steve shapiro. challenging a democratic gerrymander of a single congressional district in maryland. congressional district was historically republican for the last 20 years. the incumbent had one by 20% of the vote. instead of one man one vote standard, the legislature could have simply moved 10,000 voters out of the district which was overpopulated. to adjacent districts that were underpopulated. instead they took an accident cut it in half and moved in 330,000 new people into the district and moved through the 20,000 people out of the district or vice versa. converted it from a district which had a 12 point republican registration advantage to an 11.democratic registration advantage. to know was great surprise the republican incumbent was defeated was defeated by 20 percentage points a democrat has been elected ever since. third case is in north carolina. common cause with the lead plaintiff and challenged a portion of the 13 congressional districts in north carolina. in 2011, the gerrymandered the districts to convert north carolina which is a 50-50 state from one in which there

it is an unusual test case brought by a pros yay plaintiff who happens to be here today, steve shapiro, challenging a democratic gerrymander of a single congressional district in maryland. the congressional district was one which was historically republican for the last 20 years. the incumbent had won by 20-odd percent of the vote. instead of to meet the standard, the legislature could have moved 10,000 voters out of that district, which was overpopulated, to adjacent districts that were under-populated. instead, they took an axe and cut it in half and moved in 330,000 new people into the district and moved 320,000 people out of the district or vice versa. converted it from a district which had a 12-point republican registration advantage to an 11-point democratic registration advantage, and to no one's great surprise, the republican incumbent was defeated by 20 percentage points and a democratic was elected and re-elected ever since. the third case is in north carolina, which i am currently involved. common cause was the lead plaintiff in the case and challenged the apportionment of t

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brought by a plaintiff who , steve to be here today shapiro. challenging a democratic gerrymander of a single congressional district in maryland. it was one that was historically republican for the last 20 years , the incumbent won by 20% or so of the vote. meeting the one man, one vote standard, this legislature simply moved 10,000 voters out of the district, which was overpopulated, two adjacent districts which are underpopulated. instead they took a meat ax and cut it in half and moved in 330,000 new people into the district. and moved 320,000 out of the district. converted from a district which had a 12 point republican registration advantage to an 11 point democratic registration .dvantage to no one's great surprise, the republican incumbent was defeated and a democrat was eled reelected ever since. the third case was in north carolina where i'm currently involved. common cause was the lead plaintiff and challenged a portion of 13 congressional districts in north carolina. when the republicans took over the north carolina general assembly,

shapiro is live from capitol hill with the latest. we'll go to him momentarily. meantime aye am joined on the set by steve malanga. we have keith fitz-gerald joining us too. i want to get your sense, steve, whether this will work. president is playing hardball with china. you heard me outline it. it is not fair. we send a ton of stuff over there. they slap all kind of tariffs on it. we bring the stuff here. we benefit from cheap goods. lord knows you can buy all the widgets you want at walmart for very good prices but it doesn't seem right that we don't put tariffs on their goods you about they put it on our goods. can we get that fixed? >> here's the thing, there is no doubt there are a lot of things unfair with our trade with china. even larry kudlow today is very much on free trade, we have to crack down on technology transfers. unbelievable that they force our countries to essentially give them their technology. thing i don't understand, there are different ways to compete. there are better trade deals. the trans-pacific trade agreement was an attempt by asian nations and the united states to form a bloc again

. ♪ ♪ come to america steve: looking up avenue of the americas, 200711 with avenue of the americas, neil diamond, native new yorker singing. we have ben shapiroistory. problem is we don't have stars anymore, except your president. just kidding of course. after last week, where he made the joke about president for life, now he has got to say, i'm joking. >> yeah, i mean that, anything that the president says is going to be taken as seriously as possible so long as it can hurt him about it media, but pretty good joke, mr. president. i like that one. obviously ratings at the oscars were down again t year. they have been down for several years. the reason is pretty simple. when hollywood put what is they think best of hollywood on display, what they think spits in eye of common america. they haven't had a picture since 2:00, that won best picture in the top 10 of the box office. there is great divide in hollywood with movies that earn money and people want to see and hollywood show us that they want to talk about the actual cocktail parties. movie winning best picture is about a movie having sex with a fish, grinding nemo. the people that people