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Ainsley: sounds like based on what the supreme court said something is messed up. they didnt say its constitutional you said wording? steve: rule making was confusing. pete: yes. rationale. the supreme court is not supposed to take that into account. the supreme court said look whether or not its constitutional. otherwise, they are use, judicial activism and thats what appeared to happen in this case. steve: right. they said to the trump administration, go -- you know, we are not saying you cant...

And if you have an undercount, you could actually end up unlawfully denying a state an additional seat in congress. and this gets to the issue of timing. the notion that the president wants -- oh -- >> well delay the census. >> this is just like going shopping at the store. we will go shopping next week. first of all, they have put themselves in a box because they said repeatedly during the litigation -- and i have followed this litigation very, very closely for obvious reasons. they said we mus...

Is this five months down the road? >> its years down the road in the sense that we need to understand what types of new regulations are required for crash one way or the otherness. and that really has to do with the next generation of aircraft that come out that may have light weight materials, nonmetallic materials and those types of behaviors are something that we need to understand and potentially have some new rule making that would involved potentially some testing to understand how that cr...

Unelected bureaucrats? the past week democratic candidates said we should bypass congress to enact gun control and protect abortion and to fight global warming. give the agencies more power. thats an attack on democracy when you say that? >> yes, and its showing you that the bureaucratic agencies, the permanent branch of government, tend to lean left. if you are looking to get things done that have the force of law but dont go through the legislative process and are not accountable to the people...

Influence over elected officials, right? the past week twice ive seen democratic presidents candidates say we should bypass congress to enact gun control, to protect abortion, and to fight global warming. we should let the agencies do, give the agencies more power. thats an attack on democracy when you say that? >> yes, and its showing you that there is a believe and its well-founded, that the bureaucratic agencies, the permanent branch of government that never changes hands, people who will be ...

Apparently, he showed them. i want to ask you about hud secretary ben carson while i have you. especially because you worked in that department under president bush 41. carson had a bad week in the hot seat on capitol hill. he was asked about reports that the agentcy may eliminate the equal access, bars housing on send gender identity. >> can you ensure the committee that hud doesnt have plans to eliminate the equal access rule during rule making? >> im not going to say what we will do in the fu...

This has been quite a week for housing and urban development secretary ben carson. first he sits in a congressional hearing and wonders aloud if a congressional member was asking him about oreo cookies when she was asking him about a housing term he should know. and in the same series he was asked about housing and transgender people. listen to this. >> can you assure that hud does not have any plans to eliminate the access rule in rule making? >> im not going to say what we will do in the futur...

>> im not going to say what we will do in the future about anything. we dont know what were going to do in the future. >> are you currently anticipating doing that? >> im not currently anticipating changing the rule. >> neil: something happened after that exchange. the democratic congress woman, jennifer waxton and ben carson. the next day, hud did propose a rule that would change it for transgender women and homeless shelters. now the congress woman is calling for carson to resign. >> neil: she...

Then to a homeless status. whats going to happen with these children? have you thought this program through? >> maybe what will happen with them is that you in congress will do your job and solve the problem. >> i was disappointed, especially with the negative impacts, understanding there may be rational reasons for looking at this, but the negative impacts of proceeding with the mortgage e-lette before doing a formal rule making as had been previously promised. >> your point is well taken. >> a...

Week. hud agreed to pay $5 million for carbon monoxide detectors. more of a sense of urgency. give us an update on where that stands. the secretary based on his comments over the last 24 hours does have a better sense that they have to deal with this and deal with this now. >> its clear that hud is reacting to something. theyre reacting to public pressure, outrage, media attention on this issue and theyre scrambling to do something about it. so the $5 million is significant. the first concrete s...