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Still have more votes of power. the does contain a specific ban on partisan gerrymandering. >> i don't know if you have joe manchin's phone number but maybe you could convince him to wake up to that. i want to play mitch mcconnell because i think mitch mcconnell is one of the most insidious figures in our modern american economy. here he is skirting through the maze and really explaining their thinking and how their implementing these anti-voter bills in these republican states. take a listen. >> what do all these new laws have in common? none of them, not one is designed to suppress the vote ...

Redistricting committee, get people out there. and ultimately we'll end up in court in a lot of places. we're in a better place than we were in 2011 as a result of the work that we've done at the ndrc, you know, the redistricting, the gerrymandering that occurred in 2011 was described by a princeton university study as the worst gerrymandering of the last 50 years. we're in better shape than we were then but still have problems especially in states like texas, north carolina, georgia and florida. those are are the four states that worry me the most. >> do you think that this new law -- there's...

He's the chairman of the national democratic redistricting committee. thank you so much, general holder for being here. i i guess my big question is what can we do about this? because my fear is under the current rules republicans can solidify minority rule not just in the house but in the state legislatures where they then can do things like pass that texas abortion law and put boupties on women. >> that's certainly the danger. they'll use the power they get from gerrymandering to do the kinds of things you just described, that abortion law, not expand medicaid, all the things wave seen come ...

And transparency in terms of what the intel is seeing. and look i still think january 6th wasn't a failure of intel. all the intel was there. it's just the failure to act on it. >> you're absolutely right. even i was hearing -- everyone was hearing and trump said it's going to be wild. everyone who can read twitter understood what was coming. great new book. i hope everybody checks it out. it's really, really good. it's called race against time. appreciate you all. and meanwhile the ongoing debate over vaccine booster shots is making your heads spin, you are not alone. straight talk on booster...

And even this court has shown itself to be surprisingly amenable to bringing racial gerrymandering cases. we were successful to say a decision clarence thomas actually wrote. i have some degree of hope there that a racial gerrymandering case brought before the supreme court could be successful. >> okay, and we know north carolina judge just blocked a voter i.d. law there saying it discriminates against black people there. you were successful in suing a bunch of states when you were attorney general. do you think the current justice department should be more aggressive in terms of going after t...