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Bills that don't pass by midnight yesterday effectively die. and so we were determined to either kill it by talking on the bill to prevent a vote from coming up, killing it through a procedural maneuver, and as a last resort, leaving the chamber to deny the necessary quorum. we are required to have 100 members on the house floor of a 150 member house. so it became clear republicans were going to resort to an extreme tactic to shut off debate, even though we were still fighting the bill, they were going to force a vote on it prematurely. that forced our hand, and that's what led to the walkout ...

Fact that there is some pushback against the president's emergency declaration amongst republicans in the senate? >> yeah, i think they're terrified of the president -- precedent that it's going to set and they know that for all of the yack-yack that they had during the obama years ago usurping congressional authority, there is no greater step than what's been taken with this emergency declaration. they're hoping the courts bail them out and they're hoping that they won't be held accountable, but i think of all the things that are happening right now, this is the piece that has the worst resul...

Issues because that's where congress and republicans in congress are really failing as well. >> did you see some hope in the fact that there is some pushback against the president's emergency declaration amongst republicans in the senate? >> yeah, i think they're terrified of the president -- precedent that it's going to set and they know that for all of the yack yack that they had during the obama years ago usurping congressional authority, there is no greater step than what's been taken with this emergency declaration. they're hoping the courts bail them out and they're hoping that they won'...

African-americans. that's the reason their law wound up in court and some of those provisions were added back in. you had liberal early voting in north carolina. you had the automatic registration for high school students as they were about to turn 18. there were all these liberal voting provisions that were struck down by the legislature there. it's part of what's driving, quite frankly, a lot of activism around early voting and around voting by african-americans in the state. it's part of what's driven up the unpopularity, quite frankly, of the governor who's also on the ballot up for re-ele...

Aunt, if she supported walker, when the voter didn't know, she was given an absentee ballot application to sign had her behalf. it was caught by the city clerk and say it's apparent voter fraud. >> it makes more work when people try to defraud the system. but we caught it. we knew we would. we have never had one slip through. they're not going to get an extra ballot on. that won't work. >> eric: could there be voter fraud in this race? we have the communications director with media trackers, a conservative watchdog group. brian, welcome. what are you concerned about? >> eric, as we go into the...