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Those arrest warrants in court and now the naacp is calling on the justice department to investigate whether these warrants violate the civil rights of the texas democrats. joining us now, derek johnson, the president and the ceo of the naacp. derek, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. lets talk about this philosophically. the idea that these texas democrats are holding up this vote. they have left, in some cases left the state, in order to stop something that they say is unconst...

Is the beginning of redistricting, which is the beginning of the gerrymandering season. and the very states that have been rushing to suppress the vote will now be rushing to gerrymander. it will have a significant impact, as you say, on congressional and legislative representation not just now but into the future. a whole decade these things last, and its why its so urgent for congress to act now while it can to ban gerrymandering and set national standards on redistricting. >> right now we don...

What the republicans demonstrated to us on january 6th is that they are willing to cheat and to put our constitution and our democracy at stake if the people that they want to win lose. and so we need to make sure -- and this is not partisan. this is not democracy with a big "d." this is a democracy of our institutions with a little "d," ali. how do we safeguard our democracy so that its not an autocratic institution where the minority is ruling. right now what the census showed is in children u...

To the studio. were going to hold you captive until you interview a guest. its outrageous. its a form of intimidation. thats why were asking the justice department to look into whether or not this is even legal. i commend the members of the texas house of representatives. i commend those senators in the state senate who stood there for 15 hours. i know senator royce west was organiing and fell two short of the quorum in the senate. we must continue to fight and fight because the rights of indivi...

Have not put the same level of priority around protecting the rights of citizens to fully engage in our elections. this is not about partisanship. this is about supporting and upholding the constitution. i am concerned as we celebrate the huge infrastructure package, we should commend the administration for that, but we also recognize, particularly in the african-american community, that the new deal policies, as great a piece of legislation they were, all those pieces of legislation, it created...

Be reflected in our government, they have to find a way when the congress returns, when the senate returns in a few weeks, to act. it is almost too late. it gets more and more complicated to have an impact from these national laws the longer it goes on. now is the time. theres no more waiting around. >> maria teresa, are you confident that will happen? >> theres been a lot of inside talks behind closed doors about the importance of at least holding off and providing the exception of the filibust...