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A manhunt is underway for two suspects accused of shooting and killing a off-duty new orleans police officer in houston. police releasing these images of the suspects and the car they are believed to be driving. the men tried to rob diners at a popular restaurant patio when one of them opened fire. the off-duty officer was pronounced dead at the scene. a second person was critically injured. texas state law make remembers poised to pass a gop-backed voting reform bill. a public house committee...

He did create this monster that we are dealing with across the country with vaccine skeptics basically refusing to actually, you know, get inoculated and then causing the continued spread of coronavirus. so weve got to get a handle on this. there have to be more republicans who are willing to step up, confront the other republican governors who are actually to me actually putting forth genocidal policies by trying to preept children from wearing masks in schools and prevent localities from actua...

Quorum? >> thats correct. they did not have the sufficient numbers present on the floor of the house to conduct business. they ignored that constitutional requirement. they declared quorum present. and they have proceeded with business illegitimately, unlawfully. so at this point, it is clear that we are now dealing with a whole new ball game here. these republicans had tried to rig our elections by passing these voter suppression bills. now theyre rigging the system on the floor of the texas ho...

Any steps that have the effect of impacting the vote of people based on race or other factors, it doesnt require intent. only the effect. and so that could be some, a tool thats helpful. i keep waiting to see some sort of legal action in arizona to stop this effort. the same effort could happen in georgia as well, if theres activity that has an effect of reducing the impact of voters of certain classes like african-american voters in fulton county, where they are the majority. >> yes, and lets t...

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Voters to hold on to power at all costs. >> congressman allred, i swear im going to come to you, but representative hinojosa, one last question. what does that mean for monday? does that mean we are going to see another walkout by texas democrats to deny a lawful quorum? >> well we are actively in conversation with one another right now, because now circumstances have changed. and seemingly, whether or not we are present, it does not matter to the republican majority. its a whole new ball game a...

Just heard? >> oh, i mean first of all it is good to see you. you know, when we fled the state of texas and we said, hey, this is voter suppression. we said, hey, they are pushing forward with specific attacks on people of color, people looked at us and thought, are yall sure about this? they questioned and it was kind of slow to build. now you see who is in control in texas. you see that they are consistently targeting black folk in texas. how in the heck do you say -- i mean and they dont care...

State. maybe we should let this one go and allow the locals to do what theyre supposed to do, because we used to be the party that believed in local control. >> were almost out of time but i have to ask. the state legislature is now back in business. it has a quorum, enough texas house democrats have returned to resume business in the special session. that means a restrictive voting bill can go through. do you think it was a mistake to give back the quorum to that state legislature? >> it was ab...

America. >> what does it look like to you at this point? how do you move forward? what are you going to do? >> well, were going to continue to hold the line and were going to boycott the special session. there are still matters that are on that call that are very harmful to texans besides that election bill. we saw them move quickly. in fact, they tried to have a hearing on the same day that they had their so-called quorum. so we know that theyre not interested in hearing from texans. so were go...

Verification would say everybody has to sit at your desk and its a roll call. but you have to be seen on the floor of the house. and so -- but if were there to call it, then we could establish quorum. thats the challenge. but they know they dont have the numbers. reporters were there. they saw. members were there. they saw. staff was in the gallery, they counted, they saw. everybody knows this, and theyre proceeding with business as usual to try to pass the voter suppression bill and silence vot...