until then democrats in congress and the campaign trail continue to call it racially and politically motivated. this is about keeping you know the half? make america white again. the citizenship question is motivated by racial and partisanship reasons. shannon: republican congressman jim jordan argues it s not racist, it s common sense. you go to any small town, any big city in this country, walk up to any person in this country and ask them do you think on the census we should ask a citizenship question, their response would be yes. it would quickly be followed up by aren t we doing that already? shannon: president trump is considering executive action to make it happen, a move that will almost certainly and immediately be challenged again. it keeps us busy. the supreme court justices are likely in for a case of
happening to your country, you aren t allowed to know. congressman jim jordan is the republican from the state of 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 only democrats in congress. judge alito said it best, it s important to know how many are inhabitants in your nation our citizens. thee easiest way to ask is on te senses. 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?il of course, you d have to respond and say, yeah, we ve been doing it for 200 years, as you pointed out in your monologue. this is so common sense, every one gets it except for democrats in united states congress.
and with companies, in turn hopefully it will be popular with governments. at this point, to what do you attribute the government s inaction? i mean, we are seeing high school kids around the world lead protests. why is it that we have to rely on 17-year-olds to do this? why aren t we doing more? well, we must do more. i mean, each individual company and every entrepreneur must play a much bigger role because governments seem to have you know, certain governments have just you know, they re doing nothing or worse. and so for instance, you know, at virgin we have been investing in fuel clean fuels for our airplanes. there s a wonderful company called lance atech that s making the waste product from the steel
and the president is actuallyes trying to do. i think it s an intelligence related operation to funnel all of the communications that are coming out of that country through specific areas in their network so that they can monitor them i mean, i think it s a classic intelligence gathering information of what is going on inside their country and don t get me wrong as you said earlier i think all nation states are going to try to protect themselves especially in sophisticated war type scenarios nowadays around the internet think but i truly believe this has a much more open-ended thing in it comes to the inning testimony gems gathering of his country. it s kind of human nature to look at this and say are we s doing enough? we just said what keeps dan coats up at night. what on this front keeps you up at night and what aren t we doing? mr. coats is absolutely right. and i have briefed plenty of his predecessors in the office he
and the president is actually trying to do. i think it s an intelligence related operation to funnel all of the communications that are coming out of that country through specific areas in their network so that they can monitor them. i mean, i think it s a classic intelligence gathering information of what is going on inside their country and don t get me wrong as you said earlier i think all nation states are going to try to protect themselves especially in sophisticated war type scenarios nowadays around the internet but i truly believe this has a much more open-ended thing when it comes to the intelligence gathering of his country. it s kind of human nature to look at this and say are we doing enough on this front? we just said what keeps dan coats up at night. what on this front keeps you up at night and what aren t we doing potentially. yeah, well, mr. coats is absolutely right and i have briefed plenty of his predecessors in the office he