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Are fed up with gerrymandering or the redrawing of their congressional districts. but the politicians who benefit from gerrymandering are not going down without a fight. >> john avalon has reality check. john? >> that's right, guys. if you're frustrated by the dysfunction and division hyper-partisanship and polarization are to blame. arguably the prime driver of this in congress is the issue of redistricting which is the big reason we don't have competitive general elections for roughly 80% of our house seats. the good news, the bad news and the ugly news, with a truly strange new twist. first...

>> dagen: i will quote from the steve scalise editorial in "the wall street journal" today, "this insane hyperpartisanship is a sickness. it's disgusting when some care more about assigning blame for an attack than they do about getting the facts and preventing the next tragedy. he put somebody's name out there and attach their business to it, only to inflict harm on them. it may not be physical but it certainly financial. that's what you do it." >> chris: i've been with senator cruz and people come up to him in restaurants and security has had to be called. this can be frightening for a perso...

Records, that just doesn't make any sense in 2019. >> can i go to that quote from steve scalise, the gentleman from louisiana. it evinces this unwillingness to look at the present or look forward. here he is talking about what happened under president obama to both of your points, worth talking about. there is this inability to look at the present and lock ahead. >> there's this almost republican rule that when something is not going well, that you could as, as the republicans be addressing with the president, blame obama. when you want to just distract, blame obama. we see it over and over ag...

I'm old enough to remember when a blur raplurality, we're geare towards the republican party. there's been a huge exit of the party by people in the background. he's not for that reason. his piece in the washington post i thought was brilliant. he really explained where we are in terms of hyper partisanship eroding our politics. that's really on one side more than the other. you had the republican party say barack obama doesn't exist. we will make him not exist. why is he the only one, noelle? >> i think it was a wrong move that he left the republican party. although he doesn't like president ...

When those battles are between the judicial branch and the executive branch. so aren't we really at a place where there is hyperpartisanship and hyperintergovernmental warfare now between congress and the presidency? and that is not a constitutional crisis. that is, in fact, a political crisis. >> and it's that great question about whether or not the word "crisis "is right. you know, "crisis" comes from the greek term for "health." it was the moment of decision in the case of a patient. it's really interesting that in the 18th century, we spoke about the body politic. we talked about crisis, b...