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Hell call the most egregious attempts to harm the integrity of our democracy since the civil war. and under intense pressure from civil rights leaders, the plt plans to link new voting rights laws to some of the more egregious efforts including poll taxes, literacy tests. its democrats sounding the alarm as republican-controlled state legislatures across the country move swiftly to restrict access to the ballot with new laws already proposed or passed. texas democrats leaving the state to deny r...

Fact that the federal government is ignoring -- not just ignoring the problem, creating it. mike: obviously, the texas lawmakers who left the capital and came to washington to draw attention to the issue of voting rights bills in texas didnt want to be part of the voting there. the latest is a couple have gone back home to texas. whats the latest, in your view? >> so i dont think we still have a quorum. were certainly hoping for a quorumming at some point because what theyre doing is preventing ...

Around the mall back and what, forced him back to austin? in 2003, when texas democrats staged a similar approach to -- protest at of state, they ordered state troopers to go find the democrats home and take them back to texas. texas state troopers cannot arrest anyone outside of texas, including in washington d.c., neither can the capitol safety office for that matter. thats why democrats left the state. thats why democrats flood texas this time, to indefinitely deny republicans a quorum, in an...

Representative, it was pretty dramatic. talk to us about this decision you and your colleagues made to walk out last night. why you did it and what you feel you accomplished. >> we were focused on killing this bill ar preserving voting rights for texans. whether it was on points of order, during debate or whether using the extraordinary tactic that we used last night, only used four times in texas history which is to break quorum and knew we had to preserve voting rights and the goal. all 67 dem...

Willing to go there. absolutely the right decision. look, i think for kevin mccarthy this is all about what does donald trump want. thats the first question he asks in the morning, thats the last question he asks at the end of the day. donald trump doesnt want this to go forward. so kevin mccarthy is doing everything he can to try to stop it. to try to distract from what we will find. but it wont work. we have a bipartisan quorum to go forward and we will go forward. >> we were just having a deb...

Way back, because it works. way before covid, before all of the mass mail-in ballots and the 24-hour drive-through voting centers and the weeks and weeks of early voting, african-american turnout was actually reaching record levels. now, in fact, it was a study, according to the associated press even printed in "the washington post" that african-american voters turned out at a higher rate than white voters in 2012 and 2008. texas democrats dont appear interested in facts. grandstanding is far to...

Voting rights measure that they want to undertake in texas. heres the problem. they dont have a quorum to do that. thats because the democrats have all left or most of them. we hope to be speaking to one of them inside the u.s. capitol. theyve been meeting with democratic leaders that are praising their move here and saying it was brave and forceful and clear. well be speaking to democratic congressman james clyburn, what he makes of this. first to mike emanuel. whats going on in the capitol and...

On hunter bidens laptop. then, 2022 midterm elections on the horizon, the head of hen peter teals teal capital makes a play for a senate seat in arizona. blake masters is here on big techs dominance and a his pledge to clean up illegal immigration. all that right here, right now, on sunday morning futures. ♪ maria: and first this morning, the battle over texas new election laws continues with more than 50 state democrats still wholed up in washington, d.c. while their absence creates major pro...

Congressman adam kinzinger, for example. joining me now congresswoman stacey plaskett from the u.s. virgin islands and congressman joaquin castro of texas. they also both served as house impeachment managers during the second impeachment trial of donald trump. so i am positive they have a lot to say. im going to start with you congresswoman stacey plaskett because i think one thing that a lot of people are frustrated by is why does it have to be bipartisan? why do we care how many republicans ar...

Our democracy than protecting the jim crow relic. >> and you tweeted about the fact that kevin mccarthy had named a few people he wanted put on the january 6 investigation committee, speaker pelosi said no, you got a few people who voted against the certificate indication of the election who will make trouble. you tweeted had you are glad that they dont have big lie spreaders on the committee. but talk about how it goes forward. it is supposed to start this coming week. does it proceed with no r...