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Citizen ship question was based on a pretext that violated the law. the administration cant go back in time and sclam it had some other valid and genuine reason to add the citizen ship question. after secretary ross testified under oath that he added it solely to enforce the voting rights act. is this really about simply trying to under count communities of color? >> yes. by all account thats what their goal is. a goal really before the administration ever even was sworn into office. you had ros...

>> wilbur ross said it publicly, too. >> right. >> this is across the board, this is what was happening. >> so, then this tweet comes out of left field, and you know, as a former government lawyer, i really felt for the lawyers, and at the lawyers are like, i dont know. you know, i mean, we dont know where things stand at this point. and you know, it is possible -- i thought there was some root to the back to the supreme court to try to get the census question back on, but the justice department...

>> wilbur ross said it publicly, too. >> right. >> this is across the board, this is what was happening. >> so, then this tweet comes out of left field, and you know, as a former government lawyer, i really felt for the lawyers, and at the lawyers are like, i dont know. you know, i mean, we dont know where things stand at this point. and you know, it is possible -- i thought there was some root to the back to the supreme court to try to get the census question back on, but the justice department...

Printers and all of a sudden having to say to the judge, oh, actually, was there a tweet this morning? my bad. let me change the actual justification. nia, it was more than saying the printing had to go to a different deadline. they were arguing which is shocking to a lawyer like myself. they had to have it on there because it was the only way you could pursue and prosecute voting rights infractions in this country. not the case. house oversight chairman elijah cummings tweeted out the supreme c...

It stands at risk of not being counted. this not only affects the billions, but the planning for social security and how are we going to make sure it remains solvent. planning for the future and where the money will go. i think any move to violate what the court has said and the enumeration clause is really important. >> you make a good point that this is so much broader as geoff said than the count and the implications are tremendous. you have the axios reporting about the action that all thing...

Nation would look in some ways, and how that would play itself out politically, is this a part of and did the court recognize that this was part of a broader, more sinister or more insidious strategy on the part of the president. >> you bring up such a good point, and the ultimate question boils down to this, if the government has the unfettered authority to do something under a law, does it matter that they may have done it with a bad motive? in other words, if you have the power no matter what...

Given as you pre tectule reason. that it was about enforcing the voting rights act. we think it might be about undercutting latinos. the president is stripping away any and all pretext. >> the federal judge sees the tweet. he calls in the justice department lawyer. you heard kaitlyn collins report. the lawyer said the first he heard about this was the presidents position in that tweet. he had not been told there would be a reversal. >> right. as shes saying, the right hand doesnt know what the l...

To visitors who have recently been approved and the maps installed on your phone and you can see on the screen that everything is being scanned text messages contacts browsing history and so on you you get really worried they could be something there they dont like and you dont know exactly what they are looking for i think. experts at germanys who are university and both home have been analyzing the app that found that the chinese government is not only copying content from phones its also comp...

Words right there completely undercut the official cover story that his administration has been telling publicly both in court under oath and to congress under oath about its motivations for adding the question. commerce secretary wilbur ross, among others insisted the idea for the question came from the trump doj, which supposedly wanted the question added to, get this, better enforce the voting rights act. yes you heard that right. the trump administration under jeff sessions was so intent on ...

Obtain information needed to conduct oversight of treasury, the irs, and the tax laws. so what is the weight of them to comply? >> theyre stonewalling congress which is to say all of their requests are illegitimate will stand judicial scrutiny. the trump administration has been fighting all subpoenas and request for information ever since the house was taken over by democrats six months ago by saying that congress only has authority to request information if its thinking about how to write a new...