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Senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin is on the phone with us. a couple important notes. neil gorsuch, the newly confirmed supreme court justice, did not take part in this because he doesn't enter into cases already in the middle of being heard. there were two votes here by the justices, the vote on one of the maps, one of the gerrymandering maps, was 8-0, so unanimous there. but on the other, district 12 map, it was 5-3. >> that's right, and this is just a very controversial area in the supreme court because the court has said that it's okay for state legislatoures to draw lines, district lines...

Office. one thing i can tell you, through our institute we have been working very hard on immigration reform. this needs comprehensive immigration reform. the sad story is that democrats and republicans have not been able to come together in decades on this issue. there is a bipartisan plan for democrats and for republicans and they came up with a great immigration plan. it was shot down. now both of the parties can't get anything done. may i remind you not just on immigration, on anything else either. congress can't get anything done. this is why we have a problem with the redistricting. that...

The sad story is that democrats and republicans have not been able to come together in decades on this issue. there is a bipartisan plan for democrats and for republicans and they came up with a great immigration plan. it was shot down. now both of the parties can't get anything done. may i remind you not just on immigration, on anything else either. congress can't get anything done. this is why we have a problem with the redistricting. that goes back to the redistricting. if we redraw district lines, but we need comprehensive immigration reform which means we have to secure our borders. we ha...

Since north carolina republicans won the general assembly in 2010 and the governor's mansion they've witnessed a gop agenda on steroids and extreme gerrymandering but there are two major pieces of news out of the tar heel state today roy cooper the democratic challenger to governor pat mckroery extended his lead to more than 10s this thos votes with six counties reporting. that matters because mccrory needs the margin to be below 10,000 for a statewide recount. cooper's campaign manager declared today game over. so looks like a democratic governor is going to replace a republican in north caro...

Everybody's district. these are issues that poll well everywhere. so why would they take this level -- take the obstruction to the level that it's not now at a history ic proportion? >> it's interesting, i was talking to a former republican congressman earlier today who made the point that at this point in the party's history, because of the way district lines are drawn and because of where most of the republican representatives come from, there were very few of them, from mixed districts, from suburbanish middle of the road districts, a lot of those representatives might like to vote for men ...