our job was to rally the nation, and our job was to rally the nation and bring people to washington, d.c. because just by chance if we came together we would not only get the senate to hear us. we would also get them to act. we will get them to act. that was texas state representative trey martinez fisher, today addressing a rally gathered outside the capitol urging congress to pass the for the people bill. martinez-fisher is one of the democratic legislatures from texas who fled to d.c. last month in a bid to deny republicans there the quorum they need to pass the states voting restrictions laws. they were joined by more than
making time for us. it s an honor. it s great. look, we ve covered this issue every day in the afternoon, and it s really a privilege to get to talk to you. and i wonder if you could pull the curtain back. the democratic legislators feel optimism. they feel they ve conveyed to all of you they don t need the whole package. they just need something. is that has that focused efforts in the senate? yes. and your first speaker you featured was trey, who i consider a friend from texas. those legislatures and really legislatures from across the country have come to washington just as they did in the 1960s asking for salvation. they can t get this done in their states because as reverend warnock pointed out in the clip you featured, some people don t want some people to vote. and that is really, really put in stark focus in georgia where their laws literally say the runoff period where warnock and ossoff won and registered 70,000 people, they changed the law
the co-chair of the poor people s campaign, reverend william barber, also arrested again. poor people s campaign are ramping up the number of rallies and marches to call attention to four demands they want lawmakers to address to end the filibuster, pass all provisions of the for the people act. raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour of they are not the only ones trying to spur change this washington. 100 state legislators traveled to d.c. to stand with the texas democratic lawmakers who fled their state to block that restrictive voter bill. the plan to hold a rally outside the capitol tomorrow at noon to urge congress to pass voting rights legislation. they will also hold private meetings with members congress. joining us is florida state represent anna, spearheading this effort to bring state legislators to the capitol and trey martinez fisher, a texas lawmaker who fled the state to stall a restrictive voting rights bill. thank you for joining us tonight.
. just a few hours from now vice president harris will meet with poll workers and other election officials at the white house where she ll hear their concerns about voting rights in america. this follow the vice president s meeting last week with a group of texas democratic lawmakers who fled their state and went to washington, d.c. for a month to prevent the ability for the texas legislature to vote. joining me is one of the state lawmakers, represent trey martinez fisher, a democratic. good to have you. first of all, you announced over the weekend you have covid. i m glad to hear, as you told me, you re feeling okay, just a mild fever. but it s meant that you re quarantined. i wonder what that means for your hopes of accomplishing what you want to get done in washington, d.c. does it prevent you from having more meters with senators while you re there with the president? i know you were hoping to. in some ways, it kind of
ization and death. but not perfect. and as community transmission rises, more and more virus around there. and you massively expand the number of exposures with a new, more contagious variant, and a pool of people who are not vaccinated, you will just as a matter of math, expand the number of fully-vaccinated people who end up catching the virus. texas state representative, trey martinez fisher, is one of those texas democrats who traveled to washington, where he then tested positive for covid. and he joins me, now. thanks for joining us, representative. first, how are you feeling? you know, chris, thank you for asking. i m feeling okay. i have a mild-grade fever. but i m in good spirits and i think i m recovering pretty well. what was your reaction when you got that positive test? i tell you what. it it really freaked me out. i woke up on a sunday morning. it was a typical-sunday morning. i had my coffee. i read my news. i spent some time on the yoga mat. and i was getting rea