the supreme court, like you said, in the process of deliberating about that question. will we see the citizenship question on the census for 2020? i think it is a very close decision. i would bet it is going to be 5-4 one way or the other. at the same time congress, representative cummings committee is investigating what went into this decision. why was the citizenship question added back in when it had been gone from the census for many decades. and really the legal question there is did it serve some legitimate purpose or was it really a political effort to suppress the counts to suppress the vote and to sort of influence the way the districts are divided. which affects representation in congress which exactly. hugely important stuff. yes. if the question where they could collide is if there is some smoking gun document that congress gets, then will that cause the supreme court to say, hold on, we have new information and we need to stop and it is a little bit of a race a
and so manu, what do you know about what happened behind closed doors. reporter: the committee wanted to know about discrepancies between the past testimony and what the mueller report revealed. particularly about how he approached that june 2016 meeting in which he attended with russians who had promised dirt on the clinton campaign as well as his the pursuit by the trup organization of the trump tower and what he knew when he down played and testified previously back in 2017, the mueller report showed that cording to michael cohen s testimony, the former trump fixer now in jail, that donald trump jr. knew more about that effort to get the trump tower moscow project and the report shows that donald trump jr. spoke to other individuals in the trump orbit about a lead on possible dirt on the clinton foundation before that trump tower meeting undercutting what he said previously before this committee, now that is what what he said behind closed doors, we re told by a source close
drama in d.c. today as a face-off brews between the house and justice department. first documents related to the controversial citizenship question on the 2020 census. the house oversight committee wants to see the documents and threaten contempt charges for attorney general bill barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross for with holding them but this morning the president made a preemptive strike. before the house could vote on contempt, he announced he was invoking executive privilege to keep the documents under wraps. the committee, though, is still planning a contempt vote in a couple of minutes. the other big piece of news today, the president s son returned to the senate intelligence committee to clarify his earlier testimony in the russia investigation. this morning donald trump jr. was all smiles on his way into and out of the closed-door session. all tolled about 2 1/2 hours of testimony. cnn senior correspondent manu raju is up on capitol hill.
committee understands that. reporter: now the chairman of the committee richard burr who issued a subpoena for this appearance that donald trump jr. initially fought. he would not comment leaving the hearing and neither would mike warner, vice chairman of the committee and one senator did offer some comment, kamala harris, the presidential candidate and said she wouldn t comment on the meeting that happened today, but she told me there are unanswered questions that should continue to explore, brooke. what about also this contempt vote coming up in a couple of minutes. the house oversight, why hold the vote in the wake of the white house executive privilege claim? reporter: this is all setting the stage for who what could be a protracted legal fight between house democrats and the trump administration. something we re seeing time and again from a number of committees. this, of course, over the addition of the citizenship question on the 2020 census. democrats believe that the admi