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Have some trepidation about all of this data crunching. we love it. we're junkies. but we -- >> still got it wrong with gillum tuesday night. >> gillum is running his race. my sister, full disclosure, she is a documentium. she is on the ground. this gillum, he has a lot of momentum on the ground. he can't win. he is at the bottom of the polls. my sister maria is saying to me he's got a lot of people following him at these different things. more than when he shows up where other people have been who are above him in the polls. can't win. can't win. it's either going to be the mayor of north bea...

>> at least you have highlights. >> best hair in the business. i tell you every time i see you. we were talking about what we got wrong last time. the popular vote went within the margin of error. but select states, the more i have dug into it now over a couple years, what was gotten wrong can't be fixed. we didn't have the ability to catch the person who is paying attention, who is triggered on something positive or negative, but who when approached said i'm not going to vote. that's what we saw in the states i don't buy into this process and then close. they say i've had it. you can't catch ...

Democratic gerrymandering. > hasta la vista to gerrymandering. >> if you look at the districts, they're all sliced up. they run this way and that way and they run that way. it's drawing districts not based on a natural concentration of people, but to try to achieve some political end by manipulating the maps. >> gerrymandering boils down to packing and cracking. packing supporters into a small number of districts where their preferred candidates already win by huge margins, or cracking districts by scattering voters and diluting their influence. with advances in data crunching, maps can be man...

Gerrymandering. >> if you look at the districts, they're all sliced up. threw run this way and that way and they run that way. it's drawing districts not based on a natural concentration of people, but to try to achieve some political end by manipulating the maps. >> gerrymandering boils down to packing and cracking. packing supporters in a small number of districts where their preferred candidates already win by huge margins, or by cracking districts by scattering voters and diluting their influence. with advances in data crunching, maps can be manipulated with laser-like precision, winding d...

Portfolios that have to be managed, it is very difficult to figure out which one is going to pop off. >> jenna: that is so important for us, again, according to customs they were able to screen people, they were able to use their databases, it was just lower. but you say that a lot of the folks that have committed bad acts are actually known entities, so even if they did pop up in the database, it may not tell us when things or the other. >> a lot of times it isn't about the database turning back a threat. you think back to year 2001, the 20th hijacker for 9/11, he got to customs in orlando ai...