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They get paid by the taxpayer. and for a regular hard working person in texas, the so-called leaders just leave when things get tough or they don't like what the opposition says, they don't like that. i agree with you, they will pay for that. have you heard any specific objection from the fleeing democrats that say in this bill this does x, y or z to restrict voting? >> they have no specific objection. they make the same objection you orparticular hated in your opening statement. it denies people their voting rights. what we are doing as you pointed out. we are making sure we remove dead peopl...

Them got off with basically a slap on the wrist for their crimes. the dude in forty fort pennsylvania prosecutors dropped the most serious charges against him. the guy who voted for his dozens years dead mother swearing she was alive, he got five years probation. the local republican elected official in ohio who voted for his dead father, he got jail time. he got three days in jail and a $500 fine. and it is worth keeping that context in mind when you also remember the case of crystal mason. we have talked about crystal mason. in 2016, she went to her local polling place in tarrant county, tex...

Off of voting rolls and to in many ways orchestrate a way to go back to states' rights on voting, which the supreme court decision led to doing. >> the roberts court several years ago said the civil rights laws needed to be updated and congress needed to update those laws. jon lewis drafted a bill, right now hr-4, much more likely to pass than hr-1, which many democrats said will never pass in its current form and i know there's negotiating going on to figure out what version of that bill can pass. any specifics about moving hr-4 first? i know you've spoken with joe manchin as well? >> we met ...

On friday, the republican secretary of state announced that he was going to purge over 100,000 voters from the voting rolls in georgia, which is one of the things that we have been talking about all the wile in the last few months, in the last few years. that has been just an overly egregious way to purge the list and to minimize the impact on black voters. in addition to that, this saturday, today, there are several members on the local election boards that are being taken off the boards for no apparent reason, other than the republican party thinks that they shouldn't be there, and they've b...

Impactful as some of its critics had claimed. what have you seen in the last few months? >> let me say what we've seen even in the last week. on friday, the republican secretary of state announced that he was going to purge over 100,000 voters from the voting rolls in georgia, which is one of the things that we have been talking about all the while in the last few months, in the last few years. that has been just an overly egregious way to purge the list and to minimize the impact on black voters. in addition to that, this saturday, today, there are several members on the local election boards...