reporter: and take a look at this pool. a family, obviously just trying to enjoy the holiday weekend, watches on as the water in the pool starts moving back and forth. oh, my gosh! hannah! on video, dude. reporter: the u.s. geological survey also tweeted this picture of a bubbled road on twitter after last night s earthquake. this is on highway 178 just southwest of trona, a town about 25 miles east of ridgecrest. inspectors are surveying the area, looking for leaks and ruptures, and curran county officials say there are some reports gas leaks, but they re not sure how bad the damage is right now. arthel? arthel: christina coleman, thank you for that round-up there. mike? mike: arthel, we re just one day away from the united states women s soccer team pursuit of back to back world cup titles. a preview from france next.
census goes out or even after. mike: garrett tenney live in washington, thanks a lot. arthel: let s bring in white house reporter for usa today david jackson, david, thanks for joining us. thank you. arthel: let s start here, can the president and his legal team devise a passable argument to get the citizenship question on the 2020 census? i think it s going to be very difficult. they can certainly try, and i think that s what they re going to do, but it s very difficult to see. the basic thing that trump and some of his aides are talking about is, as the reporter mentioned, chief justice john roberts said it wasn t the question he objected to, it was the reason, the justification that the administration gave. so some lawyers are saying, well, look, we submit the case, use a different explanation, maybe the supreme court will take it up again and roberts will change his mind. a lot of lawyers that i know think that s very improbable. arthel: yeah. it s kind of like the professor
leadership issue when you look at agencies and their senate-confirmed appointments, lack of. state, 70%, homeland security comes in at 41% according to the partnership for public service. is that a problem? i mean, when you look at those percentages, you have to think that, you know, something needs to be done and something needs to be fixed. but it s been an ongoing issue that we ve been talking about for quite some time. and, obviously, since we re underneath that magnifying glass, everything that gets done within the department of homeland security is judged a little bit more strict than in other departments. mike: you talked about a magnifying glass, what s the promale like of your rank and file people the morale like? the agents are doing the job, and it is disturbing and heartbreaking when a couple bad posts from certain individuals are being used within the media and are being useed within politicians to describe the majority of our agents or to
would pass legal muster, but he s also considering taking executive action. garrett tenney is live in washington. hello, garrett. reporter: hey, mike. the administration s now trying to come up with a better justification for why iten wants to include the citizenship question on the 2020 census. the supreme court ruled that it was legal but said the administration s explanation that it was to enforce the voting rights act lacked merit. president trump is vowing to keep this fight alive. as he departed the white house friday, he said he s looking at four or five options including different justifications and potentially an executive order. if. i just spoke with the attorney general. we have a number of different avenues we can use, all of them we re doing very well. you need it for many reasons. number one, you need it for congress for districting. you need it for appropriations, where are the funds going? how many people are there? are they citizens? are they not citizens?
rescue have not confirmed where the explosion was, but the employee believed it was not at the gym. it more likely seems an empty pizza restaurant across the street, but that s not confirmed. because they cordoned off the area, i was not able to talk to anybody who was shopping there. i was going to go shopping at a publix immediately next door to l.a. fitness right around this time so, yeah, it s a really busy time late on a saturday morning. and i normally that complex is incredibly busy. mike: looking at the visuals there, it looks like a bomb was dropped on the area. and i m not minimizing what those 20 folks or more are going through, but when you look at the devastation the, it seems miraculous that perhaps hundreds of people were not killed in this blast. yeah, absolutely. i was, i was going to show up here, i rushed over because i live about 2 miles away, and