jurisdiction over the state supreme court s decision. in all likelihood we ll be looking at this new map. dana: does this affect the connor lamb/rick saccone race in pennsylvania? quite a bit. the district connor lamb is running in is not the same district he said he s gonna run in under these new congressional lines. now, connor lamb, this big recruit for the democrats, if he wins in this upcoming election in march, he ll have a lot of momentum. ultimately, he s running for a district that may not exist in a few months. dana: let me ask you ab the quinipiac poll. it had been looking better for republican. this just in today. why party would you want to see win control of the house? democrats 53%, republicans 38%. among independent voters, which party would they want? republicans 36% and democrats 47%. you see that widening a bit.
what s your take on this new map? dana, it s loom impossible to take politics out of redistricting. democrats are right. the map republicans drew in 2011 is a jerry mandered map. when you look at the process by which democrats redrew the map, it is filled with politics. the supreme court in pennsylvania, you re elected by party. democrats want a supreme court majority. they have a ruling that came down the pike a month ago. they decided to throw out the maps, draw their own maps. when you look at the congressional district lines in this new map favor democrats. give them an advantage. all these subtle ways that could have a big impact in who takes the majority in the house. dana: do the republicans have any standings to get this changed or are we running out of time? very limited legal appeal. they re promising they re going to do an overturns of this map in the court. this is a state supreme court decision and a u.s. supreme court doesn t really have
firm that obtained a deal for him that is unlikely to result in a significant prison sentence. and even if he could withdraw his plea, it is quite difficult to do so. right, tom? it is, dana. it s very difficult to do so. look, my take on this is is flynn got an excellent deal from bob mueller. if he were to try to blow that up, essentially saying i am ready to go to trial, that would be an immense roll of the dice. honestly, the possibility that mueller could add additional charges if flynn were to gamble and lose. he could be facing four, five, ten times the amount of jail time he could face under a plea deal. so i would be extremely cautious ab pulling back this plea, at least until you ve seen the evidence that mueller now is going to apparently put in in response to the court s demand that mueller give him some evidence. unless there s some sort of smoking gun bombshell in there, i can t see why it would be rational for flynn to pull back this favorable deal. dana: michael, th