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We'll take a look at and why it may matter overall. the big influence in congress really starts at the state legislative level. they're the ones who pick the districts. all this talk about jerry mannedering and redistricting. that's what states do. they need more attention. one is, what do we see developed in terms of white house, united states strategy for the asia pacific region? it's not just about whether or not we do a preemptive strike on north korea. what is the leverage with china. how can japan be used. what is the relationship here? what does it mean with eastern. it's very complicat...

The recovery. the challenges that we really do care about the people that haven't been affected by the recovery and about our country, and to carry that scenario out, that means nothing would ever happen in our country. and so what we're saying is, to the extent that he's willing to focus on things that help people, okay. but there is a whole long list of things that he's proposed that won't do that. and i want to just stress one other thing, chuck, if i could. that is that michigan is the consummate ticket state. we have a tie right now, and it's not set yet. what's interesting is the house -...

Very tight races working? >> reporter: well, we don't know yet. but i think at this point they're feels so confident that they're thinking about governing. if you look at the -- >> even though she said she wasn wasn't. >> when you look at the last 7 1/2 years of this president, you've seen a hallowing out of democrats at the state legislative level. they've lost 900 state legislative seats. governors are almost 3-1 republican governors. so what they're trying to do, in addition to taking back the senate and getting close to taking back the house, they're trying to take advantage of this opport...

Road to the white house, it is just getting started. earlier today, gop presidential candidate ted cruz and bobby jindal on support for religious freedom laws. what does it mean, who are they playing to personal conviction? bring in cnn correspondent jeff zeleny and gloria borger. thank you for joining us here tonight. let me start with shooting down my proposition. i suggest you have to deal with this if you want to be president in 2016. am i overshooting? >> no, i think you're right. i think a lot of these republican presidential candidates did not expect to be dealing with it this early bef...

Wisconsin, the motorcycle abortion, we can talk about that, but michael i want to ask you about the conservative movement and its approach toward the issue of abortion. it seems we set this up talking about how this got into the republican platform with reagans in 1980. i think there was a transition in the last decade or so when reagan was president he gave lip service to the issue of abortion. >> right. >> i don't think there was a lot of aggressive action at national level, state legislative level. they just talked about it. that seemed to be okay with the base. did we reach a point where t...