joining us is rafael anchia representing the western corridor of dallas county. good to see you again early this morning. where does this bill in the texas legislature stand right now with you and your colleagues having left and prevented a quorum, what happens next? >> well, terrific united effort by democrats both on the senate and the house side. our colleagues in the senate really talked the bill down all night and then it put us in position on the house side to be able to break quorum and kill the bill. it ended the session effectively. we have to wait to see what the governor will do on special session. as you said earlier, he vows to call us back. we'll still have the tools available to us in a special session including the rules, debate, and also potentially quorum break if he brings us back. the one thing i want to mention is, you know, we weren't able to get the thousands of texans that we usually see at the state capitol because of the pandemic.

democratic texas representatives jessica gonzalez and rafael anchia both participated in that walkout, and they join me now. i'll start with you, representative gonzalez. if you can tell us the objections your caucus had to this legislation and how this came about as a way of dealing with it. >> well, from the get-go -- and i serve as vice chair of the elections committee -- and, you know, from the -- the entire process, the bill was trying to be rushed through committee. none of us committee members were actually going to vote on the bill. there was conversations that were being had behind closed doors. there were agreements as far as amendments, democrat amendments when the bill hit the floor initially, and those amendments got stripped out. ultimately, the drafts of the bill kept changing and changing, and we didn't really -- we didn't get a copy of it until like the 11th hour, close to midnight, the day before it was going to come to the floor. the bill added additional provisions that were in neither