Appoint him as Special Counsel. Charles a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case, but its the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a coverup. Were going to get the latest from Lucas Tomlinson on what the white house is saying. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop president ial candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. Plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the Attorney General this hawaii will be lawn a. Ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. Welcome, everyone. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. We bin at the white house where President Biden so far is staying quiet on the Special Counsel appointment in his sons case. Lucas tomlinson is there though. Reporter charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that Delaware Courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal issues would soon b
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Elect the american president . The citizens of this country and no one else. Men and women have died on the battlefield to protect our democracy. The least we can do is show the courage to stand up tonight and do our part, to protect our democracy. With that, i yield back. The gentleman yields back. Does anyone else seek recognition on the amendment . Armstrong. Armstrong. For what purposes buzz mr. Armstrong seek recognition . Move to strike is the last word. And im going to go back to the initial language of the amendment, and particularly the removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States. So at numerous points in times during todays debate have they my Friends On The Other Side of the aisle held up a pocket constitution, waved it around. I think its interesting nobody has read from it yet, and i think there is a reason for that. But im going to read from the constitution. And if we want to talk about
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inappropriate, charles. there s so many things that are stacking up that i think merrick garland was, his hand was forced here, but ultimately, it just delays this case even more, and it s been going on for five years now. charles: the sweetheart deal centered around a couple of specifics. does elevating this to special counsel status now expand the scope of what is being investigated or will be investigated? because there s so many unanswered questions that, by the way, would not have been answered in that sweetheart deal. no, they wouldn t have. and remember, the government stood in court and said that, one, this deal has never been done before with any other defendant and also that, you know, charles, the most serious crimes have already lapsed, the statute of limitation has run. and, you know, the foreign corrupt practices act which gets to the bribery issue here on the firing of the ukrainian are prosecutor, you know, that happened in 20 # 15, 2016 time frame. so that s, you kno
is what are the valid, potential smoking guns that weiss should be looking for? well, he s got to be looking at the foreign corrupt practices act which gets into the bribery issue. he s probably most likely hooking at the foreign agent registration act which, you know, clearly based on all the evidence publicly available has been, there s a prima facie case to be made. and then we have all the tax charges and the gun charges. but, you know, this case for hunter biden is a lot more serious than it was even a couple weeks ago when he thought he had a sweetheart plea deal. but joe biden, obviously, is what should be investigated and what needs to be investigated. charles: will weiss have the ability to segway this from a hunter biden if it leads to president biden in does he have the authority to do that? yeah. since 2001 when the special counsel regulation was put in place by the department of justice, you ve seen these special counsels get very far afield, ask for expanded scwurs an