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The republicans making their decisions. >> the importance of mccarthys conversations with president trump -- >> im not going into that now. the committee will establish working with staff what the were not having that discussion right now in this room. jake? >> how do you anticipate getting started? are you going to wait for mckarth toy choose his people or -- >> we hope they would choose them expeditiously. a quorum. let me go back to the purpose. your presentation this morning reminded me that...

That information why didnt we have a different presence built here? if you were concerned about riots, why would you put the riot gear in a bus that was locked and down the way? at the time that the riot took place, why was there not communication that had direction from leadership because leadership wasnt talking? there are so many failures along that way that happened the days before that allowed individuals to get into the building. thats what we want to make sure it never, ever happens again...

They could be part of those decisions. yes, sir. >> chair thompson, i wan so ask you about -- and madam speaker, the importance of mccarthys conversation with president trump. >> im not going into that now. the committee will establish working with staff what the priority of timing is on how we go forward. were not having that discussion right here now in this room. jake? >> do you anticipate getting started? i mean mccarthy could choose -- are you going to wait for him to choose his people or a...

♪ eric: and at the bottom of the hour, time for the headlines that were following now. that suspect in a brazen daylight shooting in new york city has now been captured. authorities say michael lopez was on parole when he allegedly was shooting at a man on a bronx sidewalk. you see those young kids ducking for their lives caught in the hid ifing of it all. thankfully, neither of the kids was hurt. the shooting victim in this incident is recovering. democrats in the texas legislature suing go...

Quorum. we wont foreclose that option but it will be the last thing we do. you know, we want to first work with our colleagues to try to come up with a comprise. >> all right. texas state representative nicole collier, thank you very much. inside u.s. relations with the european union. are we on the same page when it comes to some of the key global issues were facing? im going to talk to the eus ambassador to the united states. up next on "ayman mohyeldin reports." states. up next on "ayman mo...

What will happen? its like most states dont have it already. and they all just legislate. its fine. a lot of them pass terrible stuff to get me wrong but it doesnt make thing nonfunctional. the majorities passed the laws and the asymmetry between whats happening in the states and whats happening at the federal level just knocks you over the head every day especially as we see texas in the other states just marching to the same drum. >> yeah i mean its like this extraordinary act in texas for the...

About election integrity. safeguarding our elections after all of the chaos of the 2020 election. here in texas, republicans tried to pass one of the more extreme voting restrictive measures that we have seen across the country. democrats only able to block that by staging a dramatic walk-out of the state legislature a few weeks ago that denied a quorum. now the texas governor, greg abbott, a republican, he is so upset about that that he is withholding pay to state legislators because he says, t...

Our colleagues throughout the country who are subject to voter suppression bills and really getting the attention of the country. the key thing is that we pass federal legislation that gives us a backstop in texas against these very restrictive measures. >> i want to get to that federal legislation in a second. are you saying you would be willing to even leave the state to break quorum? >> brave texans have done it in the past to protect voting rights and avoid gerrymandering. i would be willing...

Signing of the voting rights act, clearly the governor will throw red meat issues on the call of a special session. we still have tools in our tool belt. >> like what? what could you do? >> including not coming back for that special session. yes, the governor could be empowered to send law enforcement out to pull us back in, but were already discussing, not only attacking the bill if we come back and fight it directly in the house chamber through procedure, through the rules, as we have done thr...

Vice president describe the texas slate state legislators who managed to block a republican bill restricting voting rights by walking off the house floor and denying the texas house representative the quorum needed to pass the bill. in a white house meeting today, some of those texas democrats pleaded for help from congress by passing federal voting protections. >> what we are seeing our zion pulse of an attempt to interfere with that right, and attempt to marginalize and take from people a righ...