and anger mounts over the death of an unarmed black man by police officers in sacremento. how could this put liberal activists in a major bind. first, hollywood discovers america. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." on the as far as "roseanne" seems an unlikely conservative superhero. reviving her tv show. playing her old character. this time as a blue color trumpster dealing with liberal family members. >> i know so many families, you know that are divided over the election still and they still. like you know are fighting and stuff. so we wanted to show that. and how our family deals with it. and we all have the hope that people will start talking to each other again. because that's what we need. >> did you see joy bahar face in. >> laura: when the orange "roseanne" debuted. reagan was finishing the last year in office. nine seasons later. bill clinton was in the middle of the second term in office. my goodness. how things have changed for america in the interim. but, i have to tell you it didn't surprise me one bit. i think we predicted it last wednesday on the "angle

fly to sacremento. stand before another coffin of another black kid and basically, identify that event with slavery and seg gregation and so forth. and show himself to be humanely concerned with all of this. when of course he never appears in chicago or baltimore or st. louis or detroit. >> laura: doctor, it is a heartbreaker, but it is utterly predictable. to a lot of people it is utterly depressing but your insights are amazing. thank you so much for coming on tonight. we really, really appreciate it. and by the way, also something that's been stunning is ""roseanne" run away success. could it trigger a conservative renaissance in the entertainment industry. >> did the pope really say hell didn't exist? stay tuned. facilitate smart conversations so that the people who are watching us can better understand what's happening in the world. >> bill: to go deeper, to find a different question that other people are not asking. that's the real challenge. >> sandra: to give it to you straight, bad or good, lik

elected to the california state legislature in november of 1998, so i arrived in early 1999 to sacremento. i went through the process in the 2001 redistricting in california. now, i will tell you that i'm a democr democrat. california in 2001, like today, is overwhelmingly democratic state. our leadership had the control over the drawing of-- so that was the background and i found it in 2001 when i went through that redistricting, a terribly offensive process. it wasn't only so bad in the public hearings, but late at night when the boundaries were being drawn, we would sit late at night and those that were actually drawing the maps would say, well, what do you need? can you give up something here? and i found that process totally offensive, a process that really reinforced the self-interest and the protection of incumbency rather than redistricting, which would be communities of interest and really creating accountability and that members would be accountable to their districts. so, in 2002, when we began to work on-- or i began after the 2001 redistricting, at that time california had 34