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officially voting to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. under state law, he's now temporarily suspended from his duties as he now awaits a senate trial. some of the counts included bribery, obstruction of justice, dereliction of duty, and fitness for office, abuse of public trust. this follows years of legal and ethical struggles -- and most controversial a.g.. texans called the -- most of the top texas republicans have been now mont the tub lick. -- with us now, nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson. priscilla, this is historic. what more can you tell us? >> alicia, it ...

like me, who should i be afraid of? that's it for us. "the reidout" starts right now. good evening, everybody. welcome to a special edition of "the reidout," live from beautiful orlando, florida. we're just five days away from the final voting day of the midterm elections. and baby, the stakes could not be any higher. a point that both president joe biden and former president barack obama have been making every single day. >> when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real life consequences. it's not some abstract political science question. we are all affected. and we ...

Be able to go through what is called the reconciliation process, and that really is the budget rules determined by the senate to make sure that it follows those budget rules so that just requires a simple majority. and then if you have that on monday, tuesday is the day that they could bring -- house speaker nancy pelosi bring both of those bills to the house floor. we know at least for infrastructure it had been passed by the senate earlier, and so that would be very significant if the house could pass that and send along to the senate, the president would be able to sign it rather quickly. a...

Happen that i think the way republicans have framed this thing and the scare tactics they've used will work against someone once this becomes law because the bad things will not happen. >> don't you have to concede, there may be celebrations in the white house and on capitol hill if this gets done but there are a lot of assumptions about the bill, including the financing and budgetary impacts you cannot take to the bank unless future congresses have the courage to live up to the obligations that this congress didn't have the courage to do, fair point? >> here's the deal, david, which is the as...

Doesn't happen, it just won't happen that i think the way republicans have framed this thing and the scare tactics they've used will work against someone once this becomes law because the bad things will not happen. >> don't you have to concede, there may be celebrations in the white house and on capitol hill if this gets done but there are a lot of assumptions about the bill, including the financing and budgetary impacts you cannot take to the bank unless future congresses have the courage to live up to the obligations that this congress didn't have the courage to do, fair point? >> here's th...