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the justice department reversing course after they just reversed course on the 2020 census. a short time ago the justice department told a judge they are looking for a way to include the controversial citizenship question. just after they decided yesterday to start printing the questionnaire without the question. are you following me? >> is your head spinning? is should be at this point it's all because of this tweet from the president today. he tweeted the following. the news reports about the department of congress dropping the request to put the citizenship question on the incorrect or to state it did the differently the president says fake. we are absolutely moving forward as we must because of the importance of the answer to the question. only thing, there is nothing fake about the reports the justice department even admitted it to the federal judge today. saying, quote, the tweet this morning was the first i had heard of the president's position on in issue, one attorney said.

just like the plaintiffs and your honor. this justice attorney went on the to say i do not have a deeper understanding of what that means at this juncture other than what the president has tweeted. according to the "washington post", the president hated the idea that it appeared he had thrown in the towel on the fight over the citizenship question. caved on any issue, especially one that he has been railing against for months. >> i think it's very important to find out if somebody is a citizen as opposed to an illegal. >> they're not allowed to ask whether or not somebody is a citizen of the united states? how horrible and ridiculous is that? >> can you imagine you send out a census and you're not allowed to say whether or not a person is an american citizen. >> pamela brown is outfront live outside the white house for us tonight. pamela, what more are you learning about in sudden reversal from the administration? and please remind folks why this

is so controversial. >> so, kate, this is a truly stunning course reversal. the president's tweet today clearly caught a lot of people off guard including administrations in his administration. it caused chaos as officials tried to grapple how to square what the government told the court yesterday that the census will not include the citizenship question and then what the president tweeted today that his administration hasn't given up the quest to include that question. now, a federal judge convened after seeing the tweet that contradicted the government's position and gave the doj lawyers a whiplashing. one of the doj lawyers said the president's tweet was the first he heard of the president's position and trying to get his armed around the fluid situation. nonetheless the judge repair manned the doj lawyers for the shift and suggested they don't speak for the client. the president of course it's unclear what prompted the president's tweet. but the white house official says there have been discussion base a path forward.

what that path is is unclear after the supreme court put a hold on the question for now and the census printing has begun. kate. >> absolutely. all of this comes down to critics of this -- a question being put on saying it's directly targeting minority communities, immigrant communities and trying to suppress the representation of the census equaling millions of dollars redirecting and the balance of power. pamela thank you so much. >> outfront now congressman of row gral virginia thank you for being here. >> thank you so much. >> i was locking of course on twitter. at 11:15 i saw you celebrating on twitter the fact gnat administration dropped the fight for the citizenship question was moving upon at least it appeared. that was this morning. what do you say now in. >> well, i say that you know i thought that the led counsel for -- senior counsel for mexican american legal defense fund said it best, the

administration is now doubling down on stupid. and i think the plaintiffs are in a strong position. the fact that, you know, the opinion from the supreme court in holding and leaving -- leaving the question out of citizenship said that the rational are rationale the administration had seemed constrived after secretary ross lied to congress as to the motivation behind it, i think the strength is still there. i think the federal judge -- this is going to proceed forward. you know, the president has obviously embarrassed by the fact that he couldn't get his way. this is the supreme court. and contempt not following an order has consequences. and the consequences are that to continue to play this, to continue to try to milk as much political capital as he can out of the question is a big mistake. the supreme court has held it. there is no -- shouldn't happen in there. at the end of thedy that's what's going to happen. but the drama he is creating, uncertainty creating within his own ranks at the justice

department i think is another sad chapter of dysfunctional, one hand doesn't know what's going on. but it's krerly decided. i'm very confident that this whole exercise by trump is going to go no where. >> the president on monday was asked why it was so important to him to include the citizenship question. i want to remind viewers what he said. >> i think it's very important to find out if somebody is citizen as opposed to an illegal. they're not allowed to ask whether or not somebody's citizen of the united states? how horrible and ridiculous is that? >> can you imagine, you send out a census and you're not allowed to say whether or not a person is an american citizen. >> eye i'm not sure what the president says -- i mean, what he was talking about is it's important to find out if someone is a citizen as opposed to to illegal and he talks about democrats. in some of his remarks about in. and i'm not sure it makes any difference -- he is making any different a case than the one

the supreme court just shot down. but we know that the president's supporters are in lock step with him on this. how do you convince them otherwise, congressman. >> that this nation -- this nation and the census which is part of of counting of the people of nation has been going on and it's been going on to count every resident in this nation without prejudice, and with confidentiality. that's the story. i think the motivation behind it is purely simply, to isolate groups, dpish their importance, politically and otherwise. and i think the president -- this is to me has always been a voter suppression issue. it's always been an issue that's phonetic from the beginning. it's as to who is being targeted. the census sus about all residents. that's the way it should be mup. my father was a green card holder much of his life and lived in this country and worked he should be counted. he is a taxpayer helping raise a

family of citizens in this country and a family unit and why should they be left out why should any anybody in the country be left out? the president is trying to intimidate, suppress the count and in suppressing the count he affects political representation in this country. >> we're now hearing what in at least one justice department attorney was saying to the federal judge in in. i mean saying the sweet tweet are tweet was the first time they heard about the president's position. and also even acknowledging in attorney ace li says i'm doing my best to figure out what's going on. i mean, it really sounds like chaos surrounding -- as you point out one of the most important surveys taken is taken only ten years. is there anything congress can do about this? >> well, you know, the litigation was that point, you know. and congress says, you know at least the house reaffirmed through our action that everybody should be counted. and that the citizenship

question was -- was going to suppress the count and try to marginalize people in this country, period. and we've affirmed that. >> do you think him. >> the congress doesn't want to deal with the question. >> do you think congressman -- the supreme court is the highest court in the land. nobody knows what's going to happen now as this happens all today. the fight, though, dragging out this fight, it could well threaten the deadlines that the administration is up against in terms of printing and beginning the count. what could that mean? >> well, i hope that this particular political tantrum fit that the president is having doesn't do what you just asked. jeopardize the count that is vital to representation. it's vital to resource distribution. it's vital to local communities to be able to know how to plan and how to accommodate the residents that they have. why deny that to people and why deny that to our country in and

of itself? so this tantrum is jeopardizing a real accurate and necessary count that is historically been essential for the governance of the country. >> i also want to ask you about the president's fourth of july event planned on the national mall. you are part of the committee that has oversights of the national parks and interior department. you sent a lerp to the secretary of the interior asking for countying of the $2.5 million going to be dfrpted to pay for the event from the interior department. you call it illegal. why? >> yeah, i really do. i think, you know, the recreation fee, the -- the parks ask and charge of visitors is -- is used specifically to support of those parks and those public lands that we visit and that we recreate in. and diverting money during the should, painful.

but in 2.5 million directly out of the fund that americans pay to maintain parks and to divert that upon a use that has not been prescribed for that fund for what essentially is, you know, self-agrandization event that trump is having for himself, is we believe is illegal and asking the secretary bernard to provide us the detail and costs for the transfer which i believe does not exist. just to say we are going to do it when there is a law specifically says these funds must be used in niece parks. and the reason for the letter otherwise, you know, the whole event is some major self-mgts congratulatory event for trump, more political than patriotic in the sense that you know the vip seats go to high-end donors for the republican party. the event itself is about military power as opposed to talking about the values and

importance of the fourth of july, our independence, who we are as a nation, a uni fieing time for our country. that's not happening thtsds at this event. >> let us see what the president says in that speech tomorrow night. congressman thanks for coming in. >> thank you for the invitation. >> outfront next joe biden kamala harris going head to head this hour holding rallies in the crucial state of iowa. can biden continue to hold off harris? plus, it is the question, one of many, that is the question, the women running for president keep hearing. is the country ready to elect a female president? why is it still being asked? plus pictures drawn by children detained at the border depicting themselves in cages. the dr. receiving the pictures is outfront. what did she see in those facilities?

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that might be the best way to put it. she was using the words of time when she was a prosecutor. san francisco's district attorney. california's attorney general. and then use that to launch an attack against the president. >> and i prosecuted the big banks when they preyed on home owners. i prosecuted the pharmaceutical companies when they prey the on seniors. i have prosecuted transnational criminal organizations when they preyed on women and children. i know predators. and we have a predator living in the white house. [ cheers and applause ] >> you can hear the applause there and you can see how packed this room is. this is the first trip since the debate and i talked to a number of people who say because of her debate performance they now back senator harris. but i did speak a couple of iowans saying she hasn't spent a lot of time in iowa. she has been here five times.

elizabeth warren has been here ten times. you can definitely sense the energy. one other thing, you can't quite tell in the picture but in this packed room this is an imprompt ewe area, supposed to be held outside. it got rained out people stood in the rain, a lot of the people behind me are soaking wet because any refused to leave until they found a different location, kate. >> soaking wet now instead and fired up thank, kyung. really appreciate it. outfront now, former democratic governor of pennsylvania, etd rendle and keith boykin served as a clinton white house aid. great to see you both. governor, biden announced it raised 21.5 million in the second quarter. saying they hit the goal. it's less than mayor pete buttigieg who was a virtual unknown six months ago. one source cold told cnn jeff zell by wab the campaign was

blind-sided how much butting was able to raise. it's great news but bad news for biden >> remember he got into the quarter 66 days ago. mayor buttigieg and the other candidates have had 90 plus days to raise money. he has raised the most money in this quarter per day number one. but number two, look, kate, this raise is not decided by money. pete buttigieg and the big four bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, kamala harris and joe biden will have plenty of money to prosecute this campaign. money is not going to decide the race. >> that's a good point and i do like that moniker, the big four i'm going to steal that governor keith. this is money -- this is money other -- when you looked bernie sanders, pete butting -- this is money others would kill to have. is it -- those close to biden are admitting they were caught off guard how much others were able to raise.

who is fault is that. >> i don't know. i don't know anybody is really to blame for this. i don't think this is anything to be ashamed of, to raise $21 million in a quarter is an impressive haul. i don't think you are winning or losing based on whether you get two or three million more than pore another candidate. once you are in the top tier, the upper echelon there is diminishing marginal returns to an extra the car or two. >> or a million in this case. >> or a million. but it helps in terms of the ability to attract attention and pay staff and everything. but the reality is when you're the vice president of the united states you have access to -- former vice president you have access to money. i'm not worried about joe biden having money in the campaign. >> that's a good point. governor, it seems that biden is attempting to reset after the debate performance. he is kicking off the longest stretch of the campaign -- on the campaign trail so far. tomorrow he is sitting down with cnn for a rare tv interview. i was struck by you told the

l.a. times after the debate that biden is rusty as a candidate. is this how you kick-off the rust? >> sure. you kick-off the rust by doing things. you know, if you're rusty you get in the batting cage and you swing at a lot of balls. you know, i think the vice president is going to be fine. remember we are sitting here seven months to the day before the first vote is cast. there is plenty of time. i know we the -- the chattering class, the people making their livings out of politics, the media we take it really seriously a carrier and a half out. the public will start looking at in as we go into it. but just take a look at the polls after the debate. kamala harris soared in one poll, the cnn poll was only 2 points behind joe biden but the "washington post" abc poll which was the best in 2016, the most reliable, none great. but had biden at 30 points and kamala harris at 13 points. and bernie sanders at 19 points.

it seems like if there was a tightening it's bounced back a little bit. so i wouldn't go crazy over the polls. it's a long way to go. >> keith? >> well, there's a lot to unpack. >> get going. >> the police don't mean that much at this point. you have to look it if he aggregate of all the police not yun. >> agree. >> the washington poplawski is better for biden than the quinnipiac and cnn. but they show that liz bath are beth warren and kamala harris improves and biden is not. we see that kamala harris won the debate according to all the polls i have seen. but biden has to stop the rose garden strategy. i'm glad he he is doing that. he has to realize i can't stay in the ivory tower and campaign. he has to do retail politics in iowa a and new hampshire and south carolina just like everybody else. has to be on the ground. he has to show people not only what he was about in the vice

presidency for barack obama but what he will plan to do for the future. people want to know what's happening from 2021 to 2025, not from pennsylvania what he did from 2009 to 2017. >> there is a bit adding to that governor, ifbl wondering, do you think that biden needs to take of oh the gloves when it comes to the primary like kamala harris did in the debate in or do you think that he should keep running what has been to this point -- it's a general election strategy where the only person he really has attacked and taken on was donald trump. >> well, first of all i agree with everything he just said. he isright on about all that stuff. but secondly to answer your question, yeah, our voters want to see someone tough enough strong enough to take on donald trump. if you listen to the sound bite you ran about kamala harris who was she taking on, not joe biden bernie sanders, elizabeth warren. she is taking on donald trump. there is a danger attacking democrats. i thought it was ironic. kamala harris got a ton of

praise with her first sound bite saying this is not a food fight, the voters doesn't want a food fight then she took a whole tray and threw it the vice president biden. but i think -- i think what people are looking for is somebody to take on donald trump. that's what democratic voters talked to me about. >> they don't want a food fight. they just want a one-on-one i'll throw something at you you throw back at me. not an entire chaotic lunch room fight i've taken that analogy and gone too far. thanks so much. please don't miss programming for all of you don't miss the exclusive sprf with joe biden airing friday morning, 6 and 8:00 a.m. eastern. outfront for us next, women deliver the house to the democrats in 2018. so does that mean that the country is ready to elect a female president? the questions still lingers. plus the trump campaign called for you to pout for using paid actors to give the president a

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tonight the fight for 2020. as some of the women running for president are surging in recent polls, "the new york times" is out today with a story headlined this. it's a question no one says they want to ask but the women running for president keep hearing it. the question of course being, do you really think a woman could be elected president? with a historic field that includes six female candidates, could one become the first female president? outfront now, amy chosic of "the new york times" who is out with a big profile of the women running in vogue right now. april ryan is the white house correspondent for american urban roid norkss and alexandria rojas is inclusive director of democrats. i'm not sure whether to laugh or cry when i see this. seeing this one more time. but you need writing about this for a long time. why are folks asking in question. >> well it's under understandable since we never

had a female president that people kwo ask. the concern is that if it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. people think maybe it's no. i thought when i went into reporting it was something you and i discuss on cable. but actually all of the candidates have heard this on the rope line. heard donors ask this. this is a concern that seeped into the electorate and people are have to wonder about. but the flipside is as kirstin gillibrand stold me in the vogue piece. hillary clinton complicates things she won three million more votes what does that say whether whether the country is ready. maybe they need a better strategic combine and the country is ready. >> the question is can it be one he thin the eek all college. be more specific. the fact the question is being asked doesn't mean the answer is no. >> women are now leading in the board room. leading fortune 500 companies, international companies, they are leading in the home.

in the black community alone we have more women now who are head of household. that number is rising. so women are equipped. the sissue is the mindset. there is i guess a certain genderism against women. we have to get past that in every place and the white house. >> alexandria women democrats with helped -- they were the reason the democrats were able to deliver the house majority back to the democrats in the mid-terms. to me that's evidence that the country is ready or is there something different about the presidency? >> no, i think that electability, the term is used to marj alize and keep people out and women. we can see that borne out throughout the history of u.s. politics. but i think like you just pointed to what's so exciting about the moment and see the

most exciting i think new sort of generation of leadership in the democratic party is by diverse progressive bike alexandria ocasio-cortez and ilhan omar, rashaada tlaib. we see a historic amount of women dominate the presidential field and you see kamala harris and elizabeth warren surging in the polls. but we have to point out it's deeper than just the gender problem. it's about we have not provided solutions as a democratic party or as a country. we have not provided solutions that are matching the scale scope and urgency to the problems that we're facing right now. and i think voters are really concerned about our -- are concerned about that as well. >> amy in your piece, in speaking with the women running for president in vogue, many quotes stick out but here is one bit you wrote. the candidates i speak to agree that to 2020 is less about the symbolism of a woman president

though that would be nice than it is about substance. how her life experience would influence policy and decision making. and i hear you, sister. i hear you but, again, the flipside donald trump did not win talking about any policy. donald trump won because of a brand. what is it -- how do you square those two things. >> i disagree, donald trump did win on policies his policies were build a wall, ban the muslimss mexicans were are are rapists these were so-called policies fitting on a bumper sticker. >> it went a white paper. >> build the wall and ban muslims are the policies. i think liz weight warren has done a good job that can go on a bumper sticker free college. that's ee voktive. i think it's about communicateening policies a way ee voktive to voters. i love singled in on the line. because it's a difference. if you think about the top office of the presidency who has been pregnant or pregnant and not wanted to be pregnant or

struggled with child care. they come to these issues with a different set of life experiences. the set of life experiences that more than half the country has. and so i think these women you see it in a lot of elizabeth wheren's policies in particular. their world view is very much shaped even though they're not talking about shattering the glass ceiling at every top. the world view is shaped by being women and you can't change it. >> april if you do allow the thought that in 2016 the country wasn't ready for a would woman to be president and that was part of why donald trump won, what has changed in four years that mr. make donald trump less successful using what we can assume will be the same playbook. >> what has changed? we had hillary clinton run. and we in donald trump become president who, you know, people still remember the moment on that debate stage that hillary clinton had to actually restrain herself from going to donald trump saying please don't stalk me. she had to grin and bear it and keep going. we have seen how the nation and

even the world has come to terms with some of the things this president said about women. you know, we have seen presidents have meetings on health care without women at the table. and they're talking about issues of women. and not only that, i want to go back a couple of administrations ago to the bush administration, george w. bush administration and to the obama administration. women are in the forefront. when you talk about the diplomacy at times of tension and peril with other nations, women have been there. madeline albright. conned lyssa rice, hillary clinton. those women were walking into places that were not necessarily woman friendly or looked at women as subservient. it is now time for women to be at the table oop i'm saying this to you kate. i've been at the white house 22 years i'll be happy to say ask a question to gwin with, madam president. >> amy, we had democratic

candidate marianne williamson she was not included in the photo spread for vogue. she is upset about it. and let me play you for the viewers what she said. >> the framers of the constitution were very career about whose is qualified to run for president and did not make any media certainly not vogue magazine the gatekeeper here. the framers of the constitution said that in order to run for president in order to be qualified to be president you have to have been born here. you had to have lived here 14 years and you have to be 35 years or older if they had wanted fos you had to be an elected official they would have. >> vogue put out a statement responding to it saying that it was not intend the as a snub that she was not in the photo shoot that they wanted to highlight the five elected women running for president. does shall did shall did do you think williamson has a reason to be upset? >> of course. and her criticism -- the criticism of her supporters is also legitimate. i mean absolute will i in no way

did vogue intend this to diminish her career or candidacy. the magazine stories have a long lead time. i think she started discussing the photo in march and tiek it in april. at that time the field is so big that we -- they decided that we should focus on the women in elected office. i osk mention williamson in the piece. >> you do. >> right. but i think especially since talking about women running and all of these women have 40 years combined experience in congress. they've almost all of them won elections in in which they were told there was no way to a women with would many do win the election they came with the experiences we focused on but not a way to diminish williamson and i do sympathize with her supporters and her -- mere complaints about in. >> thank you for being here great to see you thank you for the piece. >> thank you. >> alexandria, april, thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> outfront next elizabeth warren taking the message that helped launch her political career to the epicenter of the housing crisis. >> we all know what happened. we sure know it who here in las vegas, right.

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>> this is our time! >> the state, ground zero of the 2008 housing crisis that had one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. >> it was just dead, dead, dead, dead, all the way down, at least ten houses down. every other home was just gone, empty. >> reporter: nevada is also home to former senate majority leader harry reid. more than a decade after the crisis, the emotions are still raw. >> we felt more than just the housing crisis. it was up and down the strip,

all of our businesses were in trouble. it was scary. >> reporter: in 2008, reid turned to warren for help, appointing her to oversee the government program that injected hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy. >> i just told her that i wanted her to be a member of the t.a.r.p. commission. she didn't know what i was talking about. but -- >> reporter: the committee's first hearing convening in las vegas. the public exposure transferring warren from little-known harvard law professor to a national figure. >> that was like financial chicken soup for me. that was -- thank you. >> reporter: back in nevada this week, warren revisiting the crisis. >> we all know what happened. we sure know it here in las vegas, right? >> reporter: calling out the government for siding with the big banks while americans were losing their homes. >> what did our federal government do? covered its ears, covered its

eyes. it did nothing on whose behalf? the people. and instead were there for the big banks. our time. and kate number of the voters we spoke to this week in nevada actually said they feel like the economy is doing pretty well and attribute that progress to president trump and it is one of the rennes they feel like they probably will support him in 2020. so i asked senator warren how do you win those folks over? and she said look she is glad that the economy appears to be doing better but simply does not believe that this is an economy working for everybody. clearly this is a populist message that she hopes will set her apart going forward, kate. >> absolutely. great reporting emjay. thank you. outfront next we have seen the images dangerous overcrowding at detention centers. one doctor indian the facilities is outfront with what she witnessed. plus the so-called supporters in trump's new campaign ad turns

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>> as a pediatrician, first and foremost, i know the customs border protection facilities aren't any place for any child. we need changes, and we need them quickly, to make sure that we treat immigrant children in a different way as they arrive on our borders. and we need to have pediatricians in those facilities wherever there are children to take care of them. >> i have many a question on that, that specifically. when he says that they're in far safer conditions and living far better than where they came from, what did you see when you toured the centers? >> so, i'm going to just break it down into smell, sight, and sounds. so, when we first walked in, the first thing that hit us was the smell, the smell of urine and sweat kind of mixed together, the sound of blankets crinkling, and then the vision was of faces that really were very flat. there was no affect in the

faces, and the eyes. their eyes were bloodshot from being tired and bulging from just not knowing what was going to happen next, and that was in the children and the families. >> and that leads me to the drawings. about those drawings that you released, it's really struck me seeing this from the hands of children. these pictures show how these children viewed their situation. what do these pictures tell you? >> so, those pictures tell us that detention in these border facilities and processing centers are not good for children. it causes them to have stress and to have fear, which can have lifelong complications for children. that much stress, if it's at a high level for a long time, can cause something called toxic stress, which contains the architecture of children's brains. and we really, truly believe that children should be in those border facilities for as little as possible, for as short of a time as possible, and that we need pediatric providers there to make sure that they're taken care of. >> the president sent out

another message today that was quite a bit on it, and i'm so thankful, because i really want your take. he wrote, "our border patrol people are not hospital workers, doctors, or nurses." what he's saying is it's not their job to care for these migrants. so, the -- >> so, the border patrol are not medical providers. >> right. >> they don't know that much about children. they're law enforcement. so it really behooves us to have pediatricians at the border, where they are, to help take care of these children. >> doctor, i have heard that from other pediatricians as well, because children are special. the signs of stress, the signs of illness show themselves differently in children than they do in adults. if they would allow you in right now to help and make changes, what would you do first? >> so, the first thing we would do would be to have pediatricians there to look at these children and to help make sure what's in the best interests of the children is happening, but we also have a bill -- congressman ruiz has a

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tonight, people featured in some donald trump ads aren't who you think they are. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: this trump ad features tracy from florida,

walking the beach, praising the president -- >> i could not ask for a better president of the united states of america. >> reporter: and he couldn't ask for a better testimonial, unless it was from a real supporter, because tracey from florida is just a model from istockphoto. but surely, thomas from washington, offering trump religious support, is the real thing. >> in our prayers -- >> reporter: nope, not a prayer that he's real, just a bearded and tattooed hipster type from istock. and a.j. from texas? >> president trump, although i am a lifelong democrat -- >> reporter: he's others in model from istockphoto, available for a modest licensing fee of 170 bucks. all this was first reported by the website popular info. what's an ad guy who spent 17 years making democratic spots think of this? >> if i did anything remotely like this for any one of my clients, i'd be fired. >> you're fired. >> reporter: actually, no word of firings from a trump make

america great again committee that made these facebook ads. now, there is an itty-bitty disclaimer that pops up on the ads for maybe two seconds, but you'd better have your trusty magnifying glass handy. don't blink, it's coming. what you missed says "actual testimonial actor portrayal." why would someone do this when they could just grab a real trump supporter? >> sloppiness and laziness. >> sloppiness is nothing new. there was that marco rubio screw-up -- >> this is real. >> it's morning again in america. >> stop, stop, stop the clip there. that's vancouver, canada. >> reporter: someone on twitter defended the trump committee's use of stock images, because the unhinged jack asses on the left would go to no ends to make some trump supporter's life a living hell. but they didn't just borrow the people, they lifted the storefront. it's in tokyo. note the japanese sign. and the beach that tracey from florida is walking on is actually the mediterranean sea.

better check tracey's birth certificate. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> just wait for all of the ads, everyone. that's all this is telling me right now. thanks so much for joining me. "ac360" starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news to report on the citizenship question the president appears determined to keep on the 2020 census. yesterday it was definitely off the upcoming census, but now the president says it's going back on, maybe. even the justice department attorneys who are arguing with a maryland federal judge today, they didn't sound sure. however, speaker nancy pelosi today told house democrats in a letter today that, no matter what happens, if the president does try, they may hold the administration, quote, in contempt of congress on the census. originally, the administration said it needed this question to safeguard the voting rights act. keeping them honest, emails between the justice department and commerce secretary wilbur ross undercut that narrative. last we