court did make it clear that you could come back with a rational, perhaps, you know, that there was a possibility that it s not surprising to me that actually this is what donald trump would want to do, that he wouldn t lay down arms and say let s forget it. if he was convinced that there was a way to move forward which is obviously i think what happened. jim, some have suggested to maggie haberman, even if this doesn t end up on the census, that it serves the president s purpose to throw a wrench into it right now because it raises doubts in the minds of people who will be taking the sentence about what actually the government is looking for. it might put fear into, you know, some people in the latino community, some people who may be undocumented about whether or not they should partake in the census and serves the purpose of what the administration wants to do.
executive branch changed his mind, anderson, and that s well within his providence to do so. the timing is going to provide some serious challenges and i m sure that s something they re scrambling to deal with tonight in addition to issues the justice department has to deal with. changed his mind or didn t understand what was actually happening, which he must have been told about. yeah. it s hard to know exactly what happened here. i do have to say that it is surprising to me that this wasn t predicted by wilbur ross and anybody else involved in this, because this is the president s mo is to blow things up at the last minute. and i think because the supreme court did make it clear that you could come back with a rational, perhaps, you know, that there was a possibility that it s not surprising to me that actually this is what donald trump would want to do, that he wouldn t lay down arms and say let s forget it. if he was convinced that there was a way to move forward which is obvio