their congressional map or they will do it for them. gerrymandering districts like this one violates the constitution. they want them to investigate whether the hush money a trump lawyer supposedly gave to an adult film star just before the 2016 election, it may have violated campaign finance laws. the president hasn t commented on the alleged affair, but officials close to him call those charges baseless. and when the government shuts down, lawmakers need every tool at their disposal to find a way out. it was a colorful stick from africa that helped manage a debate inside her office. anyone who wanted to speak in these bipartisan meetings could do so, but only if they held the baton. word got out that the passing stick not always passed lightly. is it true, senator, that
seats, even though that creates locked in republicans, we re trading republican power for a little black power, and if you don t do that you won t have many african-americans in congress. what do you think of the argument? i think you can draw districts in a way that give african-americans and latinos and asian americans representation, and for the first time under the voting districts act while making it fair. and this is a form of election rigging. we shouldn t forget the same politicians drawing these crazy gerrymandering districts are also suppressing the vote. the first thing they do when they get into the power is draw districts to pass voter suppression laws to demobilize their opposition. in wisconsin, they did both. passed one of the worst gerrymandering maps and voter suppression in history.
with me. you ve given yourselves very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion because what you ve been telling your constituents is this guy s doing all kinds of crazy stuff that s going to destroy america. joining me now white house correspondent and washington bureau chief for american urban radio networks and a republican strategist. and april, you ve covered presidents, this president up close. the case that he has made is essentially the republican party s sort of core pathology that it is immersed in a bubble. it is beholden to constituents in gerrymandering districts and conservative media can brook no compromise, can t work with him to get anything done and there s a straight line from that to trump? i cannot agree more. i ve watched this president and i ve watched this congress and there seems to be gridlock. whenever someone makes a move to
in gerrymandering districts and conservative media can brook no compromise, can t work with him to get anything done and there s a straight line from that to trump? i cannot agree more. i ve watched this president and i ve watched this congress and there seems to be gridlock. whenever someone makes a move to broker some kind of deal, be it trying not to have a government shutdown. we hear things like green eggs and ham. you know? this president has gone golfing with john boehner trying to broker deals. this was the pervasive thought. we ve heard people like rush limbaugh saying that he wanted the country to fail. he said that. this is not conjecture. this is not a myth.
ry dick louse. the website being operational could in part be because we had to go to the supreme court to fight over a law three years to get it going. i think to the point about immigration it s really an issue of like 2016 is going to be the big reckoning for the republican party. after 2012 there was an identity crisis and there are, to your point, a lot of republicans who are not only saying we need to do immigration reform but are putting their necks on the line to try and push for something. i mean, look at what happened in the senate. now lindsey graham has to face a race back in south carolina after he put his name on this comprehensive immigration reform bill. but there is still this problem where you have a very conservative base who comes out in midterms and those are the voters that members of congress in the house are most concerned about. yes. these gerrymandering districts. also ideologically very extreme. it s not just gerrymandering districts. that s part