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Secretary wilbur ross said the census forms were being printed without the question and after the administration was forced to do a screeching 180 when the president tweeted this. he was absolutely moving forward with the question. got all that? now the administration is getting slapped down again. so why do they keep forcing the issue? civil rights group say including the question will scare off legal immigrants as well as undocumented immigrants. which if you ask speaker nancy pelosi that may be the point. >> this is about keeping -- you know make america -- you know his hat? make america wh...

As well take a shot which is the not exactly the most confidence inspiring statement about a legal plan i've ever heard. i mean the supreme court's decision said at -- said a lot of things but two in particular. one this decision has to happen by june 30th because you can't change the forms after that date, and two, the attempt to put a citizenship question on the questionnaire is illegal. i think that ends the story. >> so what happens if the president just does go ahead and put this question on the census forms? mean, what does that mean in the context of the law and is there any recourse fo...

Census forms? i mean, there's a lot of ineptitude on display here from the trump administration, for sure, but there could be serious consequences ahead, even if they continue to lose in court. for one thing, if the goal of the citizenship question is to depress latino participation in the census then trump and barr at all may accomplish that goal just by sowing confusion about whether the question is included. and second, there is the real possibility here that we could be rolling toward an event that has never happened in 243 years of american history. the president of the united states simp...

We can do a memorandum. there are other alternatives. >> joining me now is a former secretary of congress, he oversaw the 2010 census, and he has been appointed by ja inslee to monitor how the census in his home state is being conduct. senator, thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> you have ran and directed a census before, the 2010 census. if you were in the middle of printing the survey, which is happening now, in the midst of a legal battle over adding a question and the government's legal team arguing this in court is taken off the case, what do you think is going on? >> well, just ...

For the citizenship question which was that what -- that state was needed for voting rights act they found that, that was in the words of john roberts, quote, contrived, the other four conservatives on supreme court said all that was required was a reasoned explanation and that no further analysis should be done. so certainly as president trump said that door is potentially open for a new rational being put forward but a huge complication of the fact that the census forms are already being precincted but it is a mass and could be a way forward legally. >> but question has been asked before. >>...