joining me now, the author of the cracker barrel versus whole food analysis, david wasserman of the cookeport and larry kramer, former dean and current president of the hewlett foundation that added polarization to the list of global robs it seeks to tackle. explain, why did the gap grow? >> thanks for having me on. a lot of people including democrats think that if we were to end gerrymandering, if we were to have an impartial robot draw all of our political maps or at least take it out of the hands of politicians, we'd have a bonanza of newly competitive seats but i'll take a slightly contrarian view to that because what we've seen and we calculate swing districts a little bit differently than 538 has but we've seen a 56% decline in the number of competitive seats in the house since 1997, but according to a study, we're going to put out next month, 83% of that decline has been attributable to factors other than redistricting which happens every 10 years. what's happening is that voters are gerrymandering themselves. they're choosing to live in like minded areas where the vast majority o

wasserman schultz. this party is going off the rails right in front of our eyes, which is a bad thing for this country. we need a two-party system. not this party. davidavid horowitz, we have to leave it at that thanks very much for coming in. appreciate it. melissa. melissa: america's depleted military. why top officials say budget constraint could make us less prepared for combat. >>> plus the war of words between president trump and senator john mccain over the deadly raid in yemen. we'll talk to lea gabrielle, former navy fighter pilot. that's next. david: new statements from top u.s. military officials suggesting suggesting that the america's military become more depleted and less ready to fight due to budget restraints and other hurdles. fox business's lea gabrielle former fighter pilot joins us with details. apparently it is pretty bad. >> the vice chiefs of services are saying, put in words of navy number two officers we're able to still put the first team on the field our bench is largely depleted. vice chiefs of four services told lawmakers in the house foreign services committee, high demand under forces because of budget constraints and un