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Democrats are at the table as decisions are being made and that we have a level playing field on which democrats can compete. it's also the first time that we have had an entity within the democratic party solely focused on redistricting. meaning, we're pulling together all of the different house and senate and legislative leaders of our party, but we, the national democratic redistricting committee, will be solely focused on our redistricting strategy a hundred% of the time from now through the redistricting process. >> and how is president obama involved in this? >> well, as your previous cl...

Columbia. we've got empower states and talk to people everywhere and build a bench of candidates. if we're going to take over the redistricting process, we've got to be running candidates for state legislature and the way you do that is to get out there in the communities, not just in urban areas but in suburban exurb and rural america and talk to people and listen. that's what i've been doing my entire career is being an active listener fighting for the values that people care about, whether it was taking on joe arpaio in arizona, taking on texas on the voter i.d. cases, whether it was fighti...

To basics. there's no substitute for organizing and persuasion. i worked in the grassroots in maryland where i live and we helped take an organization from the basement of a church to one of the largest non-profits in the mid-atlantic empowering people, fighting for people. i'm a big believer in data analytics. but at the same time is, data analytics cannot be a substitute for persuasion and organizing. i'm also a believer in what howard dean called the 50-state strategy. i would call it will 57 state strategy including the territories and district of columbia. we've got empower states and tal...

And the timing was important because every ten years when they do the census, state legislators get to redraw election districts. in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm election, red map starting raising money to flip districts, to flip legislative seats, to approach that whole problem systematically. they raised a little over $30 million and that's a lot of money. it's not a ton of money for a political project. but here's the genius. instead of pumping that $30 million into high-profile senate and congressional districts and all of the big races, instead, they put all of that money into states w...

They do the census, state legislators get to redraw election districts. in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm election, red map starting raising money to flip districts, to flip legislative seats, to approach that whole problem systematically. they raised a little over $30 million and that's a lot of money. it's not a ton of money for a political project. but here's the genius. instead of pumping that $30 million into high-profile senate and congressional districts and all of the big races, instead, they put all of that money into states where the legislators would have the most control over the ...