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People won't respond to the question about citizenship. that is a lot of people. how could adding this question actually hurt i guess the quality of information that they are getting from this? >> well, number one, i'm not a mathematician as much as i'm not a lawyer, but that is about 2% of the country. so that is a significant -- >> impressive. >> that is a significant number. i think that is about 2% of the country. somebody will correct me if i'm wrong on twitter. basically what you are trying to do with the census is count the number of people here. and if you undercount the number of peop...

To the census because they're concerned and apprehensive that the data that they use to forecast their quarterly reports might not be adequate. finally, from a practicate standpoint they have to get this decided soon because they have to print the census, kendis. if they don't print it on time, it won't go out on time. this is very much tied up the printers that are used to print the census. >> thinking is 2020 but it has to be out there by april of 2020. and, to you, you cover the politics of all of this. is this just the president waving some red to his base? >> when i think about the latest...

Issue and something that comes out once every ten years. the president has said that he wants to do this. he's caught many folks off guard by his tweets, according to sources that i talk with. as well as his comments the other day at the white house. so, he's not letting it go. it's something he is passionate about and both sides are dug in. >> let me get to our legal legals to weigh in on this. aclu wrote a statement last night saying the trump administration argued that the census forms could not be altered after june 30th but they're trying to do so. what sort of legal hurdles does the pres...

This, then republicans will get more seats. and this will benefit republicans and diminish the power of black and brown voters and immigrants. specifically white republicans. and not only do we know it came from that letter, the letter justifying adding the census question quotes directly from that 2015 study. it's plain as day. >> that's the other legal hurdle. what the court has ordered is that we have to actually have discovery. an a hearing to discuss and that will take too long . >> our thanks to elie and katie. thank you. still to come right here, we're continuing to follow the latest ...

>> air general. >> or spirit. let's talk about the census and this whole battle right now, jonathan, where he is talking about trying to do an executive order. conflicting information are on whether he has the authority to do that. what are you hearing? >> well, i mean, look, this is a hail mary. the president has given up the game a little bit in talking about why he wants to add this question to the census which is that he would like to have reapportionment different meaning how many congressional districts each state has which affects redistricting and also how much each state gets in feder...