about what happens next now that the judge has this in hand? reporter: it could be some time before we see anything here from this process, this process where the justice department is proposing redactions from this affidavit that would detail the investigation up to the point where they decided they needed to go and search and seize documents out of mar-a-lago. this filing, it did come in under seal. the judge will take a look at it. there could be days or weeks of wagt ahwaiting ahead for us. as this process goes on, the judge is sitting in for the public, the public interest, the historical interest as well. the media and others are pushing for some level of transparency here because of what we already know about this unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. at the same time the justice department we know that they are arguing for a great deal of secrecy around this investigation. it s an ongoing criminal investigation. one that they want to protect. first and foremost, they
his presidency. he didn t want people to make things up against him. it s an interesting analysis that is done, but clearly the former attorney general bill barr had already decided that this investigation did not have merit and he didn t believe they should charge anything. he issued that report rather quickly at the time. evan perez, thank you. let s bring elie back in with us. what strikes you most about this new revelation? bianna, we already knew that bill barr lied to the american public about robert mueller s report. now we know that bill barr lied about those lies to the court. the focus here is this memo that evan talked about, this nine-page memo. what happened was a group a transparency group sued to get this memo. doj under barr went to court and said this is what we call a deliberative memo, this is something the attorney general studied and thought about when he was making his decision not
the grand jury was recalled and then let go, do you have any view of what this might mean? big picture for the case. big picture is this. a grand jury is 23 people. you need 12 votes to return a true bill, the charging document. what this means is one of two things. one, they couldn t get 12 votes to return an indictment. if that s the case, and that could be very rare, then they have a duty to inform mccabe that he s not going to be charged. if they are still gathering evidence, which is a possibility, then they will use that grand jury or get a new one and continue the investigation. those are the two possibilities. but if they rejected the indictment, they should tell andrew mccabe straight up, you re off the hook. right. just to be clear, if those citizens overruled what the doj under barr was trying to do, as you know and as every ham sandwich across the country
air, water, they want to kill grandma and grandpa, and they want them to eat dog food, and then we want to throw them over a cliff, but now it s every single second of every single hour of every day. now, ultimately, in the end, the doj under barr s leadership, they will get to the bottom of epstein s death. i can tell you with a straight face, i don t know what happened here. i don t know what he knew, and i don t know who did what. but i do know that people thatid were victims here, they deserve justice and answers. that is what the system is about and what it should be about. let s get to where the truth will bring us. by the way, anybody that assisted epstein, anyone participating in his rampant abuse of children, they all need to be held accountable. here with reaction, fox news contributor, sara carter. authorri of this and now the follow-up, it could have been like russia s second book, i told you so, but it is called witch hunt: the story of the greatest mass delusion in ameri