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Cnn Breaking News good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom . Of those propalestinian protests on College Campuses in the Turks And Caicos. And the head of the government there is addressing the arrest of Five Americans for allegedly bringing live ammunition onto the islands were on that in a moment and were watching the arrival right now. But your show, you live at the white house watching the arrival of the kenyan president and first lady at the white house. Its the First Official state visit for an african leader to the United States, to the white house since 2008. And well have more...

Big fat thumb on the scales of democracy goes much further than that. last night, lawmakers in texas approved new u.s. house maps that according to the associated press, quote, favor incumbents and, surprise, decrease political representation for growing minority communities. from that a.p. report, "republicans have said they followed the law in defending the maps, which protect their slipping grip on texas by putting more gop-leaning voters into suburban districts where democrats have made inroads in recent years. the texas gop controlled both chambers of the legislature, giving them nearly c...

Court rulings too that have been enhanced the voting rights act. politicians have looked at ways to get around that with color blind policies. so what we're seeing with partisan gerrymandering is an outgrowth of people trying to use racial gerrymandering and which courts have become more and more sensitive to. so now the natural evolution is to say we're not doing this by race anymore. we're doing it bipartisan politics. >> explain north carolina in that context so people understand from your broad analysis what the north carolina case, how that fits into that. >> okay. with north carolina, th...