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Racial lines that were almost surgical precise as far as targeting african-americans. i think the same would apply to texas. but just to let the audience know how engrained gerrymandering is in our society, if you go all the way back to 1788 when patrick henry and his anti-federalist allies were in control of the virginia house of delegates, even at that point in time, they were drawing a line through virginia's fifth congressional district to keep james madison out from winning the seat. so, this isn't a new problem. but what i would like to see is an independent commission, similar to what t...

Senate this year. joining me is the florida democrat, senator bill nelson. senator, thank you so much for being with us. before we get into the politics, are you happy that there will no longer be drilling off the florida coast? >> well of course if that's real, but secretary zinke just said he takes it off the table. by the way, that was one day after it was published in the federal register that all of the outer continental shelf was going to be drilled. so what does he mean by off the table? the devil's in the details, to answer your question am i happy. >> i understand that. we need to lea...

Cabinet on the plan they gave him at camp david for infrastructure. i think he's a lot better at showmanship that governing. we'll see what we get today. >> the white house has said that sentence was left out in error. what do you make of what kelly said about the president saying infrastructure is going to be easier? a lot of levels infrastructure should be bipartisan but it does involve spending government money which a lot of conservative republicans are not interested in doing. >> that's right. the plan president trump laid out in the campaign was plan that appealed to a lot of working gla...

Talk about how are you going to get that money out to the local cities and states and so forth. is it going to be federal spending? is it going to be tax credits, which is probably what a lot more of the republicans want. that's going to be a hard kind of, you know, compromise to make. >> absolutely. the devil's in the details. and you think to phil's point, it's also in the timing. we're barreling very quickly towards 2017. it is an election year and it's an unpopular position for the democrats to work with the sitting president in many of these districts across the country. the idea that hae...

Celled it to his brother for making him aware of the scourge of addiction, changing his life in that way and joking there may be other personality traits people might not look on so favorably, but it was a very personal kind of statement from the president, but to ed markey's point, the question is, the devil's in the details, as he said. waiting for the commission's recommendations and how much money is this administration willing to commit to really fight this scourge. right? >> reporter: those are the unanswered questions, chris. no doubt about that. but i do think to kate snow's point, it ...