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beloved knicks >> facing the crowd, and yeah, exactly. >> neither - nor atlas shrugged henry smith, nbc news, new york >> art, but make it sports we are, but also awesome something to think about whe you are watching the nba playoffs this weekend. on that note, i wish you a ver good night from all our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, thank yo for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow >> this was how they introduce the bill in the house of representatives. >> for...

Were told is a grassroots minority that is organized angry on topic of quote unquote, parental rights. does it surprise you, settin aside the gerrymandering question, that the republica party which knows needs to actually do some winning here. its embracing topics that jus dont have national support. at some, point they do need to win something legitimately and in order to do so, dont they need to adopt some kind o policy that has some kind of broad popularity >> if you watch the 2022 results he...

Are so badly gerrymandered thats exactly what happened t michigan because of gerrymandering, tha allows the republican party to regain control and remain in control they continue to flank further, and further to th right extreme. it works its way all the way t the federal government >> i wonder though some of thi is coming in part legislator and part of its republican - and judges having evermore powers when they run int legislature. when were talking about abortion for example the arguments ove...

Those are republican ideas. so if theyre going to come out and say, okay, well, sure, well take the two things you like, but oppose it anyway, because of these other things we dont agree with, a public holiday making it easier for people to vote in general, youre really setting them up to kind of demonstrate the obstructionism, right, that democrats are focused on when it comes to republicans and how theyre handling this administration and the democratic majority. so im curious to know, is he do...

Big but also related to the gerrymandering question because particularly in the last couple of decades, republicans in particular have used the rules on gerrymandering, the rules on the census to try to limit the number of people of color who are counted, who have meaningful representation in congress and in state legislatures and in how federal money is divided. these cases are intimately bound up with each other and they are about locking in republican domination of government regardless of wh...