President pence and state Election Officials. The American People can be tough to read sometimes which confounds many in the modern media, well over half of our fellow citizens believe the former president did engage in criminal conduct and half thank you should be elected president again. By the American People are they for unforgiving or are the American People tired of the sanctimony of those who see flaws and everyone except themselves. I dont know how large the constituency is for fairness to friend and foe for the equal application of the law regardless of politics. I do know the American People have a unique internal sense of what is fair and just and what is not. These are going to be challenging days for our country. We had a president wants a long time ago who was a trial lawyer and famously said may justice be done though the heavens fall. Nowadays it seems more apt that we would hear may my side when no matter what. We are joined by two men that prosecution covered state an
And the man investigating hunter biden, the u. S. Attorney out of delaware had been saying up until now that he never asked for and didnt need the powers that came with that appointment. So why was david weiss made Special Counsel today . We have reaction from the white house. Hunter bidens team, and republicans on capitol hill. Joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, nbc News White House correspondent monica alba, and ms p msnbc political contributor and cofounder of punch bowl news, jake sherman. Tom, i want to get some details from you. Sure. The question that is nagging me is why all of a sudden does this investigation, this case need a Special Counsel . Yeah, i really dont understand. And its a question i think we need some more clarity on. So to be specific, what happened here is there was clearly an ongoing plea negotiation, after the judge said, look, im not going to accept this, im not going to reject this Plea Agreement. You all have to get back tog
President pence and state Election Officials. The American People can be tough to read sometimes which confounds many in the modern media, well over half of our fellow citizens believe the former president did engage in criminal conduct and half thank you should be elected president again. By the American People are they for unforgiving or are the American People tired of the sanctimony of those who see flaws and everyone except themselves. I dont know how large the constituency is for fairness to friend and foe for the equal application of the law regardless of politics. I do know the American People have a unique internal sense of what is fair and just and what is not. These are going to be challenging days for our country. We had a president wants a long time ago who was a trial lawyer and famously said may justice be done though the heavens fall. Nowadays it seems more apt that we would hear may my side when no matter what. We are joined by two men that prosecution covered state an
Place by giving the first Sweetheart Deal of the century until a judge lit up and you got gop president ial candidates and lawmakers calling out how they see it. David weiss cannot be trusted. Kid gloves is the treatment hunter biden received from the Department Of Justice appointing david a Special Counsel like keeping your protecting. Think the people trusted. What took so long . Is it hunter biden or the biden family . Did they do it is a distraction take away from the place of coming out . Is another reason form of justice serious issues and needs to be we not along with our intelligence agencies. David weiss the u. S. Attorney that will allow statute of limitations to expire on serious tax returns. This was, this will not restore confidence all. Of course the liberal media is pulling out the stops to defend hunter biden saying is being treated worse than donald trump. I think the evidence ive seen so far in this case is is under fire . Never met him being treated worse than anyone
That they have gone through, frankly, are continuing to go through. This crisis is far from over. Theres so much frustration, theres so much suffering, you know . The real mourning has not even been able to begin to start because of people really looking to how do i just get me and my family to tomorrow. Joey yeah. And even still firefighters are working to pull ily contain some fires burning on the island. Officials calling it the worst Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. To a fox news alert, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a Special Counsel to the hunter biden criminal probe. Rachel but republicans and if even some democrats arent happy with who he selected. Will Alexandria Hoff joins us live washington. Reporter good morning. It is an interesting turn of events or at least title, right . Now Special Counsel david weiss and the Attorney General, they both previously maintained weiss did not need Special Counsel powers in pursuing charges against hunter biden. Of course,