Attorne Attorney General Merrick Garland announcing he will give david weiss Special Counsel status to investigate the president s son. Hello and welcome everyone, im sandra smith. Gillian, great to have you back. Gillian this is America Reports. Garland says weiss told him he wanted to be given Special Counsel status to continue his probe into hunter biden. This after insisting for months that step was not necessary. Sandra the timing of this announcement is certainly being highlighted at this hour, and raising Big Questions about how the probe will intersect with a separate congressional investigation. And a Draft Plea Deal between hunters attorneys and weiss thats currently being reworked. Gillian Lindsey Graham as well as house ways and Means Committee chair jason smith are both here to react. Sandra mark meredith, live at the Justice Department at this hour for us. Why did the attorney yes decide to do this and decide to do this now, mark . Sandra, good afternoon to you. The u. S.
giving him special counsel status, he told jim jordan he didn t need because he had the authority he wanted. what changed between june and now. nothing other than politics. this plea deal fell apart. if it had not been for that judge, this would be over. the judge resurrected this case by shining a light on a sweetheart deal. they are going to have to answer the questions of senator graham and jim jordan and everybody else about how this unfolded. this was a dumb political decision to try to solve a legal problem they have created for themself. nobody in america is going to buy that he becomes special counsel, all is well. gillian: senator, we don t know based on what the doj has said publicly whether or not this probe includes the president or not. there was no probe. and andy gillian: if it does take a turn to include the president, right, do you have any more confidence in weiss s ability to investigate there? no, 0, zip.
first david weiss said he didn t have the power he needed, then he says he has all the power he needs, and now he gets special counsel status because he didn t have the power he needs. something is not right. and people see this at home playing out, lack of coverage, etc., and the new york times took it up and acknowledged hunter biden s investigation and called it the duelling realities. the american people are watching and feel, many feel the same way. something s not right. what s your message to them? we are not stupid here. a friday afternoon news conference where you change the title of a compromised investigator does not get you where you want to go. this was a dumb political decision. it s impossible for the new york times and the washington post not to cover it now because they made a big deal
shoeless joe jackson back to the game after telling him say it ain t so, joe. and tom cotton, dismiss charges, no doubt a liberal judge will rubber stamp a sweetheart deal. first weiss said he didn t have the power he needed as special counsel status, then he has all the power he needs, now he gets special counsel status because he didn t really have the power he needs? something s not right, says jim jordan in a tweet just now. congressman. jim is completely right, sandra. it should alarm any americans, the fact that we have uncovered over $20 million that has came to the biden family and it s all because of the brand according to devon archer, and the brand is joe biden, the biden name. why would all these foreign