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murder for 78 minutes, has not yet explained that decision. three weeks ago arredondo was elected to a second job as a member of the uvalde city council. he intended to continue to serve of as the chief of police for the uvalde school district while serving on the city council. peter arredondo was scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow as a member of the city council at a meeting of the uvalde city council. earlier today, that uvalde city council meeting is scheduled tomorrow was cancelled. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside robb elementary school in uvalde. they touched the photos of the 19 murdered children and the two teachers who lost their lives trying to save lives of those children. president biden and first lady jill biden attended sunday mass in uvalde at a catholic church filled with mourners, including some of the family members of the victims, and as the president was leaving, some in the crowd pleaded with the president

Transcripts for MSNBC The ReidOut 20210823 23:20:00

you, representative hinojosa. i want to give you a little color. this is stuff you know, but for our viewers, right now in texas there s reporting that the new texas covid surge could be worse than anything seen yet. here is the new spike in cases in july. july 1st, seven day average, 1,464 new cases. one month later, 17,508 new cases. how many icu bets remain in the entire state of texas with 29 million people? that is 347 for 29 million people. the total number of cases in texas is now north of 3.4 million and the total number of deaths is 55,522. that s like some countries. yet your state legislature, here is their list of agenda items for their special session. this is what they find important. overhauling bail to make it harder for people arrested to bond out of jail without any

Transcripts for MSNBC The ReidOut 20210823 23:26:00

with president biden. again, representative hinojosa and her colleagues did that. they forced this issue on to the public agenda, and they forced the president to respond to that. we need to keep that pressure up until this thing gets passed, because if we don t it is unfortunately going to get much worse in texas. this god awful agenda you just described in the special session, you will see something like that in the next special session and the next regular session. we will lose the ability to freely decide who represents us in these important positions of public trust. so, mr. president, please get the for the people act and john lewis voting rights advancement act passed as quickly as you can. i will give you the last word on this, representative hinojosa. people forget the 1963 march was not a march to support john f. kennedy. it was a march on john f. kennedy demanding he pass the original civil rights act. he had to be pushed to do that and that anniversary is coming up this w

Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210821 02:32:00

quorum? that s correct. they did not have the sufficient numbers present on the floor of the house to conduct business. they ignored that constitutional requirement. they declared quorum present. and they have proceeded with business illegitimately, unlawfully. so at this point, it is clear that we are now dealing with a whole new ball game here. these republicans had tried to rig our elections by passing these voter suppression bills. now they re rigging the system on the floor of the texas house to try to push through their agenda and hold on to power at all costs. okay. so then representative hinojosa, what recourse do you have? if this is being done unlawfully, can t you lawfully stop them? well, we could be present to call for verification. but that would add to quorum. so it s somewhat of a catch-22.

Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210821 02:30:00

democracy. they managed to get some of the most egregious restrictions removed from the bill. and they put intense pressure on congress to pass federal voting protections. now congressional democrats are responding to that pressure. on tuesday, house democrats introduced the john lewis voting rights advancement act to restore key provisions of the 1965 voting rights act weakened by the supreme court over the last decade. and today, democratic congressman colin allred introduced a new bill aimed specifically at blocking republican attempts to interfere with and take over elections. joining us now are democratic congressman colin allred from texas. he s a voting rights attorney. and texas democratic state representative gina hinojosa. thank you both for coming to the last word. representative hinojosa, what do you expect to happen next week with the republicans when you come back into session now that

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