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Falls apart. what did you guys do in texas that has democrats so outraged? >> well, first of all, those texas democrats that she is calling courageous are a bunch of cowards. those are the people that walked out and prevented us from having the quorum to be able to vote on sb 7 which was the election integrity law here in texas. i dont find it a coincidence that they want to flood texas with illegal immigrant and also they dont want any voter i.d. they dont want any roll registration reviews. th...

In west virginia, you could vote if you were incarcerated by mail. you cant do that in texas, so as we went line by line and talked about several subject matters of s-1, it was very clear that texas and the rest of the country is not like west virginia, and that we do need a national standard that actually empowers people to vote, and thats what s1 is trying to accomplish, and i think that it was very instructive for the staff to understand in other parts of the country, there is a lot of voter ...

So for instance, in west virginia you could vote by mail, join a pandemic. you could do that in texas. in west virginia you, could vote by mail. if you work to certain shifting you werent able to vote during the day you couldnt do that in texas. in west virginia, you could vote if you were incarcerated by mail. you cant do that in texas. and so as we went line by line and talked about several subject matters of as one, it was very clear that texas in the rest of the country is not like west virg...

We know that the entire nation watched as we walked off the house floor, breaking quorum, and therefore killing sb7, probably the worst voter suppression bill in this country. but we thought we needed to go a step further. we all understand that actions speak louder than words, and so we came up here, and weve been speaking with lawmakers all day long. >> so, the conventional wisdom, and take it for what its worth, its not worth much, but is that this voting rights legislation, without manchins ...

Voting rights from attack, but also hold attackers incluing the former president to account? ultimately history will judge whether the democratic party rolled over when it mattered most. one democrat who is not sitting idly by is beto orourke, who is touring 22 cities across texas to rally for voting rights ahead of a special session planned by gop governor greg abbott. i spoke with beto while he was on the road. beto, thank you so much for joining me on the show. i know its humid and hot in hou...

Prepared to do everything it takes but also hold the attackers including the former president to account? ultimately history will judge if the democratic party rolled over when it mattered most. one democrat who isnt sitting idly by is beto orourke. hes touring 22 cities across texas to rally for voting rights ahead of a special session planned by gop governor greg abbot. i spoke with him earlier when he was on the road. beto orourke, thank you so much for joining me on the show. i know its humi...

Is beto orourke, touring 22 cities across texas to rally for voting rights ahead of a special session planned by gop governor greg abbott. i spoke with beto while he was on the road. thank you so much for joining me on the show. i know its humid and hot in houston. appreciate you taking time out. the texas democrat strategy of walking out of a state legislature and denying the gop a quorum, that was only a temporary reprieve, is it not isnt it inevitable that the gop will get this through at som...

Well. difficult situations in terms of breaking news. lets go back to the voting rights. where does the senate bill stand now? >> well, the senate bill that we killed in the house is dead. we have killed it, dead for now. when we took action to walk off the house floor to deny the republican majority a quorum, we used every tool, every tactic we had to protect the voting rights of texans. >> so when you said its dead, i understand that. but then you added for now. could this be resurrected? >> t...

U.s. senate candidate for florida, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and coming up, a joke in washington where the quorum is defined as any meaning of the president of the united states, and the chairman of the senate finance committee. they speak, washington listens. today ron wyden told me its time to abandon hopeless negotiations with senate republicans and pass an infrastructure bill through reconciliation with democratic votes only. chairm...

Journalism and let me go to you first. what happened in texas is what you would think could happen in theory in d.c. that democrats just said no. walked out. denied a quorum. now you have republicans saying oh, whoa, whoa. it was a typo. the idea a judge could overturn an election is abominable. one of the guys who wrote the bill calling his own provision abominable. the message to me is the bullies tried to take your lunch money. give em a good slapping around and they leave you alone. >> well,...