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Next day or two. were told the strategy to comply with the presidents demand remains up in the air. an executive order is among the options on the table right now. barr also is weighing in on next weeks congressional testimony by robert mueller. hes accusing house democrats of force the former special counsel to appear to create, and im quoting him now, "some kind of public spectacle." this hour ill talk with house judiciary committee member steve cohen and our correspondents and analysts are al...

Political, is it? >> well, i think any time you see something making its way through the ninth circuit on the back of presidential order its almost always political when its a republican president, this would ultimate i will go to supreme court, i would say likely the supreme court will side with the president on this one, hes not asking to pick up a giant chunk of the defense departments budget and give it to homeland security, believe this or not, the argument is that the defense department, t...

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...

Good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the challenge for the president in his legal team this morning is trying to figure out some sort of strategy that can pass legal muster to include that citizenship question, but the clock is ticking. the census forms are already being printed without that question on it. before leaving washington for his golf club in new jersey, president donald trump refusing to surrender on including a citizenship question on next years census, raising the pocket of ab ...

Would pass legal muster, but hes also considering taking executive action. garrett tenney is live in washington. hello, garrett. >> reporter: hey, mike. the administrations now trying to come up with a better justification for why iten wants to include the citizenship question on the 2020 census. the supreme court ruled that it was legal but said the administrations explanation that it was to enforce the voting rights act lacked merit. president trump is vowing to keep this fight alive. as he de...

Contrived and meets constitutional muster. so theyre trying to avoid discovery. they want to take the deposition of wilbur ross. but that didnt get taken. and now they want to do that. >> and on wilbur ross, sayer yashgs all the mixed messaging, the president essentially saying is confident in the commerce secretary but, i mean, might we be on commerce secretary job watch? what do you think? >> theres to doubt the president is frustrated with wilbur ross. my colleague kevin over at the white hou...

Executive order to fix this. the problem is its not clear that that is even going to work, whether that will pass muster with the supreme court. thats already said, the administration needs to go back to the drawing board on the rationale for this. and so at the moment the administration is simply trying to figure out a legal path forward. and it all may not end up with the citizenship question being on the census at all. but at the end of the day president trump gets to tell his base he did not...

Earlier this week of some cbp employees engaging in disturbing social media activity is disappointing and unacceptable. these activities undermine the credibility of our agency. the views expressed in those posts are deplorable." senior cbp officials tell fox news the agency is shocked by these allegations, both last week and now, at or taken very seriously. they also noted they dont monitor the online activities of their 60,000 plus employees when they are not on the job. leland? >> leland: see...

Justification. its incumbent on the administration thatll pass muster with the roberts court. it might be more difficult than we imagine right now. >> mike: first friday of the month means its job reports day. the u.s. economy added 254,000 jobs in june, a strong comeback after a disappointing man, and higher than economists have predicted. lets take a look at the trump economy since hes taken office. real gdp is up. unemployment rate is down, consumer confidence is up, and the average hourly ea...

And what reason they try to contrive now, i dont think it will make any difference. >> part of the strikedown of the supreme court, the whole case was basically you were arguing that the administration lied about why it was trying to put the question on, that it was misrepresenting it. it misrepresented it before the court and congress, and basically theyd they did so it egregiously that two different courts and the supreme court said youre lying and thats against the law. justice roberts said c...