the texas legislature is still negotiating a deal on a huge package of voting restrictions. for over a week democrats and republicans have the texas house and the senate have been working in closed door sessions on a compromise to sweeping voting legislation. the original senate version of the bill would make it harder for people to vote across the board by taking away drive-through voting, limiting poll operations to 9:00 p.m. and closing early. voting locations in some urban black and hispanic communities. joining me is democratic state representative of texas representing the western corridor of dallas county and chairman of the mexican-american legislative caucus. good to see you again. thank you for being with us. you and i have discussed this before. this slate of proposals mostly put forward by your republican colleagues in the texas legislature are a solution to a problem that doesn t actually exist in texas, this rampant voter fraud that some in your
and we ve gone from quid pro quo to bribery to extortion. seven weeks of hearings, 16 secret closed door sessions, 12 public hearings now of which you are the last. hundreds of hours of testimony. and i really think that for those who hate the president, they haven t changed their minds, but a lot of americans who look at this and think, is that it, really? you re going to impeach and remove a president for this? now, like i said, if you don t like the president, you ve already come to that conclusion. many people wanted this three years ago. but for a lot of americans, they really look at that and they can see this. no evidence. zero evidence of any bribery. zero evidence of extortion. zero evidence firsthand of any quid pro quo. and, yet, impeachment is almost inevitable. and why? because the leadership of this committee has been unfair and dishonest. and i know we hear these crocodile tears from some of the
house of representatives has voted to formalize the impeachment investigation on the sets the ground rules long makers will use as they transition from closed door sessions to public hearings or the inquiry focuses on a telephone call made in july in which president trump asked ukrainian president for a lot of her selenski to investigate democratic political rival joe biden. let s get you the very latest on these developments from washington following the proceedings. alexander of a nominee alexandra so a pivotal vote did lawmakers voted along party lines yes they did expect that we only have 2 democrats who decided not to vote on the resolution both of them from swing districts and both of them have sat for the votes that they think that this is a bad idea that the democrats should focus instead on the measure is that or issues
coming that all point basically in the same direction which is trump s guilty have been pouring out of these behind closed door sessions. republicans have been very hesitant to join in that practice because i think they don t like it. when devin nunes was accused of the one he was chairman of that committee, when they were investigating this whole russia collusion matter, he got an ethics complaint filed against him and he had to step aside for a period of months while that was investigated. it was found to be baseless. republicans seem afraid of something like that. they re leaking like mad and it s working and the polls show that the majority support for impeachment and removal. martha: let s plan to that. 52% of americans you break this down by party, as an increase in democrats who are in favor of this. it s also let s put up the dash independence in june of 2019, 36% were in favor in october.
if the goal is to get information or testimony, our chair is failing. if the goal is to political theater, we re winning. congressman collins there and nadler before that. how could this back and forth, all of this rhetoric, how could it affect negotiations over bob mueller s testimony? bob mueller has committed to testify. i think he is largely going to stay within the four corners of this thing. i think we re going to see the doj try to constrain mueller. the white house is going to imply apply increasing pressure. i think they are concerned about members of mueller s team who are going to be called before closed door sessions of the intel committees. that s got the white house very nervous. how would the doj constrain bob mueller? we have heard the attorney general come out and very subtly, hint, hint, if bob didn t want to go through this, we would certainly support him. behind the scenes, i think there s pressure attempts going