sensitive citizenship question on the 2020 u.s. census despite a significant setback from the u.s. supreme court which rejected the administration s rational last month. at this point, do you believe there is any legal pathway that would allow the administration to include this question on the census which is going forward right now. no. thanks to the leadership of chairman cummings on the oversight committee, we got to the bottom of why they actually added the citizenship question to the census which is that they wanted to suppress the count of minorities. and the offered reason, namely that they quote, unquote, wanted to enforce the voting rights act provision by adding the citizenship question was clearly shown to be protextual and that is what the supreme court found. at this point any move to issue an executive order or something along those lines to put that citizenship question back on the census in my opinion would be unconstitutional and in any case
to the charges. epstein arrested saturday on his private jet upon returning from paris. shortly after investigators forced their way into his manhattan mansion. in addition to finding hundreds, possibly thousands of photos of nude and partially nude young women, some of them locked in a safe, investigators found, quote, compact disks are hand written labels including the following ysh young name but name and miscellaneous nudes one and girl picks nude. the alleged behavior shocked the conscious. reporter: epstein already a registered sex offender after agreeing to a plea deal with prosecutors in florida in 2008 related to sexual crime as alleged by dozens of young and underage women. the man who headed the florida case, alex acosta, now secretary of labor in the trump administration. at the end of the day, mr. epstein went to jail. epstein was incarcerated, he registered as a sex offender. reporter: the miami-herald
way that would pass muster with the supreme court. tonight sources tell cnn the administration is scrambling to figure out if they could use a presidential memorandum or executive order to add the citizenship question to the census. options put on the table ome in recent days after the president said he wanted to fight the issue. we re thinking about doing that. it is one of the ways. we have four or five ways to do it. reporter: as the justice department replaced the legal team overseeing the census case and a justice official said the administration didn t want the same lawyers who made one argument to the court and couldn contradict with another argument. i ve been in constant discussions with the president since the supreme court decision came down and i think over the next day or two you ll see what approach we re taking. reporter: speaker pelosi weighing in on trump not backing down. this is about keeping you know, make america his hat, make america white again.
federal prosecutors charge multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein with running a sex trafficking ring and preying on underage girls in a case raising serious questions about the role of money and politics in the u.s. justice system. and coming home. the u.s. women s soccer team returns home as world cup champions. can they score another victory in their fight for equal pay? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news, the trump administration is determined to move ahead with adding a citizenship question to the u.s. census. attorney general william barr said the decision on how to proceed will come in the next day or two, stressing the approach will provide a pathway for the citizenship question. a senior official said the white house is still weighing an executive order. also breaking, president trump said he will no longer deal with
think that that is potentially a reason for adding the citizenship question. in any case, suppressing the count of minorities and others is illegal and unconstitutional and i think that it goes against the spirit of what the constitution commands which is that every person has to be counted, regardless of whether they re a citizen and regardless of whether they vote. for instance children and others. speaker pelosi reiterated her threat voet on the house floor against the trump administration over the issue in the oversight committee which already voted to hold the attorney general and commerce secretary in contempt for not complying with subpoenas, should speaker pelosi make good on her most recent threat? potentially, yes. i think that we ll have to see in the next day or two what the trump administration does with regard to the census. but at this point, i think that any attempt to put the citizenship question on the