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Coming from is helpful. >> now, the acting chief of the u.s. citizenship and immigration services right there echoing the president who says he is considering executive order to add a citizenship question on the 2020 census still. now, printing of the census has already started without that question. the supreme court rejected the administrations stated reason as contrived but government lawyers may still provide a different rationale. joining us now a democrat from missouri and a member of the ...

Washington with details, garrett. >> one of several options the trump administration is looking at to try to get the citizenship question onto 2020 census, remember, the supreme court did not rule being included but struck it down for the time being because the governments explanation as to why it was included to include voting rights act didnt match up with the evidence presented. now the administration is working to come up with an explanation that will pass muster with the court, on friday, p...

Census next year, do people need to answer that particular question? >> well, here is a really interesting thing, right, technically we are supposed to answer the questions and answer them honestly, if you dont answer, its 100-dollar fine, if you falsify an answer its 500-dollar fine, mike, nobody has been prosecuted for doing either of those things since 1970, so to opponents who say, listen, if you add this question, we will get undercount, not get accurate count, how do we know we are getting...

>> yeah, i think that this shows that the trump administration is willing to accept that the supreme court has made a decision currently but theres still challenging it, as president trump said, basically an invitation from chief justice roberts to come back in front of the court and so theyre moving ahead with the printing but absolutely no reason it cant be reprinted or addendum added later, i think we will see that come the 2020 census. >> lets bring in jonah in. >> lets get it printed, event...

Abby phillip has mr. trumps reaction. >> reporter: president signaling that he may use an executive order to force the citizenship question on to the 2020 census. >> we have four or five ways we could do it. >> reporter: having lost in the supreme court and as the forms are being printed without the question, trump seems undaunted. >> so we can start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision. >> reporter: arguing history is on his side. >> if you look at the hist...

He were thinking very seriously. were doing well and we could also ahead an addition on so we can start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision. so were working on a lot of things including an executive order. >> and the president saying that before he left for the location where our own hans nichols is located. bedminster, new jersey. we know that he spent the day doing his fafrvorite thing, golfing, but have we heard anything more about this fight to getting ...

Rights group to move forward with their lawsuit against the trump administration. an administration official says right now the census will be printed without the controversial question, but the president says hes not out of options for adding it in. >> so well see what happens. we could also add an addition on so we can start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision. so were working on a lot of things including an executive order. >> former federal prosecutor m...

>> so what happened here was that the government said we really need this on a very expedited basis. we need to start printing these forms by july 1. thats our drop dead date, and thats why the supreme court took it on such a fast track, and then it made its ruling. now all of a sudden the administration is saying maybe we have more time. maybe we can come up with an addend addendum. maybe we can re-change, redirect the nature of this to another format, all of which undermines what they said to ...

Department lawyers say theyre still looking for a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. meanwhile, an administration official says right now the census will be printed without a controversial question. an executive order with an addendum to the questionnaire are two options that president trump said hes now exploring. cnn reporter sarah westwood is in berkley heights. sarah, what are we hearing from the administration on this front? >> well, good morning, jessica. president trump...

That issue. >> reporter: lawyers told a federal judge yesterday theyre continuing their fight in the court system but admitted theyre looking for a legal rational to include the request to adquestionto add it back on . president trump said hes looking into the idea of an executive order. >> we could also add an addition, start the printing and do an aden addendum after we ga positive decision. >> reporter: when the supreme court blocked the question, the justices didnt make a final ruling. john ...