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>> right. the president wields tremendous power with his tweets. let's not be misguided by that. the president can do a lot of things with his tweets and including set policy. so to discuss the possibility of an executive order while it's just theoretical, at this point, on the one hand, the president has broad executive order power. on the other hand, the census is already laid out. the procedure is already laid out in existing federal law. so i can see a court taking a look at this executive order as an end run around the supreme court's decision. >> exactly. >> but on the other hand, raul, ...

What happens then? >> i think in this case, just thinking ahead theoretically, because the supreme court has already rendered an opinion on whether or not it can be on the census, i don't think this workaround would work. i could see trump issuing an executive order. it would immediately go to the courts. and it would probably strike it down on the same basis. because it exists outside the traditional legal framework for including a citizenship question on the census. and for that reason, the courts may conclude that this is an area that exceeds the president's authority. at the same time, the...

Anything other than the war on terror? the obama administration or the trump administration using executive orders when they felt they couldn't get things through congress or wanted to do it more quickly? does the supreme court ruling have any implications going forward? >> beyond immigration i don't think so. this is clearly constitutionally in the president's basket of powers. i don't think it affects executive order power generally particularly because it was in line with the president. it was a conflict between those things. >> reporter: leading up to the supreme court the issue of go u go...

This president does not care about that. he is idealogically dedicated -- emptying the place because he think it is the sin of sins? andrea: he doesn't care what the ramifications are. he will close it for idealogical political science reasons. he doesn't care how many people end up dying. harris: 2009 he tried to put executive order power. that is the first place he tried to flex it was close down guantanamo bay. that is interesting, you were there when there were 600. can you imagine how hardcore the last 100 are. would they have been released in order of detriment to the greater society? wh...

States a method of overriding it, abuse of the executive order power of the president, all of that is up for grabs. >> all of that is up for grabs, including decisions by the supreme court, karen. >> you would think they'd want to stick by the supreme court, because they've been good to conservatives so far. but rev, let's talk about what this really is about, because i didn't hear anything about this when george bush was president and lied his way into a war we are still paying for dearly, right, so if we're really talking about the federal government getting out of control, we know that is d...