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Sensitive citizenship question on the 2020 u.s. census despite a significant setback from the u.s. supreme court which rejected the administrations rational last month. at this point, do you believe there is any legal pathway that would allow the administration to include this question on the census which is going forward right now. >> no. thanks to the leadership of chairman cummings on the oversight committee, we got to the bottom of why they actually added the citizenship question to the cens...

Administration that he would continue to fight for the question about citizenship on the 2020 census even after supreme court gave him a setback. joining us, white house reporter for "washington post" and cnn political analyst. youve got a terrific article examining whats going on here. one of the big points you make is that its not necessarily about the win for the president. that might be elusive or impossible, its the fight that matters. >> this is a president who told voters in 2016 they wou...

Crystal clear he thinks the truth is up to him. its not, but we are seeing this play out right now with the fight over the census question about citizenship. the census, right, counting the population every ten years. the founders thought it was a great idea. they put it in article 1, section 2. so in march of 2018, the trump administrations commerce department said it was going to add a question on the 2020 census about citizenship. what happened next, at least 12 states led by new york sued ri...

>> it has been since reagan. we need to do that. this is part of our history in this country. we are so polarized it is very difficult to get to a consensus. we had a bill last session. a democrat, i would support that bill and hope we bring it back. that is a compromise worked out by a republican and democrat. leland: we have will heard on tomorrow, we will ask about it, thanks for joining us. all the best. >> despite a legal setback donald trump is pushing ahead with efforts to a question abou...

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 ...

In new jersey. after the citizenship census question was criticized by the supreme court, what is the presidents argument for trying to revive this issue? >> reporter: fred, president trump is arguing its still necessary to include that question in the census to determine whether a person answering is a citizen or a noncitizen. hes still fighting for this despite that ruling, that setback, from the supreme court. even though the commerce department has said theyre starting to print the census wi...

Question on the 2020 census because of a presidential tweet. president trump caught government lawyers off-guard and sent them scrambling to figure out next steps because the president tweeted moments ago, quote, so important for our country that the very simple and basic are you a citizen of the united states question be allowed to be asked in the 2020 census. the department of commerce and justice are working very hard on this -- sorry, this is still the tweet, on the fourth of july, end quote...

Example, the cost of flying that is over $17,000 an hour. and if you look at the -- actually its a lot more than that. its close to $30,000 an hour. the f-35 is around $17,000 an hour. so, there are different costs that are associated with each. so if you start adding things up, i did an informal calculation and came up with somewhere around $8 million. >> wow. >> for the parade and for the associated aircraft, but that may not include all the aircraft, may not include all the other accoutrement...

Topping our political radar today, vice president mike pence spending part of independence day at a naturalization ceremony. it was this morning at the national archives just outside of washington, d.c. pence congratulated the 44 new u.s. citizens more than once for following the naturalization process legally. >> but all of you aspired to be americans. you stepped forward. you followed the law. you went through the process. america has the most generous system of legal immigration in the histor...

On the hill after the break. >> thanks, mike, appreciate it. happy 4th. >> pro-life groups vowing to fight all the way to the supreme court after a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a new abortion law in ohio. the so-called heartbeat bill bans most abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as 6 weeks in a pregnancy. a major legal setback for the trump administration, a blow to president trumps border plan. and we will weigh in on the border migrant controversy. fact is...