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texas republicans and democrats is now entering its second week. you have those texas democrats here in washington making headlines, you could argue for the wrong reasons. there are now five of them who have contracted covid, all of them say they have been vaccinated. meantime, you've got republicans there in austin still moving forward with their work. so bring us up to speed on the latest. >> reporter: yeah, geoff, that's right, five of those democratic lawmakers from texas in d.c. testing positive. some of the folks on the plane tweeting that they let their guard down by being on that plane without masks on, something average americans aren't yet able to do on commercial flights. as you mentioned, back in texas, republican lawmakers are still at the capitol in texas, doing their work, although things remain largely at a standstill. one of the messages we've been hearing this past week from republicans is that democrats will pay for this when reelection rolls around and that