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To try to do is say, we'll continue to grant asylum if you come through the port of entree -- >> but they're not saying that. if you're fleeing gang violence, that's no longer criteria that are valid, right? >> that is true, anderson, but keeping that in mind, there will be people who will be prepared for asylum if they come through a port of entry. >> but there's a huge backlog. >> the number right now is 2,000 per week being granted. basically, as they come into the united states, it is a multiple year process to get litigated. the administration has asked for more judges. the president is g...

More judges. and they have not been funded. so, the president's going to continue to try to draw contrasts on the immigration issue, because he thinks -- >> >> but he didn't have a plan. he didn't have a plan he announced today -- >> isn't that just a scam? >> yeah. >> if he doesn't have a plan and he's making this big thing, he's using the white house just for politics. >> you think? >> we call it democracy, the way it used to work. used to work. president obama used his executive powers to excess and the republicans hated it. businessman donald trump criticized it for years. now he says, i'm...

Have these moments in the history of the country where we can actually change the course of our pattern, the direction. we can actually be otherwise, ents it seems to me we have always historically chosen to double down on a notion of whiteness. and here donald trump is putting it before us again and it seems that every single time that we do it democracy takes a body blow. so here we are in this moment where what we think is a blue wave, which i think will be determined by those unlikely voters, those nonvoters, may turn into a trickle because people are choosing to be racist, jonathan. they'...

It's illustrated by results in three key states. my own hometown, pennsylvania. democrats got 83,000 more votes. yet republicans in office. the vote is represented dramatically by the republicans in congress. call it democracy? not really. in michigan, house democrats won 240,000 votes. michigan's represented by 9 republicans and 5 democrats. the people of wisconsin now represented. it seems a clever way to not waste votes.

That's not democracy. that's america now. >> let's look at the redistricting there you're talking about in your story. it calls it hyperpartisan. nationally democrats beat republicans by more than a million votes in the 2012 election. it's illustrated by results in three key states. my own hometown, pennsylvania. democrats got 83,000 more votes. yet republicans in office. the vote is represented dramatically by the republicans in congress. call it democracy? not really. in michigan, house democrats won 240,000 votes. michigan's represented by 9 republicans and 5 democrats.