reporter: it is unusual, but this is the second time in as many months that the texas democrats in the house there have done this. now you may remember the first time was the last few hours of the regular session back in may where they simply walked out of the building. this time they are flying out of the state, the majority of the texas house democrats are going to be getting on these private planes and flying to washington, d.c. where they should be landing sometime tonight. now they said that they did this after these committee hearings over the weekend, one of them went almost 24 hours, and they felt that the republicans were simply not going to work in good faith with them. i spoke to one of the representatives, fisher said in a statement democracy is in jeopardy, we must do whatever it takes to save this country. the special session is 30 days. so they have got to sit out the remainder of that session to deny quorum. i asked them how long they plan to do that because the gover
can simply call another special session, as many as he wants to. martinez fisher told me we re going to take every ounce to fight this, whether it s one session or ten sessions. governor abbott did just send out a statement acknowledging this quorum break that is being planned. he said the democrats must put aside partisan political games and get back to the job they were elected to do. try to convince them to pass federal voter rights protection. there is a chance that u.s. troops may head to haiti. the white house not ruling out that possibility following last week s assassination of haitian president jovenel moise. a u.s. delegation just returned from haiti today and briefed president biden. haitian police say they caught one of the men responsible for planning the assassination, bringing the total number of suspects who have been caught to 21. cnn s matt rivers is in port au
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earthquake. clearly there s going to be a change in direction. but i don t think anyone knows the answer to how it s going to turn out. host: we will open up our phone lines, and you can also reach us by to witter and by email as the conversation proceeds with david keating. we d like your questions or comments for him. we ll go to phone calls in just a couple of minutes. you heard a number of people call us during theast segment, concerned about the ex-ploy exportation of american jobs overeast. i wonder what your opinion is about free trade deals and what role they have played in bolstering the economy or exporting jobs. guest: there s no doubt that free trade is something that has bolstered the economy here in the u.s. one way of looking at this, to make it easier to understand, is that the united states, one of the geniusesf the constitution and the founding fathers, when they designed the new united states of america was that we would have a free trade inside the unite