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Signing of the voting rights act, clearly the governor will throw red meat issues on the call of a special session. we still have tools in our tool belt. >> like what? what could you do? >> including not coming back for that special session. yes, the governor could be empowered to send law enforcement out to pull us back in, but we're already discussing, not only attacking the bill if we come back and fight it directly in the house chamber through procedure, through the rules, as we have done throughout, but also looking at continuing to break quorum. it's no secret that's something that's bee...

Would offer some sort of protection. the provisions of sb 7 were awful, from wanting -- >> that's the texas bill that will live to see another day, but for now you have stalled. >> absolutely. in that bill they created approximately somewhere between 17 and 19 new felonies for mistakes. they wanted to limit access when it came to vote by mail. part of the provisions that he actually outlined would expand vote by mail. so there's a lot of things this as a baseline would be more expansive than we have currently in texas, and that would be a good thing. >> what do you think? >> it's a great start...

Falls apart. what did you guys do in texas that has democrats so outraged? >> well, first of all, those texas democrats that she is calling courageous are a bunch of cowards. those are the people that walked out and prevented us from having the quorum to be able to vote on sb 7 which was the election integrity law here in texas. i don't find it a coincidence that they want to flood texas with illegal immigrant and also they don't want any voter i.d. they don't want any roll registration reviews. they want online registration. all the things that would undermine honest elections here in texas. ...

Everyone's complete certainty that sb-7, the voter suppression bill, was going to pass, their willingness to walk out and stop that bill from becoming law has purchased us some time. now it's important for us to make the most of it. and the person who can do the most is president biden, the most powerful man on the planet. we want him to use that political capital he has to help to compel the senate to pass the for the people act, which will stop voter suppression in texas, georgia, florida, across the country and open up elections to eligible voters and make sure that all of us can participat...

Is beto o'rourke, touring 22 cities across texas to rally for voting rights ahead of a special session planned by gop governor greg abbott. i spoke with beto while he was on the road. thank you so much for joining me on the show. i know it's humid and hot in houston. appreciate you taking time out. the texas democrat strategy of walking out of a state legislature and denying the gop a quorum, that was only a temporary reprieve, is it not isn't it inevitable that the gop will get this through at some point and it will be devastating to free and fair elections in texas? >> those texas house demo...