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The eric holder national democratic redistricting committee, this group that he founded with president obama, they're fighting that battle. they're trying to fight back for democrats against what republicans so successfully pulled off with those new maps that they got drawn after 2010. the eric holder/barack obama group has pursued lawsuits in virginia and georgia and texas and north carolina and pennsylvania, to try to get states to un-gerrymander their maps. in january, north carolina's gerrymandered congressional map was found unconstitutional by a group of judges who found that the maps we...

Scott walker just keeps -- he keeps -- like, hit me, eric, and i'm like, oh, okay, you know? >> that was march of this year, right after eric holder's group won that court battle against governor scott walker in wisconsin. a couple of months later, eric holder and his group notched another win when rebecca dallet won a ten-year term to the wisconsin supreme court. and it's weird to vote on judges, but they do in wisconsin. and in that race, that was the first time a candidate backed by liberals had won an open seat on that court in 23 years. eric holder had campaigned for dallet in madison and...

Keeps -- like, hit me, eric, and i'm like, oh, okay, you know? >> that was march of this year, right after eric holder's group won that court battle against governor scott walker in wisconsin. a couple of months later, eric holder and his group notched another win, when rebecca dallet won a ten-year term to the wisconsin supreme court. and it's weird to vote on judges, but they do in wisconsin. and in that race, that was the first time a candidate backed by liberals had won an open seat on that court in 23 years. eric holder had campaigned for dallet in madison and milwaukee, his group had pus...

Committee, this group that he founded with president obama, they're fighting that battle. they're trying to fight back for democrats against what republicans so successfully pulled off with those new maps that they got drawn after 2010. the eric holder/barack obama group has pursued lawsuits in virginia and georgia and texas and north carolina and pennsylvania, to try to get states to un-gerrymander their maps. in january, north carolina's gerrymandered congressional map got ruled unconstitutional by a panel of federal judges who found that the maps were, quote, motivated by invidious partisan...

This year's midterm elections in november. and that's just one part of the multi-pronged strategy that eric holder's group is working on this year. steve kornacki got the group's executive director to explain what that effort looks like now and what to expect next. >> so when you look at the map, you know, democrats are trying to take, i think, 23 seats right thousand to get control of the house, where is gerrymandering, the gerrymandering you say republicans have done, where is that most prevalent on that house battle field right now? >> our map is to look at the map through every districting...