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
it is the at year and the style he never self confidence that he could reezly win a natureal re-election. e left the 1960s election which he lost nearly to john f. kennedy. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons he had in him toe play during elections. it is about move for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding onto power. no one can find out about this. i told the american people that i will not trade arms with hostages. they ll not be in practice sif wour in this office. when you have a president thinks that he could do anything we are in trouble. i just want to find 11,780 e-mails. and that s really when you reach to the point of democracy. that s how dictator come to power. the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover up. i get the information and gather it and i share it with the rest. they make decisions based on how they can contain this problem. after the bre
law enforcement. it s something that they have attacked democrats, four for very long time. and so the fact that you have republican party that is willing to follow donald trump, as he attacks whether that is election workers , right for january 6th, whether that is law enforcement officials currently and it is not going to stop, this is something that he is done for a very long time. and when you talk to people in this white house, there is not very clear how much they can do. they can try to get the american people to tone down the rhetoric. when it comes to stopping the former president from doing that, there s almost nothing they can do they are hoping that september 15th meeting in conversation helps to kind of jump start that conversation. jacqueline alemany, you are also covering the house january 6th committee. when might we see them resume hearings? yeah, [inaudible] well we know about that is that the committee plans on holding a series of hearings here in sep
to his home, he started to see republicans say something i never thought i would say, which is defund the fbi, defund law enforcement. it s something that they have attacked democrats, four for very long time. and so the fact that you have republican party that is willing to follow donald trump, as he attacks whether that is election workers , right for january 6th, whether that is law enforcement officials currently and it is not going to stop, this is something that he is done for a very long time. and when you talk to people in this white house, there is not very clear how much they can do. they can try to get the american people to tone down the rhetoric. when it comes to stopping the former president from doing that, there s almost nothing they can do they are hoping that september 15th meeting in conversation helps to kind of jump start that conversation. jacqueline alemany, you are also covering the house january 6th committee. when might we see them resume hearing