Good evening.

We begin tonight with breaking news to report on the citizenship question the president

appears determined to keep on the 2020 census.

Now, 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.

Keep it a honest, emails between the Justice Department and Commerce Secretary Wilbur

Ross undercut that narrative last week, the Supreme Court called their backstory contrived.

However, the court left open a narrow window to add the question.

They just needed to come up with a better backstory and by Monday.

Not next Monday, the one two days ago.

You see, unlike subpoenas for tax returns, the census isn't something the administration

can hold up.

So on Tuesday, both Commerce and Justice said, all right, it's over.

There'll be no question about citizenship on the census.

And thus, the saga seemed to be over until this morning when President Trump tweeted this,

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