Sources: Trump expected to seek citizenship info by other means; President Trump's raids to target undocumented families in 10 major cities starting Sunday; Sources: Trump questioning whether Acosta's press conference was sufficient to keep his job
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's something you don't see every day from President Trump. The lead starts right now. |
| 0:07.0 | Breaking news, President Trump expected to back down in his battle with the Supreme Court over the U.S. US census a fight he already kind of lost in the highest court of the land but it might not be over just yet |
| 0:18.8 | this as the Trump administration gears up to round up, undocumented immigrants, migrant families living in fear right now, |
| 0:26.0 | as ice rates are about to begin this weekend, we're going to speak to the Republican mayor of one of the major cities on the target list, |
| 0:32.0 | plus impulsive,, incompetent, and in love |
| 0:36.2 | with Kim Jong-un. |
| 0:37.2 | Joe Biden goes off on President Trump's leadership on the world stage as Biden lays out |
| 0:42.1 | his foreign policy plans. |
| 0:44.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. |
| 0:52.0 | We begin with breaking news. President Trump |
| 0:53.6 | expected to change course in less than an hour. The president expected to |
| 0:57.0 | announce a different way to ask for citizenship information without inserting |
| 1:01.6 | a question about it into the US census. |
| 1:04.0 | Sources telling CNN that the president plans to direct the Commerce Department to get citizenship |
| 1:08.4 | information through other means. |
| 1:10.6 | The president has been pushing to add a citizenship question to the census but the Supreme |
| 1:14.8 | Court last month initially rejected the addition. Critics say the question will lead to minorities |
| 1:20.3 | being under counted, allowing Republicans to gain seats in the House of Representatives |
| 1:24.8 | and causing minority communities to lose out on critical federal funding and representation. |
| 1:30.7 | It's an argument boosted a few weeks ago by new evidence that a Republican consultant who worked on the effort to add the question to the census |
| 1:37.4 | had concluded in a 2015 study that such an effort would help Republicans and hurt Democrats. |
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