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But we don't have a fed that knows what they're doing. >> reporter: now when asked why the citizenship question is important the president told reporters it is needed to help draw congressional districts but that is where the president's critics fear that the citizenship question will be used as a tool to make sure congressional districts are drawn up to favor republicans. for now the administration said the census forms are being printed without the citizenship question. brianna. >> jim acosta on the north lawn. and more on this legal battle over the administration's effort to add the citizen...

Breaking news, after president trump told reporters he's considering an executive order to get a citizenship question on the next year's census forms, his administration told a federal judge it is still looking for a new way to justify the move. let's ask our political and legal experts about this fight. and joey jackson, let's listen to what the president had to say about this earlier today. >> we're finding out everything about everybody. think of it. 15 to $20 billion and you're not allowed to ask them are you a citizen. so we'll see what happens. we could also add an additional on so start...

Been better if only the federal reserve would follow his instructions and lower interest rates. >> if we had a fed that would lower interest rate, we'd be like a rocket ship. we're paying a lot of interest and it's unnecessary. we don't have a fed that knows what they are doing. >> reporter: when asked why the citizenship question is important, the president told reporters it's needed to help draw congressional districts but that's what the president's critics fear. that the question will be used as a political tool to make sure congressional districts are drawn up to favor republicans. now th...

The solicitor general, the government's top lawyer, has told the supreme court not once or twice but five different times that june 30th is the deadline for the printing of the census forms. they started that on january 25th, where they told the supreme court, hey, this district court, this trial judge has ruled against us on the census, we want to skip the court of appeals and go straight to the supreme court. why, they said? because of this june 30th deadline -- >> and the supreme court has obliged. the supreme court obliged. >> exactly. >> they gave them a decision by june 30th. >> exactly....

Lawyers who went into court yesterday and said we're not going to be seeking the citizenship question, we're printing the census forms without it. and ali, i never thought i'd see the day when the trump administration's top lawyers sound like drunk girl on "saturday night live." you know, "we're gonna have a citizenship question, we're not gonna have a citizenship question, we are." it's thoroughly inconsistent. and that's why, you know, when the supreme court ruled last week and said president trump's addition of the census question was illegal because they used a reason that was utterly pret...