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>> reporter: yeah, anderson, it's happening right here in palm beach county after just the second day of school. 440 students are in quarantine after covid was dedicated. according to the online dashboard for the palm beach county school district, they say that more than 50 cases have been confirmed among students and teachers. they are spread across 20 schools. at one high school there are seven students who tested positive, one elementary school. there are four who tested positive. palm beach county at it state's tenth largest school district. they have a mask mandate, but parent are allowed...

But it really is up to congress to legislate, make things like going on in texas can't happen across the country. >> yes, ali. thanks for having me, and you're exactly right. that was actually part of the big purpose of the 1965 voting rights act to begin with, particularly section 5 which was eventually gutted several years ago. but part of the purpose was to avoid exactly what you're seeing, avoiding states would be able to take away our rights or localities would take away our rights and we'd have to fight it state by state, county by county. part of the purpose of the voting rights act was...

Was based on shoddy research. >> the trump administration, it's my understanding,s had real concerns about the methodology of that study, the quality of the analysis, bending evidence to feet preconceived narratives. that was their concern. >> some former state department officials say they were concerned about the methodology in that report. others say these objections were unreasonable, designed to stonewall an investigation into the lab leak theory. former officials say they paced their findings, in part, on information from the lawrence livermore national laboratory. it state in the report...

Are empowering what are called poll watchers, which is really historically in the '80s there was an order against the republican party doing this, bullying voters, bullying election officials. the third piece is some of the laws are penalizing criminally or with huge fines election officials for doing their job, for leaving a ballot box open for too long or sending a mail-in ballot to someone who does not request it. i don't know who is going to show up for the really important jobs to make our elections function if they're going to be criminalized for doing their jobs. the fourth piece, as yo...

Whatever i want, that is in defiance of the separation of powers. that's not what our constitution says. what does it state? our democracy. what are we finding for? defending our democracy for the people. do you know that in the early days of our democracy, thomas payne says the times have found our founders who declare our democracy, to fight a war of independence, to write our founding documents and thank god they made them amendable so we could always be expanding freedom. and the genius, again, the genius of that constitution was the separation of powers. any usurping of that power is a vi...