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Kind of hunker down and brace for what is to come tomorrow. all right. kathy park for us. thank you, kathy. good to see you. let s talk texas for a movement. after 38 days the quorum break that brought the texas legislature to a screeching halt has come to an end last night. three new democratic defectors joined colleagues on the floor. given the quorum, the major thin margin it needed to resume work on the restrictive voting rights is allowed to move forward. with me is texas representative nicole collier, one of texas democrats holding the line and refusing to return to the legislature. thank you for joining us on this. i appreciate it. you shared a joint statement from your colleagues who have yet to return, and they called the decision for some democrats to join the quorum a betrayal and heartbreaking. do you share that sentiment? absolutely. it is very disappointing. this is not this is not at ....
But that historic quorum break in texas now is over and that voting legislation is already moving through the house, anderson. yeah. there s no reason to believe the outcome will be different other than, you know, than what it would have been before after all this. reporter: no, there isn t. and to give you an example of that, senate bill 1, which is this election overhaul bill that contains new restrictions and empowers partisan poll wokkers and adds criminal penalties, the senate passed it a week ago. they ve been waiting for the house to come back. the house came back today. there was already a public committee hearing scheduled in the house for saturday. so they seemed to plan to move quickly. diane gallagher, appreciate it. thanks. ahead on capitol hill the senate is not in session but three senators today announced they have covid-19. all are vaccinated. details next. plus the legal fight over vaccine mandates in florida schools. the superintendent of the state s largest sc ....
Here. i tried to tell him that and he s like, no, i m sticking up for my country. we need to get the country back to the way that it was. this highlights a theme that law enforcement has been grappling with, which is trying to find out where the threat lies among people who are sounding off on facebook, in addition to recognizing we remain in this heightened threat environment. so those statements made coupled with the fact he was saying, jim and poppy, he had a bomb elicited this enormous law enforcement response. fortunately no one was hurt. whitney wild, thanks so much. texas house democrats hiss or i can quorum break came to an end. three democrats returned to the floor clearing the way for republicans in that state to pass this new restrictive voting legislation. so this marks the first time the texas house has reached a quorum, meaning the number they need on the floor to move forward with something. democrats shall, as you will remember, fled the state 38 days ago. that h ....
That doesn t happen, anymore. everyone treats every incident like this very seriously. and then, when you couple it with the live stream of of this individual ranting about the government and specifically the president, that just raises the anxiety level even higher. and there s just no doubt that the world changed significantly for the people on capitol hill on january 6th. and what happened here today just brought that home in a very real way. ryan nobles, appreciate it. thank you. there is more breaking news tonight. this time on the end of a tense political standoff in texas over voting legislation that at one point led to threats of arrest. dianne gallagher joins us now with more on that. so what have you learned, diane? yeah, anderson, 38 days after those texas democrats got on planes and flew to washington, d.c., receiving praise from the white house on down. their quorum break ended with a whimper instead of a bang. the attempt was to block restrictive voting legislatio ....
It is now time for the president and the senate to finish the job. pass the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights act. the end of texas s second longest quorum break in its history and the ongoing fight for voting rights is where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. the reverend al sharpton is here, host of msnbc s politics nation and president of the national action network. also joining us, aaron haines, editor of large at the 19th and msnbc contributor. texas state representative ron reynolds is here. representative reynolds, let me start with you. how is it going and how do you feel about everything that you and your colleagues have been through over the last, i guess it is two-and-a-half months. nicolle, it is great to be on your show. i share the frustration articulated by representative crockett, my colleague, that we are extremely disappointed but we haven t finished what we started. we have a lot of momentum at our back. i wan ....