sandra: america reports with the justice department last hour submitting proposed redactions to the affidavit used as the basis of the search of former president trump s florida home. now it s up to a federal judge to determine how much of that document the public will actually get to see. hello, welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. happy friday eve. john: as we like to call it around here, that s what thursday is. good to see you, sandra. the federal judge who approved the warrant to search mar-a-lago is set to weigh the pros and cons of releasing portions of the affidavit. the judge acknowledged heavy redactions to make the document in essence meaningless. justice department maintaining it could be dangerous to release any part of the affidavit saying it could compromise the investigations. republicans, along with several news organizations are pressing for more information about what prompted the unprecedented search of a former president s home. sandra
outstanding supreme court decisions. joining me now to talk about all of them as we wait for them to come down, cnn chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin. i want to start on a case that is so consequential. explain this for the power of the administrative state and the executive branch to delegate its power. congress passes laws. i think everybody knows that. but laws are generally phrased in fairly general terms. and we have administrative agencies that translate those laws into rules that individuals and companies must follow. the question in the west virginia case is how much deference, how much do we allow the administrative agencies to interpret the laws that congress gives them. there s a doctrine of law called the chevron deference where court has said if it s reasonable, we will allow administrative agencies to interpret congress s statutes. what conservatives have been fighting for in recent years is for the supreme court to say, no, we
si signs about a looming recession in the united states. we ll crunch the numbers. first, let s say it. nay to the naysayers. the skeptics and cynics that said the january 6th hearings wouldn t matter. turns out they were. reporter: very wrong. the media personalities that said nobody would watch and care have seen otherwise. let s be honest. there was a bit of this prognosis, some people thought the summertime hearings would fizzle out over time but they actually picked up steam as june turned to july. tv ratings stayed strong throughout the series. it s weird to say it s a series but it was a summer series of television and urn turned out t one of the highest rated shows of the summer. despite the maga people that said nobody was watching, it reached tens of millions of people. as an attention exercise, it gained a lot of attention. as a fact 2350finding effort, i brought a lot of new facts. as a political expert, i ll save that. tucker charleston called the shameful ot
governor. you know, they are expensive. and really, the question is how is california going to produce the electricity and the amount they need to power the vehicles because if you look at where california gets electricity, a lot from gas, hydro power. and with the drought out west, a question next year whether they can produce electricity in some dams, such as hoover dam. but they import electricity from utah and arizona and wonder if it s produced by coal or some other fossil fuel. but long story short, you got to you have to have an understanding where your electricity is going to come from, power, a. and b, i think you will see a pretty robust market in used cars, and not saying california is going to look like cuba or havana with 1966 chevys, but combustion around for a long time. sandra: california meeting the demand with electricity and charging stations, 73,000
happens before the waves are lapping up on main street. you know what i mean? the more people taste this, the drought out west, you want to call it yourself a climate change victim because you can t grow cotton in arizona anymore? maybe you don t want to politically but it s happening and it s just going to continue to happen and the story of our times will be how people adjust to this and how quickly to transition to fuels that don t cause this problem. it s going to happen. it s inevitable as the way your phone gets better with every release or moving to green hydrogen and moving to other alternatives. the question is how much pain and suffering has to happen before humanity makes the shifts? to the folks that engage in denial, what are you worried about? it s a hot summer. i see those only in corners of the media world but they are still out there. do you grapple with that at all? i do. i struggle with it all the time. i landed on i hold my scorn for