and you can talk to anyone on the street and ask them do you think we should be asking a citizenship question on the census? every single person you talk to will say yeah, then they will quickly follow that up with a second question and they will say aren t we doing that already? and then you have to say yes we have been doing it 200 years. everybody understands it is needed except democrats in congress. ainsley: does that mean the question will be put on the census form? you know how this works. it will be challenged in court. there is an injunction in court right now. injunction against putting the question on the census, i like what judge alito said though even though we lost 5-4. we got the decision two weeks ago. i love what judge leith says no one disputes it s modern to know how many inhabitants in your country are citizens and the easiest way to figure that out is to put a question on the census. it is common sense but like i said before everyone gets it. republicans, indepen
intimidate minorities particularly latinos so it undercounts those communities and republicans can redraw congressional districts to their advantage. republicans reject that notion. reminding us that asking a citizenship question on the census has never been an issue before. look, this is common sense. we ve been asking the census question the citizenship question on the census for 200 years. you go talk to anyone on the street and ask them, do you think we should ask a citizenship question? they ll say yeah and say aren t we doing that already? jim jordan from the great state of ohio. that is precisely the sentiment here at the white house. they say look, this is about knowing how many citizens are in our country and how many noncitizens are here. the white house could decide to resurrect the american community survey, which does ask about citizenship and for the record, households that receive it are
for this change. the president weighed in with a tweet so now the obama appointed judge on this u.s. census case are you a citizen of the united states won t let the justice department use the lawyers that it wants to use. could this be a first? ainsley: weighed in last night on tucker. did you go to any small town big city in and walk up to a citizen on the street do you think on the census we should ask a citizenship question. and their response will be yes. and quickly followed up by aren t we doing that already? this is so common sense but everyone gets it except democrats i in the united states congress. steve: see what reason the department of justice is able to come up with and whether or not the original team will go ahead and try to complete the game. stay tuned. griff: rumor in washington now is you could have executive order as well to try to tackle this. that would be certainly something that would likely be challenged. ainsley: the president said he is not giving up on t
tonight multiple sources are telling fox news also likely vote on the contempt resolution for william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross next week at the earliest for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas. until then democrats in congress and on the campaign trail continue to call it racially and publicly motivated. this is about keeping you know his hat, make america white again. the citizenship question is motivated by racial and partisan reasons. republican congressman jim jordan argues it is not racist, it is common sense. any small town, any big city, walk up to is his or person on the street and ask him do you think on the census we should ask a citizenship question in the response will be yes quickly followed up by aren t we doing that already? donald trump is considering executive action to make it happen. a move that will almost certainly and immediately be challenged again in court. we are all in it. supreme court justices likely
congressman jim jordan is the robert republican from a sedative from ohio. thank you for coming on. is there a substantive argument against no. tucker: okay. so where is this idea coming from that it s a racial attack coming from? what does it have to do with race? it comes from all these democrats in congress. judge alito said it best, it s important to know how many are immigrants in your nation, easiest is to ask on the census. go to any small town from any big city in this country, walk up to a citizen, person on the street, do you think on the census we should ask a citizenship question and their response will be yes. it would quickly be followed up by, aren t we doing that already? of course, you d have to respond and say, yeah, we ve been doing it for 200 years as he pointed out in your monologue. this is so common sense, every one gets it except for democrats in united states congress.