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In part because redistricting and gerrymandering is an old political problem. it's not novel. and each party has used it to their own advantage in different ways at different times and people have sort of been better or worse at it in different parts of the countries and in different eras. are you and president obama working on this because you want democrats to compete better at this time at the old project of redistricting and gerrymandering, or are you trying to eliminate it in general in a good government kind of way? ? i'll say a couple of things. first princeton did a study and said what...

You point out, leadership is combined 200 plus years old is not the leadership that comes up with new ideas, new policy initiatives, they come back to their old playbook. >> the president have a point, the wrong direction on this. the reason democrats need to push new leadership is to get younger ideas and issues on the table, when bernie sanders at 75 years old is the young whippersnapper with progressive ideas is a sign we have to bring fresh blood, a new younger voice to the party so we can compete in the 21st century. >> what is preventing those things? we talk to the dnc election where th...

Peter doocy tells us why. >> the democratic party needs fundamental change. >> them and trying to change it isn't even a democrat. independent senator bernie sanders. >> today, that democratic party has almost no political presence at all in many states. that's not a failed model, i don't know what i failed model is. >> the hallmark of the sanders rallies, progressive ideas to move the party forward, things like tuition-free college and single-payer health care. the focus on the future is a lot different than the democrat who beat him in the primaries last year remains focused on the past. >> ...

Peter doocy tells us why. >> the democratic party needs fundamental change. >> them and trying to change it isn't even a democrat. independent senator bernie sanders. >> today, that democratic party has almost no political presence at all in many states. that's not a failed model, i don't know what i failed model is. >> the hallmark of the sanders rallies, progressive ideas to move the party forward, things like tuition-free college and single-payer health care. the focus on the future is a lot different than the democrat who beat him in the primaries last year remains focused on the past. >> ...

Chairman of the american conservative union and author of the federalist society how the took the back from liberals. did you ever think that president obama is on the beach pulling the strings. >> no president obama is on the beach kite surfing and get a break from the presidency for a while. i think there is no question when he comes back to the states is he going to set up shop back in d.c. where his children are preliminarily anyway. i think he will be involved in some extent to democratic politics. he wants to build a bench of young democrats who will do what he started. he cares about pr...