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So that has really shifted the way that democrats should be thinking about how elections are working moving forward. like you said, redrawing border lines, gerrymandering has been a thing since the 1800s. shrinking the electorate, that's the kind of voter suppression that people are most familiar with thanks to the fight against jim crow. but this new innovation, just throwing out results you don't like, especially in the way that it combines with the other two factors. the way that gerrymandering allows republicans to keep control of the house even though they receive fewer votes nationwide a...

Understand how fragile this moment is. >> looking at these people who work at these companies, can you explain to them why you want to break up the place they work? >> it's a little like baseball. you can be an umpire, a platform, or you can own teams. that's fine. but you can't be an umpire and own one of the teams that's in the game. >> last week the vice-president was reportedly at 95%. i know you recently spoke with him. is he moving closer to 100? >> he is moving closer. he's someone who i am confident is going to run. i'm optimistic he's going to run. >> do you think vice-president pence...

Define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. nothing about this decision which applies only to civil marriages changes any of that. this is a huge announcement, certainly, from the president. but lieutenant governor, when we talk about how someone in new york who might be married travels to alabama, that's not the case in terms of the geography of that state. is that the next big battle for the country to be able to have that protective marriage equality across border lines of states? >> yeah. well, that said, i mean -- that's why we have to put this in perspective....

>> chris, democratic congressional candidates got at least 1.4 million more votes than republicans nationwide, but then only won 33 fewer seats. why? because border lines that have been revised over two years to look like this one in florida. all the way from orlando to jacksonville is how far this district goes. and we've got north carolina. that's another example. it looks amoeba, like? not a square, not a circle, but a carefully carved congressional district to favor one party. it goes through about a dozen cities. state houses across the country with republicans and majorities are daying e...

President cain offer the palestinians to make peace? >> nothing. i'm not con vined the palestinians are really interested in peace. if the palestinians come to the table with israel with a general offer that the two of them can sit down and negotiate, the united states would in fact try to facilitate that discussion. but if we look at history, it has been clear that the palestinians have always wanted to push the israelis and push israel for more and more and more. i don't agree with that. and i respect prime minister benjamin netanyahu for taking a stand and saying they cannot give that up. s...