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Door-to-door to attempt to serve warrants at homes to achieve a quorum to pass the bill. no arrests were made and they are unlikely to have a quorum. joining our conversation, the reverend al sharpton host of politics nation and the president of the national action network and from "the washington post" and political analyst donna edwards is here. rev, i know you call these folks in the trenches with you, fighting for voter rights legislation, but the truth is their strategy is still working. >>...

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...

Determined and interested in actually having them arrested. tell me what your thoughts are on this. >> as if you decide -- im not going to work today, i dont feel good, and therefore im not coming, an msnbc sent law enforcement to your house saying, no, you are going to come to the studio, were going to hold you captive until you interview a guest. its outrageous, thats why were asking the department of justice to look into whether or not this is legal. i commend the members of the texas house o...

Turns out they all test positive for covid. so theyve been doing everything wrong every step of the way. do i think theyre embarrassed? they should be. >> right. its also interesting to note that everyone who has to get on a plane has to wear a mask but none of them had a mask on. we saw you how that turned out. i want to talk about the filibuster, i want to talk about the highlights for the election reform bill that was passed. it eventually was passed. it was after that 14 hour filibuster. any...

Far hasnt ruled on the merits of this case, and so that is what theyre hoping to get in front of a judge. as that is continuing to play out in the courts, what is happening here on the ground at the capital is that the speakers office tells us yesterday the sergeant at arms did move forward with deputizing other texas law enforcement to compel that quorum, even if it means by arrest, but as a reminder, this was a vote that they took on tuesday. it is now friday, and they still have not gotten a ...

Have a quorum so they couldnt pass it there you the house side like the senate did last night. some of those texas democrats have since returned home. the republican house speaker has as we reported last night, signed out warrants for their arrest for not showing up to work all this time. yesterday, one of those house democrats who is back in austin, he secured a court order shielding him from being arrested i am today, 44 of his house democratic colleagues got a court order to prevent their arr...

Because literally minutes after she left the floor, the republican senators, on a party line vote, pass their bill to make it harder for texas people to vote in elections. on the other side, numbers on the house have been mounting their own delay tactics for weeks, dozens of texas democrats from the house left the state entirely to deny the house a quorum. so that they couldnt pass the anti voting bill through the house side, like the senate did last night. some of those democrats have since ret...

Their time is running out.

Democrats who flew to Washington, D.C. to break quorum during Gov. Abbott's special session will have the opportunity to return to Texas without being arrested.

Capital to deny a quorum in the house. the texas house democrats are facing arrest warrants sworn out for them last night. well be checking in with one of them tonight. but this filibuster is under way in austin. it looks like it may go at least overnight. tonight, as the department of homeland security is warning about the renewed threat of political violence from trump supporters, who believe his claims that there was fraud in the election, and that he will be re-instated later this month. ton...