i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. as dust settles from the midterms what explains the diminishing role of the majority in america. and al frankten offering his thoughts since he steps down from the senate.

and just as the president doubles down on saudi arabia, the number of sunni islamic militants have multiplied. and ritszer the rare issue that binds president trump and george soros on the same page, criminal justice reform. can a a new group of d.a. fix this. we know the correlation between too much time on social media and depression. i ask what can be done to fix this? does online engagement with facebook, instagram and snap chat increase loneliness and depression. i'll give you the results at the

end of the hour. there is a less on largely in noticed. you remember hillary clinton won 3 million more votes to donald trump while losing to him. b electoral college is one part of a phenomenon. look at the supposed purple swing state of ohio. gop won 53 -- republicans won 63 per of of state house races. 73 off the 316 seats and the same in the buckeye state races for congress. in high high's looked a while commanding 75% at the seat.

this diminishing influence of the mujortd was attributable to democrats winning their streets with big majorities in fewer districts in larger numbers of districts. the editorial board arguing gerrymandering played an insignificant role due to the natch ral vote. >> i'd say it over looks it's not the national landscape but the individual districts and states that fail to fairly represent their constituents. but it's more than map may the making. where they have the same number of senators as densely set 8ed states. with fewer than 600,000 has the 15i78 number as california'sall

moist 40 million. yes, representation in the senate is the way the founders intended it to be. but as he noted in the new york times recently this convergence will have profoujd implications especially when the president, who lostthe popular ote,leads the party that controls it. three of the supreme court justices have been appointed by presidents that lost the popular vote. the emergence of additional parties could help. adams worried about power bieng concentrated in just two. the 2017 analysis points to nine, not two distinct categories ranging from core conservatives to solid liberals. if the two majority broaden

their appeal democrats in rural areas, gop in skities. erick canter argued last week that the gop's very survival is contingent upon winning back college educated voters. constitutional amendments could change to a direct system, not by the electoral college. but both are unlikely in this climate. if called for by 2 slee/3 of th states. interstate compact, not their state's victor and finally rapged choice vote are additional out of the box remedied.

ohio wins in 2015. beginige in 2021. and they did the same for congressional districts. of the diminishes. now joining me riech lawyerry and ougter of roingen unbound. and how we can do tuagain and the former speech writer for president obama sque author of "thanks obama" >> well, this is a future of our system that is back to founding. there was a compromise between large states and small significance.

they had a lot of sovereign tee. and it's yes, california has a heck of a lot of voters just in one state. virginia had a larger population than the rest of the states as well. this is just the way our system works. >> he's not too concerned. are you? >> i'm working on a book dealing with a flap lot of the issues. >> i think the biggest issue is the more our democinacy and i say twhat a small "d" and not a party. the last fagts we have in it. the more that papens we drieft into a system called hungry.

>> let's run through some of the additional headlines of the day. frrs your piece "dems need someone they don't want to win in 2020. you say joe biden is a 75-year-old washington veteran who is exact what the democrats need. how come? >> if you sume and a lut is going to happen in the next two years. ohio pretty good for him and florida is always close prps the upper midwest and pennsylvania were central and they need more appeal to working class voters. do i think he's likely to win? no. i teng would have won in gren

>> his argument is that joe wij the rir. i'm a big joe biden fan. i obviously worked for president obama and i agree would have a lot of appeal to the working class voters. >> i think there's wishful thinking that he's the only one. mostly i was occupied. but i remember seeing headlines that hillary clinton would aneal white working class. foreign minister and we don't know what's going to happen in the fuper. and i'm excited to see who it is. >> i'm eager to learn whether your party will allow the reemergence of al frankten.

i made reference to him posting on his facebook page yesterday. "i still miss being in the fight every day and i hope that in the next year i'll have the chance to help make a difference again. "is there room for him or will they want to shun him >> i that's a good question. i don't think i'm most qualified to answer it as a guy. one of the things you see is the increasing influence of a party that is the gender gap not just among voters but among party inflewensers. you look at the incoming class. it's about 50/50 women and men. the republican members of congress and it looks like my duc dungeons and dragons club just older.

and general this gender gap you're seeing. there are going to be a lot of wom women leaders and frankly i think their opinion is going to matter more than me. >> americans love a come back story. are they roady for al frankten ffs is it i think democrats fels straukly they neetds to her the 24 deck on their sewn sides to feelfore on these kind of #me too issues. it seems unlikely he's going to be back again. he can have a radio show again. give speeches obviously but high level elected politics seem unlikely to me. >> and finally put on the recent tweet relevant to climate change.

i'm looking at a new york times headline today. u.s. climate study has grim warnings of econom risks. brutal and extended cold blast could shatter all records. whatever happened to global warming? he's -- rich, how can we decontinue that? >> clearly weaveler a warming trend for decades now. frrgs i think we know a little less about the cause the best policy is to continue to have a really robust economy that can mitigate if 80 years from now come trau. harm aing our ifeem in a lay

that's a global drop in the bucket is hoe that doesn't make sense. >> and by 2040, according to our own government the trump administration, 13 different federal agencies, here and now or it will be too late. >> every single policy that has been realistically advanced on this make minor difference over the long term. that is in the best piposition to mitigate and alternative energy will be cost effective and will have a big shift there. but to harm our economy in the meantime doesn't make any sense. >> rich, david, to be continued. i appreciate it. >> thank you very much. go to my facebook page as this individual did.

what do we have? nonwhite voters stay home. that's why clinton lost. they'll stale home for butte.. it's the high school a educated in states like mine and mb mb and show hoy. frrts and would they can come out for buoyant. sfrrs if he could get through the primary and caucus process. franken was the demes sacrificial lamb. i wonder how many wish they had something and take him back into the fold given the totalality of fev is still standing up for the saudis. it the number of souny islamic

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i'm trying to reconcile two conflicting stories about the saudis this week. in one the official statement dfrding t defending the saudis, despite the murd of khashoggi and a new reported finds the number of sunni islamic militant around with had world has quadrupled, despite efforts to fight al qaeda. remember most iranians are sheau. theirer the two sides in the historic battle over who nobody. it 1 fuses that it they stands

with each other. he sites his pludsy war in fing foreign minister and syria and callsi pj i guess when it comes to saudi arabia. who is for the u.s. president, saying yoet kaer care leadership leadership but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic eventporous maybe he did and maybe he didn't. hay sanctioned 17 saudis. but as i said on twitter why is the president willing to rely on the intel pertain thing to 17 but ignore number 18, the crown trins. the if i ams repoured 17 years of nine-11 and he wants it.

the evolution of the jihadi threat. the good news is there has not been an attack anywhere near scalef 911/sense that day. the bad news is the idahoiology steams to have metastasize said. >> seth jones, directors of the transnational threats project and author of a co prourtd mean yefr. >> seth, why are our houren pall thaess when it comes that many from saudi ayab wru are the whuns that want to export pairer to us. i think they certainly pose a threat to the united states but at this point even hezbollah are

conconducting daur alots. so i think we've got the wrong enemy here. >> who is the enemy? >> i think we've got several enemies. look at where the itacks are take engplace, they're in places like syria, and iraq and afghanistan. and that's where yoois focus should be on targeting the yups overseas. >> isn't a large part of what motivates thoem fault our continued presence on what they i think when we look at what happened 9/leave.

the u.s. was not in many areas of the middle hooes yet they atakds us. fwrrs 5 major attacks in the eugited kingdom. they're really willing to attack any outside country. are supporting regimes they're fighting overseas. >> it blimes the thing was wrong. it he dictated off the can cup are to talk about iran. to me lacking your ewe haddi wran rannians after that. he's asked about k khashoggi and

wauntsds to immediately talk about iran. that reflektsz where they're going right now. and i would point out the strategy snowstorm it's also focus. this argument that's simply not true that jihadist groups have defeated. that's simply high not try. quite the opposite. zblen grou said i would assert that reason the sunni eem and it's because our presence. it might not have been iraq and

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. so does spendinger to pluch time on social media actually increase loneliness and depression? that's a new finding by researchers at the university of pennsylvania to be published in the pier peer review journal of psychology. the first time a causal connection between time spent social media and depregsz and loneliness. the undergraduate subjects to limited their time on facebook,

instagram and snapchat to 30 minutes or less saw a market decan cline in depression. studied generational differences for 20 years and then wrote this book. why they're growing up less happy and completely unprepared for adulthood and what that means for the rest of is. they're not hanging out with friends and getting less sleep. they're lonely. and squeabsorbred it was 2012. fwrrs he she was noting a correlation, not a causition.

now there's proof it's the cause my hunch is you are not surprised by these new findings. >> i was not. it looked from the other dwatau that we had, that there moilg be a causal relationship because the lanelyness and defresz fem i have wassauical and are more like be lonely skb depress said. it's a spoelgs piece of the puzzle. they' they're spending more time on social media. that it 345i actually cause loneliness and depression.

is it the inherent social comparison they go through when they're participating in snapchat and instigram. >> the one is exactly that. everybody's life looks more glamorous. you know everything happening in your life but you just see all the positive two things he they might heard about the party and now they see it pin living color. >> for parents watching, teens watching, what's your advice? >> fifrs, your phone should not

be in your peat moom oop it night. put you show limit your pop and try to keep sfeetsz screen time less. frorls dr. twangy, when i spoke to the lead augtser of this new research sf who were part of this exam nations group, they clammered to be irn that group that had a limit put on them of 10 minutes per day of each of the three and she said occurred to her you limed the several. but i thought he had.

>> these fights are designed to keep us coming back and designed to keep on as lang as posbible. that's how they make more money. it is really difficult adults can put on their own phones to rr. hay, you've been on ingrukbrim taegtstherm clauser krau--

>> they face so much fusis on appearance. really tough on people's self ekeem. you can kep hour hours looking at the screen when maybia should be outs meeting your friends and moigts be a better straj strategy for happiness. >> i read your book. i'm convinced there's a lautd we adults can learn from it as well. the rules off limiting yur use, apply to all ages. but it's it the only wurlorld t have ever known but it certainly an e23ek9 on a older people as well. >> thank you for coming back.

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having said that there for cases where the maximum sentence is the appropriate sentence. keep in mind the biggest demographic are reopendss ate the need prier to kp bcoming this to in addition to helpi-- help to those who needs help and i think that's taking hold across the duntry. one of the middle east difficult aspects of your new job will be conzuling fepgts of faepy member. they're going to want the book thrown at whoever the guilty party might be in any circumstance. >> if anyone has committed that

crime which is so horability, we should look add that. potentially for tles of her tleem. and herder would support that. the majority of crimes are nonviolent kreechls. when we look across the countsry people are are understanding bees are the things you need focus on. in suposht of reducing nath mass incarc arounds. >> thank you so much for having me on. still to come your best and foers tweets andiary it if it

become as system of revenge and rets rubugz. that's one of the criticisms you would hear that there's been so nouch difference akshded to family members. i apprec yaeted his answer. by definition itta almost necessitates a prosecutor is going to reach the other extreme. but i appreciate your comments. to vote at smerconish.com. online, what do you think. does online engagement with facebook, instagram, snapchat increase loneliness and depression? go vote. ing, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa.

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my hunch is this will be a big margin. here come the results from smerconish.com. do you think online engagement with facebook, instagram, snapchat increase loneliness and depression? 8613 votes were cast. i'll say 74% of us, because i'm in that category. we see it. we get it. and that this study at penn that's going to be published in a peer review journal is a confirmation of what many of us know has been going on. i found it most telling when i spoke on radio with the lead author of the study, professor melissa hunt, she said to me the students wanted to be in the group, to be limited to ten minutes per day on each of those

platforms. and they didn't distinguish between the platforms. you can't say based on this data that one is worse than the other on this issue. katherine, what do we have. i am eating up all your time, aren't he. if you depend on social media for your company, you're already lonely and depressed. mark, this study was one that was directional. i'm not going to explain it well, but this was able to disabuse the idea that you're there because you're already lonely. by sample size, that was ruled out. give me another one. maybe i can improve on it. get off the popular vote. the founder did this for a simple reason not letting new york and california control the country. we'll never get rid of the electoral college. liberals need to stop with the popular bs. i am no liberal, george. i think it is undermined faith in the system when there's decreasing majority rule in the country. to be continued. have a great week. ♪

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