david wasserman, david wasserman, house editor for the cook political report looking at the house map. tell us map. tell us about this method is largely shaded in red. what is this looking to? >> well, you know, know, a lot of people would be fascinated to know that republicans hold 57% 57 percent of the seats right now in the house but they hold 86 percent of the country's land area. that is a high water mark for either party and speaks to just of concentrated democrats have become an urban settings. .. pattern we see across a ton of states, that republicans have packed democrats into heavily democratic, urban districts, and preserved their advantages in suburban and rural seats. we have seen a pattern where republicans, whatever their share of the total vote have won 4% more seats. in, it was democrats who won 1.4 million more votes than republicans for congress, and yet republicans won the house by 33 seats. in 2014, republicans won 53% of the two-party vote for congress. and so democrats may be locked out until at least after the next redistricting. i have said i think democrats w

host: david wasserman our guest. we go to florida. is on independent line. -- ben is on the independent line. caller: mr. wasserman has very many good points about districting. the fact of it is many of our citizens are not educated enough to understand what the ramifications of this gerrymandering process is. the problem is a lack of education of the general populace of understanding how legislators minute the nate -- manipulate to their own advantage the wills of the voters. guest: the caller raises an excellent point. it is really hard to get voters to care about things that are esoteric about redistricting reform. they're very critical of understanding how we reelect our numbers -- members of congress and legislatures. the challenge for he gestured dale reform from state to state is to convince a broad enough amount of voters that currently stand rate against them and be willing to pass a set of reforms over the objections of most state legislators that do not want to give up that power. host: all those independent commission's su

. >> on the next washington journal, david wasserman of the cook political report talks about the supreme court's redistricting decision, which now allows districts to be drawn by independent commissions. also richard norton smith on president obama's legacy. a look at what the government and the private sector are doing to address distracted driving and other safety issues in the u.s. with the national safety council president and ceo deborah herdsman. we take your calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter, beginning live at 7:00

david wasserman will be our guest and then we will be joined by richard norton smith to talk about president obama, the recent victories he has seen and leads to a larger discussion about his legacy that will take place at a: 30. and the former head of the national transportation safety board deborah horseman will join us and now the head of the national safety council. we will talk about the government and private sectors role in promoting safety. we will take a look at those issues as "washington journal" comes your way at 7:00 tomorrow. we will see you then. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> next, "newsmakers" with matt schlapp, chair of the american conservative union. then, the editor and rector discussed the future of the new york times. after that, i discussion on the latest tv technology and regulations. >> the c-span cities tour is partnering with our cable affiliates as we travel across the united states. join us and co

. >> on the next washington journal, david wasserman of the cook political report talks about the supreme court's redistricting decision, which now allows districts to be drawn by independent commissions. also richard norton smith on president obama's legacy. a look at what the government and the private sector are doing to address distracted driving and other safety issues in the u.s. with the national safety council president and ceo deborah herdsman. we take your calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter, beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> a conversation with former staffers who worked with george h.w. bush. they would discuss her positions in the white house, federal government, and how it prepare them for their new careers. speakers include a deputy press secretary who founded a crisis management firm which became he is relation for the abc tv show scandal. this is just under one hour. [applause] [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> thank you for coming to college station, texas. we are all three dear friends. we all served in government one way or the other. we

coming up on this morning's washington journal, david wasserman talks about the redistricting decision allows congressional districts to be drawn by independent commissions. richard norton smith will discuss how president obama's legacy is evolving in light of recent events. and a look at what the government is doing in the private sector and other safety issues in the united states with deborah hersman. ♪ host: hope you had a great fourth of july weekend. welcome to the washington journal. it is july 6. we are going to open up the phone calls for your thoughts on public policy issues you may be following this morning. congress is set to return tomorrow and sprint to the finish before the august reset. also, the greek people have rejected the measures by the european financial institutions. they were soundly rejected that.

visit ncicap.org] announcer: on the next washington journal, david wasserman talks about congressional districts being drawn by independent commissions. also, richard norton smith on president obama's legacy in light of recent events. and a look at what the government and the private sector are doing to address distracted try doing and other safety issues with national safety council president and ceo debra hurston. plus, we take your calls. beginning life at 7:00 eastern on c-span. announcer: monday night on the communicators, we visited a technology fair on capitol hill to hear what policy issues technology innovators want to discuss with congress. we spoke with yelp, one web qualcomm, and several others. >> last chance for public participation and so that is basically one at this us owner does not like a review of their business and says, i am going to sue you. they may actually go forward with it but you as a user knows you are the little guy and you might not have the money to go to court over what you wrote about a chinese food restaurant or that car mechanic so instead of doing

host: david wasserman is with us. we are talking about the arizona decision, but more broadly talking about the issue among the states. 202-748-8000, democrats. 202748 8001, republicans. in the case of arizona, is there any indication of who this benefits russian ? guest: there are a couple of winners. kyrsten sinema, she is a democrat who was first elected in 2012 when a ninth district was created in arizona. that district was drawn as a competitive district to incorporate parts of scottsdale. she ran for that and onewon it. had republicans been able to draw that districts to their liking, that would have been inhospitable to a democrat. under the current map, she has a good shot at staying in congress for quite a while. it should be said that republicans in california who are at risk of losing their seats, they could have been at risk if democrats in sacramento had managed to undo the sacramento commission. there are democrats who are happy with what this potentially does to reform efforts. in terms of the immediate

david wasserman will be our guest and then we will be joined by richard norton smith to talk about presidentma, the recent victories he has seen and leads to a larger discussion about his legacy that will take place at a: 30. and the former head of the national transportation safety board deborah horseman will join us and now the head of the national safety council. we will talk about the government and private sectors role in promoting safety. we will take a look at those issues as "washington journal" comes your way at 7:00 tomorrow. we will see you then. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by t