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Say whether or not a person is an american citizen. >> i'm david gura. president trump attempting to down play his involvement in exerting executive privilege over information related to the citizenship question his administration wants wants adde to the 2020 census calling it a legal matter. investigations into the trump administration's motives behind adding that question ramped up last month after the hard drives of a gop operative revealed the white house appeared to lift language and claims directly from a 2015 study he conducted. according to the court file, citizenship data would be a d...

Here to explain is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and president and ceo of voter latino. help us understand what's happening here. what exactly are these new documents? >> it's all according to the aclu in a court filing they say that on the computer records left over by a long time republican consultant after he died found by a family member that they found drafts of what became ultimately the request by the commerce secretary. you're looking at a picture of this consultant, thomas hoffler. they say he actually said if the government can provide actual citizenship data it will b...

Gop and non-hispanic whites. not to upholds the voting rights act as the justice department claimed. pete, tell us about the back story here. >> this is what the aclu says is new evidence that came from computer materials left over after a long time republican consultant died. his daughter found the material and the aclu says it shows he was the brains behind this request by commerce to include the citizenship question on the census form. he thought that getting citizenship data would help republican legislatures more carefully and surgically draw districts for state legislatures and the congr...

Programs, health studies, these studies require the most accurate population data. not citizenship data. think about a measles outbreak, do you care whether it's citizens who have it or noncitizens or do you want to know how many people have it. the "new york times" is shedding light on why they're pushing for this question in the first place. when the man died in 2018. his daughter was given 18 thumb drives of his laptop. among the data was a draft study on how adding a citizenship question to the census could help republicans gerrymander districts in their own favor. the case is interesting,...

This data saying it would help the government administer the data. that was filed in the district court yesterday. they sent a copy of that report to the supreme court with a letter saying here's what we filed. thought you ought to know this. they're saying the allegations are baseless. they're saying the government officials who drafted the letter had never heard of thomas's research. it played no role in their request and they'll respond more fully on monday as directed by the judge in new york. >> this guy whose computer this was found on, was known in political circles. >> he definitely ha...