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Op opposite, but we had four hung together as they almost always did and one of the conservatives came over. those case may not have the significance of partisan gerrymandering. >> but the census case. >> it might well but who knows in the end what will happen with the census. it's a narrow decision. overall you would say there were a lot of surprises, particularly with the new justice, justice gorsuch relatively new being willing to come over with the left more often. >> and voting against justice kavanaugh and gorsuch voted against each other in different sides of indicates in about half of ...

One of the president's financial advisers larry kudlow was here at the white house and i asked him if he had a reaction and here's what he had to say. >> it's out of my lane. i'm not well versed in it. i don't want to mislead you. >> i think they're going to be very careful about how they respond to this because it appears that the court rejected their efforts to put a citizenship question on the census because of their motivations because it became clear that it seemed to be a political move. the white house had been making very common sense argument, you might say, about the need for a citiz...

Challenge. pete, walk us through this decision and why it's so important. >> two big decisions today, craig. first of all the supreme court at least for now and probably in the long term as well has blocked the trump administration from putting a question on the 2020 census for about citizenship. so it's a victory for 18 states and immigrants rights groups who had sued the government saying the government didn't have a good reason for doing this saying that they wanted to better enforce the voting rights act was just a pretext. the supreme court seems to agree with that assessment today that i...

Citizen of the united states. >> now, the essence of the administration's argument was that they wanted this question to help enforce the voting rights act which of course republicans in recent years have gutted. so a lot of the administration's critics, especially democrats and immigration rights add row indicates and civil rights advocates said immediately this seems to be a ploy to get this question on the census so that they -- because they knew that it would cause an undercount in minority and immigrant communities. so, again, looking at this in the broader context of the administration's...