Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
arrested and then released in a matter of hours. happens all the time. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. dana has the day off. welcome back, j.b. julie: i m julie banderas and this is america s newsroom. the assault was caught on video. this happened over the weekend in harlem. police say the teen jumped a subway turnstile without paying when officers confronted him and things turned very violent very fast. bill: street fight. you can see the suspect hitting the cop. the teen puts the officer in a choke hold when a second officer steps in to try and help. julie: why did it get so out of control? former officer bill stanton has his thoughts. could you imagine if this cop felt so in fear of his life he had to use the weapons there would be riots in the street. a cop now has to worry about getting arrested. losing his job and getting sued civilly. they may well lose their lives. julie: good morning, brian, from new york city. good morning. fox news can confirm
happen. by deciding on how evidence can be governed today, decision what the nondisclosure order will look like, that gets the process rolling. it allows the justice department to turn over millions of files they say they have to trump s defense team, so they can start looking at those and get ready to go to trial. alex? it s going to be a very busy 2024. kaitlyn, thank you very much. a secretive company buying up land around an air force base in california, now the pentagon panel is paying close attention. we ll have a live report from the pentagon. you re watching cnn news central, and we ll be right back. uuuhhhh... here, i ll take that! woohoo! ensure max prorotein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gramam of sugar. enter the $10,00000 powered by protetein max challenge. your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed.