elie hoenig, scott jennings, appreciate it. up next, the turmoil overseas on two fronts t uprising in russia and iran. how far will they go? and what do they tell us about the fate of those in power in those two countries? aaron david miller joins me with some perspective coming up next.
to charge donald trump and to say there s no obstruction. well, the district court looked at that, the district judge and said this is not what this is, this is a cya memo, a cover your blank memo that was completed after the fact. it was already a done deal they were not going to charge trump. yesterday a court of appeals agreed. that s not what this is it, you misled us. we ve seen the memo. the reasoning in it is completely thin. the pretext for withholding it by bill bar has been exposed. elie hoenig, thank you for breaking it down for us. we appreciate it. the u.s. economy just shrank, but not as bad as expected. jobless claims just dropped. there is still a big cloud hanging over this economy. more details straight ahead. plus it has the potential to spark nuclear disaster. it s already happened twice. why power keeps getting cut to a ukrainian power plant and why that s a major problem for all of europe. also dumping the pump and
made very clear in the proceedings they want to protect witnesses, both people who have spoken to them already and people who could help them in the future. there s a lot of things that the judge is considering going forward. we just don t know whenever there will be an outcome. it might have to wait until criminal charges can be filed if that day comes. the doj wanted none of this unsealed. katelyn polantz, thank you. here to discuss, former fbi agent david shapiro and senior legal analyst elie hoenig. elie, walk us through this decision process, now that the judge is going through this redacted form, mindful of the fact that the judge has already seen this affidavit. bianna, one of three things can happen now. one, the judge might agree with the redactions that doj has proposed and said this is appropriate. i agree with what you want to keep out, i agree with what you re okay disclosing.
set a bad precedent. as anyone who has been to law school learns on the second day, tough cases make bad law. so i think there is a risk to the proper investigative tech techniques, to gathering evidence, to other cases. this is just an unprecedented request and would be highly unnushl which is not to say the judge shouldn t fairly consider it. elie, we know former president trump and his legal team were told multiple times, including through roughly a dozen emails going fwook the spring of 2021 by the national archives that these documents needed to be returned. trump s own white house lawyer at the time, pat cipollone, even told him there were concerns, even before he left the white house about this. now we know cipollone is cooperating with the doj. how concerned should the former president be given that? bianna, there s two different
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