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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...

The u.s. justice department lawyers have told a federal judge in maryland that they are still looking for a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. the judge allowed an immigrant rights group to move forward with their lawsuit against the trump administration. an administration official says right now the census will be printed without the controversial question, but the president says he is considering one option in particular for adding it back in. >> reporter: are you going to d...

How many people are there? are they citizens? are they not citizens? you need it for many reasons. >> reporter: now, justice department lawyers told a court yesterday that theyre still exploring options for moving forward with the citizen ship question. the supreme court told the administration they needed to find a new rationale for the citizenship question if they wanted to include it but they didnt rule out including it altogether. president trump said hes considering four or five different o...

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...

Conservative critique? >> absolutely. thats the folks he listens to. whether its rush limbaugh. you see him reacting to what was seen as a real defeat. it was. for ross and the doj to come out and say were giving up and going forward with the census form with the the citizen ship question. i wonder that even if the question doesnt end up on there, all of this conversation around it could do what they want to do which is depress the counting among folks who might be afraid of answering the census...

Would be used to add, which would help republicans particularly white republicans and harm democrats. so this is really a smoking gun showing that the purpose of this question was to benefit republicans politically, essentially what theyre trying to do is gerrymander the census to make more future gerrymandering efforts easier. >> this isnt the only example in which he tried to affect the maps, right? >> this is not the only example of tom doing this. this is a guy who for decades went around dr...

Democrats are companions on fate though both know cave one of the 2 actually is leaving the team than its over for the other as well and theres no one else i see who wants to step into the game so therefore for the time being. but. the question mark is much more on the s.b. decide because they have or a serious need of ship question right now and were facing 3 federal elections later this year in country in federal states federal states where. the right wing populist party in germany became 2nd ...

His own tracks in the endeavor. the trump administration talks about its decision to add a citizenship question, one that critics warn will depress response rates, making data less accurate and giving the communities fewer federal funds and fewer lec torl votes. the supreme court is due to hear a challenge next month. and testified repeated lathe only reason they did was to enforces the voting rights act. >> solely to the democrat of justices request. >> the department of justice, as you know lo...

Add the citizen ship question to census 2020. >> and your understanding of the intent to that is what? >> the intent is to get an under count and ensure the growing power of the latino community in particular is curbed through ensuring that the census is inaccurate, which is a harm to the entire country. wi wilber politicized the census for the first time in history and lying about it and this guy belongs in no cabinet whatsoever. he should be retired. >> him saying lying. two federal courts fou...

And ross toifrtestified repeate only reason they did was to enforces the voting rights act. >> solely to the democrat of justices request. >> the department of justice, as you know long before the justic department got involved, steve bannon was pushing the citizen ship question with voter fraud question, former kansas secretary of state and in his moment m memo, ross said hes the one that reached out to the justice department. not the other way around. i began considering fundamental issues reg...