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Nominate someone you think should be a "cnn hero." thanks for watching. our coverage continues. good evening. today president trump chose not to defy the supreme court. he backed down on putting a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. the court, you'll recall, didn't buy the administration's rationale that this was being done to protect minorities by allowing better enforcement of the voting rights act and putting the citizenship question on the census was the only way to get accurate data. this evening in the rose garden, the president revealed that argument to be about as credible...

There's not a big question about that. but if you look at some of the things he said, especially when he said the idea that we were putting a citizenship question on by executive order, by fiat was fabrication the media made up, the president said a week ago this was an option he was looking at. there's a way to do that without spinning it out of control. >> brian, final word. >> the president said he is going to fight this, also when the census does report citizenship data in 2021, they said they're going to tell states best they can how many citizens there are in the states and there will be...

Efforts to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. trump announced the decision yesterday, two weeks after the supreme court rebuked the administration over its efforts to include that question. last week, the president told reporters he may issue an executive order to include the question. instead, donald trump ordered the federal government to compile citizenship data from existing federal records. as "the new york times" points out, quote, even that order appears to merely reiterate plans the commerce department announced last year. making it not a new policy but rather a way for...

The department of commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and non-citizens in our country. >> reporter: but the president in backing down here, he's also hinting at another possible political fight. he said that politicians may also soon use this citizenship data to try to draw voting districts in states, by counting only voters as opposed to all residents. of course, that is a whole other issue that would draw a whole other sort of court battles. >> thank you so much for that. no one is backing down with nancy pelosi and the squad. the clash began when pelosi told...

Very existence of a very important word and a very important thing, citizenship. far-left democrats in our country are determined to conceal the number of illegal aliens in our midst. they probably know the number is it far greater, much higher than anyone would have ever believed before, maybe that's why they fight so hard. this is part of a broader left-wing effort to erode the rights of the american citizen and is very unfair to our country. keep in mind that the government already collects citizenship data through what's known as american community survey. samples approximately 2% of hou...