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To continue their protest action untiljacob zuma is released from prison. nomsa maseko, bbc news, pietermaritzburg. texas democrats are leaving home for washington today in a last—ditch effort to prevent the passage of a restrictive new voting bill in the republican—controlled legislature. 51 of the 67 house democrats say they will exit the state tonight on a pair of chartered flights from austin, to prevent texas republicans from attaining a quorum, which is required to conduct state busine...

Theyre trying to do this again, and at this point, we dont know if their objectives here are to delay this and just try to make sure it never goes through, or are they trying to get changes to what they find objectionable in these proposed laws. were going to hopefully find out more about that, but what we do know is that these house democrats from the state of texas are leaving the state of texas, coming here to washington, d.c., as they attempt to block a quorum and not allow a vote on these v...

More than 50 of you. i think 51 of you got on planes and headed out, i know that you are driving out of texas. yall would have to stay out for about 30 days throughout the whole special session in order to deny a quorum. is that the plan? is the plan to stay out of the state for 30 days? >> it absolutely is. were committed to being gone as long as it takes. thats in fact why i drove. we wanted my family to come with me, which i think shows the commitment that were making. were going to be in d.c...

Or even the vast majority -- the vast majority of republicans. not just those at cpac. i went to cpac a couple times back when we were talking about issues. so my hope is in the future. my hope is with young people. my hope is with those people who know what can separate reality from fiction. thats kind of where i live. >> and were going to keep speaking the truth and giving our viewers -- >> absolutely. >> the facts so they can be the judge. former ohio governor john kasich, i appreciate your p...

On voting by mail, as well as the use of ballot boxes in 24-hour voting. take a listen to what took place. our voting take a listen the bill >> also e night, or 24-hour voting. i know your response is a key voting hours will be extended. how much of this is associates associated with a pass election? >> i dont know. i know that we heard testimony there was difficulty getting election workers and poll watchers. but i dont know about evidence of fraud. >> that state senator who actually wrote that...

Themselves, they are just going to vote the way they are instructed to vote. so on the house side that committee is made up of six democrats and nine republicans. that is to ensure that if somebody gets a little weak, to make sure that it still passes out of committee. so i anticipate that these bills will actually be passed out of their committees tonight. >> i just want to make sure were clear on the process. first they have to go through committee and then to the full chambers after this, is ...

Stage tuesday set to give a big speech on voting rights. mean whiles dozens appeared to oppose voting restrictions bill and democrats are weighing their options. joining us with the latest nbc news correspondent josh lederman. josh, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. democrats are saying that all options are on the table, but those options are quite limited at this point, lyndsay, with beto orourke, the former congressman and voting rights activist saying that one possibility could be fo...

Behind the whole thing. where do you think this january 6th committee is going? do you think kevin mccarthy will pull well-intentioned republicans there to try to get to the bottom of what happened? or are you worried hell put people in who will try to obstruct the process. >> i believe -- he has shown repedestrianedly hes acting at every request of the former president donald trump. hes not acting in the best interests of the congress. we can expect, if he does put individuals on there, these w...

That option. but please understand how difficult that is. that means getting over 55 members of our house to all lead the state probably because the speaker can have us arrested and brought back to the floor of the house if we arent present and quorum is broken. also understand too that our job is not a full-time paying job. it is a job where we get paid about $7,000 a year. most of us have other jobs and families to get back to. we just came off a six-month session where we have made the sacrif...

See? >> yeah, democrats in the senate here have proposed the barbara jordan fair elections act. they say that would do things like extend the early voting period, it would expand access to mail-in voting and eliminate what they consider, quote, unnecessary barriers to the ballot, but senate democrats know they dont have the majority here. they do not expect to get a hearing on that bill. so, the real question is, what comes next? they could break quorum as we saw them do in may, they could try t...