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Hoeg, director of aclu voting rights project. thank you, dale, for being here. explain the case before the supreme court. >> this is a case challenging the redistricting maps in wisconsin. you mention disparity between national vote and representation in congress. wisconsin is a very extreme case. in wisconsin, republicans got about 49% of votes for the state legislature in 2012, got 60% of the seats. a massive disparity. get this. in 2014, a few years later, republicans actually got a majority of the votes but they got almost the exact same percentage of seats, so the precise number of votes ...

But it's not yet clear if it has enough support to pass. so far five gop senators have come out against the bill as it is now, four because it doesn't go far enough in rolling back obamacare and one because it goes too far. now, just so that you're prepared, know that washington and the media are going to spend much of the next week obsessing over process, wloefr these five senators will come around to help give donald trump his first major legislative win. so it's important that while this is going on that we put this ups predented rush to pass a bill with no hearings, none, and literally wit...

Answer whether or not he'd vote for the bill. do you happen to know if he will? >> i obviously don't speak for him. our relationship is good. we fundamentally disagree on rollback of medicaid. i'm with governor kasich on this, a republican governor in ohio, who expanded under the affordable care act we gave him the opportunity to expand medicaid, he did, to 700,000 people. the key number in ohio and it shows the heartbreak in how sad this is and what a public health challenge it is, 200,000 people right now in ohio, 200,000 people in my state alone are getting opioid treatment but a they have ...

Some of the more honest republicans are actually kind of admitting it. at the same time that this bill slashes funding for medicaid, a program that covers 1 in 5 americans, including 3 in 5 disabled children, it cuts a trillion dollars in taxes with two-fifths going to the wealthiest 1%. 2 out of every 5 dollars. republicans know that. it's their bill. and presumably the white house knows it too. including the fact that americans hate this bill. which may be why this week we were treated to an increasingly rare sean spicer sound bite. audio only per the new rules. in which he gave this sales p...

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