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welcome to the programme. were going to start in ukraine tonight, on the eve of a serious and significant day. august 24th marks both the ukrainian independence day and six months since russia launched its invasion of the eastern european country. independence day is usually filled with celebrations. not this year. in the capital kyiv, public events have been banned for safety reasons. today, leaders of dozens of countries and international organisations took part in the �*crimea pla...

The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday over a new challenge to Republican-drawn maps.

Significant primaries taking place. a court—approved re—districting could see the democrats gain fewer house seats than theyd hoped and has meant two veteran democrats are now running against each other for the one seat. thats led to a particularly bitter battle betweenjerry nadler and carolyn maloney. perhaps you could talk to us a little bit about what is happening with redistricting and how its affecting races. yeah, in florida, the redistricting was controlled by the republicans in the l...

Referendum. well have to wait and see what path they take and challenge it at the federal amnesty level. >> weve heard around the country members of congress announced theyre not going to seek reelection because of redistricting and congressional maps that make it difficult for them to get elected. have you heard from any members of congress in ohio that may opt out of running because of a difficult primary or process to get elected with these new maps? >> not yet, however, marcy capture, keep i...

Most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. 15 minutes past the hour. across the country state legislatures are redrawing congressional maps to reflect the 2020 census results but re districting is an opportunity for gerrymandering, drawing maps to benefit a particular party or candidate. >> as you can imagine both parties claim the other side is using it to their advantage and some minority groups say they are not being well ...

Is all about. >> there -- there used to be legal challenges mounted to redistricting. what do you see thats -- thats left by way of possible-courtroom remedies to really horrible versions of gerrymandering? >> well, we have got a couple of venues, a couple of ways in which we can challenge gerrymandering. if there are racial gerrymanders, we can still bring cases in the federal courts and we have done so and been successful there, in virginia, for instance. if there -- if there partisan gerryman...

Democratic re-districting committee back in 2017, we have broken trifecta control of the governorship, as well as the two houses and state legislature in nine states. we have put in place independent commissions. we have governors in states who will be able to veto gerrymandered re-districting that republican legislatures, undoubtedly, are going to do. so the fight is, still, on. and thats why re-districting u is so important because we want to try to get the people of this country involved in t...

Prevail over cynicism. we must be ready to get involved in the re-districting process in our states, if we can achieve fair maps, the bounds of what is possible will fundamentally change. and leading off our discussion, tonight, is eric holder. former-u.s. attorney general in the obama administration. he is now the chair of the national democratic re-districting committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight, general holder. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to get ...

For maintaining power in congress. here is texas republican congressman ronny jackson describing the republican strategy for next years congressional elections. >> we have everything working in our favor right now. we have re-districting coming up and the republicans control most of that process in most the states around the country. that, alone, should get us the majority back. >> former-attorney general eric holder is the chair of the national democratic re-districting committee, which has lau...

States around the country would, then, be, somehow, shamed into doing something, i guess, less bad than what they were going to do. but they dont have that capacity, anymore, do they? to be shamed about what theyre doing? >> no, theyre not going to be shamed. but if we expose what they do, we can galvanize the people of this country to throw em out of office. by exposing what they do. by making people aware of how they are trying to pervert our democracy. how they are attacking our democracy. th...