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But we dont have a fed that knows what theyre doing. >> reporter: now when asked why the citizenship question is important the president told reporters it is needed to help draw congressional districts but that is where the presidents critics fear that the citizenship question will be used as a tool to make sure congressional districts are drawn up to favor republicans. for now the administration said the census forms are being printed without the citizenship question. brianna. >> jim acosta on ...

Breaking news, after president trump told reporters hes considering an executive order to get a citizenship question on the next years census forms, his administration told a federal judge it is still looking for a new way to justify the move. lets ask our political and legal experts about this fight. and joey jackson, lets listen to what the president had to say about this earlier today. >> were finding out everything about everybody. think of it. 15 to $20 billion and youre not allowed to ask ...

Been better if only the federal reserve would follow his instructions and lower interest rates. >> if we had a fed that would lower interest rate, wed be like a rocket ship. were paying a lot of interest and its unnecessary. we dont have a fed that knows what they are doing. >> reporter: when asked why the citizenship question is important, the president told reporters its needed to help draw congressional districts but thats what the presidents critics fear. that the question will be used as a ...

The solicitor general, the governments top lawyer, has told the supreme court not once or twice but five different times that june 30th is the deadline for the printing of the census forms. they started that on january 25th, where they told the supreme court, hey, this district court, this trial judge has ruled against us on the census, we want to skip the court of appeals and go straight to the supreme court. why, they said? because of this june 30th deadline -- >> and the supreme court has obl...

Lawyers who went into court yesterday and said were not going to be seeking the citizenship question, were printing the census forms without it. and ali, i never thought id see the day when the trump administrations top lawyers sound like drunk girl on "saturday night live." you know, "were gonna have a citizenship question, were not gonna have a citizenship question, we are." its thoroughly inconsistent. and thats why, you know, when the supreme court ruled last week and said president trumps a...

Told the supreme court not once or twice but five different times that june 30th is the deadline for the printing of the census forms. they started that on january 25th, where they told the supreme court, hey, this district court, this trial judge has ruled against us on the census, we want to skip the court of appeals and go straight to the supreme court. why, they said? because of this june 30th deadline -- >> and the supreme court has obliged. the supreme court obliged. >> exactly. >> they ga...

Delay of the census. ha hansi lo wang joins us now. is it definitive that question will not be on the census? >> it is for now, is this question a citizen of the united states, that question is being blocked from the 2020 census forms. the supreme court opened up a window for the trump administration to try to make another case in court. monday is when the census bureau says 1.5 billion pieces of paper including paper questionnaires have to be printed with or without that citizenship question. >...

Here is the thing, time is running out. the 2020 census forms have to be printed in just a few weeks. lets bring in nbcs pete williams outside the supreme court. he has been covering the supreme court for nbc news. are you ready for it? for 26 years. that means -- >> but who is counting. >> he knows what hes talking about. also joining us maya wiley senior vice president for social justice at the new school. pete, bra he can this down for us. the courts decision, its not that you cant ask the qu...

Have an explanation and this one doesnt wash. so for that reason the court has for now blocked the government interest adding this question to the census form. it goes back to the district court in new york which had taken this case from 18 states including new york that were challenging this decision and that in turn sent it back to the commerce department to come up with another explanation. the question here is is there enough time for the commerce department to come up with a new explanation...

Do this with a calm head, but the government says that the census forms have to be in and start printing -- start the printing process by the fall. that leaves the court remarkably little time. if it wants to, i suppose it could say to the lower -- a lower court, sort this out in two weeks and bring this back to us, we need to know the answer here. but then you would be encouraging, i suppose, the argument would go, other people to come to the court at late stages and say, deal with us in a simi...