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>> so thomas, tell me what your lawsuit's theory of the case is when you say he's engaged in a conspiracy to deprive people of rights. >> it's what we know that he consulted with the white house and chris and in the justice department over the course of almost the entire year of 2017 in order to concoct a reason to add the citizen ship question to census 2020. >> and your understanding of the intent to that is what? >> the intent is to get an under count and ensure the growing power of the latino community in particular is curbed through ensuring that the census is inaccurate, which is a harm ...

Specifically an undercount. adding the citizen ship question is likely to result in an under -- undercount because not just immigrants but anybody with an immigrant anywhere in their family or household might rashly -- rationally or irrationally have a worry about reporting that fact to the government. that person is therefore less likely to stand up and be counted, and therefore we're less likely to get an accurate count of the people in the country and the government knows this is the likely effect because internal focus group data from the census bureau shows people are already so freaked o...

. welcome back, everything. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the top stories. the white house is defending itself over the controversy surrounding the decision to include a question regarding citizen ship on the 2020 on census. the move has drawn sharp criticism and legal action by democrats in some states. kristen women keelker has more. >> reporter: the white house defending its move to bring back this controversial question to the census for the first time since 1950, what is your citizenship. but the move is facing a growing backlash with several democratic state attorneys ...

Citizen shship question is not t bad and accurate data but specifically an under count. adding the citizen ship question is likely to result in an under count because not just immigrants but anybody with an immigrant anywhere in their family or household might rashly or irrationally have a worry about reporting that fact to the government. that person is therefore less likely to stand up and be counted and therefore we're less likely to get an accurate count of the people in the country and the government knows this is the likely effect because internal focus group data from the census burro s...

From schooling to law enforcement and the like. and the other question is that the census of course is used for the apportionment of seats in the house of representatives which is to say that when we go to redraw the congressional maps after 2020, you will determine the number of seats that each state has based on the population. and one of the things that might be interesting to see is whether or not there is any sort of effort particularly by the trump administration to use the is the zen ship numbers to determine how many seats should be in each state in congress. >> this is obviously a dev...