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Possibilities. but every time you think you've made progress, then it doesn't necessarily happen. but we are having conversations about it, yeah. >> reporter: can the president do a census question by executive order? >> well, i don't know. there's an injunction that he just has to overcome. it's an injunction against putting citizenship on the ballot. we have been printing the census forms. june 30th was the deadline. so we're printing the forms. we fully expect the census to go forward. the president's effort to put the citizenship question on the census will continue to be challenged in cou...

Announce something in his fight to get the so-called citizenship question onto the census. it does appear he is simply going to ask the commerce department to continue to do what it does. an administration source tells nbc news that the president is going to direct his administration to get that citizenship data through other ways, which they already do. we have no that what that means. he's actually going to announce that in a minute. because the administration might be thinking that it wins politically by keeping up this fight even if it lost legally. how? well, maybe might be frightening hi...

Isn't that what the census is after all? trying to get an accurate portrait of america. >> it is. you said something that struck me. the fact that a lot of people don't tell the truth on some of the census forms. a lot of people don't. i'm not so sure if the citizenship question was on there if someone is here illegally, probably not going to check that box. >> max? >> yeah, it shows the cynicism of the process. talk about the swamp. we're seeing the politics is the reason for this and the president's supporters will like it. doesn't matter what they think is best, what the supreme court think...

Executive order or confused whether it is a presidential memorandum. so the details they're holding back at this point saying they don't want to get ahead of the president who announced on twitter and has told us as reporters interacting with him over several days this was the direction he was headed. this would in a broad stroke add legal authority to the commerce department to include a citizenship option, one of the different options would be that is something added on because the census forms are already being printed. so some of that is already under way. i'll leave it to pete to discuss ...

Sure that the count in the census is reduced, targeting, of course, people of color, intimidating and trying to scare people of color from filling out the proper census forms. i think they're doing this for political reasons. we have redistricting coming up. and of course they want fewer people who would more than likely vote as democrats. so i think from day one, that's been their motivation. and i think it's really an attack on our democracy. it's an attack on our constitution. and this president is showing us once again who he really is. and so i'm certain that when we begin to look at the ...