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There's a really important aspect to this. so when joe manchin says, look, it's an 800 page bill, it's true, the for the people act has a lot of provisions, a lot of campaign finance stuff, there's voting access but independent, basically independent commissions, nonpartisan gerrymandering is a big part of that bill, and it just seems to me hey, there's two things to note about that. one is, it really would be nonpartisan in the sense that there are states that democrats control where they could probably put the screws to republicans on redistricting, and they would have to have independent co...

In colorado, in utah. got one in missouri for the republicans then got it. republicans never say they are in favor of that. they understand they've got to keep their thumb on the scale. they have to have an ability to impact the redistricting process in an unfair way if they are going to hold on to the power that they got illegitimately in 2011. so yeah, independent commissions are, i think, the best way to go about the redistricting process, and that is a core part of the for the people act. >> what do you think about, i mean, do you have advice to state legislators controlled by democrats, b...

What happened that day and based on the latest reporting there's an obvious first witness that i would want to call, democratic congressman adam schiff of california, a member of the new committee, the lead impeachment manager in trump's first impeachment, the chair of the house intelligence committee as well, and he joins me now. congressman, first, your reaction to both what we have learned specifically, and then the kind of time line of the fully available previously known public facts about the role the military did or did not play, and how trump perhaps wanted to use it? >> well, you know...

Voting rights act in 2013. we're now saying in the case that just held, they're almost giving the lower courts a guide post for ways in which you can sanction that which republican legislators are doing. the opinion by justice alito is frightening, not only for the results of the particular things that they upheld in arizona, those two provisions but the language that is in that majority opinion is truly frightening. and i am really concerned about what we see coming out of our supreme court. it's one of the reasons why i think democrats, progressives, people who care about this country have t...