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Started. he was opposed to abortion. he was a devout mormon. he was, you know, i think from a kind of centrist mold, he was also kind of institutionalist. and he evolves in his career from his substantive ideological vision and also his view towards the nature of the republican party and the nature of the senate as an institution in really surprising ways. a little like john paul stevens in that way that where he started and where he ended up in public life is a fascinating trajectory with integ...

The redistricting strategy, known as gerrymandering, creates safe seats for one party. democrats are accusing the g.o.p. are benefiting from that strategy. despite seeming to be redrawn congressional maps aggressively themselves. lets bring in "wall street journal" columnist, former writer for george w. bush, and fox news contributor, bill mcgurn. bill, thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. you know, you look at 2022 and the elections. democrats did not pick up any state houses, they los...

In surprising ways. a little like john paul stephens in some ways in that way where he started and where he ended up in public life is a fascinating trajectory with integrity throughout. i wonder if you can talk a little bit about that. >> in many ways he evolved with the democratic party and he was mindful and stubborn about where he started from, and he said in some sense allow yourself to evolve with the circumstances when he changed the senate rules, right? he fought and said these senate ru...

Rules and evolve with the circumstances to get things done, and that is his legacy. >> one more question about politics and political organizing. you know, we live in an era where theres a lot of fake organizing and fake organizations that dont actually have power to wield. they dont have the structures. you know, reid helped build this organization in the state of nevada, and it was an organization of the democratic party and of the hotel workers union, of real rank and file hotel workers, you ...

Apartheid regime and told all of us especially our president reagan to be neutral meant to be on the side of the oppressors. it was a powerful history lesson then and one that is still resonant today. >> one thing that is striking about the trajectory of desmond tutus life is that he is a kind of moral seer, obviously a man of god, a member of the clergy, but mandela was an organizer. he was a revolutionary. he was a politician. he had a lot to make a lot of political calculations as he navigate...

Quite short. you know, if theres a quick turn around from this and it sort of is in the rear-view mirror, then i think its something that will have less of an impact. but if this is the trajectory and there continues to be problems like this. we keep hearing about new variants as they come up. is there another variant? we dont know whats going to happen. theres a lot of unknowns. so i do think if he was able to -- the president was able to get this under control, if were able to have adequate te...

Say. i think thats one of the reasons why we have heard very little comment so far from the white house. but this trajectory of serious military concerns about that buildup remain, but it now has augmented onto it a period of potential diplomacy. max? >> okay, nic in moscow, thank you. talks on reviving the iran nuclear deal resumed on monday in austria. teheran is focused on having sanctions lifted. there are weeks, not months left before the original 2015 deal becomes meaningless. after form...

Mike. mike: alex, thanks. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean noted brown university school of public health. doctor, welcome back to it "fox news sunday". >> good morning. thanks for having me back. mike: doctor, according to white house public health officials omicron variant represent 73% of new cases and in some places in the nation 90%. however, in south africa where omicron was first detected a month ago they have begun to experience a surprising drop in new cases with the top infectiou...

Mike: alex, thanks. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean noted brown university school of public health. doctor, welcome back to it "fox news sunday". >> good morning. thanks for having me back. mike: doctor, according to white house public health officials omicron variant represent 73% of new cases and in some places in the nation 90%. however, in south africa where omicron was first detected a month ago they have begun to experience a surprising drop in new cases with the top infectious dise...

Success, extraordinary success to quote the president himself. when you gaslight that hard even journalists who might lead to the left at some point say enough, we cant put lipstick on this pig and sugarcoat this and they didnt for a period maybe two or three weeks it was really brutal coverage and i think that was the start of a really significantly downward trajectory for this president, his approval ratings from which he still has not recovered. howard: julian, some pundits at the time said t...