activists were arrested at the hart senate office building. they were protesting the lack of momentum on two big voting rights bills in the senate, the john lewis voting rights act and the far the people act. today vice president kamala harris hosted some of the activists at a meeting at the white house to push the issue further. we re now five days into a dramatic act of civil disobedience by the democratic members of the texas state legislature. 51 democratic state representatives left the state to deny republican state legislatures the quorum that they would need to pass antivoting legislation. the governor of texas has said that as soon as they step foot back in the state, they will be arrested. all of this, this civil disobedience, all of this good trouble is somewhat cosmically tied. tomorrow is the anniversary of the death of john lewis whose acts of good trouble that helped bring around the voting rights
you are in a state that over the last 50 and 65 years, we have not often had the chance to talk to someone. you are actually in a state of civil disobedience right now. you have left your state so you will not be arrested as assigned by the governor of texas so you cannot be brought back to the legislature to be present and establish a quorum for legislation that will pull back on the voting rights of your fellow texas citizens. yeah, that s absolutely right. first of all, thank you so much for having me and thank you so much for covering this story. you know, it is quite disappointing that we are coming up on the year anniversary of john lewis, someone who gave so much of himself for the purpose of voting rights, yet instead of honoring his legacy and his sacrifice, we re rolling back the hands of time, the hands of time to a time in which he felt
act of 1965, tomorrow, the official ceremony honoring lewis will be the christening of the uss john lewis navy ship. speaker of the house nancy pelosi will lead a congressional delegation to san diego to participate in the christening that will honor the former congressman s legacy. proteges of lewis are calling for some more good trouble in his name on voting rights and there will be vigils around this country from georgia to new york to north carolina to texas to honor the late congressman and to carry his torch for democracy. specific, the protestors who were arrested yesterday and the texas representatives who are holed up in d.c. and the americans holding vigils across the country, they re calling for voting rights legislation at the federal level. without legislation at the federal level, voters in republican-controlled states all across the country might be out of luck which means all eyes are
so when we look at the numbers and i know the sacrifice she has made through the the years. there are plenty of people who died, fought, were beat, the least that i could do is give everything i got. i was elected to serve the people. whatever the sacrifice may be, it pales in comparison to what those who came before me were actually willing to do. i m doing my part so that little girls like the little one that showed up to my office this week, the 4-year-old child whose mother brought her in doesn t have to keep fighting this fight. it s ridiculous that john lewis is dead right now, yet we re still fighting for the very things that he was fighting for when he was in his 20s. proud of the good trouble that you and your colleagues are getting into. jasmine crockett, thank you for your time tonight. thank you so much. if you re eagle eyed, you