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When the president announced he would be making a statement from the white house on this matter in there is so much confusion. >> if you look at the statements over the last two weeks, it was this repeated, you know, incantation, we're just going to put it back on the census, even though the supreme court ruled that it was illegal, so, we were, candidly, scrambling to get our legal papers in order to challenge that new decision, to put a citizenship question on the census and make sure they didn't disrupt the printing process of the census questionnaires, which has already begun. >> why was it...

An incantation and we are going to put it back on the census even though it ruled it was illegal. they challenge that and they put a new question on the census. >> why was it so dangerous in your mind for the president to go ahead and do this? he mounted a pr effort trying to claim this was a benign question and wouldn't have a major impact and now saying it will be asked by other means, even if not on the census. >> we haven't had a question about citizenship on the census for 70 years. the reason is because survey professionals know that if you put that on there, it's going to cause people n...