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Lovely. jim. susan page, thank you both. still to come, the trump administration has a new setback in its fight to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census, a federal judge has denied the request to switch up the legal team. the president isnt done weighing his options. the latest on that court battle ahead on morning joe. on that c ahead on morning joe can my side be firm?

Is actually left the justice department trying to come up with a legally justifiable strategy in order to get the question on there. and those lawyers who now or might be forced to go back on to the case had to go to a judge the next day and we we dont know s-- know what is going on and well try to find out as quickly as we can but were moving forward with adding the citizenship question. it put everyone in a difficult position here. and i think that as they go forward theyre going to even str...

Setback for the trump administrations efforts to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census. now a federal judge just ruled moments ago that the justice department cant swap out the legal team. this was one of the big ways, the crucial way that is president trump was trying to get a question about whether you are a citizen or not in the census. the supreme court, of course, blocked it. so why is president trump so adamant that this question on citizenship be included? partisan i...

Worked on in this next phase. but now they are being told by the judge that their reason for changing the legal team isnt good enough. and another thing bill barr said yesterday is that he and the president were going to move forward and announce the next move on this in the next day or two. here it is the next day and they are facing another setback, trying to figure out even which legal team is making arguments for them. >> thank you very much katlyn. outfront, gloria borger, harry sand he can...

. happening now. breaking news. census setback. a federal judge just refused to allow the trump administration to hire new lawyers to argue for adding a question on citizenship in the 2020 census form. so what does that mean for the controversial case? defending his secretary. president trump stands by his labor chief while more top democrats demand alex acostas resignation. theyre accusing him of seeking leniency for an accused sexual predator of young girls. can epstein hang on as the case...

well become witnesses as part of this thing. so the judge is simply saying, look, you guys are saying you need to do this quickly. im giving you the chance to do this. and im not going to let you just switch legal teams when youre saying that you need to do this by a certain date. >> all right, evan, thank you very much. i want to go to katlyn at the white house. the president staked a lot on this politically. he made a big deal of it. obviously this is a blow to him tonight. >> yeah, this is...

These are crimes with the most vulnerable victims. and i think -- it says two things about where we are at once. this becomes increasingly intolerable, the number of people who talked about jeffrey epstein as, oh, he likes young girls, as if this was just a kind of interesting facet of his personality, like he tends to wear his ties long or something, thats not acceptable anymore. >> right. >> at the same time it is the ultimate swampy story, right, with all the people who gathered around him. >...

White house correspondent jim acosta. jim, that census citizenship question clearly very, very important to the president and this judges ruling clearly a major setback into thats right, wolf. this is a setback for the president, no question about it. he has been tweeting about it. hes been talking about it. he hasnt reacted to the latest development in the case. facing calls to resign over his handling of the jeffrey epstein case. the president says secretary alex acosta is doing a fantastic jo...

Attorneys that have been representing them in this census case up until this point and asking to substitute these lawyers. this judge saying that the department of justice did not give any satisfactory reasons for changing these attorneys and, in fact, gave no reason at all for changing these attorneys and thats why the judge in this case has denied this request to change these attorneys. and, wolf, this is a big procedural setback for the department of justice. their plan has been multi-fasciat...

Because these group of attorneys who were working on this census case for the past few months, they had represented to the court, as laura said, that time was of the essence. they consistently talked about this july 1st printing deadline that the census had to move forward and now all of a sudden they go back to the court and say, oh, never mind, we have some real time here. that really presents a credibility issue. and perhaps to alleviate that, thats why the department of justice wanted to cha...