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Watermelon. this is not a new york watermelon. this is a watermelon you get in america. >> one price or by the pound. >> its 16 pounds so you do the math. >> [laughing]. >> i will go with, here we go. everybody. >> no way! >> what do you have? >> okay. and the answer for the water mellion, lets see in the person from wyoming knows it. $16.15. >> they have really gone up. >> juan gets it right. >> the unicorn pool float. greg, hold it up. >> i never had to pay for one of these. they are given to ...

Partisan gerrymandering has become so extreme, it sparked a lot of lawsuits. this year two cases actually made it to the supreme court. one is in maryland, the other, back in north carolina. >> i propose that we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to ten republicans and three democrats. >> reporter: meet state representative david louis. hes one of the north carolina mapmakers named to the supreme court case. everything i read on the issue mentioned this guy. so i decided to meet with him...

Morning. so pull them over. there is this ground swell of that voter that is out there. and then there is the thought that what democrats need to do is to energize the obama base, the die investigativerse base, surged in 2018. i wonder if that second group of people will be motivated to give the democrats more power if they dont seem to be using the power they have already got. >> the greatest frustration that the base tends to have is when they put people in power who dont use the power. and i ...

>> the democrats seem to be operating on the idea that the 2018 election was about health care and not about reining in donald trump and that they therefore want to get off of the topic of donald trump and back on to the issue of health care and that that is what they would rather do than impeachment. is their math to back up the idea that that is what motivated people to vote in 2018? >> that must have new math because ive never heard of that. it was not health care alone. it is never one thing...

Winning in -- they werent aoc democrats. >> she won and beat a center left democrat. >> she d but dont take that and take that thats the entire party or thats that entire class or thats where the democratic party is. i dont think it is. i think the party is center left in the main and the question is how do you then bring a center right leaning republican or independent voter to that space. >> lets get jason seas take on this. i suspect you have a different take. >> this is the political scienti...

About pelosi before when she was running for speaker, you had a new sinsurgence of young people pressly was one that said i will vote for but you cant lead. how many times have we said we are tired of thoughts and prayers. when nancy pelosi said i wish we could pray for the president of the united states, no, we prayed and god sent us a my diverse congress to handle this dude in the white house and that is not happening. and the voters -- perception matters. and yes, there are innumerable invest...

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When she met my dad, all of the former soldier, hey, there was a lot of sticky situations they were in. and somehow, they always got them out. thats why my mom was attracted to my dad. he cared a lot about his men. when the war was over, a lot of officers left their men behind. but my dad, he stayed and made sure all of his guys cot o s go with him. >> when we grew up, and i would bump into one of my dads old friends, they would say, were here in america because your dad saved us. because of tha...

Flooded. >> i knew it was here, so -- im just speechless right now. >> reporter: its a familiar feeling for all too many across the plains and midwest. many places recovering on the tail end of a week that brought deadly tornadoes, heavy rain and life saving water rescues. >> this series of dams. the water continues to flow. >> with the u.s. army core of engineers. over the course of days, they have slowly had to increase the amount of water releaseed from the tulsa area dam to near historic lev...

Days, they have slowly had to increase the amount of water they release from the tulsa area keystone dam to historic lefvel to keep up with the high water. >> keystone dam which has been the focus has a release rate of approximately 250,000 cubic feet per second. if you do the math, that equates to approximately a thousand school buses per second going through the dam. >> across the tulsa area, more than a thousand residents have been impacted by flooding so far. >> please, please pay attention ...