Texas House passes election overhaul bill that adds new restrictions

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Texas House of Representatives passed an election overhaul bill that would add new voting restrictions and penalties to address voter fraud, even though there was no evidence of it in the 2020 election. It’s the latest effort by Republicans across the country to reduce voting access. Beto O’Rourke, a former Democratic Congressman from Texas, joins AC360 to discuss the Texas bill and says young and old people, African Americans and the disabled will likely be most affected if this bill is signed into law. Plus, a federal grand jury has indicted Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis Police officers in connection with the death of George Floyd, alleging the officers violated Floyd’s constitutional rights. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig breaks down the new charges.  Airdate: May 7, 2021 Guests: Beto O’Rourke Elie Honig To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A great evening.
0:02.3	Welcome to a very weird night.
0:05.0	John Berman here in for Anderson and we end this week, possibly the last full week that
0:09.2	Liz Cheney has a voice in the Republican leadership, with her party fully embracing
0:13.5	the man who never won a popular vote was impeached twice and is incredibly unpopular according
0:19.2	to all polls and not only embracing him but his violent rhetoric and conspiracies as
0:24.1	well.
0:25.1	This is today's GOP.
0:32.1	Just today the congresswoman who may replace Cheney and leadership at least the phonic continued
0:38.1	her rounds on far right media with the sort of message a congresswoman with a moderate's
0:42.1	voting record has to preach in today's party.
0:47.3	We need fighters, President Trump is a fighter on behalf of the American people and voters
0:51.8	want fighters to stand up for them and that's what I'm committed to doing to unify the message
0:56.8	to earn the support of our Republican colleagues and fight for hardworking American families.
1:02.6	Now it's not necessarily a bad thing to be a fighter in politics it can be a good thing.
1:07.2	It's the fight this party wants to have that are the problem.
1:11.8	Staphonic herself in that same interview and for the second day running on far right
1:15.6	radio said she backed the Arizona and we use this term loosely audit.
1:21.8	A giant black hole of crazy that lacks any kind of transparency but has pulled the Republican
1:27.2	party into its orbit despite questions about the auditor and shifting standards and went
1:32.2	until we tell you about the new bamboo theory around the audit.
1:36.3	I'm not kidding and it would be funny if it weren't dangerous.
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