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New question to the census questionnaire. wilbur ross sought advice from john baker. baker has argued a citizenship question is necessary so house seats can be redistricted without counting noncitizens. he said its out of the department. its a real objective. the question is to encourage the latinos and its unclear whether they will have any effect. a warning some commonly prescribed drugs are tied to a 50% higher risk of dementia in older people. a new study published in jama suggest the link...

Presidents on air force one traveling back from europe, hes tweeting about what he calls a fishing expedition lashing out at nancy pelosi. on the democrat side here, they have busy teams of staffers working through all of the legal step that is theyre trying to take to get answers on issues like this. the one you mentioned had to do with internal documents related to a citizenship question on the census questionnaire. and theyre not getting the answers they want. the two leaders, attorney genera...

Arguing, "look, its on the states that are harmed by the government. the government is not harming you. its the illegal aliens who choose not to comply with the question that are actually creating the harm." secondly, they are saying, "we have effectively delegated by congress the power to to do th" its an administered decision by the supreme court. i think it will vote in favor of keeping the question. >> harris: just a legal question for you, emily. its my understanding that if you skip a ques...

Administration had attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. >> undercounting the population could result in california losing one of its seats in congress along with losing a lot of federal dollars. meantime, california is getting resistance from within. today the orange county board of supervisors, all republicans, voted to join the federal lawsuit against the state sanctuary laws. adding big time affirmation to other c...

Over this idea. the attorney general of california javier becerra says he will choose the trump administration over this change. becerra says asking people whether or not they are citizens is somehow unconstitutional. watch. >> given the way that this administration had attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. in our lawsuit we argue this decision by the trump administration violates the constitution and federal law. >> ...

He is lucky. a dozen states following californias lead threatening legal action against the trumpet ministration for adding a citizenship question to the 20/20 census. >> given the way this administration has attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. in our lawsuit we argue this decision by the trumpet ministration violates the constitution and federal law. heather: do they have a case? contributed to the washington exami...

Census questionnaire, are you a citizen, putting that question back in. are you in favor? >> i have no objection to that. i really dont. its important that we get accurate counts of all people in this country, whether theyre here legally or illegally. i dont have a problem putting that question in. >> two bases of push back. one is chilling effect. you ask that, people will not come forward, along the lines, same thing as when you have an id requirement, people dont have an id. dont want to come...

Californians. >> given the way that this administration had attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. the trump administration has yet again failed to learn from history. they fail to consider the consequences of scaring people into not filling out the census forms. >> reporter: as you can well imagine, white house officials say, listen, this is the commerce departments call, after all. they may have consulted with them, ...

And heres the best part... you still own yohome. call now! take control of your retirement today! ♪ >> analyses within the census department and we have concluded that the benefits to the voting rights act enforcement of asking the question outweighs these other issues. >> we want to inspire confidence in people completing the census questionnaire. not have them fear completing i it. we are hoping that we win the lawsuit, remove a very biased question from the census

>> it seems that the trump administration made a decision and announced it would add this question about citizenship to the 2020 census. given the way that this administration has attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. >> dana: colin, congress still has to take a whack and this and then go to court. so we dont know what will happen. meantime, what do you think the politics will be on the left when it comes to this? >> ...