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Desantis vetoed it. what message does this send to black folks in your state from your own governor? >> well, it's the same consistent message he's shown since he filed hb-1, restricting and telling black folk how they can protest. since reconstruction, we only have had 11 congressional members in the state of florida. now we only have five. and now, these new happens, we will only have three black seats. the governor call it race neutral. we call it racist tactics. the governor knows what he's doing. so i'm happy with my colleagues in the house, what they did today. they took a stand against ...

Journalist and founder of "north side collision of jacksonville" joins me now. thanks for being here. tell us what happened as you came into that space to try to attend the press conference, then you were hauled off in handcuffs and then what happened? give us the story of what occurred. >> the bottom line is this governor does what he does best. he sets down anybody against him speaking to him from a different school of thought. he tries to shut people down. he's done the same thing with that hb 1 law that you just mentioned. we're suing the governor because we recognize that the right to pea...

Biden won by a larger margin in arizona than had originally been reported. right? and the reason i say that is that the president went to a rally and said the exact opposite, right? there are people who will never actually look at what the headline was from that -- that audit that was not an audit and they will just listen to what the president said. is there anything at this point that can be done to combat this message that trump is so successfully sending? >> he is an obviously very successful actor. tremendous delivering of an absolutely phony message. we don't have any actors on our side ...

Because they don't have access to money and to funds and to opportunity. i'm running for congress because of that oppression in those issues. the fact of the matter is, jonathan, we deserve better. i'm running to redefine what it means to be a politician. we shouldn't feel lucky to have people on our side. every person across the country deserves a representative and makes them smile. someone that reminds them that they're from the same community and they're fighting with them for a better life and for justice for all people. >> so, you just talked about your protest as part of the protest of ...

His comments have been correct. we have to ensure that these voting bills, the john lewis voting rights act, hb-1, have to pass. and i've been saying that we need to do whatever is necessary to move these bills forward and my hope is that in the senate folks like joe manchin, folks like kyrsten sinema who are the real barriers to us moving on this understand the necessity of this for voting rights all around the country, but also for their re-election. i don't understand how folks who will be on the ballot, you know, the next couple years don't understand the necessity of having a level playin...