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The group who fled the state to break quorum and block republicans from pushing through voting legislation. they will join me tomorrow, assuming that is they are not under arrest. the 11th hour with brian williams begins right now. ♪ ♪ and good evening once again, 206 of the biden administration. as we come on the air, thousands of u.s. troops are on their way to afghanistan to help evacuate american and afghan civilians facing potential threats to their security. that mission as taliban a...

State representative trey martinez fischer. thank you for joining us. you know, texas law enforcement has been deputized to round up absent house democrats right now with the texas sergeant at arms reportedly searching for those who fled to prevent the quorum. what can you tell us about your situation right now and how worried are you about this development? >> oh, clearly when matters escalate you always, you know, think it is concerning. it is not going to scare us or deter us. i think it is g...

Receiving end of arrest warrants. theyre among the group that fled the state to block quorum and stop republicans from pushing through new voting registrations. they both join me tomorrow morning, assuming that is, that they are not under arrest. the 11th hour with brian williams begins right now. and good evening once again >> day 206 at the biden administration. and as we come on the air tonight, thousands of u.s. troops are on their way to afghanistan, to help evacuate america and afghan civi...

Vote without having to stand infer line during normal working hours. so, im really excited that my colleagues have decided this was a fight worth fighting. and right now, we are still fighting it. >> and im curious about next steps. because at this point, isnt it virtually guaranteed that this bill is going to become law? >> so long as we go back. the quorum break is still on. they still dont have a quorum. theyre upset about that. the house members are tweeting up set about that. that we allow ...

This week senate majority leader chuck schumer promised the senate is going to tackle the issue, and senators return next month. i want you to take a listen. >> let me be clear. republicans refusing to support anything on voting rights is not an excuse for democrats to do nothing. voting rights will be the very first matter of legislative business when the senate returns to session in cement. >> representative wu, as i understand it, part of your delegations reason for being in d.c. was a fundam...

Okay. the texas-size battle over voting rights is getting uglier despite 15-hour but the effort is stalled in the texas house despite the democrats who fled to deny the republicans a quorum. joining me now, one of those courageous democrats, texas state representative jasmine crockett. jasmine, im so happy to see you this morning. im so happy youre on with me. this is insane, whats happening. how long can you guys keep this up? thank you for holding the line, but truly, how long can you hold

The systematic chipping away of our voting rights. and little by little, every session, we just keep chipping away until one day we wake up and realize our democracy is unrecognizable. >> that was it. 15 hours of talking on the senate floor to try and hold back the damage that republicans were doing. senate republicans rammed through their restrictions anyway, but the bill is now stalled in the texas house thanks to the democrat whos have denied republicans the quorum needed to pass it for a thi...

Without any breaks to block the chamber from blocking passing its voter suppression bill. >> heres what she said. >> we are is all this so-called fraud? the people are still waiting for someone to actually demonstrate where the evidence of fraud is? we are dissident? today it says [inaudible] tomorrow another systematic crisis, to facilitate chipping away our voting rights. every session, little by little, we just keep chipping away until one day we wake up and realize our democracy is unrecogni...

Look what happened tonight. a texas supreme court justice has undone that initial order. that order opens the texas democrats back up to being arrested, at any time, unless they return back to work so that the republicans can have their quorum, so they can pass through the house the bill making it harder for people to vote. the same one that passed in the senate this morning after a 15 hour effort by that one texas senator, to try and hold it up. what else can they do? these anti-small d democra...

Weeks. dozens of texas democrats from the house left the state entirely to deny the house quorum so that they couldnt pass the anti-voting bill through the house side of the texas legislature like they did last night. some of those democrats have since returned home. the republican house speaker as we found out last night signed warrants for their arrest for not showing up to work all this time. yesterday one of those democrats back in austin, he secured a court order shielding him from being ar...