decision. just a few days ago cbs news ran a pole asking americans about this very issue. 70% responded that colleges should not be allowed to use race in college admissions. a new york times poll recently found 60% of democrats also oppose race as a factor in admissions. americans across the country have rejected affirmative action at the ballot box too, even in blue state california. in the 2020 election democratic leaders in the state put affirmative action on the ballot. the pro- affirmative action activist, the governor, u.s. senators and the golden state warriors pushed voters to support the initiative. they out bid opponents of affirmative action by 19-1. in the end, nearly 60% of californians voted to kill affirmative action. it didn t work. no matter how hard the democratic party tries, no matter how much money they spend, the american people have rejected the view that we should be judged on our skin color. so if anyone is trying to hold on to the past like the demo
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
rejected the view that we should be judged on our skin color. so if anyone is trying to hold on to the past like the democratic party, they want to hold america back by keeping practices in this country what people are judged based on the color of their skin instead of acknowledging how far we have come. these democrats and allies in the media have to distort the reality of race relations in america. they have created what i like to call the systemically progressive country. what is that? it s the failed policies of the left. they refused to abandon it. systemic progressivism is when democrats let our kids language in schools learning to read and write. get they oppose school choice and they oppose it for one simple reason. the teachers unions. they hold minority community is back from economic growth and crippling regulation. can you imagine finally owning
classified information, and subsequent seizures by the fbi have been recovered from mar-a-lago, and into the possession of the national archives and now the fbi. showing that this all unfolded far earlier than it was previously known, and that even in the final days of the administration, there were officials already concerned about the former presidents record keeping practices and trying to recover materials as ernie as january of 2020. but this timeline is critical, the more we learn the longer it seems the dispute over the ivs with the documents is going on. and the harder it woodsy for trump and his allies to defend all of this. when would you be telling him if you are his lawyer right now? the best advice, i, think you can give someone, is that when you find yourself in, whole stop digging. and it seems that every time he turns around, it seems he is saying something that makes the case a little bit worse. and the evolving defenses for example, at first, he didn t do it, an