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Conversation. there may be some possibilities. every time you think you made progress, it doesnt necessarily happen. we are having conversations about it. >> the census question about executive order? >> i dont know. he has an injunction. he just has to overcome. its an injunction against putting citizenship on the ballot. we have been printing the census forms. june 30th was the deadline. were printing the forms. we fully expect the census to go forward. the presidents effort to put the citizen...

Possibilities. but every time you think youve made progress, then it doesnt necessarily happen. but we are having conversations about it, yeah. >> reporter: can the president do a census question by executive order? >> well, i dont know. theres an injunction that he just has to overcome. its an injunction against putting citizenship on the ballot. we have been printing the census forms. june 30th was the deadline. so were printing the forms. we fully expect the census to go forward. the presiden...

Going around what the supreme court said. >> he has already said that he considered the decision to be wrongly decided, so what form is this going to take? >> the supreme court has left some door open to an extent, right? they didnt say the entire thing is invalid, this is unconstitutional to ask this question, they said the pretext, the reason that the administration gave was contrived and yinvalid. it sounded like the chief justice was sending the administration on a fools errand, knowing ther...

Jennifer avo sdplrzas lawyers, epsteins attorneys have challenged her credibility. jim curser. we also have jeff lieu. jim acosta is national political reporter for the "washington post." and jessica roth here with me at the table is the former southern prosecutor for the district of new york. jim acosta, i want to start with the politics on this. acosta is catching heat not just from democrats but also inside the white house who feel acosta has not done enough to push the trump agenda at the la...

Were following breaking news on the presidents controversial battle to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. a federal judge in new york refusing to allow the justice department to swap out its legal team in the case. that decision just announced. lets bring in cnns senior legal analyst preet bharara. hes the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. so, preet, what does this mean for the presidents quest to include a citizenship question on the census? >> well, ...

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Influence of voters of color to increase white voting power. this is an absolutely establishment republican scheme that donald trump recognizes is important if the republican party wants to keep winning elections in a diversifying country. they need to figure out a way to make white votes count more, and when they went to the supreme court, they gave them a fictional reason and of all the conservative justices on the supreme court, only roberts was willing to say it was fictional. the other supr...

Of all of that. can the president legally file an executive order with this? >> file an executive order, yes, he can. >> and get away from the courts. >> if his lawyers tell him he can do something, he will do it. even if his lawyers tell him he cant do something, flout and embarrass the attorneys at the department of justice. heres the thing, not going to make a difference. whatever justification the president puts in his executive order is still not going to line-up with the story that we alre...

Founding partner at jmw strategies. give us the rational? >> they had tried to get into the census from nearly the beginning of the administration. what the supreme court ruled said -- john roberts is the man that needs to be persuaded to either let this go on or not. you have 4-4 on each side. his view was the argument they used for the voting rights act because the d.o.j. requested it was a pretext. so basically he left the door open if there was a legitimate argument for this that he didnt th...

Instead he said that he cant avert his eyes to the evidence there. the reason that they wanted was a pretext for something else. so if they were open and honest and gave that answer perhaps we wouldnt -- the administration wouldnt be in this position. because they gave what john roberts thought they were not being honest with the court, they are where they are. >> jon: all of the states that have lost congressional seats to states like california ought to pay close attention to what happens with...