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G.o.p. boating bill. >> directed to send absentees under warrant of arrest if necessary. >> texas democrats found safe haven in washington. republicans derided democrats jetting across the country on the state's dime. >> joyride on private planes with plenty of beer on board, and they are getting paid, presumably, even though they are not showing up for work? >> call it the texas two-step, the awol democrats blocked the texas bill exploiting a loophole in their own legislature's rules. texas state house lacked a quorum and could it meet. >> we need them to make a quorum. >> the democrats use p...

Happening in this hour. so obviously we will continue to monitor that. meanwhile, back in texas state house republicans are vowing to punish those absent lawmakers, voting to have the sergeant at arms arrest the representatives who walked out. >> members, the sergeant at arms and any officers appointed by him are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purpose of securing and maintaining their attendance, under warrant of arrest if necessary. >> okay. but even before that formal vote, texas governor greg abbott went on fox tv and made a more blatant threat....

>> for me, you know hard to watch the flip-flops by the democrats now on some of their positions around voter i.d., that was one of the most common sense things we did. there was a lot of bipartisan conversation throughout legislator about need for a voter i.d. bill, here in georgia, for absentees we had 23,000 people in 2018, and 1.3 million, we verified those with signatures it was inefficient. we were able to pull together an idea that not only has voter i.d., but off chance someone could not get a i.d., give us date of birth, last 4 of your social and you can cast your absencey it ballot. ...

Right with the rank choice voting without the absentees on june 30th. they corrected it. then you jump forward to today, july 6. the new york city board of elections promises rank choice with absentees close to brunch. but, again, as we were talking about, they released it early in the evening. i'm looking forward to my dinner. >> i look forward to your dinner as well. >> thank you, that's very kind. coming up, an update from georgia on the murder of a golf pro and two others found dead at a country club outside of atlanta. that's next. only 6% of us retail businesses have a black owner. tha...

He led when all the absentees came in. he was at nearly 31% of the vote. remember, anderson, we spoke about this. this was the first election in which voters would use rank choice voting. what happened when we put in the rank choice voting and everyone who weren't the top two candidates, you had the votes reallocated. what was the result? well, this was the result. look at this. eric adams wins by a single percentage point, less than 10,000 votes that he was able to win by. you know what? a little less than 10,000 votes is good enough. that's why we are projecting what we are. >> much of this ...