jeanne moos, cnn. >> i'm a very stable genius. >>> thank you, mr. president. >> reporter: new york. >> and thanks so much for joining us. a. c-360 with anderson starts right now. >> good evening. today president trump chose not to defy the supreme court. he backed down on putting a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. the court, you'll recall, didn't buy the administration's rationale that this was being done to protect minorities by allowing better enforcement of the voting rights act and putting the citizenship question on the census was the only way to get accurate data. this evening in the rose garden, the president revealed that argument to be about as credible as the court did. then he did something pretty remarkable. he actually undercut his own original argument and said there's really no need for a census question at all. instead he directed agencies to gather citizenship data by other means. and as he typically does when blocked unr on something whether it's...