the prosecutor. providing a plethora of details about the days and weeks after the 2020 election. when donald trump and his allies tried anything and did everything they could to reverse what they knew was trump s election defeat. we re getting a look at what sidney powell and jenna ellis told prosecutors during the recessions. those are the meetings where defendants who take plea deals reveal any information that could be used against the other defendants in this case. which includes rudy giuliani and donald trump. former trump attorney general ellis descriing a chilling conversation with trump aid at a white house christmas party. i said something to him like i m sorry that we haven t been able to do more. and i emphasized to him i thought that the claims and the ability to challenge the election results was essentially over because of the dismissal of the case from the the supreme court. he said to me in an excited tone, well, we don t care. we re not going to leave. i
menstruation. now, there is investigation as to weiss had the charging authority, and remember he was only asked to be special counsel after the plea deal fell apart and looks like it is going to trial. at the time, merrick garland said he granted request because of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding this case, but these chairmen say that explanation is not sufficient enough for them, and they are requesting a slew of documents and information related to the appointment of david weiss as special counsel. they also want to see a memo outlining scope of the special counsel investigation into hunter biden. we should note that merrick garland is already scheduled to testify before the house judiciary committee september 20th, and he has a september 11th deadline to respond, and no doubt they will keep this hunter biden probe front and center in
joining us now is fox news legal editor, and we love the new role that you are playing here at fox news. we had you on a lot when you were at the department of justice. so the house ways and means and judiciary committees have subpoenaed four officials, michael, the irs director of field operations, special agent in charge, and another special agent in charge, and fbi assistant special agent in charge to talk about david weiss and a meeting in october of 2022, he allegedly said that he wanted to bring charges against hunter biden but was told that he couldn t. what do you think the committees could learn from these individuals if they comply with the subpoenas? they are going to try to corroborate weiss s account he did not have final charging authority and that he was not able to bring charges in other districts.
has a charging authority. so, if he has that charging authority, why does he need to be given this special counsel authority? it s just confusing. well, you said he was told you were told that he was turned down. who told you that? united states attorney weiss, october 7, 2022. i documented that right then. that s correct, by d.c. u.s. attorney. then he requested special counsel authority from doj. they denied it and told him to follow the process. that is corroborated. there were seven people there. two people at that meeting have corroborated what happened so far. and there s been no contradictions that what he said during that day is not accurate. well, i think there is confusion here because you said that after this meeting that you had asked about it and that weiss stated he is not deciding person on whether charges are filed. but he hasd the opposite of
by him because in october 7th, 2022 he said that he had to go to d.c., a president biden u.s. appointed attorney weaning he was not the deciding official. then we know he had to go to california to the president biden u.s. attorney and we learned we were told he also turned him down and then we have attorney general garland in front of congress telling congress and the american people they could have confidence in this investigation because it s being ran by a trump appointee and he has the charging authority. united states attorney, they