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Matter whos doing it. and i think thats really reflective of the quagmire that washington is in today. >> can you -- speaking of january 6th, i mean, were talking about the select committee now, obviously, the speaker is going to hold a vote on it later today. but there are huge questions whether republicans are going to even participate at all. what kind of message do you think it sends? i remember americans thought about this with benghazi, and by not showing at the up at the end, and this see...

Congress. they have been effective at at changing the odds in congress. tonight on the eve of senate finally taking up the voting rights bill, its worth checking in with them to get their prognostication on how this is going to go. joining us now is ezra levin. its nice to see you. thank you for making time. >> great to be here, rachel. >> what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? >> i think were going to see us get off to the races tomorrow. look, we are not headed towards a brick wall. we...

Tonight on the eve of senate finally taking up the voting rights bill, its worth checking in with them to get their prognostication on how this is going to go. joining us now is ezra levin. co-founder of indivisible. mr. levin, its nice to see you. thank you for making time. >> great to be here, rachel. >> what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? >> i think were going to see us get off to the races tomorrow. look, we are not headed towards a brick wall. were headed towards a little bit of ...

Geoff, and i ran into one of the aides who said he does not believe it is coming today, and this is one of the challenges of writing the legislation through the informal committee process, and we are not the legislative phase of it and how the pay for it, and that has been the case since the beginning of the infrastructure bit, and the last bit that is the most complicated piece. the white house is continuing to cross out the suggestions made by these more moderate senators from the two parties ...

Issue both sides have been trading paper back and forth but we may hear the house may go with a democratic proposal, does that mean they are throwing in the towel on bipartisan talks? >> they have been throwing the towel on bipartisan talks for over a year. they dont even want to go through the regular order in the committee process for those really important issues, whether its hr1, the infrastructure bill, you know, which had some really concerning aspects to it that youre hearing about as you...

Saying the democrats in the senate do not have the same concern as the democrats in texas? >> we have seen other states that are passing these sweeping laws, taking us back to the jim crow era. we dont have the luxury here in texas of being in the majority, so we have concerns that if it does pass it will be too late. >> final question, because the argument from republicans is that texas state democrats are essentially ignoring their duty as elected officials by walking out of the sunday session...

>> well, you know, in a special session, the clock starts over. special session is 30 days. and this bill does not pick up where it left off. the bill from last night is dead. so the special session, they got to write a new bill and file a new bill. it has to go through the committee process and both chambers. so the clock starts over. again. they have the power. absolutely. they can pass anything they want in most circumstances, but it does have to go through the process again. well have to eva...

Schumer said when the senate comes back next week theyre going to start doing a lot of work in the committee process into it is just all of these little components that are happening. were watching the main event of republicans and the white house. well see if they can come together to some sort of agreement. democrats are prepared to move alone if they need to. >> leann, thank you. elsewhere in the world of politics, get ready because he is getting back where he loves to be. former president ...

Special session, they have to write a new bill, file a new bill. it has to go through the committee process, through both chambers. the clock starts over. they have the power absolutely. they can pass anything they want in those circumstances. it does have to go through the process again. well have to evaluate the situation as it develops. it is impossible the predict. >> there are those who say look, state representatives are elected to debate the issues, cast their votes and semithe votes of t...

Said there was none and only after all after that and deception and outright ignoring subpoenas that the commission actually started. howie: jason, let me start in. >> it wasnt a commission. howie: congressional hearings. >> yeah. howie: i dont want to minimize benghazi, that benefited the republicans against hillary clinton politically. is the press now ignoring -- >> as kevin mccarthy said in an interview. howie: is the press, jason, ignoring the fact that this commission no question about it ...