>>> COMING UP IN THE NEXT HOUR OF LOCAL NEWS ON ASU PROFESSOR WHO WAS IN MINNEAPOLIS, IN GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE, WHEN YESTERDAY'S VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED.

ON CRONKITE NEWS, HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEASONAL ALLERGIES AND SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19, AND ON BREAK IT DOWN: THE SUCCESS BEHIND THE HIT SHOW "RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE."

IT'S ALL IN THE NEXT HOUR ON ARIZONA PBS.

>>> GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME TO "ARIZONA HORIZON."

I'M TED SIMONS.

REACTION CONTINUES OVER YESTERDAY'S MURDER CONVICTIONS AGAINST FORMER POLICE OFFICER DEREK CHAUVIN IN THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD.

ONE OF FLOYD'S BROTHERS TODAY SAID THOUGH VERDICT WAS A HUGE STEP TOWARDS JUSTICE.

>> AFRICAN AMERICANS WE FEEL LIKE WE NEVER GET JUSTICE, AND WE ALWAYS FEEL LIKE IT IS JUST US, AND FOR THE OFFICER TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, THAT WAS A MAJOR STEP IN THIS COUNTRY.

>> A NEW STUDY SAYS THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS AGREED WITH THE VERDICT.

MOST OF THOSE SURVEYED SAID THEY DID FOLLOW AT LEAST SOME OF THE TRIAL COVERAGE.

>>> ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND TORN SAID TODAY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WILL INVESTIGATE DISCRIMINATORY CONDUCT BY THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

>> THE INVESTIGATION I'M ANNOUNCING TODAY WILL ASSESS WHETHER THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT ENGAGES IN THE PRACTICE OF USING EXECUTIVE FORCE.

AND WHETHER THEY ENGAGE IN DISCRIMINATORY CONDUCT, AND WHETHER ITS TREATMENT OF THOSE WITH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ISSUES IS UNLAWFUL.

>>> CONGRESS IS WORKING ON REACHING A DEAL ON A MEASURE THAT WOULD OVERHAUL POLICING ON A NATIONAL LEVEL.

DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE HAVE ALREADY PASSED A BILL THAT PUTS A STOP TO AGGRESSIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT TACTICS, AND NOW REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING A PROPOSAL THAT WOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE TO SUE DEPARTMENTS INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS.

>>> COUNTY ELECTION EQUIPMENT AND BALLOTS WERE TRANSPORTED TODAY TO VETERANS' MEMORIAL COLISEUM WHERE AN AUDIT IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE.

THE SENATE WILL NOT MONITOR THE AUDIT, AND THERE WILL BE LITTLE OR NO MEDIA ACCESS.

>>> AND ARIZONA SENATORS KYRSTEN SINEMA AND MARK KELLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE SITUATION AT THE BORDER IS A, QUOTED, CRISIS, AND THEY ARE IN NEED OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S HELP.

>>> GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE IS AN AUTONOMOUS ZONE THAT HAS BEEN SET UP NEAR THE SITE WHERE GEORGE FLOYD WAS KILLED BY A POLICE OFFICER.

ASU PROFESSOR MICHAEL MCQUARRIE, WHO'S ALSO THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR WORK AND DEMOCRACY, HAS MONITORING THE SQUARE FOR MONTHS AND HE IS OUT WITH A SHORT FILM ON WHAT HE FOUND.

♪ >>> EARLIER TODAY WE SPOKE WITH MICHAEL MCQUARRIE, WHO IS STILL IN MINNEAPOLIS AND WAS AT GEORGE FLOYD'S SQUARE WHEN YESTERDAY'S VERDICT WAS REACHED.

MICHAEL MCQUARRIE WELCOME TO "ARIZONA HORIZON."

GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE.

WHAT IS THE SCENE IN MINNEAPOLIS TODAY?

>> WELL, AT GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE, WHICH IS THE SITE WHERE FLOYD WAS MURDERED, PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATORY.

THERE IS A HUGE SENSE OF RELIEF, AND THERE ARE LOTS OF JOURNALISTS AROUND AS WELL, SORT OF GETTING THE ACTION.

IN MINNEAPOLIS, GENERALLY, THERE HAVE BEEN PROTESTS AT THE COURTHOUSE, AND THERE'S A NATIONAL GUARD PRESENCE AROUND THE CITY.

>> NOW YOUR FOCUS IS OBVIOUSLY GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE.

WHAT IS GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE?

>> SO GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE IS AN AUTONOMOUS ZONE WHICH WAS CREATED AFTER AN IN-PROMPT TO MEMORIAL TO GEORGE FLOYD WAS BUILT IN THE DAYS AFTER HIS MURDER.

POLICE WENT THROUGH AND ATTACKED MOURNERS THERE, AND IN THE WAKE OF THAT, THE COMMUNITY PUT UP BARRICADES, AND THE INTERSECT SHUN BECAME A SORT OF BASE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE PROTESTING, PEOPLE WHO ARE MOURNING, AND EVENTUALLY THE CITY ALSO JUST PUT IN JERSEY BARRIERS TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING KILLED BY DRIVERS WHO WEREN'T AWARE THAT THAT INTERSECT SHUN WAS PACKED WITH, YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND PEOPLE.

AND THE COMMUNITY HAS MAIN TEARED THOSE BARRICADES EVER SINCE, SO IT HAS BEEN 331 DAYS NOW, THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS HELD THE INTERSECT SHUN AS A SITE OF PROTEST, AND A MEMORIAL SITE FOR GRIEVING.

A SACRED SPACE FOR MOURNING AND GRIEVING.

>> THIS IS THE FOCUS OF YOUR RESEARCH.

YOU HAVE A FIVE-MINUTE DOCUMENTARY ON GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE.

IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH THIS DEVELOPED ORGANICALLY.

>> IT REALLY DID, AND IT'S A -- UNLIKE A LOT OF AUTONOMOUS ZONES LIKE IN THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT IN 2012, IT IS AN AUTONOMOUS ZONE IN AN EXISTING URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT'S IN A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.

WHICH MEANS NAVIGATING THE GROWTH REQUIRES DEALING WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT CONSTITUENCIES WHO HAVE VERY DIFFERENT ORIENTATIONS TO THE PROTEST, AND HIRES PRETTY STUNNING INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNITY-BUILDING CAPACITY TO MAKE THAT FUNCTION, AND THAT IS MY MAIN INTEREST IN THE SQUARE, IS WHERE THIS SOPHISTICATION COMES FROM TO BRIDGE ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE IN THIS VERY URBAN COMMUNITY.

>> AND YOU FOCUSED ON THE PARK FROM LAST AUGUST TO EARLY THIS YEAR, AND WERE YOU LOOKING AT HOW IT DEVELOPED?

WHAT EXACTLY WERE YOU STUDYING?

>> MOSTLY HOW IT FUNCTIONS AND HOW THAT POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE WORKS TO KEEP AN AUTONOMOUS ZONE FUNCTIONING, AND KEEPING A COMMUNITY ABLE TO GOVERN ITSELF, DESPITE THE TREMENDOUS COMPLEXITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD IN TRANSITION.

THERE ARE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS THAT GO BACK DECADES, AND ALL OF THIS HAS TO BE NAVIGATED AND DEALT WITH ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS, IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE ARE NO POLICE.

SO THE COMMUNITY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE'S NEEDS.

THAT COULD BE A HOMELESS PERSON COMING INTO THE SQUARE LOOKING FOR FOOD OR WARMTH, TO CONFLICTS THAT EMERGE IN THE SQUARE, AND THEY HAVE MOSTLY SUCCESSFULLY MANAGED TO DO THAT FOR 11 MONTHS NOW, AND AS A RESULT, I THINK THEY VIEW IT AS A BEST PRACTICE AND PROOF OF CONCEPT OF HOW YOU CAN HAVE COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE AS OPPOSED TO RELYING ON POLICE.

>> AND YOUR VIDEO LOOKS AT THE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE IN GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE.

ARE YOU SURPRISED THE MEDIA HASN'T PAID THAT MUCH ATTENTION TO THIS PARTICULAR AUTONOMOUS ZONE?

>> FLABBERGASTED.

THEY ARE VERY ATTENTIVE NOW, BUT -- ESPECIALLY WHEN I FIRST STARTED WORKING THERE IN AUGUST, THERE WAS NO ONE, AND THE SQUARE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF A SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE, BECAUSE MOST OF THEIR INTERACTIONS ARE IN PERSON IN TWICE DAILY MEETINGS, AND TALKING TO EACH OTHER IN THE STREET, SO I WAS QUITE SURPRISED AT THE LACK OF MEDIA PRESENCE.

THAT STARTED PICKING UP A BIT, BUT IT WAS ALSO VERY MUCH LOCAL NEWS OUTLETS WHO WERE SERVING A NARRATIVE THAT THE SQUARE CAUSED DISORDER.

>> INTERESTING.

SO YOU HAVE YOUR FIVE-MINUTE DOCUMENTARY HERE.

WHAT KIND OF REACTION HAVE YOU HAD, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE FROM THIS?

>> I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND BOTH THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SQUARE, THAT THESE REGULAR PEOPLE HAVE MANAGED TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO WORK TOGETHER TO GOVERN THIS COMPLICATED URBAN COMMUNITY FOR 11 MONTHS NOW, AND ALSO UNDERSTANDING THE ASPIRATION BEHIND IT, WHICH IS TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO FIGURE OUT A DEGREE OF RACIAL JUSTICE AND INCLUSION, AND -- YEAH, THAT HAS BEEN MY GOAL.

AND THE REACTION HAS BEEN POSITIVE.

THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY THAT WAS MOSTLY PIECED TOGETHER FROM PARTICIPANTS WITH CELL PHONE FOOTAGE, SO WE WORKED WITH THE COMMUNITY TO SORT OF GATHER UP THESE CLIPS, AND THEN EDIT THEM TOGETHER INTO THE VIDEO IN CONSULTATION TO THE COMMUNITY.

SO THE REACTION FROM THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE.

>> MICHAEL MCQUARRIE FROM ASI, CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS PROJECT, AND WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

>> MY PLEASURE.

THANK >>> UP NEXT: A LONG TIME PHOENIX CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST OFFERS HIS PERSPECTIVE ON YESTERDAY'S VERDICT.

>>> WHAT DOES YESTERDAY'S GUILTY VERDICT AGAINST FORMER POLICE OFFICER DEREK CHAUVIN MEAN FOR CIVIL RIGHTS MOVING DR. WARREN STEWART SENIOR IS THE SENIOR PASTOR OF THE FIRST INSTITUTIONAL BAPTIST CHURCH IN PHOENIX.

HE HAS BEEN A CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE FOR DECADES AND SPOKE TO "HORIZONTE" HOST JOSE CARDENAS ABOUT YESTERDAY'S VERDICT.

>>> REVEREND STEWART IT IS ALWAYS A PRIVILEGE AND PLEASURE TO SEE YOU AND TO TALK TO YOU.

THESE ARE PRETTY MOMENTOUS TIMES.

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK PASTORS ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS SUNDAY IN LIGHT OF THE VERDICT IN THE DEREK CHAUVIN CASE.

>> WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

MARTIN KING'S LAST BOOK WAS ENTITLED "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: CHAOS IN OUR COMMUNITY."

I THINK WE NEED DIRECTION.

WE CERTAINLY WANT COMMUNITY.

SO HOW DO WE NAVIGATE THE THREE VERDICTS AGAINST A POLICE WHO KILLED A BLACK MAN?

>> AND HOW DO YOU DO THAT IN THIS PANDEMIC ERA?

HOW EFFECTIVELY CAN THAT MESSAGE BE COMMUNICATED?

I UNDERSTAND IN YOUR CHURCH YOU ARE DOING HYBRID SERVICES.

>> WELL, WE PREACH TO THOSE WHO ARE READY TO COME BACK IN PERSON, BUT MOST OF OUR VIEWERS, ARE ONLINE.

WE TRY TO DO OUR BEST TO COMMUNICATE TO PEOPLE WHEREVER THEY ARE, HOWEVER THEY ARE LISTENING, TO GET A REAL SENSE OF WHAT GOD IS SAYING AMIDST ALL OF THIS CHAOS, THIS INJUSTICE, SYSTEMIC RACISM, COVID-19, AND IT HAS PROVEN -- WELL, IT HAS ALSO BEEN SAID THAT THE REASON THE WORLD TUNED INTO THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD WAS BECAUSE WE WERE SHUT DOWN, SO WE HAD MORE TIME DUE TO THE COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT, TO SEE HIS MURDER ON VIDEO OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

>> YOU DID SAY IN ANOTHER INTERVIEW THAT WHAT MADE THIS DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF THE OUTCOME, WAS THAT WE WERE WITNESSING A PUBLIC EXECUTION.

>> VERY MUCH SO.

I MEAN, WE SAW A MURDER RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GOVERNMENT, WHO CHOSE TO -- TO BRUTALIZE MR. FLOYD, AND EVEN AFTER HE HAD -- HE HAD STOPPED BREATHING, AFTER HE HAD NO PULSE, HE CONTINUED TO BRUTALIZE HIS BODY.

THAT'S HORRIFIC, AND WE HAVE SEEN IT OVER AND OVER, AND IT HAS TRAUMATIZED THIS NATION, AND CERTAINLY TRAUMATIZED BLACK PEOPLE.

>> DOES IT MAKE YOU PESSIMISTIC, THOUGH, AS TO WHAT CHANGES WILL COME, IF THIS IS WHAT IT TAKES TO GET A VERDICT LIKE THIS?

>> WELL, ONE OF MY FIRST THOUGHTS AFTER HEARING THE VERDICTS YESTERDAY, WAS THAT ALTHOUGH MR. GEORGE FLOYD DIED IN PAIN, HE DID NOT DIE IN VAIN, AND I BELIEVE GOD IS GOING TO USE HIS TERRIBLE MURDER, THE HOMICIDE AGAINST HIM, IN ORDER TO RECALIBRATE, REDIRECT THIS NATION TO DO REFORM IN POLICING, AND TO -- AND HOPEFULLY ONE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SYSTEMIC RACISM THAT KILLS PEOPLE DAILY MORE THAN ANY OTHER HEALTH HAZARDS COMBINED.

>> YOU AND I ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE RODNEY KING VIDEO.

AND THAT WAS A BRUTAL ASSAULT ON RODNEY KING BY A NUMBER OF OFFICERS, AND WE ALL THOUGHT SOMETHING WILL COME FROM THAT, AND IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

>> WELL, THIS WAS DIFFERENT.

AND MY INITIAL REACTION WAS I EXPECTED NOT GUILTY TO BE READ ON AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE CHARGES, AND SO I WAS QUITE SURPRISED -- I WON'T SAY TAKEN ABACK, THAT THIS TIME, THERE WERE GUILTY CHARGES ON ALL THREE COUNTS, SO THAT'S -- MAKES THIS TOTALLY OPPOSITE OF THE RODNEY KING VIDEO AND TRIAL.

>> DR. STEWART, LAST JULY YOU AND OTHERS WERE CRITICAL OF THE GOVERNOR'S REACTION TO THE KILLING.

HE ISSUED WHAT I THINK SOME PEOPLE WOULD THINK IS A PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE VERDICT, TALKING ABOUT BRINGING JUSTICE TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD AND WE MUST REMAIN COMMITTED TO ENSURE SOMETHING LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.

YOUR REACTION TO THIS STATEMENT FROM THE GOVERNOR?

>> I CHUCKLED AT IT, BECAUSE RIGHT AFTER GEORGE FLOYD CALLED IN A MEETING THE GOVERNOR CALLED IN THE BASEMENT OF THE CHURCH, WE ASKED HIM TO MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM RACISM, AND HE REFUSED.

SO FOR HIM TO COME BACK TEN MONTHS LATER AND LAUD THE DECISION, THAT DOESN'T CARRY A LOT OF WEIGHT.

>> WE HAVE ABOUT 30 SECONDS LEFT.

YOUR THOUGHTS?

ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE REAL CHANGE?

>> I AM OPTIMISTIC.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW MR. FLOYD'S DEATH TO BE IN VAIN.

AND THOSE OF US WHO ADVOCATE JUSTICE AND POLICE REFORM, WHATEVER COLOR WE ARE, LET'S KEEP GOING FORWARD UNTIL IT'S DONE.

>> DOCTOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING WITH US.

>> A PLEASURE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

IT'S GREAT TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN.

>> LIKEWISE.

THANK YOU.

>>> VOTING RIGHTS HAS BEEN A HOT TOPIC IN THE ARIZONA LEGISLATURE SINCE THE START OF THE SESSION, BUT YESTERDAY'S DEBATE OVER CHANGES TO THE STATE'S PERMANENT EARLY VOTING LIST WAS MORE HEATED THAN MOST.

>> IT'S 2022 -- >> POINT OF ORDER.

>> -- I HAVE 12 WORDS FOR YOU.

>> POINT OF ORDER.

>> [ INAUDIBLE ].

>> POINT OF ORDER.

>> I FEEL PERSONALLY THAT MOTIVES WERE ARRAIGNED WITH REGARDS TO BLACK PEOPLE, COLORED PEOPLE, WHATEVER INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE WANT TO SINGLE OUT IN THEIR ABILITY TO VOTE, AND I THINK IT'S WRONG, AND I THINK HE SHOULD SIT DOWN AND NOT BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK.

>> REPRESENTATIVE REGINALD BOLDING WAS IN THE HEAT OF THE DEBATE.

REPRESENTATIVE, I WANT TO GET YOUR RESPONSE ON YESTERDAY'S VERDICT.

>> YESTERDAY, I THINK IT WAS JUSTICE SERVED NOT ONLY FOR THE FLOYD FAMILY, BUT FOR THIS COUNTRY THAT HAS FOR MANY YEARS SINCE MONTH AFTER MONTH ANOTHER SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, AND A SHOOTING OR -- OR IN THIS CASE, A DEATH THAT -- BY -- BY THE -- BY THE KNEE OF AN OFFICER.

WE'RE AT A PLACE NOW WHERE THIS COUNTRY HAS TO START TO HEAL.

IT HAS TO START TO CREATE SOLUTIONS AND YOU START DOING THAT BY FIRST HAVING JUSTICE SERVED IN COURT, WHICH I THINK WAS WHAT IT WAS YESTERDAY.

>> DID THE JURY'S DECISION SURPRISE YOU?

>> YOU KNOW, I -- I STOPPED GUESSING JURY DECISIONS IN THESE CASES SEVERAL YEARS AGO, JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN VIDEOS OF INDIVIDUALS RUNNING AWAY AND BEING SHOT IN THE BACK AND CHARGES WERE NOT FILED.

SO IT WAS SOMETHING I EXPECTED COULD HAPPEN, BUT IT WAS SURPRISING.

YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHAT OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM WILL GIVE YOU.

>> WHAT KIND OF REACTION DID YOU SEE AND HEAR AT THE CAPITOL, AND DOES IT DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE THE DYNAMIC AS FAR AS POLICING BILLS ARE CONCERNED?

>> THE WAY YOU START TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM IS BY ENSURING JUSTICE IS SERVED, AND I BELIEVE THAT IF THERE'S CONSEQUENCES THAT COME WITH THE KILLINGS AND SHOOTINGS OF INDIVIDUALS -- OF THESE VICTIMS, THAT'S WHEN YOU START TO SEE A CHANGE IN POLICY, AND THE ONLY WAY YOU GET THAT IS BY ACTUALLY TRULY HAVING CONSEQUENCES AND CONVICTIONS.

SO THIS IS A SMALL PIECE, BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT A SITUATION.

IT'S ABOUT THE CHANGING OF A SYSTEM.

>> LET'S TALK ABOUT OTHER ACTIVITY AT THE LEGISLATURE, AS WE JUST SAW HERE, LOTS OF DEBATE ON THE PERMANENT EARLY VOTING LIST, CHANGES TO THAT LIST.

IT GOT A LITTLE HOT AND HEAVY THERE YESTERDAY.

WHAT CHANGES ARE BEING PROPOSED?

AND HOW DO THESE CHANGES EFFECT PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THEIR VOTING RIGHTS?

>> SENATE BILL 1485 IS TRULY ONE OF THE BIGGEST INJUSTICES WE HAVE SEEN HERE REGARDING ELECTIONS -- INTEGRITY ELECTION RIGHTS IN DECADES HERE IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA.

THIS BILL WAS NEARLY REMOVED UP TO 150,000 VOTERS FROM THE EARLY VOTING LIST.

AND 80% OF ARIZONANS CHOOSE TO VOTE BY MAIL, AND THIS WILL MAKE THOSE VOTERS END UP GOING TO THE POLLS, AND WE KNOW WE HAVE ALREADY DECREASED POLLING LOCATIONS, SO THAT MEANS LONGER LINES AT THE POLLS.

ADDITIONALLY MANY OF THOSE VOTER VOTERS WON'T EVEN KNOW THEY WERE REMOVED FROM THE LIST UNTIL ELECTION TIME.

SO IT IS ABSOLUTELY A BARRIER.

AND IT IS SIMPLY ABOUT WINNING.

MORE PEOPLE VOTED IN 2020 THAN EVER BEFORE, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WHAT WE SAW WAS THESE VOTER SUPPRESSION BILLS.

>> REPUBLICANS SAY THE WHOLE MOVE IS TO KEEP THIS LIST ACCURATE AND UP TO DATE.

ARE THEY WRONG?

>> THEY ARE 100% WRONG.

AND THE REASON I SAY THEY ARE WRONG IS CLEARLY, WHAT WE SAW IN 2020 WAS WIDE-SPREAD TURNOUT, AND THAT PROVIDED THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD.

NOW WHILE MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES MAY NOT BE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THE RESULTS WERE WHEN THERE WAS TURNOUT, WE KNOW THE ELECTION WAS FREE AND FAIR.

SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE PROVIDING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACCESS.

AND IN THE LEGISLATURE THERE ARE BILLS THAT WILL MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE TO VOTE.

AND ONCE YOU ARE REGISTERED, IT WILL MAKE IT HARDER FOR YOU TO VOTE AS WELL.

>> LAST QUESTION.

DO YOU EXPECT THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN THIS IF IT PASSES?

>> I CERTAINLY HOPE THE GOVERNOR LISTENS TO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, SENIOR CITIZENS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR.

AND IF THE GOVERNOR SIGNS THIS BILL I THINK WILL BE PAR -- PART OF HIS LEDGESY OF PURGING PEOPLE FROM THE BALLOT.

>> REGINALD BOLDING THANKS FOR BEING HERE.

>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

>>> AND THAT IS IT FOR NOW.

I'M TED SIMONS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

♪ >>> COMING UP IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR OF LOCAL NEWS ON ARIZONA PBS, ON CRONKITE NEWS, A LOOK AT THE INCREASING NUMBER OF THREATS AGAINST POLITICIANS.

AND ON AND ON BREAK IT DOWN: THE SUCCESS BEHIND THE HIT SHOW "RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE."

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