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On the $3.5 trillion bill. president biden saying this tonight. >> the goal at the end has always been there and hes always been with me. i think we can work something out, and i look forward to speaking with him. >> and on the heels of texass six-week ban on abortions and attorney general merrick garlands pledge to protect abortion clinics in texas, the state thats always been red moves even more sharply to the right. governor greg abbott signing just today a bill that points -- that puts major...

>> id be astonished if a law like this was not challenged in court. weve seen it happen wherever laws like this are passed. the first thing the democrats do is run to the courthouse and try to challenge it. i feel extremely confident that when this law makes it through the litigation phase, it will be upheld in a court of law. >> the law facing an immediate legal challenge from voting rights groups and two federal lawsuits were filed before the bill was signed so here is some of the real life ef...

Voting in texas. >> this is what governor absot s -- abbott said about the lawsuits like yours today. >> id be astonished if a law like this was not challenged in court. weve seen it happen whenever laws like this are passed. the first thing the democrats do is run to the courthouse and try to challenge it. i feel extremely confident that when this law makes it through the litigation phase, it will be upheld in a court of law. >> do you think you have a real shot in court? >> i think the courts ...

Easier for people to vote. and you cant unlearn something. weve made it clear. weve shared the information with all the state representatives and senators in the harris county area. once you learn something helps minority voters, helps women voters, you cant step back and say that must have been a fluke. you have to do everything you can to protect it. so initially, it may not have been the kaflts once learn that it does protect minority voters, it is hard to see it as anything but an attack. >>...

Houston because of the pandemic and was very popular 127,000 people voted in the drive-through voting lanes of harris county. there are new hurdles to voting by mail. and it also empowers partisan pollwatchers with more access at election sites. because of all of this coalition of groups like the naacp, the aclu say this is one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country. they have filed suit. republicans say this is about protecting the integrity at the ballot box. >> the first thing th...

When this law makes it through the litigation phase, it will be up held in a court of law. >> reporter: thats the interesting thing about this. this law heads to court and you have redistricting that needs to be finished up here in texas and primary season here for the governor is up for re-election next year in the primary season is early in the spring of next year. these lawsuits and the redistricting fight all having to play out here in the months of ahead before voters return to the ballot b...

Lets talk about dc. democrats cant seem to agree on semantics. inquiry versus investigation as it pertains to impeachment or going there. does this interfere with what the candidates are doing on the campaign trail or is it to separate connect. >> only one candidate that has made his campaign impeachment and that is mr. tom spier who will be on the debate stage next month but house democrats are looking for a path, its not the words that matter but what matters is that they wont like to see the ...

See people who have gone from the litigation phase i think, from the discovery phase, i should say, to litigation and confrontation. the competition temperature hap big time in the last few hours of advocates contributed to the temperature rising is rod rosenstein at justice saying that you have people in the house who are trying to intimidate him and engaged in what he calls extortion. >> jesse: we have some of that sound. lets hear rod rosenstein in his own words. stickered there are people wh...