could bring charges. but, you know, it s early yet. we got to be cautious. all right, mike isikoff, our national investigative correspondent, mike, thanks very much. thank you. all right, once every decade, i ve been promising you this for days, states redraw their congressional district lines often to the benefit of the party in power. well, it s party time for political geeks like me, and with control of congress at stake, it leads to plenty of potential lawsuits and political maneuvering on both sides. the last time we redrew lines, it took us almost a decade to re-redraw them. helping to make sense of it all are the best on the topic, nathan gonzalez and he s a contributing writer for roll call and david wasserman is the house editor at the cook political reporter. we love to have charlie and stu on, now we ve got the brains on. will i get in trouble with our friends there. gentlemen, welcome. we ll try to break it down and make it tv friendly, we ll focus on four states
hacking is an allegation involving a news corp. subsidiary in the united states, so that s the jurisdictional hook there. there s a problem there because it took place seven years ago, outside the statute of limitations, but if there is a pattern of conduct that could be established here, that would be the basis by which the feds could bring charges. but, you know, it s early yet. we got to be cautious. all right, mike isikoff, our national investigative correspondent, mike, thanks very much. thank you. all right, once every decade, i ve been promising you this for days, states redraw their congressional district lines often to the benefit of the party in power. well, it s party time for political geeks like me, and with control of congress at stake, it leads to plenty of potential lawsuits and political maneuvering on both sides. the last time we redrew lines, it took us almost a decade to re-redraw them. helping to make sense of it all are the best on the topic, nathan gonzalez
possibly $3 trillion in spending cuts. now, the senate, it was when history is written on this, the idea of the mitch mcconnell fail-safe plan actually motivated some of the base in the house, boehner s base, in the tea party caucus, to say, hey, wait a minute, we didn t come here to givek(q the presid more power when it comes to spending. we came here to try to cut spending, brought boehner, brought the white house back to the table, back to talking about something big. now, look, we still got a long ways to go. it s a weekend of sales jobs going on right now that actually began last night when the president had the congressional democratic leadership over to start talking turkey. so that brings us to the other sticking point, the actual substance. everybody has to figure out what to cut. this isn t going to be as easy as folks think and both sides are moving toward a deal that would include a trigger to assure mutually destructive politically when it comes to the two big items bein
a little more blue. good morning from washington. it s friday, july 22nd, 2011. i m chuck todd. july 22nd, a very important date to me. i ll tell you later. let s get right to my first reads of the morning. now we know there are really two sticking points holding up the debt ceiling deal. substance and ego. we ll start with ego. the house and the senate are each selling something that the other side won t buy supposedly. but as speaker boehner realized that the mcconnell/reid plan wouldn t fly in the house at all, he came back around to a bigger bargain and decided that he and cantor were better off cutting a deal directly. possibly $3 trillion in spending cuts. now, the senate, it was when history is written on this, the idea of the mitch mcconnell fail-safe plan actually motivated some of the base in the house, boehner s base, in the tea party caucus, to say, hey, wait a minute, we didn t come here to givek(q the presid more power when it comes to