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He is lucky. a dozen states following california's lead threatening legal action against the trumpet ministration for adding a citizenship question to the 20/20 census. >> given the way this administration has attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. in our lawsuit we argue this decision by the trumpet ministration violates the constitution and federal law. heather: do they have a case? contributed to the washington examiner and senior lobbyist at progressive change campaign committee, thank you for joining us, appreci...

Census questionnaire, are you a citizen, putting that question back in. are you in favor? >> i have no objection to that. i really don't. it's important that we get accurate counts of all people in this country, whether they're here legally or illegally. i don't have a problem putting that question in. >> two bases of push back. one is chilling effect. you ask that, people will not come forward, along the lines, same thing as when you have an id requirement, people don't have an id. don't want to come forward. here if they're not sints, they don't want to come forward. and not having the right...

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...

And here's the best part... you still own yohome. call now! take control of your retirement today! ♪ >> analyses within the census department and we have concluded that the benefits to the voting rights act enforcement of asking the question outweighs these other issues. >> we want to inspire confidence in people completing the census questionnaire. not have them fear completing i it. we are hoping that we win the lawsuit, remove a very biased question from the census

>> it seems that the trump administration made a decision and announced it would add this question about citizenship to the 2020 census. given the way that this administration has attacked immigrants, you can understand why immigrant families would be afraid to fill out the census questionnaire. >> dana: colin, congress still has to take a whack and this and then go to court. so we don't know what will happen. meantime, what do you think the politics will be on the left when it comes to this? >> i think a lot of this issue on where you stand on it is based on where your sit. if you're a member...