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In new jersey. after the citizenship census question was criticized by the supreme court, what is the president's argument for trying to revive this issue? >> reporter: fred, president trump is arguing it's still necessary to include that question in the census to determine whether a person answering is a citizen or a noncitizen. he's still fighting for this despite that ruling, that setback, from the supreme court. even though the commerce department has said they're starting to print the census without that citizenship question included, sources tell cnn the president has expressed frustrati...

The u.s. justice department lawyers have told a federal judge in maryland that they are still looking for a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. the judge allowed an immigrant rights group to move forward with their lawsuit against the trump administration. an administration official says right now the census will be printed without the controversial question, but the president says he is considering one option in particular for adding it back in. >> reporter: are you going to do an executive order on the census? >> we're thinking about doing that. it's one of the ways. we hav...

How many people are there? are they citizens? are they not citizens? you need it for many reasons. >> reporter: now, justice department lawyers told a court yesterday that they're still exploring options for moving forward with the citizen ship question. the supreme court told the administration they needed to find a new rationale for the citizenship question if they wanted to include it but they didn't rule out including it altogether. president trump said he's considering four or five different options. one of them is that executive order. of course, he created some confusion earlier this we...

Citizen ship question was based on a pretext that violated the law. the administration can't go back in time and sclam it had some other valid and genuine reason to add the citizen ship question. after secretary ross testified under oath that he added it solely to enforce the voting rights act. is this really about simply trying to under count communities of color? >> yes. by all account that's what their goal is. a goal really before the administration ever even was sworn into office. you had ross there trying to concoct a cover story that made this sound like something to do with the voting ...

Conservative critique? >> absolutely. that's the folks he listens to. whether it's rush limbaugh. you see him reacting to what was seen as a real defeat. it was. for ross and the doj to come out and say we're giving up and going forward with the census form with the the citizen ship question. i wonder that even if the question doesn't end up on there, all of this conversation around it could do what they want to do which is depress the counting among folks who might be afraid of answering the census question. and you heard that coming up in the back and forth between the lawyers the idea going...