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Stephanie. that is why you really hear texas democrats calling on democrats in congress to get something done for the john lewis voting rights act. they are saying federal legislation to address voter access would really do a lot to counter the measures that are happening or on the march in places like texas, like the legislation that we saw passed successfully in georgia, passed successfully in florida, and being debated in state legislatures in more than a dozen states across the country, even as we speak. listen, we know that these voting measures are targeting those black-and-brown voters ...

Will: now it's happening in texas. the reason why it's happening. worth pointing out, all of the voting measures texas is follow the path of georgia. the question is are the measures we put in place during a pandemic year, huge changes in how we voted, right? mail-in balloting some states push balloting. we don't have to request it. texas we saw, lawrence, you just read it, no, no, no. you have to request absentee plotting we are not going to push it out. question is if you rein back in emergency protocols are he engaging in voter suppression? raw racist? if you are you now a racist if you put...

New voting bill, at least for now. joining us now is former republican congressman francis rooney. thank you for being with us this morning. i guess i want two takes here. one on what happened in texas overnight, your immediate take on that. but also, the bigger picture here of where this fits in the larger trend of republican-led state governments passing new restrictive voting measures. >> well, john, thank you for having me on. i think this is a reflection of that texas is just as dysfunctional as our federal congress is when it comes to trying to accomplish something that is fair and balan...

To sort of ease this bill, but it's been in conference committee, and they said when it came back to them, just a couple of days ago, that they felt like it was worse, and i've been talking to them over the past week, they were trying to figure out what they could do, they said that this was basically going to the nuclear option and what they did last night, just before the deadline, take a listen to the democratic caucus chair, whose text message at 10:35 p.m., central time, sent sort of the green light, the rest of the members, let's go. >> what i hope the governor will do is say, you know w...

Events of the past week make him think differently. he said, no, because he couldn't handle the fallout. that was the phrase he used. ali vitali, great reporting. thank you. joining us now to continue the conversation is a white house correspondent yamiche. we have 14 states that passed new restrictive voting measures. we know that many other republican-led states are looking at new voting restrictions. what are republicans trying to achieve with these measures? how are they using the cover of trump's big lie about the election that he lost to do it? >> republicans, they continue to insist t...