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Restrictive voting measures? >> there's been great dissatisfaction among democrats especially the base and activists parts of the community with the biden white house for not moving as aggressively as they believe he should in trying to make sure that voting rights are not threatened consistently by states like texas and other states that have expressed disappointment with the 2020 election, and a plan has not been clearly laid out to make sure that these do not become law and, therefore, threaten perhaps democratic majority in the white house and the house moving forward as we head into midte...

Themselves with disease and death in texas schools, to take away the kinds of voting measures that made it safe for people to vote in the midst of a pandemic and which were according to "the new york times" some of the most secure voting measures. an austin american states reporter said there was no fraud he had heard of from the measures that were band yesterday. how does that happen? >> this is why you need to have open elections that are free and fair. when we have gerrymandered districts where they know, these legislators know in this next session so they'll be safe in the next elections. ...

Voting measures in the wake of the 2020 election, this would restore federal oversight over places, over states that have historically had issues with restricting voting for people of color quite frankly. the thing is, kirsten, where does this go? where does this go from here if anywhere? >> yeah. well, that's the problem. it's going to almost definitely die in the senate because there's no way that they're going to be able to overcome a filibuster. and this is sort of the tragedy of it. if you look back basically what this bill would do is just restore the 1965 voting rights act which is some...

Last four or five weeks have incessantly been covering it because it has a national domino effect as well. this rally in austin, it is coming as the texas democrats, as you know, left their state. they are trying to block restrictive voting measures, but republicans have certainly been hammering away at them for leaving, including during a congressional hearing this week. do you, julian, have any concerns of the optics of lawmakers fleeing texas? do you think it might dilute the concerns of voter suppression? >> i think the lines have been drawn very, very clearly. the legislators seem to have...

>> that was part of then-president trump's infamous call with georgia's secretary of state, pushing him to find conveniently the exact number of votes he needed to overturn joe biden's win. that has since spread far beyond georgia and has spurred hundreds of new voting restrictions, laws and proposals in some 47 states. i want to go now to nbc's garrett haake in atlanta and priscilla thompson in austin for us. garrett, bring us up to speed on this rare field hearing that senate democrats held there down in georgia. >> reporter: senate democrats wanted to find a way and a place to spotlight the...