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Services, transit, billions of dollars at stake. >> joining me now, congressman ted lu. he serves on the foreign affairs committee. if you can explain, just to be clear. the political impact of this. it sounds like there is the biggest focus. explain why democrats fear that this will lead to states with large immigrant bomb lagss to have representation, both in state legislation and in congress. >> thank you. are let me first say that article 1, section q of the constitution requires the government to count the number of people in our country. not the number of citizens. and when you put in th...

Californians. >> given the way that this administration had attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. the trump administration has yet again failed to learn from history. they fail to consider the consequences of scaring people into not filling out the census forms. >> reporter: as you can well imagine, white house officials say, listen, this is the commerce department's call, after all. they may have consulted with them, but they do have the final call. they also add fairly quickly that this is not unprecedented in any...

This whole count now could be slowed down because of a computer glitch. the computer system needed to track and do the overall tally for this door-to-door count is having problems, crashing. we plight have a delay in getting the final tall pip about 63% of you, congratulations, sent back in, mailed in your census forms like they asked you to. my subaru saved my life. i won't ever forget that. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.

Much as they could before the shutdown occurred and before the oil comes in. they were trying to get as much as they could. you are not going to get enough in two days to take care of your economic needs here. and so -- everybody here is hurt very, very badly by this. this is a disaster. economic disaster. >> yeah. >> for the people in this community. >> no. clearly. expressing that very clearly. it is a nightmare. no doubt. all right, mark potter, thank you very much. more later from you. did any of you remember to send back your u.s. census form? if you didn't, beginning today, you may get...

Negligence was a factor in that explosion. you could get a knock on your door today from someone just looking to count heads in your house. census workers supposed to be on the streets today to finish the count for those of you that did not mail in your census forms. but there's a little bit of a problem here. the computer system that's needed to coordinate the whole door to door count, it has a problem. and the system is prone to crashing. that's not good. about 63% of households across the country have sent back their census forms.