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Stephanie. that is why you really hear texas democrats calling on democrats in congress to get something done for the john lewis voting rights act. they are saying federal legislation to address voter access would really do a lot to counter the measures that are happening or on the march in places like texas, like the legislation that we saw passed successfully in georgia, passed successfully in florida, and being debated in state legislatures in more than a dozen states across the country, even...

Will: now its happening in texas. the reason why its happening. worth pointing out, all of the voting measures texas is follow the path of georgia. the question is are the measures we put in place during a pandemic year, huge changes in how we voted, right? mail-in balloting some states push balloting. we dont have to request it. texas we saw, lawrence, you just read it, no, no, no. you have to request absentee plotting we are not going to push it out. question is if you rein back in emergency p...

New voting bill, at least for now. joining us now is former republican congressman francis rooney. thank you for being with us this morning. i guess i want two takes here. one on what happened in texas overnight, your immediate take on that. but also, the bigger picture here of where this fits in the larger trend of republican-led state governments passing new restrictive voting measures. >> well, john, thank you for having me on. i think this is a reflection of that texas is just as dysfunction...

To sort of ease this bill, but its been in conference committee, and they said when it came back to them, just a couple of days ago, that they felt like it was worse, and ive been talking to them over the past week, they were trying to figure out what they could do, they said that this was basically going to the nuclear option and what they did last night, just before the deadline, take a listen to the democratic caucus chair, whose text message at 10:35 p.m., central time, sent sort of the gree...

Events of the past week make him think differently. he said, no, because he couldnt handle the fallout. that was the phrase he used. ali vitali, great reporting. thank you. joining us now to continue the conversation is a white house correspondent yamiche. we have 14 states that passed new restrictive voting measures. we know that many other republican-led states are looking at new voting restrictions. what are republicans trying to achieve with these measures? how are they using the cover of ...

And it would, we would think, pass. so you know, what do you think about this? this is not the end of this bill. >> youre right. its likely not the end. only the governor can decide whats going to happen next. as you say, he has the sole authority to call a special session and the sole authority to determine the agenda of a special session. what i hope the governor will do is say, you know what, this fever that is ripping the republican party across the nation, that is founded on the big lie tha...

Now, we could debate whether, how much fraud occurred in the last election, and democrats have claimed fraud had happened in the prior, previous elections, but one thing thats pretty clear to me, jake is that a lot of the american people seem to have lost faith in our government. theyve lost faith in our elections, that we need to restore. and i think if we can take measures to take fraud out of the system or even potential for fraud. now, covid was a very different circumstance where, know, you...

On paper so its a legitimate vote devoid of fraud. now, we could debate whether, how much fraud occurred in the last election, and democrats have claimed fraud had happened in the prior, previous elections, but one thing thats pretty clear to me, jake, is that a lot of the american people seem to have lost faith in our government. theyve lost faith in our elections, that we need to restore. and i think if we can take measures to take fraud out of the system or even potential for fraud. now, covi...

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We should add, who had republican governors or legislatures moved forward with restrictive voting measures. this is not some accident. if that map is the crime scene with the victim the american democracy, what is the motive? a fascinating new study moves us to the motive. two northwestern university psychologists asked people about the racial shift in california. if they had heard the state of california had become majority minority. in other words, that whites were becoming a minority in the s...