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Texas lawmakers come to testify before our subcommittee about the struggle to defend basic democracy in their state. so, after this hearing, once this publicity stunt is over, when do you guys actually have this vote on the bill? >> well, it's going to happen. it's just a matter of when they want to come back to texas. and i'm assuming that some day they would like to come back to texas. the reality is the irony of this is that they are the ones stopping voting. they are the ones that are preventing the democratic process from working. and sort of the guise of protecting voting. the reality is...

At all to pass these restrictions on voting. yet in washington the democrats in the senate passed a protecting voting in america and it requires 60 votes now under current -- which means it requires at least ten republicans to join this initiative to protect the vote in the united states. what would you say to senator joe manchin about the fairness of that? that these laws can be passed without any democratic votes and state legislatures but in washington they need these ten republican votes under the current rule. >> but i would say to him that and any senator that's blocking and getting rid ...