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being overly cautious, particularly when it comes to air travel. we're learning about what into the decision by the cdc. joining me now is jeremy diamond at the house with much more on this. what are you learning? >> reporter: well it appears that the cdc did consider the possibility of changing these travel restrictions, but ultimately decided not to do that. two federal health officials telling kaitlan collins that the possibility of changing travel recommendations was discussed but there was never really any real momentum behind the idea of changing those travel restrictions right...

House earlier this month would only reexamine votes in texas's largest counties, most of which went for president biden. the legislation, house bill 241, calls for an independent third party appointed by the state's top gop official to conduct a forensic audit of results in counties with more than 415,000 people. now, folks, of the 13 counties that meet that criteria, ten voted for biden last year. texas is already home to one of the major flashpoints in the fight for voting rights. democratic state lawmakers there fled their state earlier this month to block the passage of new restrictive vot...

Cannot be allowed to block legislation that has broad bipartisan backing and we certainly cannot allow an arcane senate procedural rule to derail efforts that a majority of americans support. we urge you to work closely with congress to support the passage of these bills by whatever means necessary. i love that last part, "by whatever means necessary." talk to us always bit about the gridlock in the senate and what democrats should be doing right now to sort of break that strangle hold that republicans seemingly have, and how things would go if the shoe were on the other foot and republicans a...

Nullification aspect of them. you know, the putting in place of mechanisms that would enable partisan officials to overturn results they don't like. you know, in reality it is pretty tough to out-organize if the results could be overturned, right? >> 100%. these laws are scary, michael. they literally say that the state legislature can undo an election and put in whomever they want. like that's what is going on with the bill in arizona right now. other places, they're just making it much harder to vote. all of these things are as silly, frankly, as checking under your kid's beds for monsters. ...

Now, i think that there is a room for compromise there in the discussion that way instead of completely blowing up the filibuster, because i think it would come back to haunt democrats if they did that and lost power in the future. >> neil, talk to us a little bit about the need for federal legislation in light of the supreme court decision we saw earlier this month on arizona's voting laws. how do you see that weighing in on what tara raises and reverend al on the impact of the filibuster on the behavior of senators? >> there's no question federal legislation is necessary. let me say it is so...