there are -- jerry mannedering. they want to bring up the fact that a state government is trying to impose a criminal islamic law, and there are concerns over that. it seems that he has taken all this on board, and will not have a meeting. but the politicians say it's not enough. they are questioning why he is not meeting the opposition leader anwar ibrahim who they say face trumped up charge, accused of sodomy and is facing a prison term if he fails to win his appeal. >> there's larger policies at play here, that president obama's administration wants to rebalance its relationship with ashia, calling it an asia pivot. is that having an effect or influence in a way that malaysia is dealing with the visit? >> this is an opportunity for malaysia to strengthen ties with the u.s. now, for more than two decades when the government was under former prime minister he had a very strong look at policies, and savoured closer ties with african countries, eastern nations, rather than western nations. the relationship with the w

she writes, what role does jerry mannedering play in congressional dysfunction? and i ask that particularly because of the conversation that we just had about members who would be crucified in their district for talking to the president because it's such a republican district because jerry mannedering had the effect of kind of setting us up for this kind of lack of function or for this kind of dysfunction. congressman flake what do you think? >> i think jerry mannedering plays a major role when you think about how you shape the districts and persons banting to be in a -- wanting to be in a particular place and not another and perhaps getting elected and then find that their district is not capable of providing for them in the way that other districts might be able to do so. it is a difficult process when you get to drawing the line. people draw the lines in their best int stance and in many instances it destroys a great deal of what made a district strong in the first place because you take so much away from it, so much out of it. so now you have created much dif

what i showed in my reporting is that school districts - a lot of time the zones are jerry mannedered. we hear they are neighbour hood schools. you can draw attendance zones in a way that intreg grates students. >> you focus on tus ka loose alabama. how much of the segregation, the former high school in tus call usa is the responsibility of african american leaders or parents there. >> the district wanted to be released from a court order. part of the way to do that was to get support from key black elites. they testified in favour of the district before the jup, and the judge -- judge, and the judge weight. >> speaking of testimony, i want to play a sound byte from a school board members, talking about the decisions made. >> my position was we rushed into this. we need more time. we need research. for the majority of the people on the school board who represented the majority of the voters, it was okay. i said to them we will experience the damage of this decision for the next 50 years. i said it's criminal what we have done tonight. >> she was right. within a dramatically. >> right.