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Over. we are seeing this protest, as the president said something we have not seen and likely six decades of interactions with the people of cuba in that country. encouraging of these people on the ground. >> mike: texas democrats taking off so the legislature would not have a quorum. len, whats your take? >> this is just absurd. i think the democratic party legislators just need to grow up. the democratic party telling us elections have consequences. elections in texas have consequences too and...

Representative from grand prairie, texas in the dallas fort worth region. as you just heard more than 50 democratic members of the texas house have left texas to stop republicans from passing the latest iteration of their voter suppression legislation. and you are going the hear primarily from some of my colleagues today because we have so many strong voices in our caucus. we want to give them the opportunity to speak to the public but just for everyones awareness, proceed durally how this works...

Constitution. and so this stunt is going to fail. they are going to come back and a quorum and i believe the legislature will do its job and protect the integrity of the elections. insure people can vote but insure we dont have fraud and people casting illegal votes. >> dana: somebody had to pay for the private jets. interesting to see who that would be. they did fundraising appeals as to the clue to the other reason this is happening. can i take you to cuba? tell us about your thoughts there an...

They dont want basic integrity steps to be strengthened in the state of texas. it is politics and they need to get back to doing their jobs. one way or the other they will. one of the things -- its interesting. one of the first assignments i ever had back 17 years ago when i was newly appointed as the solicitor general of texas one of the first questions i got is the speaker of the house of the legislature, the legislature was redistricting then and the democrats did the same thing. they fled. t...

>> we cant hold this tide back forever. were buying some time. we need congress and all of our federal leaders to use that time wisely. >> reporter: the democratic members of the texas house fled to washington monday evening on private planes to deny republicans the quorum they needed to pass a new package of voting restrictions, including banning drive-through polling centers and 24-hour voting and making it harder to remove partisan pollwatchers. other controversial measures like shortening vo...

Because those are the home states of two conservative democratic senators, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, in whose hands the fate of a national voting rights bill effectively sits. texas democrats hope that might pressure those two u.s. senators to change their minds about passing voting rights at the federal level.thde af bipehe because without federal protections, texas republicans are going to do what theyre going to do here. ultimately apparently the texasa democrats felt like that might be...

How they figure that out and get out of the state to break quorum is up to the texas democrats to figure out. ultimately what we need to be discussing is why is there legislation that is attempting to limit access to voting by americans? thats the real question. >> harris: why didnt they say and fight for it? >> how do you negligent with people who are so far from the middle? if they said theyve been in the state legislature, theyve heard the republicans demands and they arent willing to meet th...

Democratic amendments were voted down by all of the republicans. republicans did not listen to the arguments against the bill, to what most of their constituents were telling them. in both the texas house and the senate the republican bill that will make it harder to vote in texas was voted out of committee on pure party lines. a full vote in the house and the senate will be scheduled sometime later this week and will then be sent to the governor for his signature.tu bo and so democrats are tryi...

Up. republicans are passing anti-voter legislation overnight to prohibit texans from casting a ballot overnight. joining me now, state representative gina hinojosa. republicans plan to pass this. do you plan to walk out this time? >> when i saw all options are on the table, we are definitely considering that option. understand how difficult that is. getting over 55 members of our house to all leave the state, probably because the speaker can have us arrested and brought back to the florida house...

On their way to washington to, again, deprive governor abbott of a quorum there so a bill can pass through for him to sign. the truth is as malevolent as it is, the republican push to enact voter suppression laws predicated on a law also includes voter nullification laws. we have talked about this, laws that would remove the likes of brad raffensperger from the decisionmaking tree. without voting rights legislation, how do you protect? how do you guard the will of the people in the commonwealth?...