we held the texas house, held the texas senate, held every seat in congress. and so, if we were concerned about that, this wouldn't even be an issue. this is about making the system better. we do thisvery time the legislature meets. >> alcindor: the bills also limit the number and location of polling places in only a handful of counties in texas with populations of at least one million people.

i enjoying joining the texas house public safety committee which shares legislation on gun want to l amplify the voices of victims and promote change. as a committee member i've hads the opportunity in recent months to weigh in on a dangerous piece of legislation in texas house bill 1927. the bill would permit people to carry concealed weapons without having any background or training requirement. passage of this would significantly weaken protections and safeguards in place to protect fromm gun violence firearm safety laws are already thest weakest in the country texas existing framework already has trafficking across state lines into mexico. at present existing state law requires people to pass a background check and complete a basic safety training course to be licensed to carry loaded handguns in public places. house bill 27 will do away with that requirement texas does not universally require people to pass a background check to purchase firearms. legislation attempted to close the loopholes in the background check system if someone is purchasing guns at a gun show online or thr

texas. vikki goodwin represents house district 47 in western and far south travis county. the hsm austin, texas. many people know of the great tech revolution in austin. she was a co-author of land about school finance reform which probably gives her a a t sense of protecting children in the schoolhouse as well as the law boosting retired teacher pay. representative goodwin said also a small business owner, a real estate broker, a mother and a graduate of the university of texas, and she herself has confronted the evils for what a gun can do. i think is a very much for being here today. welcome to fred guttenberg, , an author and gun safety advocate. his 14-year-old daughter jaime guttenberg was killed in the stoneman douglas high school shooting of february 14, 2018. his son jesse was also a student at the school, ran from the shooting to meet them at a nearby store. in addition to his activism, he is a small businessman in parkland, florida. he should, and i will, personally thank him in his loss for what he is continuing to do for this nation. that should be part of your

the texas house passed a bill that many say would make it harder for people to vote.te but republicans passed the bill in texas along party lines. you know there's a wave of republican pushed initiatives across the country that, in part, curtail voting access after the 2020 election. cnn's ed lavendera is in austin. ed, what is in the bill and where does it go next? >> reporter: well, this is a highly controversial bill in the state of texas that many critics say it harkens back to the jim crow era and some of the things it does, it gives -- it extends and prohibits the length of early voting hours across the state. also gives partisan poll watchers more authority, which could lead to a great deal of concern about altercation and questions about conduct inside the ballot box areas and also a ban on county officials sending unsolicited mail-in applications across the state. that was something that was done in harris county in the houston area. and this is one of those things that has come under fire from republican lawmakers here in this state. a short while ago, the t

democrats in the texas house walked out of the chamber late sunday night. they prevented the passage of sb 7, which one voting rights advocate calls one of the ugliest and i voter bills in the country. >> and am i seeing we don't have a quorum, essentially it looks like the democrats left the house floor. >> now texas governor greg abbott promiseds to call a special session to get the bill passed. texas is part of this nationwide trend of states trying to pass laws restricting voters. a solution in search of a purported problem, all based on the fallacy that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from donald trump. texas democrats say they're not giving up if and when governor abbott makes this move. >> the senate bill 7 was the worst of the worst. and so we were determined to kill this bill in any way we could. some republican leaders in this country is going to have to say, you know, enough is enough. this is non-sense. this is based on a lie. maybe governor abbott will reach that realization here in texas. but if he doesn't and he calls a special session a

. >>> also overnight a dramatic and significant walkout by democrats in the texas house of representatives blocking one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country in the last hours of the legislative session. >>> but as a practical matter did the democrats' effort just delay the inevitable there? texas governor says that he will call a special session to take up that legislation again. we will have the latest from texas as well as possible next steps in just a moment. >>> also this morning, right now miami area manhunt under way. this afterat least two people were shot and killed, more than 20 others injured at a shooting outside a florida nightclub. the suspects getting out of an suv early sunday morning, firing assault rifles -- assault rifles -- into the club. let's begin there. natasha chen is in doral, florida. natasha, we are expecting to hear from investigators shortly. do they have leads on the gunmen in this case? >> reporter: well, jim, they have not shared with us any particular leads since this happened, only telling us that, you know, this white nissan pathfinder came

jen psaki, the white house spokesperson, was asked today about the voter suppression efforts in texas and florida, these new laws that have just been passed by state legislatures and signed by republican governors. she said the white house would leave it to the justice department to decide what they are going to do about it, and that makes sense in terms of the justice department operating as an independent law enforcement concern. but to date we have not seen the justice department act as state after state after state keeps passing increasingly onerous voting rights restrictions. now, we asked the biden justice department about this tonight. they did point to the department's recent request for $33 million in additional funding in part to help enforce voting rights statutes. but this is a real live issue with real consequences right now. and if this is how republicans in the states are going to behave and are going to comport themselves, should we -- shouldn't we expect a biden justice department to get involved, to join this fight somehow? joining us now is beto o'rourke. he's a for

if it it's deemed appropriate the civil rights division monitor the texas house for the remainder ofou mentioned there was nothing you could do legislatively that this would have to go the route. given your background, do you think the justice department should get involved in this? >> well, i think they're going to have to take a good look at it. i think that lawsuits take time, and that's the problem we've seen for decades here in texas with these restrictions that have been passed is that it takes time and as it goes through the appeals process, we have a fifth circuit that's been hostile to voting here. even if you get a good ruling at the district court level, you never know what's going to happen. this is why we need to have a national standard around elections and why i've been such a big advocate for hr 1, the for the people act to try and set national standards for vote by mail, for early voting, also to pass the john lewis voting rights act to fix what happened to the voting rights act that the supreme court when they cut down part of it. we need to have national standards

yesterday the texas house voted to pass a bill that critics say would make it one of the most difficultould bar public officials from sending out mail-in ballot applications without prior requests. it also puts in place strict rules on voting machines in major cities. texas' bill follows similar controversial laws already passed in georgia and florida. joining me is isabelle longoria who is the texas administrate for for harris county which encompasses houston. so good to see you, and so, republicans are saying that this bill is needed to ensure and protect the full access to the ballot box while cracking down on the illegal activity undermining the elections there, and so what type of illegal activity was taking place? >> if you find it, let me know. the handful of the cases that come up in the november election or any election are chocked up to innocent mistake, and usually by election workers like not looking at the form correctly or not reading the lines, and little most of whom who are seniors from the neighborhood that do this as a little extra pocket cash and did it 20 or 30 year

we've seen these bills come through the texas house, restricted voter i.d. measures that have been defeated in the past and again, texas has a history of discrimination of trying to suppress the black and brown votes and absolutely, you know, we have asked time and time again as a member of the elections committee, we've asked that the a.g. give us an example of the problem we're trying to fix and we can't get an answer and so, you next really they're trying to address the problem that doesn't exist and as a result, there is going to be many people including disabled folks that are not going -- it's going to make it more difficult for them to vote. >> yeah, that sounds like a problem across the country, solving a voter fraud problem that doesn't seem to exist. representative, good to see you in morning. thanks for getting up for us. jessica gonzalez of texas. >>> joining me from tulsa, oklahoma is roland martin and roland is from texas, let start there. there are all sorts of things that happened already in texas, which discouraged voting in certain areas an

i want to play a bit of a back and forth you had with a texas state house. the republican chair of the elections commit tee when you challenged him over the language in the bill about quote preserving the purity of the ballot box. i'm going to play that. >> that provision is drafted specifically to disenfranchise black voters following the civil war. did you know that? >> no. that's -- that's -- i'm sorry to hear that. >> and are you familiar with white primaries? >> we have heard and read of such things. i'm glad that's gone. that's a disgusting thing. >> did you realize the purity of the ballot box language gave rise to all white primaries. >> no. no, i didn't. >> and did you know that this purity at the ballot box justification is also used in the jim crow era to prevent black people from voting? >> no. no. those are troubling things. >> obviously impactful because the language was stripped from the bill. do you think that exchange that you had had any effect more widely on the republican colleagues? have any of them and knowledging even privately the imp

but he is the republican chair of the elections committee in the texas house of representatives. that young man is the guy who wrote the sweeping new voter suppression bill for the state of texas, including its purity clause. it comes from texas is history of all white primaries, ensuring all white electorates, segregating the-elect towards by race. they did struck the purity phrase from the bill late last night when they apparently learned for the first time where that came from. the heart of the bill state though, stayed intact easily passing the bill and it is on a fast track to -- the texas bill is not the first of its kind that we have seen in republican control states and it won't be the last. georgia, a couple of weeks ago, florida this week, signed into law new draconian voter restriction bills which will severely change the way voting happens in the states and limit access to the polls. ohio has just become the latest state to introduce blockbuster legislation aimed at rolling back voting right to vote in the state of ohio. republican efforts to restrict voting in all of

texas. >> and joining us now is texas democratic congressman mike veasey and a former member of the texas houseesentatives. welcome to you. thanks for your time. greg abbot says this bill will come up again during a special session. will democrats in texas still be able to use the same tools to block it, as well? >> it will be interesting to see what democrats decide to do then. before i was in congress and became chair of the voting rights caucus here i spent eight years in the state legislature and understand the rules very well and the republicans have bent the rules over the years so they can pass racist pieces of legislation like this and the perfect example of that is that the texas senate used to have a filibuster rule. it was the two-thirds rule and you had to have two-thirds of senators present to advance any piece of legislation while the current lieutenant governor completely abolished the filibuster rules and raised it to where there aren't enough democrats now to block a bill and so we know that they can change these rules on a whim and if greg abbot does bring it back up, we are a

when i pressed him and said, in texas, house republicans and republicans overall did very well, he saidat's true. we did do very well. he couldn't give me an answer -- a clear answer on where the voting fraud was in texas in particular. that echos the stance of so many republicans. they say it's about voter integrity. when you say, show me voter fraud, where the election was rigged, show me where there's any evidence of the big lie we heard from former president trump over and over, and they can't point to anything. overall, when you zoom out, that's why you see representative veasey being urgent about the need for voting bills to be passed. it comes down to the filibuster. i remember pressing president biden about this saying, are you going to throw your support behind this, throw your support behind changing the filibuster for voting rights? the president has not changed his stance. it's likely because of what senator manchin said, i don't plan on helping to blow it up. >> why do you think there are those democrats who don't see the same sense of urgency as do so many lawmakers you ha

overnight, one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country failing to pass after democrats in a texas house walked out of the chamber in protest before the midnight deadline. >> they were prepared to cut us off and try to silence us. we were not going to let them do that, and that's why the democrats used the last tool available to us. we denied the decorum to pass that bill and we killed that bill. >> reporter: they used a text message to spread word of the plan saying, members, take your keys and leave the chamber discreetly. do not go to the gallery. leave the building. the voting bill has stirred controversy across the country pbecause it would make it easie to contest an election on allegations of fraud, would limit early voting on sundays when many black voters normally go from church to the polls and would ban 24-hour locations and drive-through voting which would increase turnout among minorities. >> much like the insurrectionists tried to do on january 6th, that's what worries me the most. >> this is a state of emergency for democracy in texas. it is clearly aimed at people of colo

now, we mentioned, there is a midnight deadline here for the texas state house. i have spoken with democrats who tell me they are going to do everything they can to try and stop this but we should mention that they are outnumbered in the house. >> absolutely, diane gallagher, thanks for all the hard work spending hours and hours covering that process in texas. just incredible to watch. >>> the elections bill is just one piece of the puzzle in texas. here is cnn's ed lavendera with the bigger political picture. >> and i move adoption. >> as the clock struck midnight wednesday inside the texas capital, this group of democratic state representatives celebrated the end of a day-long effort to kill a number of republican bills. but it was one of the few moments you will find a democrat smiling in texas these days. >> we've really been just steam rolls. >> reporter: texas law make remembers wrapping up a legislative session and donna howard says she's surprised even by texas standards by the red meat agenda push by texas republicans in the months since the election. >>

democrats in the texas house of representatives walked out before a midnight voting deadline which deniedican governor of texas, greg abbott, up for re-election next year said he will call a special session to get the bill passed. legislation democrats blocked, senate bill seven, would add new restrictions on absentee voting, give more authority to partisan poll watchers, ban early voting on sunday mornings when many black churches encourage souls to the polls after sunday morning services. bill would also reduce evidence requirements for overturning an election. ban drive-through voting and 24-hour voting which was used for the first time in 2020 in harris county, home to growing number of democratic voters. after they blocked the bill, spoke in front of a baptist church in austin. one of the last-minute additions to the bill would be to allow early voting sundays only from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. democratic texas state congresswoman gonzalez vice chair of the elections committee said this. >> when this bill came to the floor we thought we were going to have a serious, real conversation.

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including counselors even taxi drivers bill outlawing terminations after 6 weeks has passed the texas house and senate unlike other so-called heartbeat bills responsibility for and forcing it falls entirely on private citizens not on the state authorities or supporters say that will allow it to bypass federal laws protecting womens rights to terminate the bill will become law after being approved by the texas governor who has said he plans to approve it and the republican congressman behind a draft law claims the state in the midst of an abortion crisis to take urgent action. it's time for texas to protect the natural right to live for the tiniest and most innocent tax since and there's bill does does that it's time republicans make it clear that we actually think abortion is murder unborn children the dying at a faster rate and taxes than code that patients but taxes isn't taking the bush and tries to seriously all views on abortions remain more or less evenly split in the us with the latest polls showing 46 percent identified as pro-life 48 percent are pro-choice the trend in recent years

let's talk now with texas state rep chris turner, the texas house democratic caucus chairman. this was really your idea. tell us about this. what did you say to democrats as you told them about this plan to walk out? >> good morning, brianna. thank you for having me. you know, look, democrats in the house and the senate in texas have been working all session long to kill these republican vote suppression measures, and senate bill 7 was the worst of the worst. and so we were determined to kill this bill in any way we could. we had a midnight deadline yesterday to pass all bills, any bills that don't pass by midnight yesterday effectively die. and so we were determined to either kill it by talking on the bill to prevent a vote from coming up, killing it through a procedural maneuver, and as a last resort, leaving the chamber to deny the necessary quorum. we are required to have 100 members on the house floor of a 150 member house. so it became clear republicans were going to resort to an extreme tactic to shut off debate, even though we were still fighting the bill, they were go

texas, it's even more rarely used. you have to applaud the courage of the house democrats in using this last tool they had. pecial session, i mean, the governor of texas did not use a special session for covid. he did not use a special session for hurricane harvey relief. he did not use a special session for gun control measures after mass shooting after mass shooting in texas. but he wants to use one to further infringe on the voting rights of many of those who came out in record numbers in the state of texas in this last presidential election. there are two quick facts i want to layout. this is all framed after and because of a big lie. the voter fraud the republicans are talking about is simply a red herring or committed by republicans. number two, and democrats get mad at me for repeating this, but until kyrsten sinema and joe manchin get out of the way of reforming the filibuster and we pass the john lewis vote rights act, this will continue to happen in state after state. >> that filibuster issue has come up once again. texas governor greg abbott has already said this bill must pass in a spec threaten

we think it is slated to pass the texas house an senate on the same day where it will go immediately to greg abbott who will likely sign it tomorrow afternoon or night. that's worth watching. heads up about that. heads up also that even though tomorrow is a thursday and that's not typically the day of the week on which you get supreme court news. because of the supreme court holiday, the court is expected to announce new decisions tomorrow. there aren't that many cases that they haven't ruled on yet. one of the cases is out of texas is that is an attempt to get rid of obama care root and branch, to kill the whole affordable care act in its entirety if the supreme court agrees to do that, that would have the effect of throwing tens of millions of americans off their health insurance instantly. we don't know how they are going to rule on the affordable care act case. we don't know which case they'll rule on tomorrow. there are only a few days left on which they'll announce rulings for this year's cases. i know it is a thursday. eyes open on that one too. kind of a lot to have your head

congressman, whether or not we believe his answer, it didn't stop the bill from passing in the texas house. what is your view about the true intent of this legislation in texas? >> well, in texas and in other places, you have a republican party that under donald trump moved toward authoritarianism and was moving toward fascism, quite honestly. and those are folks that are doing everything they can to hang on to power. the way they're trying to hang on to power is not by being better about governing or make more convincing arguments or win over voters who disagree with them. voters that voted against them and that's why they lost the presidency, the senate and the house. their answer to hang on to power is to make it harder for the people who disagree with them to go out and vote. that's what we're seeing in texas and across the country as you displayed. >> given what's happened in georgia and florida where bills were passed into law, is there anything people can still do in texas to stop this? would you be able to call for a corporate boycott of your own state? >> yeah. there's a few thing

jon: i am jon scott it will be up to texas house to add final okay to legislation that creates votesictions in lone star state, house has until midnight to approve it and send it to governor greg abbott who is expected to sign it into law. opponent say it will effect minorities and voters with disabilities. >> 135 us though fans facted in the motor speedway ta watch helio castroneves win the endy 500. i am jon scott, now back to "justice with judge jeanine." ar messaging so that the individuals do know that they cannot come to the border. the border is closed. the message is quite clear. do not come. the border is closed. the border is secure. the border is secure. the border is closed. we have been unequivocal in that. the border is closed. >> the border is closed. and this administration administer and enforces the laws of the united states of america. judge jeanine: the lies keep piling up as you just heard the homeland security chief majorkas tell us the border is closed. really? does this look like a secure border? lara trump joins me now with reaction. good evening, lara. i don

want critical race theory, the senate passed out a bill banning critical race. 1619 and so did the texas house. also in austin the liberal bastian of this state democrats, 60% of those who voted in favor of restoring our camping band, mayor adler, the mayor of austin had removed the camping band, crime is up, panhandling up so in a very liberal city democrats pushed back against their own liberal democrats restoring the camping bid to put criminal penalties, and limit, texas, the first sanctuary city, the biggest in texas, the people voted 60-40, there will be no more abortion in that city, a sanctuary city for life and you talked about our economy, i was with you a lot during covid. i said i'm not listening to fauci anymore. i have been proven right, who paid attention to him anymore, texas was on the right path, we are, our economy is booming, our control gave us stats today we have the biggest increase in sales tax ever and not just comparing numbers to last year. it would be easy to say. we are going back two years, our economy is booming and the new york post posts that is true. all those

we held the texas house, held the texas senate, held every seat in congress.ned about that, this wouldn't even be an issue. this is about making the system better. we do thisvery time the legislature meets. >> alcindor: the bills also limit the number and location of polling places in only a handful of counties in texas with populations of at least one million people. what do you say to the criticism that, regardless of the intent of this law, that it will make it harder for some people, including people of color, ack people, disabled people, to vote? >> well, so i hear that generalization, but no one has shown me any evidence of it. this bill says that in those ban counties, that the polling places have to be distributed evenly across the county. now, that's just straight up fairness based on where the voters live, regardless of their race, of their party, of their ethnic background, their religion. >> what i'm worried about is how unamerican this whole initiative is. it's sick. >> alcindor: democrats, including president biden, have spoken out against the re

republic republicans in the texas house were up against a midnight approval, and democrats walked off the floor leaving them without the minimum number of members to vote. the governor has indicated he will call a special session to restart the process. >> when this bill came to the floor we thought we would be able to have a real serious conversation, a real conversation, because this bill affects every person in texas, including republicans. we were told time and time again by the secretary of state our elections were safe and secure, and it's a witch hunt that is aimed at people of color. we are going back centuries. instead of working on problems, instead of making our state a better place for every texan, we spent time on guns and trying to restrict their rights at the polls. >> earlier a republican congressman in texas said the legislature was trying to restore confidence in the election process. >> we can debate how much fraud occurred in the last election, and democrats claimed fraud happened in the previous elections, but one thing is clear to me, jake, a lot of the american

it's really sad and a shame that the texas senate and the texas house is sending this bill to the governor's office that is going to be the most restrictive bill in the entire country. you just went over some of the provisions. they're restricting voting on sunday. that's a restrictive ban we've had for a long time. and i think the worst one of all, which is based on the big lie, that's allowing a judge to overturn an election. i'm calling that the birth of a nation provision that they put in there. it's based on complete lies and treachery of american voters illegally voting and stuffing the ballot box. we won't have the leadership we need to have in this country if republicans are going to try to cast themselves as victims of voter fraud when what in reality is happening, and has been happening since the 1800s, is that people in power in this country have tried to use voter suppression laws to stop black people from voting, and that's exactly what is taking place in texas right now. >> and they instituted it in the middle of the night. you talk about souls and the polls and the judges, i r

texas legislature right now. it was a late night on the house side of the state legislature.awmakers went late into the night, even early this morning around 3:00 in the morning around partisan lines the texas house passed one version of this bill and some of the ideas that are floating around and included in some of these bills include limiting the early voting hours across the state gives -- also giving partisan poll watchers more authority, which could also include video recording voters asking for help as it stands right now no recording devices are allowed inside polling locations. it would also ban county officials from sending unsolicited mail-in ballot applications, that was done in harris county leading up to the november election from houston is located. there's also question as to whether or not 24-hour voting locations would be allowed, drive-through ballot locations, whether or not that would be allowed, all of this making its way through the legislature. so it will be a contentious few days as lawmakers continue to battle over all of this. ana? >> georgia, flori

this morning the texas house passed sb 7, which is an extensive voter suppression bill that would make it harder to vote in a state that's the toughest to vote in in the united states. it still has to be conferenced with a senate version of the bill but it can be as early as the next two weeks that you have final passage and it on governor greg abbott's desk for signature and then you have a state that is 43rd in the nation in voter turnout, the toughest to vote in, a place that will be even harder especially for young people, african-americans, the disabled and the very old and those who live in big cities in texas. those are the populations targeted by this voter suppression bill. >> you know, we see obviously in congress the effect that trump's big lie is having and now we see in state after state passing these new laws, these new voter re restrictions. i wonder how deep or wide spread the former president's big lie on the election has gone in texas. >> it's pervasive throughout the country. everywhere you have republican leadership in america, you have those trafficking in the big

we think it is slated to pass both the texas house and the texas senate tomorrow on the same day. whereupon, it will go immediately to texas governor greg abbott who will probably sign it immediately like tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night. that is going to move fast. it's worth watching. heads up about that. >>> heads up also, that even though tomorrow is a thursday, and that's not typically a, the day of the week in which you get supreme court news. because of the memorial day holiday this weekend, the supreme court is going to announce new decisions tomorrow morning. now, there's not that many cases they have not ruled on yet for this year's session. one of the cases they have not ruled on yet is one out of texas that is an aattempt to get rid of obama care, root and branch to kill the whole affordable care act in its entirety. if the supreme court agrees to do that, which is what the case is seeking, that would have the affect of throwing 10s of millions americans off of their health insurance instantly. now, we don't know how they are going to rule on the affordable care ac

this comes as texas' house of representatives passed a republican-backed voter suppression bill after an all-night session. the house bill will have to be reconciled with a senate voter suppression bill before heading to the desk of republican governor greg abbot, who has signaled he'll sign the legislation. meanwhile, republicans in ohio have introduced a bill that would put severe restrictions on ballot drop boxes and absentee voting. in international news, india reported nearly 4000 covid-19 deaths friday, with over 414,000 new infections -- breaking the world record it set one day earlie in india's southwestern state of goa, more than half of all people tested have coronavirus infections, one of the highest test positivity rates of the pandemic. japan has extended a nationwide state of emergency as infections surge less than 80 days before the start of the olympics. an online petition titled "cancel the tokyo olympics to protect our lives" gathered aeá quarter-million signatures in its first two days. meanwhile, a new study from the university of washington estimates the true toll

. >>> republican in the texas house passing a new restricting bill over democrats.is the latest to limit access all over the country and give teeth to trump's big lie of the widespread voting fraud of the 2020 election. that did not stop arizona republicans for forcing a controversial audit, and cheered on by the former president himself. joining me now to discuss this is arizona's secretary of state, katie hobbs from hidalgo, texas. katie, there is no proof of fraud or anything in your state, why is this audit happening? >> there were nine cases after the election brought to court and there was no evidence and any of them that proved any kind of fraud or irregularities in the election. we certified the ruesults. we are still rehashing this. this is an attempt to continue to undermine voters confidence in the process and i helps to justify this rash of voter suppression bill we are seeing across the country. >> lena, to you, again, no proof of anything went wrong. republicans in texas are pushing for a bill making the election more secure. does this really make aele

the aclu said the texas house has just passed one of the worst anti-voting bills in the country thatlities and civil servants who run our elections know this bill is designed to suppress the vote by making voting harder. the governor of texas has signalled his support for the bill, saying this ensures the integrity of the election. even republicans admit that in the most recent election there is no evidence of white spread voter fraud. one democrat said today republicans are fighting a phantom problem. >> ed lavandera live from texas, thank you so much. >>> coming up, this is terrifying. a 20-ton uncontrolled chinese rocket is expected to crash into earth as soon as tomorrow, but officials still have no idea where it will land. not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a bit differently. wet teddy bears! wet teddy bears here! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ i was totally stranded. no tp? so what happened? well... we started buying charm

we thought they were going to s sail through the texas house and senate. that didn't happen. we organized, and we're going to continue to organize. the analogy around a match, i understand that it goes to distinct sides. one is shrinking the electorate, and our side is about expanding the election trait and making sure our democracy is healthy with participation at the ballot box. >> sb would prohibit overnight and sunday morning voting and require i.d. and signatures. a lot of these in place in harris county, which saw a groundswell of new voters in the last election. it would skpnd partisan poll watchers and ease the judge's ability. it does a lot in a state where voting is already restricted, correct? >> correct. absolutely. the innovations that happened in harris county are innovations that expand the electorate and inspire people to go out and vote. there was a surge in students, folks who work late-night jobs able to take advantage of 24-hour voting. we fundamentally believe our democracy is healthiest when people are allowed to go to the polls. as you mentioned, texas

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. >> other news, the texas house will take up a bill this morning that combined with a separate billm the texas senate could restrict voting. texas is the third state to take up either voting restrictions or voting reform depending on what party you're talking to. corporate america once again stepping in. an open letter signed by companies like microsoft and unilever and levi's urges texas to make voting easier not harder. you may recall major league baseball pulled its all-star game out at georgia after georgia changed its voting laws. at least three republicans called to punish private business for taking that stand. i spoke with a political adviser about this idea of parties using the power of regulation as punishment to free enterprise. >> we're concerned that conservatives are trying to use the power of government to punish companies that don't toe their line, and that's about the worst case scenario when you're looking to protect free speech and advance innovation. so we're concerned that conservatives are going down the wrong path. >> in maricopa county an unofficial recount c

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reporter: texas republicans still need to merge their house and senate bills in the coming days. then go to the governor who is expected to sign it. ♪ judy: it has been a week marked by critical moments, tensions turning toward full out war in the middle east, a new milestone when it comes to wearing mess in the fight against covid-19 and a contentious shakeup in the republican party. thankfully we have brooks and capehart to make sense of it all. new york times columnist david brooks and jonathan capehart, columnist for the washington post. it is good to see you on this friday night. there is a lot to talk about. let's start with the new mask guidelines. this comes after we have seen a 30% drop in new cases, most people reacting positively, some people saying it is confusing, it may be too soon. is this thing that has a political effect on the president, on him? >> it does, and great to see you. the president made coronavirus and his response to the pandemic his number one priority so much show -- so that the american rescue plan where he talked a lot about bipartisanship but in

i served in a texas legislature in the house and senate. i was proud of the fact that 99% of the things we passed had sore bipartisan support because we worked together for the betterment of our state to make texas better. why can't we do it here for the betterment of our country, our country. not everything has to be partisan. i know it is now. we need to work together to change that culture. my voice isn't heard yet and that's ok. i pledge to do everything i can to work when possible on a bipartisan basis because it's better for this country. don't have to score cheap political points looking down the next fundraiser or next election, we can do what is best for the country. not red or blue america, but america. we have that opportunity here with this resolution that could have been written if we had the committee process. the minority party could have contributed to it and we could have worked together on it. and guarantee 435-0 vote. because at the end of the day, what i recall in the rules committee is about sending a strong message that