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You said, gerrymandering matters more than anything. listen, these restrictive voting laws around the country, they matter too. >> thats the john lewis act. >> yes. do you see these districts and -- >> theyre all like that. 95% of gop-held districts in the house are white majority places. and, look, again, for too many people when they hear anything like that, theyre saying, there it is, theyre antiwhite again. i am white. im not antiwhite. i have no problem with there being white majority distr...

>> take away the excuses. >> if i ever agree with anything that you said, that was it. gerrymandering matter morse than anything. listen, these restrictive voting laws around the country, they matter too. >> thats the john lewis act. >> yes. thats the john lewis act. do you see these districts and -- >> theyre all like that. 95% of gop or p.o.t. held districts in the house are white majority places. and, look, again, for too many people when they hear anything like that, theyre saying, there it ...

The investigative committees are running up against is they dont have the moderate democrats who won and represent trump majority districts. these are all republican seats. nancy pelosi needs to hold on to those seats if she wants to maintain control of the house come 2020. and thats what she is looking at. keep in mind one other thing. the voters can vote president trump out of office. even if the house does move forward with impeachment proceedings, it doesnt mean he will be removed from offic...

Called all of them hardened criminals and bad people, which we know is exactly what he really feels. what this says to me, victor, leyla, republicans are worried about what happened this summer. remember the last time caravans came, remember how the trump administration responded, by ripping babies from the bosoms of their mothers, remember how republicans and especially white suburban republican women responded and decent americans across the country, they completely said that is unacceptable, ...

Racism in america and taking away the policies, laws and constitutional structures that have been the weapons to fight racial, you know, white supremacy and if you go back and look at some of his writing on this topic. he and scalia had this very clear view that the primacy of the constitution puts primacy on color blindness as opposed to racial equality. the mechanisms by which we ensure racial equality often require granular attention to race. >> to see the world in black and white, as it actu...

Opportunity for ambitious colleagues in the republican party than the democratic party. one, republicans want to highlight black politicians, the minority politicians like we see at the convention. but i have seen this in states across the country. there are an awful lot of black elected officials in the country, most of whom are democrats. in many cases, this is a result of the voting rights act, which produces sort of a majority-minority districts in states. the lines are drawn to encourage th...

Electorate to have the politicians scared. >> thats exactly right. >> exactly right. >> at least on the federal level, its ironic that the house of representatives is less representative than the senate, which was originally supposed to be not representative. why? because theres all these incumbent protection maps. >> with the gerrymandering of the house. >> with the gerrymandering in the house and the state legislatures protect the federal legislatures and also protect themselves. but my questi...