Redistricting Cycle News Today

First of all, imagine for a moment someone tells you that theyre giving you a gift worth 237 million. I mean, thats enough money to make you want to shout. Write this, start making plans, telling everybody you know but then you find out that the actual value of that gift could be zero well, thats what happened this week on an historically black college, black University Campus in tallahassee, florida this would have been the largest donation ever to an hbcu and we know how these schools have bee...

they want. you going to talk about me and alecias outfit? >> alecia splash looks amazing today. >> i had to beg for it. it doesnt count, charles. >> we dont want these little afterthought complements. you came here for the chairman, you got it. we will let you have it. >> you are fired up about the supreme court, i can tell. i saw the discussion and i can tell how fired up you were. now im catching the energy that the senate should be catching about not putting ethical constraints on t...

his political opponents. also tonight, the alleged gilgo beach serial killer accused of having haunted even more victims years before the others. >> the new murder charges factor to be handed down. and a forgotten hero of d-day 80 years since the storming of warm and de, a black army medic is forgotten no more. his son is here to share his remarkable story. tonight on laura coates live all right, not one but two of the major legal cases around donald trump are now in a kind of legal qu...

opened up in an emotional interview on msnbc this morning about a settlement with the city. >> the money means absolutely nothing. it doesnt help me get over the fact of what happened. breonna doesnt benefit from that. it does nothing for us. >> just today the louisville fbi said they made significant process in the investigation and their team is actively investigating all aspects of her death. lets go to my colleague msnbcs antonia hylton. a big welcome to you. sounds like theyre g...

Remember, well, i mean, im very young, but some remember the president reagan are talking about in his campaign. are you better off than you were four years ago? now, that has resonated with a lot of people. >> but the idea of romanticized is it going being nostalgic about being better off during jim crow? >> is confounding to me. >> well, not factual. did was you quote, a costumer, bennie thompson? >> if you look at the south african americans did not get elected to congress in whole until afte...

What happened in Fresno demonstrates exactly why independent redistricting commissions are needed.

In this redistricting cycle as usual. because were operating under a greatly restricted environment, with the newly-conservative 63 supreme court. which seems to have a special jurisprudence for voting, much like it has shown for abortion. where is willing to ignore principles that were previously in play. thats why were seeing this process, where state supreme courts and state legislatures are newly emboldened to cut back on maps that really try to give effect to principles like preserving mino...

Republicans have a bit of an advantage but not the huge advantage that we thought going into this redistricting cycle. what about member versus member races? >> these are always difficult. so when these lines are redrawn around the country, they oftentimes put two members against each other. running against each other. two members of the same party oftentimes in primaries. michigan has been remade unlike many other states in the country. the map in michigan is getting different. we see fred upto...

As a result, nothing hams. people dont talk to one another. you see gridlock that breeds cynicism in the people of this country. so my hope is that we get through this redistricting cycle in a better place than we had in 2011 and that going forward well put in place these independent measures to draw the lines, that well have greater transparency, greater voter involvement in this process. if we do that, if we come up with ways in which we draw the lines in a fair way all across the country, it ...

I think over the cycle you could see this redistricting cycle where there could be vulnerabilities. i think we will see that there will -- trumpism will recede. you have to challenge it in key districts where over time we will have a chance to take on these candidates. >> very interesting read that you and juliana glover put together, kalee. thank you for being here this morning. >> thank you so much. >> we are moments away from knowing whether we will have six more weeks of winter or an early s...