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Was 3,107,500, also a little lower than expected. add in northern ireland which published census data a few weeks ago and the best estimate for scotland, their census results will be next year, and you get a uk figure ofjust under 67 million. this map shows how much population has changed since the 2011 census — the darker the blue, the bigger the increase. if it is yellow or orange the population has actually fallen. and given that how much money local councils get is based on the best population figures, so there will be some worried headscratching in a few places, notably parts of wales a...

Texas, to push back, because of extreme gerrymandering, berman tweeted the racial impact of these maps in texas. which is majority minority, which means by people in the minority, how do democrats push back, this is a minority of people and these extreme reports supporters of republicans. are a minority of voters in texas how do you pushback. >> well texas has been a minority majority state, for sometime now, in fact the census results show that latino voters alone are launcher than the anglo population. and when you look at all of the growth percentages of the census, 95% of it have been peop...

Voting rights of its citizens should be priority number one not because it helps democrats but because it helps preserve democracy. joining me now, the host of the mehdi hasan show right here on msnbc. i am sure ow viewers are very excited to see you a little early, so take me back to the spring. you interviewed senate majority leader chuck schumerment he said the deadline to pass voting protections was probably by august or so. i don't know about you, mehdi, but time for me has become a flat circle. i am going to remind you we are now in the middle of september. we have this new slimmed down ...

Quickly. i would say the deadline for s-1 is a little longer than you say, it is probably by august or so. >> now that time line has been shifted to next month. by then we expect to see a slimmed down version of the bill. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said they should thought hold their breath for support. >> s-1 is an absurd and clumsy effort by one political party to literally rewrite the ground rules of our democracy. this isn't going to work. it isn't going to work tonight and it isn't going to work when we get back. >> one key issue in the paired-down bill is partisan gerrymander...

And it isn't going to work when we get back. >> one key issue in the paired-down bill is partisan gerrymandering. is that window of opportunity closing? on thursday the first major release of census results came out. redistricting agencies are scrambling ahead of the next election cycle. the census data dropped in what's called legacy format. so it could take days or weeks for redistricting agencies to download it and convert it. one expert compared the process to buying furniture from ikea instead of pot pottery barn. when you get it from ikea, it's like build it yourself. we do like building...