game-changer announcement on student loan forgiveness a [inaudible] for millions of americans. plus, the big lie turned a big rift. how some are profiting off of disproven election fraud claims. goes beyond the former president. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m alicia menendez, in four stephanie ruhle. as if the current day controversies of the former president were not enough, we begin with new insight tonight into how donald trump may have avoided accountability in the investigation that consumed must of his presidency. late today, after a lengthy court fight, the justice department released a document related to the russia investigation. the memo was top secret and now we know why. former presidents attorney bill barr wanted to keep it a secret. in march 2019, bill barr told us before the mueller report was released, that the report had all but exonerated the former president. and therefore, there was no reason to charg
barr s defense of that decision. the memo contends, mueller s report did not establish a case to charge trump with obstruction, who failed to establish any underlying crime related to russian election interference. but, as nbc has reported, mueller s report actually did identify ten episodes that could be considered potential obstruction of justice. as one former mueller prosecutor points out, that is just one a couple of high-level justice department officials were worried about. two senior staff say to bill barr that the reason he should make the decision is because, if the memo comes out, it might be read to imply that the president committed obstruction. this memo makes it clear that the reason that bill barr did not ask robert mueller to simply come to a conclusion is because, as it says here, that report can be read to find that, indeed, he did commit obstruction. as for the ongoing investigations into the former president, tonight the justice department is facing a
he hasn t been seen since he called off this insurrection allegedly went to belarus, although we don t have confirmation of that. how concerning is that? it could mean a couple of things. i suppose one might be that perhaps he is not there. the other, i guess you have to ask the question about his safety and well being. reporter: you do. and i guess, you know, again, if we go back into what happened and why it happened and how it happened. that kind of like i think you can use that to analyze what his thinking or where his strengths and weaknesses might be right now. as i said, there is this foreign policy with putin for some time, you know, behind the scenes, cutting deals on diamonds and gold and making alliances in linnea and going a foreign policy arm of the kremlin that has been out there, and is still there in syria, libya, sudan, central african republic. what does that mean? it means prigozhin s still got
europe. they wanted to spend a lot of time in their foreign policy arm focusing on china. and the kinds of things that china can do. and they think that we should be stopping them from doing. and i will say, that have the ukraine is part of that. giving everything to ukraine so that china realizes if they were to invade taiwan, or wanted to invade taiwan, america would possibly give support to taiwan. to say nothing of the ukrainians who have been displaced and lost so much. jackie, eugene, barbara. thank you so much for getting us started. coming up! president keeps a campaign promise. forgiveness and a portion, student loan debt. you have a member of congress who is also a student borrower himself, next! and later, a closer look at just who has been making big money from the big lie. deep in the heart of texas. the 11th hour just getting underway, under red say night!
never hit the ground. and ukraine, definitely not russia, to participate. and giving billions of dollars in different types of aid to make it possible for ukraine to make this. but the issue with that has continued to be holding together the coalition internationally. to do this as a world market has struggled. economies in different countries, not just hours. have hit a bumpy road. so this white house is going to continue to focus on that. and you talk to, i think people did not expect it to go on as long as that it has. but now that it has after the six month mark, you talk to folks, that say that it could go through the winter in ukraine. where it ll be a lot harder to do some of these things. and that is concerning for the world at large, and for a white house that did not want to spend a lot of time focusing on europe. they wanted to spend a lot of time in their foreign policy arm focusing on china. and the kinds of things that china can do.