that was many hours ago hoping for the safety of all. tourng d.c., president trump trying to pump up his base with unprecedented action on two fronts, one involving the census, the other immigration. first on the census. the president being careful not to defy a supreme court order to keep a citizenship question off the 2020 census. instead he said he's taking executive action to get the information a different way. if it had been adopted a year ago, it could have saved millions of dollars and a lot of time not to mention a lot of gray hair at the justice department. jessica snider has more. >> reporter: christine and boris, the president pulling back on his plans to add a citizenship question 20920 census. after a week of insisting his administration would continue to fight in court to get it on the questionnaire, president trump has now simply signed an executive order -- >> i am here by ordering every department and agency in the federal government to provide