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About voting rights. representative moody is the first democrat to face retaliation for breaking quorum. republicans have tried to strip other members of their leadership post. has he even threatened to arrest the democrats when they return to texas. i want to come to you, representative gervais, because, im sorry jobs johnson, representative johnson. from what i understand, you are facing, as a result of being here in washington and leaving texas, you are facing threats. a lot of threats. and f...

Poll watcher can become -- provision in the texas law which is not a high threshold so just intimidation is not efficient so to the elections judge must observe the actual behavior. and so a voter alone reporting this behavior has suspicions rise that threshold and so the poll worker most of already given that one warning. moreover, it adds a new violation for poor workers to refuse to allow a portrait to be there even if they know that that poll worker, poll watcher has been problematic in the ...

They can have unintended consequences. but he is definitely committed to voting rights. >> all right. and i want to mention something that happened during that meeting with senator manchin on thursday. the republican speaker of the house in texas stripped democrat joe moody of his position as speaker pro tem. representative moody is the first democrat to face retaliation for breaking quorum. and republicans have tried to strip other members of their committee leadership posts. and governor abb...

To washington so that there would not be a quorum, so no business could be transacted in the texas state legislature. why? because the republican majority wanted to change the rules on voting and to sharply curtail the ability of people to vote, particularly african americans and people from poorer communities. voting day is usually a tuesday — well, you know, a lot of people have jobs where they actually cant take the day off, so there are all kinds of ways, now, you can vote and the texas le...

Texas legislature from having a quorum so they can pass the new voting restrictions. my question is on the ground there in texas, how is this playing? is it changing any minds, turning people on or off the democratic argument or is it just mobilizing both sides and making them angrier? >> well, i think right now its both sides are gaining something out of this but i think ultimately this thing works against the democrats. you said new voting restrictions. let me set the record straight. this law...

Saw as a huge plague on the economy and say the 1970s and beginning part of the 1980s. the white house doesnt think so. but, when you see gas going up, when you see housing going up, when you see costs of automobiles going up, thats something that people feel and the biden team is going to -- theyre doing whatever they can to try to smooth out the bumps. they had a meeting on friday with representatives of the housing industry and labor unions to try to say how can we ease bottleneck so you can ...

They tell me that it wouldnt stop them from necessarily voting for those folks again but that they to want to see some sort of bipartisanship on this issue, that this is not the long-term solution. ive spoken to a couple of republicans who didnt want to speak on camera but one shared his wife is one of the retired teachers who may not get her 13th check because of some of the other legislative issues held up with democrats breaking quorum. he says democrats ought to do their jobs. if this were r...

And said we are not going to move on remittances. i fascinating. and it is one to watch, including the situation in south africa. let me ask each of you to tell us about some other things you think we should be watching that have not had enough attention so far. michael first. there is something going on in america. there is always something going on in america. this is vocal politics, a lot of us here in britain and around the world think joe bidens president and donald trump is making noise do...

Youre saying fine, they were effective in not of giving the republicans a occur rum, youll -- quorum, youll do the same thing on a $3.5 trillion tax and spend. >> vice president harris, you i expect you to pat us on the back. hell yeah, i would leave. i would use everything in my toolbox. its got nothing to do with infrastructure. its a tax and spend dream of the socialist left. if it takes me not showing up to stop that, i will do it because if we pass that bill, youre going to have inflation t...

Story in the country right now is the voting rights push, the stuff going on in texas, the fact that all these texas legislators have now gone to washington to avoid there being a quorum so that the texas legislature can pass voting rights stuff. a lot of these texans have met with the vice president and other legislators in washington. we also saw joyce beatty, the congresswoman, being arrested along with others later -- earlier this week. or later last week. where does that stand, and is the w...