guest: i hear you loud and clear on that, and that is not the first time this democrat or a .emocrat has heard that as you might imagine, in the past year that has been an immense amount of soul-searching on that question because communities that he used to vote for us in big ways did not do that. they voted for donald trump, who offered lies like we are bringing the coal mining. in this country we do not have either/or, zero-some politics. we're going to stand up for dreamers -- individuals who were dragged here illegally at age two from countries they have never been back to, that don't know those countries. when the president says we're going to throw you out, we are going to say we are a country of immigrants, a country of deep values. our motto says out of many one. that does not mean we are not going to stand up for the family in the midwest sitting around the kitchen table saying how are we going to pay for college for our kids? how are we going to pity's health care bills? it is not either or. i'm not going to argue with you. we got the second part wrong. it is not either/or.

drawresult, it is hard to nine out of 18 districts to be .emocrat-leaning seats we tried in our simulationso achieve more of a proportional breakdown and it required conscious gerrymandering. , talk aboutbycoffe your work coming up with the map that you see. guest: it is possible to draw the map that -- two draw a map that favors democrats. all of the purple districts outside of philadelphia. in an election where democrats do really well across the country in house elections, they will pick up a lot of those seats and have that advantage. host: independent. caller: the map that you show us, it would be a good representation of the american financial federation. it is a foundational element. we no longer have a republic. amendment one says speech is free. the supreme court and citizens united says that speech can be bought. speech has been bought. we now have, not a republic, but anbought. entirely financialized environment in our country. host: special interests play a role in redistricting and gerrymandering? guest: absolutely. are a lot of interest groups with a stake in the redistricting

just this week,emocratic state nator tony mendoza resigned over sexual harassment allegations.ow joining mes the politics team. scott schafer and sacramento reporter katie orr. they join me from the convention in san diego via sky . welcome th of you. >> thank you. >> katie, i want to start with you. you were in sacramento just ursday when mendoza resigned. we thought before that he might get kicked out of the senate. tell m a little bit about what happened and how democrats there reacted. >> yeah, senator mendoza had a sexual harassment investigation into him and it was completed nd it was found mo likely than not he hurt several women over a period of about ten years. senators were looking to expel or suspendim. on thursday they couldn't decide which they wanted to do. in the end, theyd were spa from having to make that choice because mendoza, perhaps sensing th t decision wasn't going go his way decided he would leave on his own terms. and ultimatel resign. >> that must be a relief for some of them. also, there are other investigations ongoing includin against a femwmakers. how much d

not only was the ,emocratic party hacked information was released to particular house districts. that information was released to injure democratic candidates in competitive races. there was an effort, they urge the counterpart not to use these documents. i would imagine that the russian interest is in doing anything our government more dysfunctional. anything that would avoid further sanctions on russia. anything that would come in their view, we can the united states. would, in their view, weekend the united states. states. the unite if they decide tomorrow that is advantagedvances -- to hurt wonders -- one side or another, they will do that. i guess only time will tell which way the russians feel that cuts. we can certainly be confident it will not cut in our interest. i need to run. thank you all. itwould you consider reading into congressional record? >> the first thing i want to do is make sure that we make any reductions that the fbi feels are necessary to protect sources. i don't want to go to far beyond that. i would like to see this memo released sooner rather than late

we need to look at republican versus democrat,thatthis is a president pitched against his intelligencegencies, the fbi, the department of justice who has also said there is no basis to accusations of misuse of the fisa warrants, and those who oppose for a number of reasons. >> for the president to ignore the strong words coming from his justice department, from the fbi, men that he named who are both republicans. >> absolutely. i'm only a law professor and i worked on ken starr's whitewater investigation, and i would say this is really a constitutional abomination and we have challenges here. the directions in the memo is to release the information in the memo. in the memo itself, we know was actually created by a member of congress. this is not some kind of factual piece of evidence that was in a file somewhere that actually dmon stratsd realtime information. this was a memo created by a partisan branch of the government. so this has severe consequences to the integrity of our powers. paul ryan said this is about bui accountability and this is not how accountability works in our struc

. >> i'm extending an open hand to work with members of both parties,emocrats and republicans, to protect our o citize every backgroun color, religeon and creed. (applause) my dut and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend americans, to protect their safetiry, t families their communities an their right to the american dream. because americans are dreamers too. >> woodruff: so yamiche, a lot of reaction to wat the president said there. who was he appealing to? >> he was appealing to republican, the republican ba and republican lawmakers who are attting ready to make the case mmigration and hard-line stances need to be followed. he really handed a rallying cry to republicans when he saide americans eamers too. you can just see that slogan ond t-shirtsn hats. because he was really trying to hammer home the fact that democrats are tryinto pit american citizens against immigrants and that democrats are choosing immigrants. and he hammred that home also with the guests that he chose. he brought families that were impacted by immigrants, arguing that immigrants w

about 10% of republicans and emocrats defected from their party to the opposing party.earing from republicans this morning about why they became republicans. or pe percentages on republicans and democrats in country from gallup, about 22% responded as identifying as 44% say they were say theynt, 32% polled are democrats, you see the numbers on polling on that, that going back to 2004. hris is in debury, texas, republican, of course, go ahead. caller: good morning. i became a republican when helping a farmer friend of mine crops and he had, we going through his place and he had homes empty on his property. homes empty?re the it was in the '90s, clinton had to lay people off and cut back on everything ecause of the democrat's tax higher than the republicans and from ore of what you earn you. nd i'm just an independent individual and been a republican ever since i saw that myself eyes working on that farm. i realize, i want to keep more and i i earn for myself have more to give someone to elp them out if they need it through church groups and stuff. i can give more than th

the torilla, massachusetts, ,emocrats line -- the victoria massachusetts, democrats line. caller: why does congress have to wait so long to work on these things that are necessary? our soldiers are working hard to keep us safe. hope they can have a better plan for solving these problems. story out ofay, a washington about money given to , saying thempaign campaign spent more than $688,000 at trump properties. the headquarters are housed at his midtown manhattan, and his washington hotel took in more thanast year, 60% of that came from the republican national committee to host events at the property. maryland, independent line. up,er: my paid is not go up.-- my pay does not go mythe tax law is enacted, paycheck will go up. i like to have an up in the economy. host: linda, you are next. people i don't know why don't understand this. if the house passed the appropriation bills that went to the senate, the democrats have been blocking those bills. republicans are trying to cut the cost of the government, but as long as the democrats block everything, it is not going to happen.

they kiss trumps but. ,emocrats are easy to pick on because they can blame them for being unpatriotic. democrats for being treasonous. they blame them for everything. it takes two to tango. the budget is a problem, but both sides have been a problem when it comes to a budget. host: i appreciate you calling in for the first time. there is a tweak here mentioning remarks by the senator from kentucky rand paul. you can feel the frustration and embarrassment growing in congress as we expose the hypocrisy of republicans joining in an unholy alliance and spending free-for-all with democrats at the expense of the american people, and our parties supposed principles. nbc politics with an update on capitol hill. majority with steve scalise saying they expect the next boat from the house, and the senate has just finished business, so things move over to the house now, to occur at 3:00 to 5:00 a.m. eastern time. caller from beaumont california, republican. edward, hi. how are you doing this morning? caller: i missed part of what the final vote was going to be. the senate went ahead and passed. i

guest: i hear you loud and clear on that, and that is not the first time this democrat or a .emocrateard that as you might imagine, in the past year that has been an immense amount of soul-searching on that question because communities that he used to vote for us in big ways did not do that. they voted for donald trump, who offered lies like we are bringing the coal mining. in this country we do not have either/or, zero-some politics. we're going to stand up for dreamers -- individuals who were dragged here illegally at age two from countries they have never been back to, that don't know those countries. when the president says we're going to throw you out, we are going to say we are a country of immigrants, a country of deep values. our motto says out of many one. that does not mean we are not going to stand up for the family in the midwest sitting around the kitchen table saying how are we going to pay for college for our kids? how are we going to pity's health care bills? it is not either or. i'm not going to argue with you. we got the second part wrong. it is not either/or. we ca

by the way, so is the emocratic leader in the senate , mr. schumer is always singing the praises of brooklyn. this is from mr. durbin. this is pablo desilva. pablo was brought to the united states from brazil in 2001 when he was 13 years old. he grew up in new jersey. here we are again, new jersey. here's what pablo has to say about his childhood. the same as every other kid growing up in the u.s., i attended middle school, pledged allegiance to the american flag and sang the national anthem. as i grew older i came to understand that one thing about me differed from my classmates -- i was undocumented. however, my parents always taught me to see barriers as a measure of perseverance and an opportunity to thrive. pablo was an excellent student. he dreamed of becoming a doctor. during high school and college, pablo volunteered at a nursing home every week. he also was a member of a group called doctor red nose. pablo and other members of the group would dress up as clowns and visit hospitals, nurses and nursing homes to cheer patients and healt

drawresult, it is hard to nine out of 18 districts to be .emocrat-leaning seats we tried in our simulationsachieve more of a proportional breakdown and it required conscious gerrymandering. , talk aboutbycoffe your work coming up with the map that you see. guest: it is possible to draw the map that -- two draw a map that favors democrats. all of the purple districts outside of philadelphia. in an election where democrats do really well across the country in house elections, they will pick up a lot of those seats and have that advantage. host: independent. caller: the map that you show us, it would be a good representation of the american financial federation. it is a foundational element. we no longer have a republic. amendment one says speech is free. the supreme court and citizens united says that speech can be bought. speech has been bought. we now have, not a republic, but anbought. entirely financialized environment in our country. host: special interests play a role in redistricting and gerrymandering? guest: absolutely. are a lot of interest groups with a stake in the redistricting p

emocrat hyping in this country, we do have the right of due process.ow, the f ei -- it does take time for a -- for security clearances to get through. were they dragging their feet? we do not know. but things take time, especially when we have a lot of people. but to lose these people in office with mere allegations, when we are a country of laws and due process, where are we at? ohio, karen has this tweet -- as a victim of domestic violence, i can sympathize with women who keep it quiet, stay with their abusers long after they should have left, and maybe, at some point, many years later, decide to talk about it. on the democrat line, moses is joining us from detroit. caller: good morning, sir. -- i do not like to call them the president, because this man is the end of the world. even if you have a banker that lies as much as he does, they say what his lawyers talk to him, two of them have to talk to him to cover his lies to make sure he is not lying. the republicans -- i cannot even -- their earsears are closed. this man is the end of the world, becau

so-so it could get throughout and fester and then the emocrats will send out theirs. voted democrat and republican at different times. we've become so politicized and, you know, there's no meeting in the middle anymore and that's what scares me more than anything. none of us know the truth and it's all political now and who's bought who and, you know, what is their personal agenda to things? so i don't think we can really trust anybody anymore as far as the politics. i love this show because independent people, republican, democrat and independents can come on air and that's where i'm getting a sense of our country and it scares me of what i'm hearing. people are so polarized. i really wish we should start coming in the middle a little bit more and understanding -- what washington's all about anymore and it's not about the united states people. it's about washington. so, that's my opinion. host: all right. bobby is on the line from fitzgerald, georgia, republican line. are what are your thoughts on the release of this memo? caller: ok, i thought i called on the indepe

seeing, --emocratic democratic theme. i hold you responsible for washington.tformou have no you clutch in desperation. it's the let's impeach him. if they go down that avenue they have no idea who they are dealing with. the idea of impeaching donald trump, this is a man who never gives up. he will be outflanking them on twitter every day, and they will go down for the parity that they are. it is desperation. i think that's right and i also think are is some enthusiasm gap. the 5 -- the last wants to see impeachment. on the right it is generally the case that the income the party loses seats in the house. this is a very motivating issue. arepe everyone in this room going to remember that this impeachment threat is out there and it is a good reason to give money and go vote and syrup your neighbors and get them to vote also. dust used her up your neighbors and get them to vote also. the democrats have their claim and winning the majority of the house of representatives. my observation is that will reelect donald trump by 400 electoral votes. fundamentally, i hat