It's essential that there's a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives come next January after a win in the midterms because we need a House of Representatives that will be in the majority to conduct vigorous oversight of just about every federal agency and department at this moment to ensure accountability and to hold this

president and his administration accountable to the people, to our Constitution, and to our country.

That is Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger last night. After voters in her state approved a constitutional amendment to redraw congressional districts ahead of this year's midterms, the results prompted this response from Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, who usually writes in favor of most everything

Donald Trump does, he wrote this, quote, if you're going to pick a fight, at least win it.

He continues, all this was foreseeable and avoidable. We should not have started this fight. Good morning. Welcome morning, Joe. It's Wednesday,

April 22nd, where this we have co-hosts for 9 a.m. hour, staff writer for the Atlantic.

Jonathan Lemire also co-host to the rest of politics podcast, the BBC's Caddy Kay, U.S. national

editor and columnist at the Financial Times, Ed Lucentina, a writer at the dispatch,

and a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, David Drucker, and Willie.

I mean, that is the case.

They started this fight because Donald Trump said,

I want my five seats in Texas.

I deserve my five seats in whatever.

And it just reminded me so many times when I first got

up to Congress, you know, a certain speaker would do something, plan something, and it seemed like

the greatest idea. And then the Democrats would go, oh, okay, well, we're going to do this in response.

And I remember time and time again, people standing up going new, the great idea, but you've got to start planning your response to their response to your great idea.

And that's what's happened here.

The Democrats are going to end up, you know, at least doing as well in redistricting.

And then here comes a real rub for Republicans.

You cut these districts too close, like they're thinking about now doing in the state of Florida.

And mark my words, Florida, you cut these districts too close.

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