Welcome back. And joining me now is Democratic Congressman Ro K Connor of California. Congressman Kana, welcome back to Meet the Press.>> Good morning. Thanks for having me on. >> Well, it's wonderful to have you back.And I do want to start with the CDC congressman. President Trump's decision to fire the CDC director Susan Minarz just weeks after she was sworn in and after she clashed with HHS Secretary Kennedy over the issue of vaccines. Four other top CDC scientists quit in protest.Now, I had the opportun ...

you know, we have to connect the dots for people. And so, right now, the issue that we have been talking about is Donald Trump's consolidation of of power, um, which is what Michael led with, and we're talking about redistricting. But for us, we have to connect that back to the American people.We have to remind them that Donald Trump called Governor Abbott and asked for five votes, just like he called Brad Raffensburgger and asked for 11,780 votes years ago. He's doing this because he wants to hold power an ...

Let's talk about some domestic issues now. This week you were in Georgia. You were there to talk about and promote the one big beautiful bill.And it also comes in the same week that Texas Republicans approved five new Republican seats. So they expanded the map for Republicans in their state. If President Trump's agenda is so popular, why do Republicans need to add additional seats to the map.Well, first of all, Kristen, you have to ask yourself, why have Democrats gerrymandered their states aggressively ove ...

because this is about racism. And if you can't hear it from them, then hear it from me. As a white woman and a daughter of a man of privilege and power, he knew that his strength was to bring people that didn't look like him to the table of government. And so 50 years later, after Barbara Jordan, aided by white people to have a voice, the first woman of color elected to the south, a woman who sat in the impeachment of Nixon, a woman who said that finally after amendment, debate, and vote, I am finally part ...

in Texas because the Texas House yesterday passed a new congressional map that could give Republicans five more seats after next year's midterm elections. The vote passed, of course, along party lines after more than eight hours of debate. It ends a bitter redistricting fight in the House that included Democrats leaving Texas for two weeks.Republicans currently control now 25 of the 38 congressional districts there. Under the new map, President Trump would have carried 30 of 38 seats, all by more than 10 po ...

I think we became a little bit complacent over the years. We assumed that things would continue to get better, that our democracy would become more inclusive, that it would become more fair. What we forgot is that history doesn't always move in a straight line, and it's not always two steps forward and another two steps forward.Precious democracy that we've got is not a given. It's not self-executing. It requires us to fight for it.President Obama there encouraging Texas Democrats to keep fighting against g ...

We're in a moment right now where not just gerrymandering, but efforts at voter suppression, efforts at questioning the results of elections, efforts at uh the executive branch unilaterally doing things that uh bypass Congress and and the people's representatives, militarization of cities, politization of our justice departments and uh our military. Those are trend lines that remind us that this precious democracy that we've got is not a given. It's not self-executing.It requires us to fight for it. It requ ...

After leaving the state in protest of the Republican redistricting plan for two weeks, Texas Democrats plan to return home Monday as Governor Greg Abbott has called yet another special session of the state legislature. But the nationwide redistricting fight is far from over. Late last night, California Democrats released proposed maps that would likely flip five Republican held seats, giving Democrats 48 of the state's 52 districts, up from 43.It's a direct counter to Republican gains in Texas. State lawmak ...

From @WSJopinion: Escalating redistricting games are widely unpopular with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and appalling to most Americans. We need to find common ground on the basic parameters for our politics, writes Kevin Kiley. https://t.co/t7ydj8UkL2 ...

And joining us now is Texas State Representative Maha Pa. She is the vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus and one of the members who had fled the state. Uh, Representative, thanks for being here.You and your fellow Democrats have laid out some conditions for returning home, including ending that special session and allowing time for California to introduce its own maps. So, those two things happen, but at the end of the day, the governor is calling another special session. The redistricting plans movin ...