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Happening in texas. are you going back or staying? >> you know what? i am not going back. as long as congress is working and it looks like they are working very hard i will be here and we'll see this come to a head and hopefully see a vote in the u.s. senate before the end of next week. >> i first heard your colleague jasmine crockett talk about loving what was in the federal legislation but just needing an inch. saying making the argument publicly that something albeit narrow would be better than nothing. tell me how those conversations have changed the deliberations in washington. >> well, a...

Time for folks to early vote. so, look, that language was probably in some earlier versions weeks ago, but that language is not in the house -- >> are you sure? because i'm being told it's in hb-3 and s-1. >> i don't know about sb-1. i'm not in the senate. >> but is it in hb-3? >> no. >> are you sure of that? >> i am confident. >> that under cuts the idea of making voting ability people. allowing a judiciary to take an election. and we all know that we really don't want politicians or even courts deciding our elections. we want people deciding them. but even the other things that are in this b...

Modernizing and using the tall e p making voting more accessible and we need cob to pass h.r. 1. the for the people act. that's the only way we're going to save it. >> you call this a solution in search of a problem, but we know texas has some problems that aren't being addressed. this issue of voting rights is one of several sessions convened by governor abbott which also includes bail reform, social security censorship. critical race. >> don't forget critical race theory. >> yes. i mentioned that.

Of assault on our democracy and election process started last december in the lead up to the election. we are in the middle of the pandemic, real concern about physically going to pulling stations to vote. there is a flurry of people trying to vote by mail. many states trying to make voting by mail as accessible as possible. that prospect of making voting easier did not sit well donald trump's administration who railed against mail voting every chance they got. that attack on democracy appeared to manifest itself in the dismantling of the way that people were voting by mail, the post office, d...

To the election. remember, we were in the middle of the pandemic. there was concern about going to polling stations to vote and so there was a flurry of people trying to vote by mail. and many states trying to make voting by mail as accessible as possible. now, that prospect of making voting easier did not set well with donald trump's administration, who railed against mail voting every chance they got. and so, that attack on democracy appeared to manifest itself in the dismantling of the way that people would vote by mail. the post office destroying the way they sent their ballot. they would ...