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At the end of the day you still didn't have the battleground for democrats to compete on and that is holding the house and hopefully expanding the numbers and regaining more seats in the senate. how do these efforts connect up in terms of getting democrats in a position first with the redistricting process but then on the back end with the voters to actually hold those lines? the president's numbers are under water. how do you see them navigaing that space on redistricting maps but still can't get across the finish line politically because of the dynamics out there across the states? >> i actu...

That could determine the political map for the next decade. the court is taking up the case after the governor and republican legislature there failed to agree on new legislative and congressional maps after the census. shaquille brewster is inside the state capitol. it falls on the state's conservative supreme court to decide the maps. so explain what this means, what's happening in the hearing that's happening right now. >> yeah. i believe you have live pictures of what's happening in the room right behind me. this is the supreme court going through what's expected to be about five hours of ...

Commission until the aforementioned kevin mccarthy blew it up. >> that's right, john. he was the author of the independent commission on the republican side. he negotiated that with bennie thompson who ened up becoming the chairman of the select committee. he did so with the tacit approval of kevin mccarthy at the time, and then after the deal was hatched mccarthy backed out of it and encouraged republicans to vote against it. there were enough democrats and republicans able to pass it in the house and then mitch mcconnell, of course, stymied it in the senate and it never came to become a real...

The republican officials who aren't selling or enabling the big lie are on an island and a lightly populated one at that. the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump after the attack on the capitol by his supporters are facing primary challenges or getting out of congress entirely. meanwhile, state legislatures dominated by republicans are drawing congressional maps that look like amoebas. gerrymandering their states into congressional seats that are easy for their party to hold on to. republicans control the redistricting process in states that oversee 187 house seats. democrats cont...

Good morning, shaq. what are we hearing in court so far? >> good morning, jose. we're hearing a lot of conversations about the maps. both the maps that currently exist here in wisconsin and those that have been proposed as part of this redistricting process. every ten years we go through this. after we get the census from the federal government, it's the state's responsibility to create new maps. you mentioned normally that is a legislative function, and needs to be approved by the governor, but because of the impasse there, the state supreme court decided to instead of letting a federal court...