridor of dallas. he's the chairman of the mexican american legislative caucus, the oldest latino legislative caucus in the united states. representative, thank you for being with us. did anything come of that remarkable debate? it's very rare for us to see actual political debates in a legislature. so when you watch something like that and you think you presented your counterpart on the republican side with a lot of interesting information that should have fed his decision as far as writing this bill goes. what happened after that? >> thanks for having me, and shout out to my mom who's always watching and to all moms this mother's day weekend. i got to tell you, the last 48 hours have been really tough. we stayed up until about 3:00 a.m. last night, came back this morning and fought this bill. regrettably, the bill passed. democrats were able to chip away at the edges of this thing, but

that clip you played from rafael anchia is amazing, but it was one of many different exchanges led by house democrats last night, all the way up until 3:00 a.m. in the morning that make all of us proud. the grassroots groups on the ground, groups like move and the texas civil rights project, the voting rights arm of the texas democratic party, texas rising, young, old, and folks like me in between maybe, everyone coming together and willing to make the trip to the texas capitol. that's an 8 1/2-hour drive for those of us here in el paso, texas. as soon as we conclude this interview, i'm getting on the road and making my drive to be there by 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. there's hope, and i see it everywhere in texas. but we also need some help, and that needs to come from the biden administration and from our friends in the united states senate. we can't sleep on this one. we cant wait this out. we need action now. >> beto o'rourke, former democratic congressman from the great state of texas, former democratic presidential candidate, sir, thank you for your time tonight. be safe on the road to

let me thank our democratic state legislators, state representative rafael anchia, nicole callier ando worked hard to try and stop this from happening. this is a terrible bill that is specifically aimed at black and hispanic voters to make it harder for us to be able to vote. and what's so terrible about this is that it starts with the big lie. the big lie that we have heard about on january 6th and the one that's now been being told for the last 15 years, that black people and hispanic people are voter cheats and that they need to have these laws put in place because there's cheating that takes place in our neighborhood. so, it starts with this terrible racial stereotype about us, and it's completely fake and false and it's unacceptable, and we can't -- we absolutely cannot let this bill become law, because it will make it harder for black and hispanic people to vote, period. >> so, then, here's the question. i mean, these bills, more and more, are emerging in states so how do democrats in washington push back on them? >> well, you know, we need to follow what the republicans have be

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