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Fox News Live-20210531-15:00:00

fox news lives. a fox news alert. we begin this is a major standoff over voting rights in the lone star state. texas democrats walking out of the house chamber just before midnight to deny republicans the chance to pass a bill that would essentially tighten voting laws across the state. hello, and welcome to "fox news live" this morning. >> benjamin: democrats calling that bill and attack of rights on the ballot box. >> they don't want you to know the truth of that bill. they don't want you to know that you have rights. >> they are prepared to cut us off and prepared to silence us. we will not let them do that. we needed to send a message. in that message is very, very clear. we need a national response.

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Fox News Live-20210531-15:09:00

in no other country opened up 24 hours a day except for houston. legislature is now saying we're going to stop this from being 24 hours a day when no other place in the country does. that's the only thing democrats can hang their head on and say this is a racist thing by saying this is something that a democrat that in the last election cycle. that's all republicans are doing. they let their hair on fire and what they're saying is we need to have a national law that allows for all mail ballots, cindy voting registration, and eliminating cheaper and i'm not cheating flagrant ways. >> julia: laura, i'm going to give you two seconds to make your point before we cut it off here. speak out there is absolutely no

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Fox News Live-20210531-13:21:00

day for this country, they need to have a whole new respect for the men and women who serve. >> they're not getting more money at the moment and they're getting less when they need more. does this policy of defunding the police need to be reversed? >> absolutely. it must be revived. any community needs to feel safe. with this so-called defunding out there, they clearly don't feel safe. what is happening is that good men and women don't feel supported and they need more funding indecent police officers. >> benjamin: what i didn't understand is that even when faced with the statistics of increasing numbers of crime across the country, democrats do not seem willing to reverse these fault of my policies of defunding the police. can you explain it? >> citizens need to look at

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Fox News Live-20210531-15:01:00

>> benjamin: but governor greg abbott said that he will call for special senate to get it passed. this is about integrity. >> asking for i.d. when someone votes, i don't believe that his voter suppression. verifying signatures is very important as well. what the republicans here would tell you that they are trying to make sure that the person voting is the person on paper for a legitimate vote devoid of fraud. >> the democrats dramatic walkout left 14 minutes to members short, effectively killing this voting bill for the legislative section. don't act on next session. turner sparked the walkout after texting members at 1045 last

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Fox News Live-20210531-15:02:00

night to leave the building. he says that republicans have only themselves to blame for the way this ended. speak out democrats used the last tool available for us. we killed the bill. >> president joe biden also reacted to the voting law. he says that it is an attack on democracy that we see too often this year and on proportionately targeting black and brown americans. we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote. >> the texas law is shameful. in texas and throughout the country, they want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election. >> julia: texas democrats in

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