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Today texas democrats hinted they might take legal action to attempt to block a slew of new voting restriction pushed by republicansed at democrats were able to block the bill's passage on sunday only by walking out of the capital building thus denying the legislative body the quorum required to pass any law but republicans have pledged to bring the issue and the law back up during a special session. cnn's sara murray joins us live. what options do democrats in texas really have? >> everything for them is on the table. part of the reason the last play worked is republicans had mismanaged their...

>> liz cheney needs to understand that you don't support one form of anti-democratic behavior that is voting restriction at the same time that you are opposing violent insurrection. both are anti-democratic measures. both are unamerican. you do have to be consistent. the republicans right now are anti-democratic in every sense of the word. lower case d. to the extent she's part of it, she's part of the problem. >> as i have mentioned several times on the show, i interviewed vice president kamala harris friday. we talked about a lot of things, george floyd justice in pleading act. we also talke...

Help recruiting. biggest long horn booster there is, but as governor. could be the round-about strategy here. not saying it's true. >> you make a good point. for the last 30 seconds, look what the texas legislature has done over the course of this session. the most conservative legislature we've seen in terms of new voting restriction, bans on race theory. eliminates handgun rules. punishing cities that defund police. texas turning purple, legislature says, no thanks. what's your read on the politics in the state? >> that's right. it's a state we've seen democrat make gains in recent years but...

Even if you don't like trump, republican party you think that something fishy happened in the election. i mean, it's just, you know, there wasn't, you know, they're not particularly like 2020 -- during the pandemic. trump did a horrible job. he was bad at the day-to-day being president. he was not a good president, no matter what you say. the reason he lost, because there was fraud or, you know, people who shouldn't have voted voted. i mean, we all know -- i think this is a problem across the country. it has to be resolved somehow. and, you know, we're going to i think we're going to see more....

What texas did. after the voting rights was gutting by the conservative majority on the supreme court, texas put in place a new voting restriction in that state and the legislature knew that new law would disproportionately keep black and hispanic texan from voting. black and hispanic texans that were legally able to vote but wouldn't be able to because of the new restrictions the legislature was putting in place and the legislature knew that when they were putting the new law in place and a federal judge in texas nailed them for that. did an absolutely comprehensive review of the creation of ...