Mhm. >> We turn now to the situation in Texas where that state's governor, Greg Abbott, is threatening to remove from office Democratic lawmakers who have fled the state to block redistricting efforts. More than 50 Democrats left the state yesterday afternoon, a move that will prevent the Texas House from having enough members needed to consider and pass legislation.They say they plan to stay out of Texas until August 19th when the special session called by the governor comes to an end. Abbott added redistr ...

Over 50 Democratic lawmakers from Texas left the state on Sunday to ensure that the state legislature doesn’t have a quorum to pass a redistricting vote being pushed by the GOP. https://t.co/7Z1JkUqHug https://t.co/7Z1JkUqHug ...

But this isn't the first time Democratic lawmakers in the Lone Star State have left in protest of their Republican opposition in the state house. In 2021, they fled to Washington DC to deny Republicans the quorum needed to pass restrictive new laws on voting. Among those Democrats who helped in organizing the walk out was a young firstterm Democratic state representative named Jasmine Crockett.The civil rights lawyer went on to win a seat in Congress and has been one of the most prominent national voices ag ...

Joining us now, Democratic Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher of Texas. Congresswoman, thank you for joining us. Good to see you again.So, bring us into this move uh by the Democrats as they uh arrive very soon in Illinois tonight. What this represents and what sort of signal they're trying to send to the country right now. Yeah.Well, thanks so much for covering this. Certainly, this is big news in Texas, but it should be big news across the country. And that's what our Democratic representatives in our state le ...

Welcome back. Joining me now is Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California. Senator Padilla, welcome back to Meet the Press. Thanks for having me back. Thank you so much for being here in person. Let's start with the economy. President Trump, as I was just discussing with Kevin Hasset, his decision to fire the head of the BLS. Of course, it has prompted some backlash. You just heard Kevin Hasset defend the move. Now that the president is appointing a replacement to head the BLS, my question for you, will ...

Joining us now, semaphore politics reporter Dave Wigle, Punch Bowl News co-founder and MSNBC political contributor Jake Sherman, staff writer for The Atlantic and MSNBC contributor Mark Lieovich, and former North Dakota senator and MSNBC contributor Heidi Hydeamp. Thank you all for being with us. Jake, starting with you, this new Texas map targets Democratic US House members in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and in South Texas as well.Is this a done deal. Um will the how will the current representatives how are t ...

Republicans in Texas yesterday released the first draft of a new congressional map aimed at picking up five seats in next year's midterms. Texas Governor Greg Abbott added redistricting to the special session agenda at the urging of President Trump and his political team. Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 congressional districts in Texas.Under the new maps, the President Trump would have carried 30 of 38 seats, all by more than 10 points. House Minority Leader Hakee Jeff is in Texas meeting with De ...

And Senator Padilla joins us now. He's a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. >> Senator, thanks for joining us.We know the Office of Special Counsel this White House submitted a new name to lead up that office, a Trump loyalist, some may say stick. Do you really believe that the office of special counsel under this administration would do an investigation into this. Look, I know there's questions and whether they may or may not actually do the job of investigating, which by the way, they have confirme ...

From pole taxes to white only primaries, Texas has discriminated against voters of color for generations. >> Please complete your testimony. >> You have the power to reject that.To reject the pressure from President Trump and national Republican operatives urging you to offset their anticipated electoral losses elsewhere by redrawing the map in Texas to discriminate against minority communities. That was Democratic Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher pushing back against the GOP plan to redraw Texas's congression ...

Joining me now is Texas Congresswoman Julie Johnson, vice ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee. Welcome, Congresswoman. Glad to have you here.And we just heard from your colleague, Congressman BC there. Whose district, like yours, could be on a redistricting target list. What could proposed maps look like for your seat.Well, you know, they're absolutely targeting Dallas County um because we are a very high voting Democrat voting uh area. And so they're trying to really fajit distribut it, howev ...