thought that august 11th was april 1st because his announcement that he appointed a special counselee to investigate hunter biden was like a really bad practical joke here today to announce the appointment of david weissea as a special counsel consistent with the department of justice regulationrts governing such matters. in keeping with those ofgulations, i have today notified the designated members of each house of congreshouss of the appointment. yes, that s the same david weiss who tried to give eethearthunter that sweetheart y deal before a smart judge stepped in to say noott so fast. now, beyond that, weiss isn t even eligibls isn t e to be nam special counsel under the relevant regulation governinunseg his appointment. first, according to section 600.3, he has to have a reputation for integrity and impartial decision making. now, that s obviously in questioin n is the impartial decision making part after how he handled the initial phasesl of this investigation.n and the special
if you believe both of those things, then you have to believe merrick garland is simply doing this only to quash some of the criticism, not to actually the not necessarily change what he s charged with, but to further the investigation, i guess, would be the public, the public admission of why they re doing this. i think what s really important here is, and jonathan turley said yesterday, he was the first one on our network to really point it out, that this really kind of defines the the actual regulation as far as who a special counsel should be. and we have the regulation here, section 600.3 of the department of justice regulations, it says the special counsel shall be selected from outside the united states government. will, you may know a little bit more on this than i do, but regulations aren t law. basically, the law tells the justice department you must do something, and the justice department comes up with regulations how they will do it. so even though this guys that defie
bookkeeper, including members of the family that benefited from this, these transactions, charles. i think, you know, there s a lot more here. congress has done a good job uncovering much of what this scheme was. however, there s still more there s still people that know, and they should come to congress, and this special counsel shouldn t interfere with that. charles: statute 600.3, this special counsel should not be employed by by the u.s. government, you know? that the in and of itself would supposedly, at least on paper, preclude weiss from taking this role. hen, you know, you further add in the fact that, listen, he s been the person at this for five years and was ready to is accept a really awful, awful deal on behalf of the american public. shouldn t republicans take the bait and start fighting that, or is that just one of these things that, you know, will play into derailing all of this? you know, i think the public should know it seems like this
the government. he is the same guy who has been killing the case, and he is the guy who will write the report in the end, charles, and that is what it is about, writing the report in the end. charles: we all become a specialist in things beer i am not a lawyer but i am reading a special counsel will be selected from outside the united states government, statute 600.3 come a lot of people pointed to that, some of the more obvious aspects of this, how did they get away with this? you may not be a lawyer but you are reading the laws pretty well, i have to say. there is a clear provision in the regulations that save us special counsel must come from outside the government. now, there is not any real way to enforce it but i predict what will happen is this is what the house republicans and their oversight hearings are going to ratchet up the pressure on. demand that weiss be replaced with someone who is truly independent. as tom and andy have both made clear, this doesn t really help th
chairman james comer had a statement saying the biden justice department is trying to stonewall congressional oversight as we have presented evidence to the american people about the biden family s corruption. we ll start there with our panel, lightning round. harold ford jr., former tennessee congressman cohost of the five. axios political reporter steph kite and byron york chief political correspondent of the washington examiner. byron, national review points out that the special counsel regulations, section 600.3 states without ambiguity, quote, the special counsel shall be selected from outside of the united states government. well, there s one exception to that, which happened in the case of john durham. bret: true. who was selected and for a few months served although he left office when the biden administration came in. this is really an outrage in the sense that this is the u.s. attorney who accepted, who