you don t want to miss that conversation. we do, in fact, want to begin with breaking news out of the state of texas. public hearings on republicans latest efforts to overhaul the state s election procedures are underway. voters are flooding today s proceedings with their own testimonies after the house and senate unveiled their sweeping plans to limit voting access this week. both bills set to be debated over the coming days during the legislature s special session, largely resembling republicans first attempt to pass a restrictive voting act back in may, which failed, of course, after democrats staged a last-minute walkout. the governor then vowing for the special legislative session, which is where we find ourselves now. want to bring in nbc s priscilla thompson at the texas state capital and nbc s jane forest to walk us through stuff. priscilla, i want to start with you. kind of give us the a-b-cs this hour and what you have seen take place so far. reporter: yasmin,
the numbers getting worse, a public safety issue and political one. plus another decision day from the supreme court. 12 cases left, gang, including several on voting rights and freedom of speech, as always, we have our team ready to go for any breaking developments as we get them sometime in the next couple of minutes here. good morning. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill and kel i-o donnell at the white house. this is a new day in d.c., right? the path forward on voting rights seems very difficult. it seems like there might be some movement on infrastructure although even that is facing some hurdles. and the biden agenda, the democratic agenda really on the line. that s absolutely right, hallie. it will be very difficult for democrats to clear the issues they re trying to get through congress and the congress of course is the road block. the voting rights vote failed last night. democrats are continuing to say
party has been hard at work for decades to redefine terms, concepts, and historical events all for one purpose, to redefine what america itself means and also to take away our freedom. thus, basic terms of, for instance a biology, are redefined. the factual classifications of male and female are continually expanded beyond sex to include dozens of gendered domain gender categories. my pronouns are she/her/hers. and committed to doing the absolute most to protect black mothers come protect black-birthing people. laura: the term illegal alien or even illegal immigrant is branded xenophobic even when it s factual. no human being is a legal area we are all children of god. what you cannot do is to label a person illegal. there is no such thing as an illegal human. [applause] laura: don t you miss her candidacy? now, the term racism is redefined and thrown around casually, supplement it with adjectives like systemic and structural. most white people are oblivio
basically owns the democrat party has been hard at work for decades redefining terms, concepts and historical events for one purpose, to redefine what america itself means and take away our freedom. this basic terms of biology are redefined. the sexual classifications of male and female are continually expanded beyond sex to include dozens of gender categories all without regard to science. my pronouns are she, her, and her. i m committed to doing the most to protect black mothers, protect black people. the term illegal alien or even illegal immigrant is branded xena phobic even when it is factual. no human being is illegal. we are all children of god. what you cannot do is label a person illegal. there s no such thing as an illegal human. do you miss her candidacy. the term racism is redefined and thrown around casually supplement with adjectives like systemic and structural. most white people are oblivious to systemic racism and inequality simply because the
this is a live look at brooklyn center minnesota tonight, where protests are expected tonight for a fourth straight evening. this is all happening after a 20 year old man named dante wright was shot and killed by burglar son in police officer during a traffic stop on sunday. that officer resigned from the forest yesterday. as did the police chief in brooklyn center. today prosecutors arrested the officer charged with manslaughter in the second degree, but we will keep eyes on brooklyn center tonight, as we have for the last few nights. there have been several dozen arrests, each of the last few nights. it has been very heated confrontation between local residents and the police. including a lot of projectiles thrown. tonight there is a curfew in effect. in brooklyn center minnesota, it starts at 10 pm local time which is 11 pm eastern. you can see things get tense there, particularly at nightfall. i should also tell you there s an increased presence of national guard troops