decision to prosecute anyway in which he wanted to, and in any district in which he wanted to. mr. weiss purportedly wanted to have the powers you ve conford on special counsels. was that request ever made and if so, why did you reject it? it was not the only person with authority make somebody a special counsel or refuse to make somebody and special counsel as the attorney-general. mr. weiss never made that request to me. can you explain the rationale for not appointing special counsel in this case. sure. weiss had more authority than special counsel would have. complete as he had and has complete authority to bring a case anywhere he wants in his discretion. does delaware u.s. attorney lack independent charging authority over certain criminal allegations against the president s son outside of the district of delaware? um he would have to bring if
we re talking about years and years and years in jail. and, you know, you usually and i m paying like 99.9% of the time, the charging authority, the u.s. attorney for the southern district, the best criminal law timenforcement agency ing the country, they don t bring a case unless they have you dead to rights. gial quick u have yo, shaquilles name s on this. tom brady s name s on this just and they were part ofa lot the game. this people are saying, hey, invest with this. do they have to think twice from nowng this. on in number two? could they be viable? i love shaq. i m going to put money iviab n. tom brady s the best. i want to be like tom. they re not liable from a criminal standpoint. they have some of them, i believcriminalthey he. d i know brady and gisele have been sued civilly by shareholderhave beeivillys oy by lawyer seeking a class action status. so, yes, they are liable inrian a civil sense. you have a big reservatioyo n tonight. you want to tell everyone where. i ju
now apparently standing in the way and then attempting to cover his tracks in front of congress. now, that raises the question, did the attorney general, merrick garland, lied to congress? thus far, the trumpet appointed u.s. attorney in this case has been prevented from bringing charges or even exercising his authority. in fact, a whistleblower reportedly now has a hard evidence that the testimony you are about to hear from merrick garland is absolutely false and that he knew it at the time. take a look. there s delaware u.s. attorney independent charging authority over certain criminal allegations against the president s son outside of the district of delaware. he would have to if it is in another district that he would have to bring the case in another district. but as i have said, i have promised to ensure that he is able to carry out his investigation and that he be able to run it and if he needs to bring it under the jurisdiction, he will have full authority to do that.
pledge. in april 2022 you testified to senator hagerty that the hunter biden investigation was assigned to, as you just now told me to the delaware attorney s office, however that could be misleading because without special counsel authority he could need permission of another u.s. attorney in certain circumstances to bring charges outside the district of delaware. i would like clarification from you with respect to these concerns. the u.s. attorney in delaware has been advised that he has full authority to make those kind of referrals that you re talking about or to bring cases in other jurisdictions if he feels it s necessary and i would assure you if he does, i would do that. does it lack independent charging authority over certain criminal allegations over the president s son outside of the district of delaware? he would have to bring if
understand what this is. a special counsel is not a special prosecutor from the old days where a law allowed, and prosecutors to become completely independent of the justice department. a special prosecutor operates under the auspices of justice department. that s right. this person will have charging authority. this person will be able to file charges as robert mueller did, independent of any decision that merrick garland makes but if merrick garland decided he doesn t want to approve certain charges, he can block. that he has ultimate authority. and at the end of the process, the regulations require that the special counsel file a confidential report, with the attorney general, explaining his prosecution decision, and the decision not to prosecute. that was essentially the mueller report. i want to ask merrick garland today that we pledge to release to the extent key any kind of written report from the special counsel, merrick garland did not take questions. one thing that this d