authority as he was attorney for delaware, that s why he needed a special counsel s examination, that s why he has been chafing behind the scenes for years saying i want to bring the prosecutions to other states but i can t because merit garland hasn t made me a special counsel. it seemed a little puzzling and perplexing, but it seems to be borne out by today s event. yes, the politics of this are unavoidable, joe biden is running for reelection, now there is a special counsel investigating his son, who has already admitted doing things wrong in his book and was ready to do so before a criminal court. if you are joe biden right now you would be happy to have the attention on donald trump and his myriad legal problems in various indictment and instead you now have a special counsel when it comes to your son and dealing with a special counsel yourself, still in the middle of investigation that has not shown any sign of
into charging any potential crimes in other jurisdictions, he doesn t have to stick in delaware, where the case has gummed up before one judge, he can pursue charges and other jurisdictions, that gives them some of the additional authorities and a report required, garland said he will make that public. david weiss has been investigating this for about five years, i think it s a legitimate question, why now, why did he ask just on tuesday for special counsel powers, he had asserted in writing that he had all the power you needed to that is the question, that we posed to the justice department officials and we haven t gotten an answer, according to garland, he asked for on tuesday and today in the press conference or statement, garland had said the investigation had reached a stage where special counsel status was necessary, he did not elaborate on what that means and we have not gotten a response on that so far but