all of us in harris county and these brave, courageous legislators. it is horrific to see people being jailed for voting when they re registered to vote and believe they ve done nothing wrong. armando martinez and judge hidalgo, thank you so much for coming on the show tonight. well, it s not just texas, of course. the republicans are voter suppressing all over the place. they want to do a fraud-it, shall we say, in pennsylvania. joining me now is pennsylvania state senate democratic leader costa. thank you so much for joining me tonight. what is happening in arizona, the fake audit is mad, it s ridiculous, local election officials in arizona have slammed it. are republicans in pennsylvania really going to copy arizona and do the same? they re trying to do that here in pennsylvania. and my colleagues in the senate democratic caucus are taking every step that we can to prevent them from continuing to put on this charade.
ploy, he has gone after a political platform. you know this is exactly what republicans are doing across this nation. and he has placed politics in front of people. he is going to restrict the vote in order to make sure that republicans get what they want. and he has placed a political agenda in front of what s important. and that is the people of texas. so it is just unconscionable. it s reckless. it s juvenile, what republicans are doing. judge hidalgo, it s not just a political agenda as representative martinez points out. real people are suffering. tonight there s news out of texas that the state attorney general, ken paxton, has arrested a houston voter, hervis rogers, who went viral last year after lining up for six hours on super tuesday to vote, he s accused of illegal voting because his parole was done in june. he s in jail and his bail has been set at $100,000. what is your reaction to that case from your county?
we re fighting hard to make certain that our colleague, senator mastriano, doesn t get the opportunity to do audits. we re working closely with the attorney general and the governor s administration to prevent him from being able to conduct one of these audits. he doesn t have the authority because of a chairmanship of a seldom-used committee, certainly not used for this purpose, to conduct audits along these lines. we think it s the wrong thing to do, obviously, and we re going to continue to fight it. is joe biden, is the democratic president of the united states, your party leader, is the federal government, doing enough to help democrats like yourself in swing states like pennsylvania where republicans are in the majority in the legislature? i think they have done enough. i think they ve been very clear about what needs to be done and the conversation that s taken place, it s simply that our republican colleagues in pennsylvania and across the country continue to travel down th
marjorie taylor greene and matt gaetz shamelessly spew white nationalist ideology and talking points. political message is beyond extreme but they re more or less carnival barkers, in it for the self-promotion. bigger danger is house republicans like paul gosar, he fliesar the flies under the radar, not as loud a talker. before the insurrection, said this. once we conquer the hill, donald trump will return to being president. been accused as one of the organizers of the stop the steal rally that sparked the insurrection. i came up with the january 6th idea with congressman gosar. on january 6th, paul gosar
about how this infrastructure and how the environment will affect all of us, not just democrats. what we re hearing is a frustration with a certain faction in the democratic colleagues, feeling, to jonathan s point, are way too eager to compromise and/or roll over for republican needs and wins. i think that s where some of the tension is coming from because many of the democrats are saying, the republicans asked for this so let s give them that and let s not fight too hard. many progressive democrats are saying, if we re the democrats we should be the ones willing to fight and we shouldn t just take $4 trillion and $2 trillion, if we want 6 we should ask for 6 because that s what we need for the crumbling infrastructure in our nation. jonathan, let me throw a question at you. some people say, fdr, lbj, they had big majorities in congress, joe biden doesn t. isn t that the whole reason he needs to move fast? if one single democratic