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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20211230 03:33:00

Texas republicans have pulled out all the stops this year to restrict access to the ballot box. but maybe in a show of defiance, that hasn t stopped texans from registering to vote. the houston chronicle report, since the federal judge forced texas nearly a year and a half ago to offer limited online voter registration, 1.5 million texans have used the option, according to new state data. and lest we forget, texas republicans justified their restrictions by using trump s big lie. now we re finding out how big that lie really was. in 2021, the texas attorney general s voter fraud unit got a larger staff and an oversized budget of 2.2 million. but according to the houston chronicle, the unit closed just three cases this year. down from 17 last year. ....

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Transcripts for CNN Early Start With Christine Romans and Laura Jarrett 20211228 10:05:00

Getting close to the peak we saw in early september. in new york city the number of kids in hospital with covid increased five fold over a peer week period according to state data. a doctor in chicago said the number of young patients at children s hospitals has quadrupled. this is happening ads the education department stresses the importance of safe in-person learning. this is such an extraordinarily contagious virus, it s getting not only adults, but it s getting down into children, spreading among them. and even if the proportion of children who get serious illness is small, if you infect a very large number of children, there will be an increase in the number of cases of children who need hospitalization. in terms of transmissibility it s high including to children. i have a colleague who was on service last night at boston children s hospital emergency department, and saw multiple children with omicron well, ....

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