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Unprecedented campaign, a fact that is not lost on Vice President kamala harris, who had this warning for a Capacity Crowd of more than 10,000 People Last Night in madison, wisconsin. This is not 2016 or 2020, the stakes are even higher, because remember, two months ago, the United States Supreme Court basically told the former president that he will effectively be immune, no matter what he does in the White House. Think about that, just imagine, Donald Trump with no guardrails. He, who has vowe...

>> in your opinion, and i want to go back to what ari said at the beginning about how important ultimately this ruling is going to be, would you agree that were looking at something of maximum potential importance when you consider all the things that are affected by the census? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, if you fundamentally change the way we count the population in the country, you are changing all kinds of formulas. you know, not least being how you allocate congressional districts. and its c...

Guy having a hand in the census. hes saying not only are we going to try to add this question, we know explicitly were doing it to benefit republicans. theres no doubt about the purpose of the question now. >> the doj sees it differently, and i want to read the response they gave to the "new york times." these eleventh hour allegations including an accusation of dishonesty against a senior department of justice official are false. that study played no role in the departments 2017 request to rein...

Would be used to add, which would help republicans particularly white republicans and harm democrats. so this is really a smoking gun showing that the purpose of this question was to benefit republicans politically, essentially what theyre trying to do is gerrymander the census to make more future gerrymandering efforts easier. >> this isnt the only example in which he tried to affect the maps, right? >> this is not the only example of tom doing this. this is a guy who for decades went around dr...

Partisanship. newly discovered files from a deceased republican operative indicate the real purpose of the question is to gerrymander districts. he found that adding the question, quote, would be advantageous to republicans and nonhispanic whites. he then petitioned the trump administration to adopt the plan and while the department of justice is dismissing any involvement with him or his plan, that is directly contradicted by "the new york times" report that a portion of a document found on har...

Stephanie is back at monday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> i dont know how you do it my friend. hello, im chris jansing, its 11:00 a.m. out west, 2:00 p.m. in washington. where in light of mounting evidence, there are serious allegations out there that the trump administration may be trying to rig the u.s. census. how? by adding a citizenship test, purely as a tool to gain partisanship advantage. they are mandated by the constitution every ten years andand whats at stake is enormous. that is how we dr...

Berman, and "washington post" dan ball. im going to read what you wrote, a citizenship question is expected to deter many immigrants and latinos from responding to the census. that, especially if combined with an effort to exclude non noncitizens from being counted in redistricting would result in a huge transfer of economic and political power to whiter and more republican areas. whats at stake here? >> its a huge battle for democracy, chris. we already had major concerns that this question wou...