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>> it's one of the ways. we have four or five ways we can do it. one of the ways that we're thinking about doing it very seriously. we're doing well on the census. we can also add an addition on and start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision. so, we're working on a lot of things including an executive order. >> an addendum. president trump there admitting he is considering an executive order to allow a citizenship question to the 2020 census. this despite the administration failing to provide any lisegal justification for the census question in the first p...

Of all of that. can the president legally file an executive order with this? >> file an executive order, yes, he can. >> and get away from the courts. >> if his lawyers tell him he can do something, he will do it. even if his lawyers tell him he can't do something, flout and embarrass the attorneys at the department of justice. here's the thing, not going to make a difference. whatever justification the president puts in his executive order is still not going to line-up with the story that we already know for why they put that question on the census. >> but didn't justice robert say, come back...

Let's have everybody who hands out the census, let's have them wear hoods. because i don't think black and brown people will take a census from a guy who wears a hood. i don't think you can do that. no, it's halloween, they're ghosts. we're dressing up as ghosts and roberts is like, no, it's okay if you dress up as ghosts and take the census. the problem is that you can't tell me it's halloween. you have to have a better reason than that and trump refuses to give them a better reason. sear seriously, that's what's happening. everyone is saying, it's not halloween. >> i was trying -- did you gu...

The president, here's a listen. >> well, you need it for many reasons. you need it for congress for districting and you need it for appropriations. where are the funds going? how many people are there? are they citizens? are they not citizens? you need it for many reasons. >> it appeared to be a changing narrative. what are you learning down there in d.c.? >> this is an incredibly polarized issue. republicans are arguing that they want to know how many undocumented immigrants are in the country. but democrats are arguing that there would be folks who would not participate in the census if this...