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Representatives as possible. as frightful as all of that is, there's been some good news on the last front, on gerrymandering. eric levitz is a senior writer on the intelligence agents mazy he joins us now. this piece has got a lot of attention, people are arguing of what it means. let's start with the baseline expectations. what's your cases about how things are looking right now thus far, as state-by-state issues there nearly drunk congressional maps. >> sure. we are starting off from a situation where republicans control a lot more state governments and democrats do. because the typical u.s...

Gerrymandering. if we are not going to do that, we recognize how this is shaping up. going to try and get as many blue seats as possible. that, plus the fact that in some states, there's different ways to gerrymander. texas republicans have really prioritized building up huge walls against a blue wave. still not going to knock off their incumbent. also, building in rooms. the suburbs of texas start moving like other parts of the country, they're still going to be safe. the flip side of that, they haven't minimize the number of democratic seats across the state. in the same way that democrats i...

>> yeah. so very similar. my firm along with others are challenging the north carolina maps as a partisan gerrymander. now there, there is no -- there is no popular initiative that requires fair maps, but prior court decisions have said that partisan gerrymandering is out of bounds. the lower court found that there was partisan gerrymandering but wasn't sure that that's illegal under the north carolina state constitution. so that's now going to go up to that state's supreme court. if that state supreme court also finds that there is a prohibition against excessive partisan gerrymandering, we e...

It's an almost incomprehensible level of cynicism that is going to get people killed, people who love their program. and that is sick. eric levitz, thank you. >> thank. you >> still to come, cold hard evidence that a particular piece of evidence that a particular policy works beyond your wildest dreams. we will tell you about it. policy works beyond overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. we will tell you about it.