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President biden is reading whatever script the writers handed him trying to get people to step into their big top. >> that legislators want to make it harder to vote and if you vote they want to be able to tell you your vote doesn't count. any reason they make up. >> so dramatic am also totally false as we pointed out last week. the texas bill expands voting hours for all registered voters and a bill to lower the population threshold for counties to provide additional early voting hours, terrible. notice none of these democrats ever mentioned the actual specific of the legislation. we know why...

>> reporter: even as he spoke, dozens of texas house democrats were fanning out across capitol hill, one day after they fled the state by private jet. >> we're hoping that congress would understand the urgency. reporter: without them, a specsession of the texas legislature ground to a halt today. >> the motion fails for lack of quorum. >> reporter: holding up a vote on a g.o.p. bill that would scale back vote by mail and give more rights to partisan poll watches who could intimidate voters. the bill would also criminalize drive-through voting and other measures aimed at easing voting. >> doesn...

Restrictions in texas are on hold, with democratic lawmakersg passage by hun blocking passage by hunkering down 1,500 miles away here in washington. and, president biden is speakinn out forcefully against reps who have already changed election laws in more than a dozen other states.s' cbs' nancy cordes reports from the white house. >> we must act and we will act for our cause is just. >> reporter: speaking with unusual fervor in philadelphia, president biden accused republican leaders of embracing autocracy. >> they want to be able to tell you your vote doesn't count, fo. any reason they make ...

Cases. now, are we going to conclude, as they tried to imply, that the number of prosecutions tells us about the seriousness of the violation? everyone knows that in texas, in 2020, more blacks voted for conservatives than republicans, more latinos voted for conservatives than republicans. in fact, the legislature picked up seats among the right, rather than losing seats. there is no claim whatsoever -- no truth whatsoever to this claim. >> laura: no, they are freaking out because they are losing the monopoly on the minority vote. if that goes down, they are finished, they are finished as a pa...

Expensive as well? feed the geek in me. >> the basic program would be this could exist today using the fares that are now business class fares which where high any way. but again, the deal for an airline today you have something called premium economy, they need more real estate for that. you take the business class passengers and the same fare and put them on this one and they have more real estate which so it is a winner for both airlines. being supersonic doesn't count. so the time you save is usable so you're not arriving and departing at 3:00 in the morning. so for all of the av geeks out...