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Triantafilou. republicans should look out for republicans when drawing lines for apportionment. we won. this is a red state. treat it as such. voters value a spine. see, its not really about good legislation or convincing voters youll make their lives better or anything like that. no. its just about manipulation of the rules of the game. >> we have everything working in our favor right now. we have redistricting coming up and the republicans control most of that process in most the states around...

Court challenge, in which you lose the campaigns that -- the gains you made which is what happened in recent years in two major states in carolina and pennsylvania. i think thats the hesitation. the fact youre going to have a penalty for doing this. lets be clear. its not just the gop thats doing this and has in the past. president obama can look down in springfield, illinois to summon his friends who know about drawing lines. i think this is a sort of decades long tradition in both parties. the...

A divided senate. right? its a bare majority in the house. everything is going to court. >> and theres the court part but also the where are we part of it in the sense that if youre republicans and rewind the tape five or six years, if you take the urban areas and moved them over, you would win there. you would take the district. trump so lost the suburbs. they got pummelled in the suburbs. and so the question is is that going to come back. politico says the environment of the trump era is volat...

Of fraud and some claiming, reportedly including trump himself, that hell be reinstated in due course. four years of trump have led to the republican party becoming a threat to democracy, a declining sect dominated by crackpots, charlatans and cowards. of these, its the cowards, including the senators who killed last weeks legislation, who bear most of the blame." joining us now, political scientist and election analyst, rachael biddercoffer, and writer and journalist, matthew iglasius. i know t...

Issuing this order. david: the sba, which government order would forbid the sba under any circumstance, any circumstance, of discriminating on the basis of color? >> the constitution of the united states is interpreted by the supreme court that says you cant draw these. i think of brown versus board of education. drawing lines in a way that discriminated, of course, against african-americans. but guess what? it is the principle of treating all principles equally under the law, thats what the con...

Coming down? i think where its really coming down here is he doesnt really have a problem with that chant. he sat there and listened to it. he soaked it in. "send her back" is not that different from "go back," which is the way he framed it in his own tweet a couple days earlier. he believes in drawing lines, drawing red lines in the sand as he heads towards next years election. this happens to be a line about what america is and how it sees itself. is the america of his vision of his youth of a...

Court. >> this is just as elena kagan, reading her dissent right now. that is something that justices dont do all the time. it is something that if they really feel fiery about something, if they really disagree, then they will read it. she is doing that now. i just want to read some of her dissent. obviously, she is upset with the way this was decided. "the majority of the response for this analysis is discomforting. the majority does not contest the lower courts findings. how could it? instead...

And spend a day, a week in jail in the federal penitentiary, he, mr. manafort, has to spend 47 months there. ainsley: and face 50,000 dollars in fines. brian: this is the person they say is the worst person ever and no russian collusion by this judge and this is a paul manafort who was first a cooperating witness and then wasnt so the mueller probe wanted to pound him and instead he gets four years. four years is going to be tough. the nine months has always been served. >> some of which has bee...

#metoo going on with accusations of multiple women and you got racism with the governor and the ag. those live in different lanes. we should be able to adjudicate all of it, if thats what necessary. or at least hear it all without drawing lines as a country that make it look like some hate others over this. lets just get to the truth. >> kennedy: and lets not lose sight of history. i think that is one of the casualties in all of this, that we throw these words around and they cannot lose their m...

Process crimes are still crimes. and beyond that, why are you lying? why are you committing a felony? what are you trying to hide? again, if this happens with one person, maybe theyre trying to help themselves. but when it happens with six people and you continue to see this pattern, it starts to become easier to start drawing lines through something and we will have to wait to see from robert mueller, how does this tie together and more importantly what does he openly do with that. >> thank you...