It certainly isnt, and as the House Republicans continue to investigate hunter biden, the Justice Departments investigation, including bringing the iris whistleblowers, investigating that, its going to be a continuing thorn in the side of joe biden as he pursues reelection. Tell me more about Special Counsel david weiss and what he might do with these new Special Counwers . He was appointed byr President Donald Trump in 2017 and confirmed unanimously by e senate, so he was something that the Biden Administration decided to keep on because he was already independent, not somebody that biden put into place, now with the Special Counsel powers it means you have additional resources, a budget to bring in additional staff if you want also remove him from the daytod oversight of the justice will be able to continue to u invee this as they have been, and also allowed to look into charging any potential crimes in other jurisdictions, he doesnt have to stick in delaware, where the case has gumm
For more information how you can help victims of Hawaii Wildfires go to cnn. Com impact or text hawaii to 707070 to donate. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. A brand new Special Counsel now focused on hunter biden. The lead starts right now. The Attorney Generals surprise announcement. The prosecutor who was overseeing The Hunter Case is now being elevated to a Special Counsel. What will this mean for the president s son . What will this mean for the president . And donald trump might be told to zip it. The judge in the 2020 Election Fraud case signaling that she is going to be willing to restrict sensitive evidence as she tells trumps attorneys the former president s right to free speech is not absolute. And hawaiis catastrophe sadly getting worse. Historic towns gone, homes burned to the ground, 55 lives confir confirmed lost, and that number is sadly expected to climb. Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. And we start with our Law And Justice lead with a new Special Counsel
Charges. Lucas tomlinson kicks it off for us. Reporter devon archer, Hunter Bidens former Business Partner, friend and fellow board member on burisma, testified to congress that that company would have gone out of business if it was not for the help of thenVice President joe biden. Now, in the last hour you had congressmen from both sides of the aisle who see this matter very differently. Theres no question that that joe biden is helping his sons business, including getting a prosecutor fired to help his sons business. Theres been no evidence whatsoever that joe biden is in any way implicated in the mistakes that hinter biden had made. Hunter biden had made griff wait a minute, hold on one second. Reporter now, one of the revelations to come out of this devon Archer Testimony is that he met with the head of Burisma In Moscow on the same day putin invaded crimea in 2014, a month later president obama made joe biden in the west wing and the year after that allegedly dined at a popular re
the five people on board who are hoping to see the wreckage of the titanic. submersible could use up all its air in less than about a day and a half. let s get an update from correspondent molly line in boston. good evening, mollie. good evening, bret. the coast guard reported there is no sign of the missing submarine with the five people on board and at this moment an estimated 35 hours of life support left there on board private and military assets are scouring above and below the surface covering thousands of miles. the canadian coast guard playing a major role. remote operating vehicles and diving planes are conducting a grid search. they are specialized if being able to see these things from the air. they have given it everything that they have to it. and if it s on the surface, we re fairly certain we would be able to find it. the founder of observation gate leading the mission. in 2021 the firm started taking paying customers to the titanic rec. will hammish ha
but the santa fe county district attorney says he did. and it actor does not get a quote free pass just because they are an actor. rex mr. baldwin had a duty at the base level to never hold a gun and pointed at a person while pulling the trigger. but he also had a duty as an actor and producer on that set to have the bullets a check or check them himself to make sure they were not live. as for the interview come abolition the special prosecutor in the case says baldwin had glaring inconsistencies in his story, watch. i m not sure why he was giving a lot of statements. i don t know why he made that comment. i was is very inconsistent with what the fbi report found. but it is a prior inconsistent statement because now he s coming out with lots of different stories of why this occurred. santa fe county sheriff s department, has basically spent the last year trying to figure out the burning question here, how in the world did live rounds make it into a gun onto a movie set ther