that continues to be in place. bottom line, harris county under the constitution is not allowed to come up with their own rules. what texas a is doing, by adding more hours, we re making it easier for people to vote. one last point, chris. that is, if you look at the hours of voting that texas provides, it is far more hours of voting than exist in the state where our current president voted in where they had exactly zero hours of early voting. it s far easier to vote in the state of texas than it is in delaware and yet nobody is claiming there s some type of voter suppression taking place in delaware. chris: let me ask you about the special session in general because some democrats say and this was the word they used that you are using it to pander to trump supporters on the far right of the republican party. i want to put up some of the key agenda items, voting reform as we talked about, border security, social media censorship, transgender student athletes, critical race theory,
bottom line, harris county under the constitution is not allowed to come up with their own rules. what texas a is doing, by adding more hours, we re making it easier for people to vote. one last point, chris. that is, if you look at the hours of voting that texas provides, it is far more hours of voting than exist in the state where our current president voted in where they had exactly zero hours of early voting. it s far easier to vote in the state of texas than it is in delaware and yet nobody is claiming there s some type of voter suppression taking place in delaware. chris: let me ask you about the special session in general because some democrats say and this was the word they used that you are using it to pander to trump supporters on the far right of the republican party. i want to put up some of the key agenda items, voting reform as we talked about, border security, social media censorship, transgender student athletes, critical race theory,
cbs lilia luciano is in los angeles. lilia, good evening. reporter: good evening to you, errol. crowds are here at one of l.a. s biggest parks as the golden state awaits for that green light to reopen on tuesday. but a return to normal has its roadblocks. a busy sunday in los angeles as covid weary california is less than 48 hours away from removing mask mandates and fully reopening. it almost felt like this day wouldn t come. california has gone a great job. washington d.c., chicago and philadelphia are reopening this weekend but nationwide many places face roadblocks to recovery. that includes vaccine anxiety, shots are down more than two thirds from the april peak. a new cbs poll finds 29% of adults surveyed will not get vaccinated or are still deciding. and in texas a federal judge ruled against hospital workers who said they shouldn t be fired for refusing to get vaccinated. another covid concern, the delta
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