why did the founders create the electoral college? electoral college was created to preserve majority rules and the rights of the minority. the founders wanted to create a system where by the states would have a role to play not just a giant mass plea in america. they wanted farmers in iowa to have ultimately some say in elections the way silicon valley. i'm using modern terminology. they wanted to have a wide swath of america to have input who the america would be. now they are talking about a mass popular vote. it would water that down. would make it like big states, california, new york or texas would have so much of a say that essentially the whim of iowan s would not count as much. >> dana: you mention the popular vote. here's the vote here. clinton always talks about it. she did win the popular vote. but the president won the electoral vote. he focused on the states where he could win. has the electoral college all been controversial. has it ever benefitted democrats? >> it has benefitted democrats. in fact, going up into 2016,

is flawed we need to do away the electoral college it's not fair it's not fair how the senate works we should have more proportional representation it's not fair the way the supreme court is currently but you know compromise we need to stack the court you know expand it to eleven or thirteen justices at the end of the day democrats should try winning by the rules that we have in place now and if they can't they should admit that the reason they want to change those rules is because they can't win by the rules that we've all agreed to play by for the last couple of hundred years it's simply absolute ridiculous to me here the democrats come up with excuse after excuse after excuse after excuse about how fundamentally the problem isn't them or their candidates the problem is our institutions i think that is fundamentally wrong. recent polls have shown let's go ahead to that saying go ahead and that's the point of the program jump in go ahead . you know i just have something as something constructive to talk about and i certainly don't mean to sound a jest or at all sexist but i m

that's just not going to happen so democrats aren't braying at the moon to change the electoral college they would like to see more people vote counting as opposed to fewer but the reality is what it is that hillary ignore certain states and miss kind of campaign of course she made mistakes that the russians and komi voter suppression all that help that didn't help her either ok all right we're still waiting for that big report ok anyway christopher and can i mean richard comes on this program very often and i consider him a friend ok so i'm not dismissive of him but you know again you know it's like the liberals moving the goalposts post all the time here i don't care but it's the administration and it's immaterial who won the popular vote because we have the electoral college it doesn't matter ok that's the rule to seventy you win ok nothing else matters here so again you know this perception if you don't like the institution how it works it doesn't work for you because you want to. so are your dismissive of it oh you want to change it or get rid of it go ahead christopher well and by

he got 37% but he won in the electoral college. thank goodness for the electoral college that helped end slavery. >> greg: excellence. >> jesse: if you're going to eliminate every institution that had its roots in slavery, you have to eliminate the democratic party. look at the history over there on your side, juan. not too good. the republican party ended slavery. >> greg: we should move on from that. >> dana: it's true that a lot of people are moving to the coast, california, florida, texas, new york, those are big states. it could change. new york is seeing populations leave in droves because of taxes. >> jesse: these things have a way of balancing out. if you say that the senate is tyranny, you have the house. checks and balances, the white house, supreme court, other things. juan is saying that the republicans rammed it home so hard on the democrats were soft. i think this is the first time republicans showed up to a gunfight with a gun instead of a knife. voters are going to reward them for that. the impeachment thing, i comp

you have to win the electoral college. president trump went to states like wisconsin, michigan, wisconsin being the biggest. had hillary clinton played the game a different way, if she tried to win the electoral college and the popular vote -- the thing is the founders really wanted our country to be a federalist system. they wanted the states to be diverse. they did give slightly more power to the smaller states, but they generally favored the more popular states. democrats see going forward, california, new york, florida, all of these big states making the decisions that they want like medicare for all. when some states like wyoming, north dakota, montana, stamp their feet and say no, the democrats think that that is unfair. so they want to change the rules of the game. the idea that it's racist is preposterous. you have the great point about abraham lincoln. i feel that it's democrats squawking because they're struggling to find a message, struggling to find unity. they want to blame the system. they give the appearance

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heather: you disagree with her on the electoral college then?n't think -- i don't think my opinion or her factors in this discussion, when we get to a point, i think your point is well taken, democrats do know that we need to win elections in order to start the course for making decisions and i guaranty democrats are fired of november 2016 and elections in 2020. >> tom pÉrez and ocasio-cortez by her own admission are doing that and every time she slips up, shows exactly how nuts and how crazy some members of the democratic are which is very important for us when it comes to midterm elections to turn out people to show that the republicans can lead, frankly her ideas are so way out there, we would be foolish not to highlight them. >> i'm not saying that at all. we are not on television talking about tomas and james, they are republicans who certainly have ideas outside the mainstream of their respective parties and we are not spending as much time -- heather: howard, jumping on what ford had to say, ocasio-cortez is all over the place representin

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if i had my way, would i change the electoral college? yes, i would. would i change the make up of the senate so that a california senator represents so many more people than a wyoming senator? sure. but you live with the imperfections of a constitution because the constitution on balance is so extraordinarily effective. i would be opposed to that kind of a constitutional convention. liz: let's move on to democrats trying to -- thinking about impeaching brett kavanaugh. is that constitutional? >> it is not constitutional. you have to impeach only if a person has committed treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, while serving in office. you can't go back and say we're going to impeach him for what he did when he was 17 years old. then you can't say well all right we're not going to impeach for what he did when he was 17, we will impeach for what he said he did when he was 17 as he testified in front of the congress. that's what the republicans tried to do with bill clinton. and democrats like me strongly opposed that when it was directed

anve: you've also been outspoken critic of the electoral college. two of the last three presidents winning the electoral college vote, but not the popular vote. why do you want it changed? rep. green: you look at the history of why we have that amendment to the constitution, late 1700s, 1800s. it took weeks to get something from washington to new york. today, we have instantaneous information. i think our individual votes ought to mean something other than to send an elect or to vote for the electoral college. now, there's a whole lot of difference. our country is mature enough now to elect by majority vote, whether it be in 2002 or 2000, president bush, or president trump. i think we ought to have a majority of people in america making sure who their president is instead of electors. steve: how do you change it or eliminate it? rep. green: it's a congress -- constitutional amendment that you do. they have to adopt it like we did 18-year-old votes and things like that. it's a process. i've introduced a constitutional amendment every year since 2001

the electoral college applies to the election for the president. that's a 50 state election, not a national election. the redistricting only applies to the u.s. house, not to the u.s. senate. every state gets two senators. 435 u.s. house numbers. those are apportioned. oftentimes people talk about redistricting. that determines how many seats each state gets in the u.s. house. after that you have to make sure they have the same number of people. the reason you redraw these lines is because the constitution requires it. so the reason we do the redistricting is to make sure it is one person one vote. the number of states in the south and the west are probably going to gain seats. many of the states that are losing population relative to the other states are going to lose seats. >> the guest reference this, but 31 state legislatures currently across the united states are controlled by republicans. in arizona, steve, go ahead. >> good morning, c-span. i am so glad -- i wanted to give praises to the show. i've been watching it for years. it gives americ

. >> dana: there is no electoral college in the midterm election, so the electoral college was what?dent trump got the victory because he knew what the game was and his team plotted out that version. there is no electoral college that can help the republicans. they've got to do it on their own. >> katie: the polling could be more accurate because it's per district, not for state like the electoral college. that being said, there are lots of questions about what people are saying and who they're going to vote for. independents are very split. president trump's numbers are up into his visible. it is clear based on his schedule, from the white house announced he would be on the road three or four times a week doing rallies, it was like it's a lot but it's paying off and people are paying attention. the polling numbers are not only going up personally but he's going up in districts he's targeting. >> juan: he is talking a lot about brett kavanaugh, a little bit about the economy. not so much the tax cuts. what do you think of his rhetoric? >> pete: in terms of the 2018 debate, you saw th

we've got to eliminate the electoral college, they tripped and unison. white men are bad.t the message obviously coordinated. they seem to be saying exactly the same thing at exactly the same time, and indeed, they were. theyts were repeating talking points from the democratic party, whose interest they faithfully serve. for generations, conservatives called this "the liberal media." but that's not quite right. these are not liberals.ev they are not people who believe in free speech or due process or challenging corporate power. or any otherog recognizable littoral value. these are party people. they are hacks and joiners and drums. they read the latest pronouncement from the news like they are scripture. they repeat what they are told. liberals use to defend the rights of the minority, and good for them. watch now with hillary clinton explains how entire states should lose their political power because voters don't agree with the majority of rich kids in brooklyn. watch this. >> do you think the electoral college should be -- a >> i said that in 2000 after what happened w

yes. >> tucker: it isn't just the electoral college either.n the past few days many have been saying the senate itself should be changed. with the different states having a different number of senators. all of a sudden everybody on the left seems to be saying things like this. including supposedly unbiased reporters. shut up, -- shut up, wyoming. nobody care what is you think. the left has never been big on self-awareness. this is one especially amazing example of that. this is an onion piece waiting to be written. from ken stereo, finance billionaire, one of the democratic party's biggest donors and they listen to him only because he sends them money. but the latest crusade is against -- we want to prepare you for a blast of hot irony -- rich, entitled white men. watch this. savor it. >> a group of very rich, very entitled white men wanted to tell the rest of the country we are going to have our way. and if you don't like it, that is too darn bad. >> tucker: yeah, that is what tom stereo is against -- tom stire are against. let us know when y

similar to the electoral college. realizing that each state senate has a certain number of members, 50 districts, 30 districts, and each state house may have 90 or 100 districts. and then congress, colorado has seven congressional districts. each of those elections is an individual election. district one in colorado, the republican wins 75% to 25%. and all the other districts in the democrats get 50.1%, the republican gets 49.9%. the democrats would get six states but because one district was so heavily for republicans, they may have more total votes statewide, but you would have six democrats and one republican in this unlikely scenario. the point is it is a district by district election. to win have more votes in one district because the candidate appeals to both parties, has been there for a long time, serve their constituents well, and then all of the other district may be close. statewide, it would appear one party got more votes but it is really a district by district election. host: rosedale, maryland. that is

electoral college the senate as i said fifty four percent of the of the country lives in ten states which are overwhelmingly democratic but there are outvoted four to one by the easy percent of lives in the other forty states thanks to this ridiculous senate concept of equal state representation and the republicans have gerrymandered the house to the point where they now have an eleven percent advantage over the democrats a built in eleven percent advantage so these this minority party has now just captured control of the fourth branch of the fourth major institution the supreme court so don't tell me the democrats are the one. soley guilty of using this kind of minority politics because there are the republicans are playing the game even better but i do not a i do not agree with that asked nat west no answer i mean it's very elegant read but it's not when we talk about the supreme war one of them where . you have a not far to the supreme court is that now democrats primarily do not pass large sweeping legislation and are going down with the exception of her mama here right you are not he

the latest excuse is to blame the constitution, the electoral college, the u.s.lame the supreme court. all are institutions now, in american life for democrats. the outlet media outlet vox says the senate is a grotesquely un representative body and ej dio n at the washington post saying the extension of kavanaugh to a high court is a " coo" he was confirmed by senators representing 44% of the population. wendy it's true that the senate is basically the constitution electoral college is it's supposed to give representation to small states, but rich lowry is pointing out that wisconsin has a miniscule number of house of representatives and california has 53. the way that democrats look at it is in balance and out of whack and not factual. go ahead. >> i think what they are trying to say and what's underneath all of this conversation is that the nomination of brett michael kavanaugh was a complete slap in the face to the american people and we just have poll numbers to support that. whether you sit on the right or left we see that 51% of people oppose the nomination

robert andrews, you are up first on the electoral college.ou for yourk input, john, and for making the call. i would have to disagree with you. the electoral college was designed by our founding fathers, and it has many purposes. one was to protect against influence in the election as well, and it also encourages candidates to go out and get involved in different parts of the country. if we do not have electoral college, new york, l.a., houston, san antonio, chicago would determine our elections and not the states. it gives leverage to smaller states and two different individuals like that in order to have their voices heard. it also, like i said, encourages candidates to get out and visit their constituencies, otherwise they would just be in big cities. hillary clinton, donald trump, you would not see them. they would not care as much about your interests. they would listen to people in larger localities. as someone from a rural area, generally speaking, i want to have my voice heard, and everybody needs to have their voice heard. the electo

so, why does the electoral college matter?nation "also a major motion picture available. when you read her tweet, what did she think she was talking about. >> first of all, i think she is confusing the electoral college with the three fifth clause. the three fifth clause was about slavery argument north and south over representation. ironically the north, which was the anti-slavery side wanted blacks to count for zero because they wanted to reduce the representative power of the slave states. the south wanted blacks to count for a full person. three fifth clause to presented to show the blacks not to be fully human isn't at all. electoral college is a different matter. large states and small states. not. anna: at this quaked issue, we have stla now. we have large states, we have small states, if we had a system that gave power only to the large states. the small states would be unrepresented. the whole point of having the core of our founding is the consent of the governed. to create a union, the founders needed the consent of

i happen to support the electoral college for a lot of reasons that when there is more time we can go into. but this is not an effort of democrats or republicans. charles: the message is hillary had more votes, the country was against kavanaugh and we should go to a simple majority. but that invites the tyranny of the majority. we deliberately have a system so we don't marginalize the voters in wyoming. >> i agree. we had same discussion when we saw the popular vote go to the democrat in 2000 but the republican became president. knowing changed between would and 2018. an entire generation it, not going to change now. charles: what has changed is the vitriol and the boundaries. if you wake up tomorrow and you hear somebody was acost, than was violence somewhere, you would be saddened, but you wouldn't be shocked. >> normally you try to persuade people on the issues. we heard that from susan collins. details about what mattered to her. when you have been reliant on moving your own base through emotions, that's all you have. just like any addiction, you have got to get more and more extr

the electoral college is antiquated.ves too much power to folks in wyoming. >> when the democrats don't win, they want to change the rules. when we talk about the democrats having a war on the constitution, what conservatives mean by that, we are not talking about policy strategy or good faith civil discussions. we are talking about our supreme law of the land. i give the example of a chess board. when we elect people we are putting them in office to move on the board according to the rules of chess. our constitution is like the rule book, that we have to stay within those margins. charles: the left is saying it's antiquated. written a long time ago by flawed human beings. some of whom as alexandria ocasio-cortez was alluding to were slave owners. >> we'll always have flawed human beings who will implement law, that's why the constitution only allowed limited laws. the beauty of the our constitution is that it can't antiquated. it only gave specific powers all the way up to 2018 and belong. ocasio-cortez is wrong. we are

electoral college the senate as i said fifty four percent of the of the country lives in ten states which are overwhelmingly democratic but there are outvoted four to one by the easy percent that lives in the other forty states thanks to this ridiculous senate concept of equal state representation and the republicans have gerrymandered the house to the point where they now have an eleven percent advantage over the democrats a built in eleven percent advantage los angeles and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. a next time and remember. one else truths seem wrong. but old clothes just don't hold. the world to get to shape out just a few comes to add to it and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. when gold make good manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the running closest to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean real news is. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants.

were enough themselves to change the outcome in the electoral college. >> number one, how easy is it to change votes? most forms of political persuasion have little effect at all. messaging, advertising and social media, it doesn't land like we thought it used to. >> most advertising doesn't have massive affects in elections because the other side is counter ties at equal levels, but when you have more on one side than the other, that's when you make a difference. advertising doesn't largely matter in the last month of the election because most of the votes are decide, and almost 1 out of 8 were decided approaching the presidential election, and the trolled information coming through the channels occurred during early voting, and all of that changes. >> we are only talking about 80,000 votes here. the other argument you will hear from trump supporters, is hillary clinton didn't go to michigan or wisconsin, and she was a bad candidate and campaigner, and that mattered more than this? >> you can build that in and ask if you increase the amount of anti-clinton content in news and

should we abolish the electoral college?i just posted a poll on the daily briefing twitter account. go there right now, vote. we want to hear from you. tomorrow we'll have the results and an electoral college specialist who will tell us what he thinks. also next a battle for control of the senate could come down to a few states. i'll ask the infamous judge crosshire how the dems votes may have a lasting impact on washington. there's little rest for a single dad, and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. >> dana: less than a month before the midterms, both sides still battling over control of the senate with the gop targeting several seats held by red state democrats. some democrats expressing concern that the 2018 result may carry over into 2020 and beyond. i'm joined by politics editor for the national journal. josh, you were many missouri last week. i wanted t

also the electoral college. again, states are slightly outweighing publishing centers.t hearing from 2016 that hillary was going to win and president trump need to accept the results of the election. we've heard from 2016 that we need to change the consistency of the senate, abolish the supreme court, abolish the electoral college, abolish ice. i get the feeling that acceptance is not in the cards anytime soon. >> hillary clinton raising a lot of light in the limelight raising considering running again there there was one op-ed arguing that she might -- three times might be the charm for hillary clinton. also getting more -- with comments like this. let's watch this. >> in retrospect, do you think bill should've resigned in the wake of the monica lewinsky scandal? >> absolutely not. >> it wasn't an abuse of power? >> no. >> there are people who look at the incidence of the '90s and a president of the united states cannot have a consensual relationship with and in turn, the power imbalance -- >> she was an adult. see you >> martha: she didn't like that line of questionin

this is the democrats losing the electoral college they should have won easily. they lost and they come up with this excuse we lost because of let's see, russia. yeah, russia. i didn't make one call. the whole thing is so disgraceful. so it continues. it's a witch hunt. it's nothing for more than a witch hunt. most of people get it. including democrats. they look at me and wing at me. the democrats get it, too. it continues onward. jeff sessions should have never led it happen. he shouldn't have recused himself. he said i am going to recuse myself i wouldn't have put him in that position. trish: is he going to stay in that position? president trump: i'm not going to tell you that. my enemies, people on the other side said for him to have taken the job and immediately recused himself is a disgrace. they say trump is right about that. trish: do you think that in ways vladimir putin is getting what he may have wanted? i say that because it didn't matter to the russians who won, but it mattered in that they wanted to create this division. because it's hard on the cou

you have to win the electoral college. but in the electoral college -- but in the midterms, all you have to do is win 50% plus one. there are tight races in suburban areas that voted for hillary clinton, but have a republican representative, for higher education areas that have trended democrat. these are the seats democrats are looking to win back. by and large, these races are very close. jason: help us understand the president's role. josh: trump is trying to motivate republican voters to turn out november 6. you may remember, i got leaked an internal republican party poll in early slimmer -- in early september that was like a four-alarm that said republicans don't believe there is a risk of losing in congress and may not turn out to vote. partly because donald trump was talking about the red wave, that republicans would hold onto their margins and expand them. no strategist in either party believed that was true. the message got to the white house that instead, you need to find a way to mobilize republican voters. that

they are talk about getting rid of the electoral college.he only interior immigration enforcement agency and that's immigration, and customs enforcement. this is a sad, pathetic ending for what has been a stain on the body politic for a long time. the redistributionist. the centrist, the socialist, and this great capitalist constitutional republic that made all of this possible. and the left wants to squander their futures and their children and for all americans. this is a president who stopped them cold. >> in the 60s you had the street a number protest. you were covering it. but you know, the american people -- the american people voted in the republican richard nixon. would you go so far as to say president trump, his use of language the american people aren't used to. he's tough and he's been accused of being misleading. lou: i don't think there is anything he hasn't been accused of, frankly. people in talking to them on the street and whatever. our personal lives. they will say, you know, i love the *. but i wish he important say this

it was enough only to produce a deadlock in the electoral college and along supreme court battle. it was not some overwhelming victory at all. brian: as you look back on the bush v gore decision and the fact that he ended up winning the electoral votes but not the popular vote, what is your opinion of what happened during that period? james: i thought it was a travesty. in my career about eight years covering the supreme court, and one thing i thought i had learned was the court of that era and the conservatives on the court of that era -- people like justice william rehnquist -- were in favored of what they would have called federalism, states rights. i thought that when the florida supreme court, based on the awardedconstitution, the state of florida to gore that, based on its own principles, i thought the supreme court would simply allow that to stand, they were not going to interfere. that is not what the court did. they developed their own theory, never made any sense to me. brian: what impact did that have on his presidency? james: less than people would think, in the sense

or let's get rid of the electoral college or let's go back to 1869, before which we had different numbers of supreme court judges. it's kind of frustrating but it's kind of a niche and desire for power again and they are frustrated because a lot of this, their dilemma was self conflicted. they were the ones that turned up the middle class and independence, the white working class and swing states, they don't have to do that. >> actor, what are they banking on? be eight is new -- you know she's on the cover of all these magazines, young woman an attractive woman. this is what she said. it's about organizing and really thinking about that word, organizing. and and focusing on pressures inside the chamber? >> my favorite, victor is, that's a really interesting thought. >> their argument -- i don't know, these are people that criticize donald trump and said he has a vocabulary of 1500 words but he's sophisticated and articulate articulate compared to that. this is boston university, fourth in her class. the point is when you start judging people by their ethnic background or their gender or i

but so you remember we win florida, then we -- to win the electoral college is tough. other is easy, you go to three or four states. but to win you have to be smart. you're right. you have to be smart. and you have to have great support. this is our support. [cheering] but you have to run the whole east coast. if you're a republican it's hard. electoral college is harder than anything. it says there is no past. i heard this so many times. the first lady, she is doing good. [cheering] i said to melania, i said there i heard there is no path to 270. how many times have you heard that? thousands? i've been hearing it for months. and i kept going to maine, for one because they had the maybe if i have a great night 269. so i kept going to maine five times because i wanted to get one, and i ended up getting one in maine, and i also got michigan, and wisconsin, and pennsylvania. [cheering] remember that? remember that? and what angered me because i love this state. and i went to school in this state. [cheering] i love pennsylvania pennsylvania. i went to school in this state.

in this fight about the electoral college that is coming and our lifetime and the next 1e the most fascinatingn't know. i am really interested in it. you pick it up all along the way. >> jesse: it is like the losing team in the world series. they lose and they want to get rid of the designated hitter. sorry, those are the rules and you lost by those rules. >> greg: i look at her attack racist, sexist, anti-gay. i think she might be projecting. is hillary racist? she refused to travel in the same plane as michelle obama. that's probably racist. sexist. didn't she smear her husband's alleged actives. that was the worse and any man can do. i would say that's sexist. i think trump was before marriage well before she was. islamaphobic. didn't she blame benghazi on a movie? if you think about it, hillary is racist, sexist, islamaphobic, anti-gay. she is a deplorable person. >> jesse: left-wing anti-kavanaugh agitators added again. this time badgering senator mitch mcconnell. wait until you see this video. up next. calling to see if you do laser hair removal. for men. notice that my hips are off the

live in a minority dictatorship with the ancient constitution centrally empowers minorities the electoral college the senate the house of representatives to lord it over the great majority of americans who want a more sane society this is the really important point and ron's point about the resistance is actually absolutely correct the only resistance we see out there is that the democrats are mobilizing the cia and f.b.i. and order to attack trump from the right by stirring up war fever against russia it's utterly not the struct of and that's only going to have negative consequences and then go back to ron in los angeles you know one of the reasons why i like having you on ron because you're what we're one of the people that are progressive that always talks policy and that's where i think conversations get very very interesting you can disagree but you can you can hash it out here this is what this atmosphere right now i don't see any talk of policy in a serious way i can't think because many on the left don't have any policies don't have any real strong we are ideas on how to move forward beca

always going to be tougher for him than 2016, because, you may have heard about this, there's no electoral college to override the popular vote, this time around in november. so a large popular margin for the dems would probably put more demes in office. and that's why, tonight, we can show you, there are new indicators that have republicans nervous. and i'm not just talking polls. there are concrete signs new voters are registering and they lean democratic. 25 million people, i can tell you tonight, have now registered to vote or updated their registrations. that's nationwide since the last election. democrats have a 12% edge in those registrations for new voters. if that were the actual turnout model, it would be huge for house races. now, that's the top line. the breakdown is clear. 40% dem versus 28% republican. and a third you see there in purple for the independents. now, that's similar to the trends in 2016, which is notable, because in 2016, more voters went for clinton than trump, but in the wrong places. if new registrations and polls hold up for the dems in the right house districts, th

electoral college the senate as i said fifty four percent of the of the country lives in ten states which are overwhelmingly democratic but there are outvoted four to one by the easy percent that lives in the other forty states thanks to the peculiar senate constant yearning to breathe free but this pre modern constitution won't allow that this isn't saying ok when i say change the law legally and democratically and no revolution no revolution that's all the time we have many thanks to my guests in new york philadelphia and in los angeles and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. a next time and remember. when else seems wrong. but i. just don't. get to see. this day. and it. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. you know. this is crude oil peter. so they need to actually physically hold it out of the ground you would have well well well well well. there's a lot of money with the oil and with that comes. a lot of a lot of people from all over the country. if you don't make one hundred thousand dollars a year. as a minimum t

of the american elections i really think the impact was such as to change the result in the electoral college i don't think i've not seen anything like convinces me at all that the russians intervene significantly in the brics or referendum well love this of course comes on the heels of bracks it on certainty not only has bracks a divided the u.k. on this matter but also create a division within the tory party government which of course has to be in charge of leading the way to brag that unlike the prime minister on fought for this i believe in it i think it's the right thing for our country i think that what is happening now is alas not what people were promised in twenty sixteen. when the seventeen point four million people voted in that referendum they wanted to get control of our loss borders and money and open the opportunities of free trade deals around the world i'm afraid the checkers deal just simply does not deliver that so i pledge to do everything that i can to make sure that we have a proper breck's it with all of these conundrums that the u.k. is now faced a way of in terms of b

and he got the electoral college, even though hillary clinton won the popular vote and it canence. some women republicans are leaving the party, women republicans who voted for him said they will not again so something like this just denigrates notjust the republican name because it is really trump, but it puts that female voter at risk. it will be interesting. the mid—terms are coming up in november and that‘ll be a good litmus test to see if women are leaving the republican party and it will be another test coming up for the election, if he is not impeached before then but i don‘t think that will happen. he won partly last time around because of the weakness of hillary clinton‘s campaign, the flaws in that campaign. iwas campaign, the flaws in that campaign. i was beating him at the next presidential election depend on to the democrats can find to run against him? i think so and it is a wide variety of folks right now. we need to look at american elections as betting a strong person against another and donald trump, no matter his policies, his strength has stayed with him. t

one other thing i've seen in the aftermath is a call for the electoral college and let's get rid of duerocess and the foundation of the nation i would think if i'm a voter and i'm in a state with not a large population like wyoming should not have two senators, i'm afraid. i will vote for people who make sure i keep my constitutional rights, no? >> this goes back to hillary clinton who was appalled that president trump or then candidate trump - boy, if he does not support the result of this there's something fundamentally wrong. then the tables are turned and hillary clinton is leading the charge to get rid of the electoral college. something must be fundamental wrong if you put republicans in charge but the reality is that obama years democrats lost more than 1,000 seats at the local state and national level. they are not recovered from that because they don't have policies that resonate with the american people. donald trump is an unconventional candidate and was there to disrupt washington dc but put forward a good person to run for and become the next justice of this up in court. de

redistricting efforts where a minority party wins but they they lost theen total vote similar to the electoral college in many regards. thank you. >> yes. realizing that each state has a certain number of members, 30 districts, each state house might have 90 or 100 districts. let's say states like colorado have congressional districts. each election is a different election. in all of the districts, 50.1% andget republicans get 49.1%. was so one district heavy for republicans, they might have more total votes statewide, but you will have six demo -- democrats and one republican in this unlikely scenario. a statewide election but a district by district election. you might have more votes in one district, both parties, a long time, they've been there. but they have to dish get more votes and hopefully they get their votes. it is really a district by district election. host: rosedale, maryland. that is where jesse is. caller: good morning. this gerrymandering thing about voting, they can select who to vote at any time. can they do the same thing about taxes? if people don't get their chance to vote, do th