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Representative jessica gonzalez, one of the democrats who staged a walkout to block that bill. governor abbott is going to veto funding for your branch. how do you feel about that? >> well, that kind of came as a shock that that would be his response. we were hoping that this -- the outcome, what happened in the texas house and when democrats chose to break quorum -- for a conversation not had in the texas house with regards to this sweeping bill. >> governor abbott says he'll schedule a special session to work on this bill and presumably, the republicans, they have the votes. they have the go...

They said they were going to get rid of -- polls. historic sunday. a lot of churches get out there and get people to vote that was not in the bill. they also targeted voter harvesting as well. so, again, a lot of stuff was talked about this bill when the final language came out, they were still sticking with the same talking points. here is greg abbott the governor of the great state of texas. election integrity and if emergency items legislative session. they still must pass. they will be added to the special session agenda. legislation will be expected to have work out the details when they ...

Fire. if we have law enforcement members killed because of the walk without, there may be hell to pay at the ballot box in 2022. todd: let's get back to the voting bill. here is the governor saying election integrity and bail reform were emergency items for the legislative securities and exchange commission. they will be added to the special session agenda. legislators will be expected to have worked out the details before the session. is there anything democrats can do to stop the voting rights bill or is this a done deal during the special session. >> they can try to walk out again and again...

In georgia, it was overcome by a year's long conversation you have a right to vote so it's a mobilization effort that seems to be underway now in texas, particularly amongst democrats. >> yeah, i mean, well, certainly, unfortunately democrats here were the minority so this bill is bound to pass the house and be signed into law because it is one of the governor's emergency items. i think at this point, you know, when this bill does get signed into law, our only resort is to litigate this. it litigated because this law is unnecessary. texas clearly has a history of discriminating against brown a...

Services in the morning. >> and so is this all but done at this point? is this all but set in stone, is there anything that the democrats could do to stop it? >> they could raise points of order in the house to try to delay further consideration. and so it could get kicked to a special session where it would ultimately being passed. so it looks like that they could force it into is special session. but this is definitely a priority of the governor. he named it as one of his five emergency items. so i think that this will make it to the governor's desk and he