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Jay. we want to bring in texas representative jasmine crockett, we often turn to her during all of this, she has a pulse on what all of her colleagues are thinking. representative, so good to have you on, good morning. >> good morning. >> so can you tell me what youre going to do today and whether all of your colleagues are having each others backs and is this a collective decision? >> absolutely. first of all, thanks for having me back again. and i can tell you what im not doing, which is i w...

Present for quorum to be reached. that means 51 members cannot be absent. democrats used that to their advantage not once but twice this year killing an election bill that had voting restrictions in it during regular session in final hours of regular session and again for almost a full duration of the first special session by going to washington, d.c. and meeting with lawmakers there in attempt to have them push the federal voting rights protections over the finish line. texas lawmakers said loo...

As next week. critical race theory is something that they are looking at in this special session as well as vaccines and mask requirements for public schools, theres already an executive order in place from governor abbott, barring mandatory masks in schools and so theyre going to work on that. covid relief funding is an issue here. and so many others you just saw a list there on the screen. so its a highly contentious session and one thats not going to get off the ground here at noon, austin ti...

New restrictions on mail-in ballots and add criminal penalties for sending unsolicited ballot applications, among other changes. twice this year, texas democrats used this so-called nuclear option of denying quorum, which is required for the house to conduct state business. >> governor has the right to call us back as many times as he wants to. the governor knows we have every tool in our bucket which we intend to use. >> reporter: republicans say dont expect them to back off the bills just to g...

Yep... everything hurts. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ breaking news out of texas. another special session just it did not meet quorum without democrats. republicans want to eye dress a controversial election bill. nbcs jay gray is live in austin. jay, what does the process look like now without quorum? what happens next? >> reporter: yeah, joe, what happens right now is the waiting game continues. as you talked about, they gavelled in the second speci...

Lawmakers to put that funding back and if they dont do that, they run out of money at the end of the month, excuse me. so all the employee also no longer get paid. hes trying to put pressure on the lawmakers, get them back to austin and back to work but without those texas democrats giving quorum to that legislature, they cant do anything. all they can do in the next special session is sign warrants for their arrests and try and get those lawmakers back unless they have a quorum. you cant do any...

Did state out of the state for 26 days and killed that elections bill that had voting restrictions in it. house bill 3, at least for the first special session. they also talk about the fact that they feel theyve moved the needle in washington, d.c. for federal voting rights protections. but, look, the reality is that in about an hour, the house is going to attempt to gavel in for the final day of this special session, theyre not going to achieve a quorum and the question is whether theyre going ...

Pushing for bipartisan bills at the state level. >> the group of runaway texas democrats are set to discuss their next move in an upcoming news conference at 10:30 eastern. >> bill: jeff paul in dallas today. >> dana: who better to talk to about this than texas lieutenant governor dan patrick? two topics. i want to talk about this with the texas democrats, portugal democrats we can call them and also about the mask mandate. special session will be called. will they come back? >> i dont know if t...

Second special session with an expanded agenda that still includes election legislation. and i say attempt, because its not known right now if there will be enough democrats to have a quorum. this is how they have -- this is the way that they have sort of battled those voting bills, twice now by denying a quorum. whether or not theyre going to have the stamina to do it for another 30 days, thats still to be determined but they say theyre not going to give up their strategy just yet. >> make no m...

Continue to try and put pressure on the senate to hold another vote and, in their words, hopefully pass some kind of voting rights protection buzz ive also talked to some who say that there are texas democrats who are on their way back here to the lone star state. the question is, are they going to be coming here to the capital by noon on saturday? republicans tell me that they are confident that there will be some kind of quorum achieved eventually during this session. democrats have said they ...