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Redistricting processes that worked well, there are now 43 members that are african-american in the united states house of representatives. and one in the senate. >> you could argue at least in the house, 10%, it's roughly at least matching population. robert, she brings up the senate. politically, we're not -- there is still big gaps. >> one would think that south carolina, mississippi, alabama, the south ironically, with large african-american population would have african-american -- but because of racism, because of historically segregation, the chances of that are probably very slim. with...

President tomorrow, you could probably [ inaudible ] to do it. >> you could probably get the votes in the house of representatives to do it. it is the latest in a series of attacks against obama. but do they have any real purpose except to rile up the base? i'm joined by jason stanford and political contributor for msnbc robert trainem. former senior adviser to president bush. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> good morning. >> fairenhold is speaking at this town hall in texas and he did argue defense impeachment but not, robert, because it would be -- there is no basis in high crimes an...

Appealing to that small group of texans, we do hear this from time to time, it doesn't go away. is this about fund-raising? firing up the base? what is it? >> this isn't a very small group. this is the republican based vote. grand, it's texas and texas is the high church of stupid republican ideas. but this is a good example of how the republican party is now not a responsible partner in governing our country. the best part of this there is a subset of birthers in this country who know that obama was born in hawaii but don't know that hawaii is a state. i mean, this is the level of dumb we are...

Any plan has hamstrung the president. house republicans can't pass what one would think would be as simple as spending bills. the senate republicans are watching the house's inability to give them leverage and are now splintering. knnegotiating their own deals, showing up at the white house. the fact remains, they don't have any agreement on what they want in any realistic budget negotiation. said senator mccain, i still don't see the strategy for the path towards result. he joked, it's always darkest before it's totally black. what can we expect? let's bring in our gaggle. friday gaggle nonet...

>> i think another difficult point for him, robert, was when an audience member asked him about his opposition to the voting rights act, and he tried to say, well, i was really only opposed to part of it, so let me play that. >> i have been concerned about the ramifications of certain portions of civil rights act beyond race as they are now being applied to smoking, menus, you know, listing calories and things on menus and guns, and so i do question some of the ramifications in the extensions but i have never questioned the civil rights act and never come out in opposition to the civil rights ...