>> alcindor: republican state senator bryan hughes co-authored one of the texas bills, known as senate bill 7. what do you say to someone who thinks that this bill is based on a lie? and do you yourself think that 200, the election, was fraudulent? >> texas elections in 2020 went much better than other states, you can look at the results here. we didn't have near the problems that a number of states had. >> alcindor: so, do you believe that the 2020 election was-- was-- was fair with that? it was that president biden was legitimately elected? >> president biden is the president. he did not win in texas. president trump won in texas. and a lot of people say we're unhappy about the 2020 election in texas. republicans did great in texas in the 2020 election. 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 counti

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even the texas senate early this morning passing perhaps the most repressive voting bill after the nation's rules to suppress black and brown votes. i've talked to a leader of the congressional voting rights caucus, a texan, in just a minute. >>> also tonight, as we mark the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre, when some 300 black citizens, among them veterans of the first world war, were murdered by mobs and bombed by the state, we acknowledged that the fruit of our democracy has never equally been doled out, even to those who fought and died for it. but we owe it to those men and women to complete growing that tree of liberty and to right the wrongs they could not. joining me now, texas congressman vici, a democrat. congressman vici, happy memorial day to you and your father. you are the unfortunate guest tonight because this week you led a group of texan democrats sending a letter to merrick garland as the texas senate moved closer to passing exactly what they did in an overnight session last night, which is being cast as the most restrictive voting bill in the nation this morni

thank you so much. >> john: gillian. >> gillian: a lot more in the next hour, texas senator john cornynor a police report from dominic reform bill. >> john: plus the media much more interested in a china lab with coronavirus pandemic. something they dismissed last year is the conspiracy theory. why the change of heart? joe concha sounds off on that coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ smooth driving pays off. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate. click or call for a quote today. what's the #1 retinol brand allstate. used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena® i really hope that this vaccine can get me one step closer to him. to a huge wedding. to give high fives to our patients. to hug my students. with every vaccine, cvs is working to bring you one step closer to a better tomorrow. my name is douglas. i'm a writer/director with every vaccine, cvs is working to bring you and i'm still working. in the kind of work that i do, you are surrounded by people who

here to explain is texas senator ted cruz. good to you have back. those are my 5 things we need. integrity in the process. confidence in the results. on target or is there more we should add? >> well, sean, you are exactly right. this bill before the senate hr1 is the most dangerous piece of legislation before the united states congress. there are two buckets of what the democrats are trying to do. one is bad policies like massive new taxes and regulations. that will hurt americans across the country. but the second bucket is trying to change the rules so they never lose again. the crown jewel of the rigging the game proposal is the corrupt politicians act. i have 46 amendments i introduced i will force democrats to vote on. this is a massive federal take over of elections across the country. it strikes down almost every voter integrity law ever adopted. 29 states require voter i.d. this act strikes those laws down. 31 states prohibit paid operatives collecting ballots. this bill strikes all of those provisions down. the corrupt politicians act would register millions of illegal

here to explain, texas senator ted cruz, senator, good to have you back. okay.re my five things that i think we need, so we have integrity in the process and confidence in the results. am i on target or is there more that you think we should add? >> look, sean, you're exactly right. and i've got to say, this bill that's before the senate, it's hr-1, many of us are calling at this time corrupt politicians act, is, in my view, the single most dangerous piece of legislation before the united states congress. you know, there are kind of two buckets of what the democrats are trying to do. one is bad policy. things like massive new taxes, massive new spending, massive new regulations, all of those will hurt americans all across the country but there is a second bucket that's rigging the game, trying to change the rules so they never lose again and the crown jewel of the rigging the game proposals is the corrupt politicians act. tomorrow, on the rules committee and senate, we'll have a markup. i've got 46 amendments that i'm introducing that i will force democrats to v

dramatic walk-out to block a restrictive voting bill this prevented a vote from being held on texas senate bill 7 also known as the election integrity protection fact. the fight is far from over. some of those proposed changes end drive-through and 24-hour voting, adds proof of identity requirements for absentee voting and makes it easier for a judge to overturn election results even without proof that fraud affected the outcome. members of the texas naacp say the bill would have disproportionately affected people of color. >> what is at stake is there an attempt to make this into an apartheid state to make sure that a small minority of conservative extreme white citizens can dominate our government. >> the bill passed the senate early yesterday morning and came up in the state house for final approval. texas governor greg abbott announced he would order lawmakers back to the capitol for a special session but it's unclear when that will happen. >>> turning to memorial day weekend and america is bouncing back, that is evident over the holiday weekend with beaches packed, businesses booming

look forward to hearing from the speaker as well as the members as to what comes next. >> the texas senate to ban drive-thru voting, new rules how judges can overturn elections. senate majority leader chuck schumer says he will bring up democrats sweeping voting rights legislation for a vote next month, but there are not 60 votes to pass it. so what are you going to do and what's your reaction to the texas law? >> well, the texas law is shameful and republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election. that's the only way i can interpret the voter suppression epidemic we see working its way from one state, georgia, to arizona, texas and all across the country in so many different ways. fundamental to our democracy is the right to vote. self government. that the american people get to decide and work for a democracy that reflects the voices of all americans, not just a certain segment, not just conservatives, not just republicans, not just people in certain parts of the country, all americans. and so i support the effort to move hr-1, the for people act, which will bri

hill has centered around renewing the ban on high capacity magazines and assault republicans like texas senator cruz have stopped that legislation time she >> your public position is that you want to banning ar fifteen's. is that correct. as atf director fun confirmed i would simply enforce the laws on the books. chris brown, president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence says even print being properly enforced in part because the atf has a kind of a senate confirmed director in years with lack of leadership and a lot of work by the nra. the atf has been. >> hamm strong and less than one percent. gun dealers with infractions are actually shut down or reformed in this country in washington, alexandra le mon. >> still to come on kron, 4 news at 5. the argument over a new commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection. why some republican leaders say creating a new commission is not necessary. and a mother of a gun violence victim is offering help for those who are suffering from yesterday's tragedy. we'll hear from her right after the break. my name is douglas. i'm a writer/direc

joining me to weigh in on the move, texas state senator brian hughes, thank you for being here, his whaties to cities with populations above 250,000, compares police funding to the previous year and if the never stone that up casts property tax rates in the city of cuts funding from the sales tax revenue. was the response from your constituents? >> this bill says to big cities if you defund the police we defund you. texans are happy about this. only one city in texas has tried this, our capital city of boston, beautiful city, the government does not reflect always the views of the people of texas and so the city of austin voted to cut its police budget by one third swinging cuts. the first thing is to do is cancel new cadet classes and recruitment and what happened? a spike in violent crime, murders are up to the highest spike in 20 years, we know this doesn't work and even in austin the governor is responding and starting those cadet classes back up so the people of texas support the police, we support law enforcement and this bill makes sure our cities do the same thing. >> let's get t

at home, let me ask you, the texas senate just voted this morning to pass a sweeping new bill restrictingill would ban drive-thru voting, stop local officials from mailing ballots to all voters and make it easier for judges to overturn an election without requiring evidence that frau d of ideas ultimately, so they're -- for instance, making it tougher for black americans to do sole to the poles saying you can only do voting on polls sundays after 1:00 p.m. that's how it looks to millions of people. >> right. and this is actually passed at 6:00 a.m. and i haven't had a chance to look tat or really comment. i know it's going to conference committee. there are a couple fundamentals, here, though, that i think most americans do agree with. that is, asking for an i.d., you know when someone votes. i don't believe that's voter suppression. i think 70% of americans agree with that idea. and then the idea of verifying signatures i think is very important as well. i think what the republicans here will tell you is that they're trying to make sure that the person voting is the person on paper so it

texas senator ted cruz says the president's lack of action is on doing the work of the previous administration. biden harris seem to want to double down. >> on that failed strategy. that is producing crisis and war in the middle east. the white house hasn't said what will happen. >> if a cease-fire does not happen soon. reporting in washington. i'm basil john. >> india's health ministry says more than 4500 people died from covid today that is the highest single-day number for any country since the start of the pandemic. health officials say the deaths are spreading into india's vast countryside where health care is scarce and therefore the death toll is likely being under reported in the is also suffering from a shortage of vaccines. doctors in tokyo are now calling for the olympics to be canceled after a spike in corona virus cases. >> hospitals in the host city say that they're running out of room for patients tokyo now is in its 3rd state of emergency, which is expected to last until the end of the month. although japan has avoided an explosive spread of the virus. only about 3 and a half p

texas senator ted cruz says the president's lack of action is on doing the work of the previous administration. biden harris seem to want to double down. >> on that failed strategy. that is producing crisis and war in the middle east. the white house hasn't said what will happen. >> if a cease-fire does not happen soon. reporting in washington. i'm basil john. a bipartisan group in congress is pushing a new bill that would mean improvements and more than 100 historically black colleges and universities. this would help them repair and upgrade aging buildings. it's a move aimed at allowing them to better compete with other top universities. one lawmaker says the schools need at least 16 million dollars worth of repairs. >> campuses where more than half of their buildings repair or replacement and they still are expected to compete on playing field. >> this bill would pay for improvements to research labs that would preserve historic buildings and provide high in the high-speed internet, for example, last year. congress for gave nearly 2 billion dollars in federal loans to the schools. lawmakers

it was basically a filibuster rule that they had in the state senate in texas. current lieutenant governor, dan patrick, he said we're going to get rid of our state's filibuster rule so we can pass these racist laws. that is exactly what dan patrick said, and guess what they did? they raised it and they raised it and made it higher than two-thirds so enough democrats wouldn't be able to stop these things, and so why are we sitting on our hands and doing nothing while they discriminate against our voters and start off with this lie that we're all cheats and that we're all committing voter fraud and do absolutely nothing about it? we have to pass hr-1 and hr-4. otherwise, we're playing right into mitch mcconnell's hands. >> okay. duly noted on all that. let me also take a look at this with you, because this bill is making its way through the state legislature there in texas, the texas senate voting to advance a bill that will allow people who can already legally own a gun to carry a handgun in public without a license, without a safety and training course, without

the texas senate has approved a voting bill that's been widely seen as discriminatory to people of colourifficult, and ban popular practices such as drive through voting. president biden has described it as "un—american" and "an assault on democracy". australia's victoria state has reported six new covid—19 cases — half way through a week—long lockdown there. the infections now total 45 in the latest cluster, including a worker at a melbourne care home where not all of the residents have been vaccinated. voters in croatia's capital, zagreb, have elected a new mayor in a watershed run—off election in which neither of the country's mainstream parties was represented. the victor, a green/left candidate, took two thirds of the vote. he defeated a right—wing nationalist former folk singer. mr tomasevic described his victory as a mandate for real change. a state of emergency has been declared in parts of new zealand's south island due to severe flooding. up to 400 millimetres of rain has fallen after more than two days of downpours. hundreds of residents in the canterbury region have evacuated

thank you. >>> joining me now democratic texas state senator beverley powell. good to have you with us. as diane just noted a lot of activity in her words under cover of darkness saturday night. you were there, can you just walk us through -- we are talking about late on a saturday night over a holiday weekend. there are a lot of questions about the timing there. can you take us into the chamber and just walk us through what happened in those hours? >> absolutely. erica, thank you for having me today. it's a pleasure to be here with you. yes, absolutely it was dark of night kind of collaboration over this bill and we began deliberation of this bill, i think, at 10:30 in the evening on saturday night and deliberated on it until 6:00 the next morning. you know, that doesn't allow for time for the public to know what you're about to do. we've done a number of these bills this session that have been deliberated throughout the middle of the night. we've had 3:00 in the morning sessions, 4:00 in the morning sessions and this one that lasted until about 6:15 in the mo

here with reaction to my open and much more from the great state of texas, senator ted cruz joins mei want to start with a given. number one, hamas is a terrorist organization, and it's funded in part by iran. number two, israel is a sovereign state with the right to defend herself. do you see any moral equivalency between these two? >> absolutely none whatsoever. hamas terrorists are targeting women and children. they are trying to kilt innocent. they target schools, hospitals, they try to kill innocent israelis. israel is a sovereign nation defending themselves. when they defend themselves, hamas has rained over 4,000 rockets down on israel. i have been down along the gaza strips where they have bomb shelters. people live in a kibbutz and an alarm goes off and they have to run to a bomb shelter. israel tries to take out the terrorists. they aim or hamas military organizations. ma hamas deliberately locates their terrorists and missiles in the middle of palestinian citizens. they use palestinians as human shields because from their perspective it's a win-win. even better from their

. >> reporter: good evening, jericka, president biden said texas senate bill like its predecessors in georgia attacks the sacred right to vote, he said these laws are disproportionately targeting black and brown americans and we should be making it easier not harder for every eligible american voter to vote. now, proponents of the bill like those other states say it is about voting security, although there was no evidence of widespread voting fraud in 2020. now, this texas bill does things like bans drive-in voting, makes it illegal for counties to send ballots to anyone who doesn't specifically request them, and it limits after work voting hours, polls must now close by 7:00 p.m. opponents include civic rights groups and even some business whose fear a backlash like they saw in those other states. jericka, no democrats in the texas legislature support the legislation. >> duncan: christina ruffini reporting from the white house, thank you. for decades, a massacre in segregated tulsa, oklahoma, remained an untold story of one of the most violent and racist incidents in american history

. >> president biden was forceful in denouncing the state of texas. senate7 said it is part of an assault on democracy that we have seen far too often this year and often disproportionately targeting black and brown americans. the president added in the 21st century we should make it easier, not harder, for every voter to vote. this is similar to sentiments that the president expressed in the course of the last year as more legislatures enacting voting restrictions in their state. the president called one georgia law jim crowe in the 21st century. in order to counter act the laws being passed, they have the "for the people act." a sweeping voting rights bill making it's way through congress at this moment. it passed in the house and now it's in the senate where it is facing some roadblocks. there are not enough democrats or republicans on board to get it through and it seems unlikely at this moment that democrats will blow up the filibuster to push voting rights through congress. he is expected to speak more on this topic when he travels to tulsa, oklahoma,

. >>> the next guest, a texas state senator fighting against this bill. listen. >> we had next to no fraud, and that's been documented at the federal level and the state level. if anything, we should be building on that innovation, that made the 2020 election cycle so incredibly successful, but instead you're rewriting the election code. >> that is texas state democratic senator sarah eckhart who joins us now, your party's walkout killed the bill now, but the governor is already at a two-way special session agenda. did you just essentially delay the inevitable? >> we delayed a bullet train to suppression, to voter suppression, and it was important to delay it so that we can shine some light on what this leadership is doing. so yes, inevitably we are going into a special suppression session but everyone will see them do this in the daylight. democratic voters and republican voters. >> but i wonder if this legislation does become part of a special session, my understanding is that republican lawmakers would have to start from scratch. it is possible that th

in a few hours, the texas state house will likely begin debate on senate bill 7. i can tell you i am a little tired today because i was up until after 7:00 a.m. eastern watching the senate debate before they voted along party lines to approve this final election of this election overhaul bill. and you mentioned texas already has some of the strictest election laws in the entire country. this particular bit of legislation will add new restrictions, new regulations. it adds new criminal and civil penalties to the voting process. for example, it makes it a crime to send an unsolicited mail-in application for a public official. it prohibits overnight and sunday morning voting. it expands access to those partisan pole watchers. it stops drive lou voting and it allows judges to more easily overturn election realities by lowering the burden of proof. now, that's just sort the tip of the iceberg of what happens if this bill is signed into law. the expectation is that the house will likely vote to approve this legislation, jim, although democrats tell me that they still ma

authorities believe both of the anti-semitic attacks based on the suspects involved. >> harris: senator ted cruz from texas is with me now. senator, good to see you. first of all your top line reaction to what's playing out in our own country here. >> it's reprehensible the anti-semitic violence we're seeing and we've been seeing a rise of anti-semitic violence in america and europe and unfortunately it is encouraged by radical islamic terrorists and also encouraged by the angry left. the far left that regularly traffics in anti-israel rhetoric, anti-semitic rhetoric and it used to be that was just fringe and on the extremes. we now see some of the most prominent members of congress vocally and repeatedly trafficking in these anti-semitic tropes and attacking and denigrating and lying about israel. i think that's disgraceful. >> harris: i'm wondering what it is like to share space with those people. you are on capitol hill, not in the house but you are all together on this. it has to be a topic as these videos are ticking up and a number of them, unfortunately. >> look, fortunately the senate is a more mel

the junior senator from texas claimed that voting for ms. clarke and previously voting to confirm vanita gupta as associate attorney general put, quote, every single democratic member of the united states senate on record supporting abolishing, abolishing the police, end quote. abolishing the police. that's what he said. not defunding, not reforming. abolishing. what a crock. unfortunately, we've come to expect these laughable exaggerations from our colleague from texas. he would rather smear a nominee with baseless charges than engage with the facts, because neither kristen clarke nor vanita gupta has ever supported abolishing the police. neither of them has said anything remotely close to this. if they had, i'm sure it would come as news to the fraternal order of police, the major county sheriffs of america, and the international association of chiefs of police, all who endorsed vanita gupta's nomination. you might also want to ask the major city chiefs association and national association of black law enforcement executives why they endors

here too respond to joe biden's appeasement abroad, texas senator ted cruz. energy is very important in texas. so with the stroke of a pen, high paying career jobs wiped out. with the stroke of a pen, energy independence is wiped out. thin he gives a waiver to russia and vladimir putin to build a pipeline to supply energy and get rich to our western european allies and others. senator, maybe you can help sort that out. i didn't graduate from harvard. you did. >> well, sean, sadly i can't shed a lot of light on it. it's absolutely crazy what joe biden and kamala harris are doing. on day one in office, joe biden shut down the keystone pipeline. destroyed 11,000 high-paying jobs, including 8,000 union jobs. then biden allowed russian hackers to hack the colonial pipelines producing gas lines up and down the eastern seaboard. he sat by while they paid a ransom to hackers. and now today he signed a waiver greenlighting the nord stream 2 pipeline. a pipeline from russia to germany. congress has passed bipartisan sanctions to stop this pipeline. we stopped it. for a

, the texas house will take up a bill this morning that combined with a separate bill from the texas senateld 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 continues. it's being d

it was glenn greenwald times in, and texas senator ted cruz jokingly writes in part we've come a longorn. >> sorry, professor, we are cutting you off. a wall street journal op-ed slamming the indoctrination into america's either education. it reads in part academia decided its primary purpose is the notion of a radical political ideology, that is how far off course academia have gone and capricious self repurposed thing, destructive and discredited political ideology using colleges and universities to gain a degree of influence over society that they could never have achieved at the ballot box. john ellis joined me now. how did we get here? >> thanks for having me on. we got here for a long time, it took 50 years. if we go back to 1969 the county commission did a study and found for every three left of center professors, two right of center professors, by the end of the century, the ratio was 5 off to one right. at that point starts to accelerate rapidly. you can do whatever you like so the ratio of left professors to write professors jumps within 5 years to 8-1 and then continues, la

the last resort came hours after the texas senate passed senate bill 7, republican-led legislation thatsay is designed to ensure election integrity. >> we just want to be able to account for votes and make sure we prosecute those who abuse the process. >> but critics, including present biden and house democratic leaders, are calling the bill and others like it and attempt to restrict voting rights. the president on saturday writing "it's part of an assault on democracy that we see far too often this year and often disproportionately targeting black and brown americans. it's wrong and un-american." >> the texas law is shameful and republicans clearly in texas and throughout the country want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election. >> the bill would have restricted voting by mail by giving absentee ballots to only those who asked for them, ban the drive through and 24-hour polling locations, limited early voting hours, and giving poll watchers "free movement around building centers" among other provisions aimed at preventing voter fraud. greg abbott, who calls election i

texas senator ted cruz will join us, rick santorum with his very first interview since getting cannedgation exclusively from james o'keefe. he will release it tonight from project veritas that involves facebook's ramp at political bias and facebook is responding to o'keefe, we will get to all of this, but first we turn once again to the ever weak, frail

conservative lawmakers slamming the space force, texas senator ted cruz calling this a troubling -- floridao for defending our nation and freedoms. the lieutenant colonel has a book titled irresistible revolution, marxism's goal of conquest and the unmaking of the american military. on monday it became the number one bestseller on amazon. we reached out to the space force for comment but have not yet heard back. jillian: thank you. todd: tomi lahren joins us live next. . . more protection, more sun, more joy. neutrogena® beach defense® the suncare brand used most by dermatologists and their families, neutrogena® for people with skin. ♪♪ neutrogena® ♪ i want to see you stand up ♪ ♪ i want to feel you be proud ♪ ♪ i want to hear your beating heart ♪ ♪ live out loud, oh ♪♪ mmm, licorice records. wonka, digital workflows for it tell us this machine needs updating... kids don't really have records anymore... but it tastes better on vinyl... servicenow. ♪ jillian: welcome back. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez leading dozens of house democrats in call for a complete immigration overhaul. to

texas senator ted cruz tweeting this. disgraceful, for every liberal celebrating trump's social media ban, the bic telling oligarchs can muzzle the former president what is to stop them from silencing you? martha blackburn adding this, facebook's decision to uphold its ban on president donald trump is ex-too manically disappointing. it's clear that mark zuckerburg views himself as the arbiter of free speech. how about former florida governor and current senator from the sunshine state, rick scott. this from twitter. big tech thinks it can control everything. companies that censor americans while giving brutal dictators a pass should not have free reign over your personal data and how about this, from former u.n. ambassador nikki haley. facebook and twitter ban a former u.s. president yet some of the world's worst dictators, terrorists and bad actors still have a platform. this is a gross double standard and that's why most americans don't trust big tech. the oversight board said the initial decision to permanently suspend

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ted cruz is also in texas. senator cruz knows the importance of the military.wd politician. it would seem that he's betting many in the military agreed of what he said and how he said it. >> at least he's betting of enough of what the military is saying. they are also in dire need of recruitment which is why videos like this exists because they are trying to recruit a broader spectrum of people so they can have a stronger military. i think everything that former congr congressman said is correct. ted cruz is trying to appeal to the new republican base which is non-college educated white men who are concerned that diversity is imposed on them. they also are attracted to politicians, you know, in the mold of donald trump who they perceived as being and saying things that are not pc. that's what ted cruz is doing. he thinks that's the path of getting voters attention and it is not so much about the military. it is more about trying to appeal to an increasingly powerful group of voters who constitute the republican base right now. >> abby, some conservatives are al

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with texas senator being more explicit in his criticism. >> joe biden and kamala harris have producedouthern border. the crisis that is unfolding is a humanitarian crisis. it's a public health crisis. it's a national security crisis. >> the white house pushing back. >> thanks to the actions of this administration we've seen a massive reduction in the number of hours kids spend and border patrol facilities. >> video out of texas showing the local constable chasing human smugglers migrants bail out of his vehicle in an effort to evade capture. today in del rio, the first time we witnessed mexican marines patrolling the shoreline and even detaining a group of migrants who'd been planning to cross the rio grande. del rio's mayor sounding off on "fox and friends" this morning. >> they keep telling us that the border is under control. i do not understand how there is the increase in this fiscal year alone. last year we had 19,724 captured at this point. right now we are at 97,003 under 98. i do not understand how that is under control. >> shannon. >> shannon: thank you, bill. the must-see v

the texas tribune talked about the number of polling places that are being cut, they would see a drastic drop in polling places under the senate version of seven bill seven. a texas tribune analysis showed. let's explain with this. meanwhile has changed, there used to be this idea that people should vote near their homes. when i vote i vote a few blocks from my house, and there are also have issues because sometimes the lineups or long. but people vote close to their homes. that is not the case. it's 2021 we have a rover on mars and yet we are reducing the number of places people can vote at. >> right, and the motive behind these bills becomes clear through these kinds of provisions that have been shown, as that tribune article shows, to be reducing polling locations in minority neighborhoods. what it does is it micromanage the ways counties like ours can distribute polling locations and voting machines, and the end result of it is fewer locations in minority neighborhoods and long lines. we had innovated to all two eliminated lines. there are many provisions, we don't know what is going to come out of this because it is happe

you'll remember that that's when texas senator ted cruz thought it would be a great time to take hisn a trip. and then he blamed his daughters for the trip. >> i was trying to be a dad and all of us have made decisions. when you have two girls who have been cold for two days and they don't have heat or power and they're saying, we don't have school, why don't we get out of here, a lot of parents would be like, if i can do this, great. that's what i wanted to do. >> okay. so, now, there's this other cringe-worthy moment for ted cruz. he tweeted, awesome, when a houston tv station announced cheap airfare deals to cancun. now, the response had been what you'd expect. one person replied, the people of your state were in dire straits when you willfully abandoned them. the fact you're joking about it confirms you have no regrets. you are, what you are, sir. >> yeah, i think generally when people die in your state, best not to make jokes about it. i would say that's the lesson there. >> why would he want to remind people about this? i mean, this was a low point among, you know, several lows

the texas senate had approved the measure in the morning, but about two hours before the mitt deadlinemocrats began filing out of the chamber, denying republicans the numbers necessary to hold a final handing republicans a rare defeat. . >> we were not going to let them do that. that is why democrats used last tool available to us. >> greg abbot quickly announced he would order lawmakers back to the state capital for a special session. however, he did not wh since one of the worst acts of racial violence in american history. the tulsa race massacre began on may 31st, 2021. excuse me. 1921. an angry e ty prosperous black neighborhood known as black wall street. more than 300 people were kill. anest mated 10,000 more lost their homes, and many businesses were burn. this morning on gma, abc's marcus moore is live from tulsa, talking to the descendants of survivors, and covering the tensions that remain a century later. >> when you walk through the greenwood district, you have no clue this was once a thriving block of black homes and businesses except for this. these metal plates engraved

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 act

they can pass racist pieces of legislation like this and the perfect example of that is that the texas senate 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 able to see some sort of tactic like that, but what i would tell greg abbot is he needs to do something about the grid and make sure we don't have another breakdown in electric service during our next winter storm and prioritize things like that instead of trying to discriminate against african-american texans. >> when we talk about voting rights, give us a sense of how this bill in texas makes democrats in washington think differently about federal voting rights legislation. >> absolutely, it has to make it say differently and i would say, jeff, the biggest thing that we can do is that we absol

i'm talkin' about texas senator, and tragic victim of pube displacement disorder, ted cruz.lly, republicans write a book, then have a group like the r.n.c. buy a bunch of them on the d.l., but ted cruz is accused of bulk-purchasing his new book using campaign money, which is likely illegal. and it wasn't just a few books. cruz's campaign reportedly spent $154,000 of his supporters' funds on copies of his book. so, a warning to anyone visiting ted cruz's house: you're going to leave with a book. also a warning to anyone visiting ted cruz's house: ted cruz is going to be there! we've got a great show for you tonight. my guests are anthony hopkins, writer/director florian zeller, and senator mazie hirono. but when we come back, i deliver on that penis promise. stick around. stick around! ♪ ♪ ♪ magic: imagine a brighter future where every kid gets a foot in the door. this way onward program provide jobs and so much more. - karen: oh my god. - magic: (laughs) - dashawn: magic johnson! - magic: (laughs) - daisy: oh my god. magic: you're a general manager. man, that's amazing. kare

and then a reminder of racism of the 1920s in tulsa, and then the texas senate passing outrageous, no way to put it other than racism laws. there's a thread running through this. that is our country right now is unsettled. we're in a perilous time. donald trump is wielding enormous power over his party. you have to ask yourself of those republican senators who voted against the independent commission, where were the words of patriotism, honor, duty, country above politics? are those things they learned in civics class in maybe the seventh grade? they simply weren't there. it is a difficult time to be optimistic, but this much we know, alex, that deep down and in the inner soul of the country, people know this is outrageous. i have to believe that sooner or later things are going to swing around. but i have to say right now it's pretty hard to make that case. >> i'm curious, darngs why do you think this country, when we see poll after poll reflecting the really enormous number of people that believe that this was a justifiable attack on this country, why do you think americans still ar

representatives has start a debate on a voter suppression bill that has already been passed by the texas senateven more difficult in texas that it was in 1975 when rosie castro was working for the extension of the voting rights act. >> what impact did that -- making sure texas was included in the empowerment in hispanic voters which are racial definition, what did it do for this state? >> thank you for the question, that 1975 extension to minorities was groundbreaking and what it meant was much greater participation particularly through the latin community here in texas, greater election, the first choice candidate from those communities that changed the face of governments across the state of texas and many other places. it empowered millions of people. >> joining us now juliÁn castro, former mayor of san antonio former secretary of housing and urban development and much more importantly joining us his mother, longtime political activists, rosie castro. thank you both for joining us tonight. rosie let, me begin with you. give us your view of the threat you are seeing to voting rights in texas

they ultimately decide it's going to go fast and i think tomorrow i think it's slated to pass the texas senate tomorrow on the same day. whereupon it will go immediately to texas governor greg abbott who will sign another tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night. that's gonna 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 the day of the week on which you get supreme court news, because of the memorial day holiday this weekend, the united states supreme court is expected to announce new decisions tomorrow morning. now there aren't that many cases yet that they haven't ruled on for this year's session. one of the cases they haven't ruled on yet is one out of texas. that is an attempt to get rid of a bomber care to kill the affordable and its -- if the supreme court agrees to do that which is what the case is seeking, that would have the effect of throwing tens of millions off their health insurance instantly know we don't know how we're gonna roll on the affordable care act case and we don't know exactly what cases

all of this will eventually get kicked back over to the texas senate.f the legislature will get together and try to reconcile these differences. but there is still a great deal of concern here among voting rights advocates concerned about how the final language of this bill could very easily restrict the early voting hours and drive in drive through ballot drop boxes and mail in ballot drop boxes, all sorts of issues that are of great concern to voting rights experts. the bottom line is that republicans have the votes. they control both sides of the texas lecture. the governor signaled that he will sign this essentially they're trying to point out that these measures are discriminatory and not needed at this point. but this is a long way to go here in the final days of the texas lecture here this session. kate? >> that's right. ed, thank you very much for the update. >>> turn now to this -- after more than a year stuck at home, americans are more than ready to be getting away. brand new tsa numbers are suggesting an early start to a summer rebound. we'r