And the man investigating hunter biden, the u. S. Attorney out of delaware had been saying up until now that he never asked for and didnt need the powers that came with that appointment. So why was david weiss made Special Counsel today . We have reaction from the white house. Hunter bidens team, and republicans on capitol hill. Joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, nbc News White House correspondent monica alba, and ms p msnbc political contributor and cofounder of punch bowl news, jake sherman. Tom, i want to get some details from you. Sure. The question that is nagging me is why all of a sudden does this investigation, this case need a Special Counsel . Yeah, i really dont understand. And its a question i think we need some more clarity on. So to be specific, what happened here is there was clearly an ongoing plea negotiation, after the judge said, look, im not going to accept this, im not going to reject this Plea Agreement. You all have to get back tog
address or telephone number or bank account information, that s included too, but if trump feels that there s something that falls within these categories that should be his to talk about, his lawyers are free to make an application to the judge and i suspect we ll see a fair amount of that in the weeks and months to come. donald trump is limited to how he can view these materials, right? reporter: he is limited to how he can view these materials, and most importantly, he s not allowed to retain his own copies of them. the custody at all times must be with his counsel. there was a fight today about whether trump and our colleague ryan reilly sort of made him akin to a toddler or preschooler needed to have counsel sit next to him as he reviewed materials. the answer to that is no, but at all times, even if he gets up to go to the bathroom or have lunch, those materials need to be returned back to counsel, and if he takes notes from any of the materials covered by the protective orde
to the counsel. did the counsel sit on it? nobody was really taking it seriously. apparently, according to the committee chairmen, some was wrapped in trump hotel folders, came in trump hotel folders. maybe they didn t take it seriously until all the story started breaking. suddenly, maybe that was then passed on to the inspector general and the inspector general said, eek. i have to do something. the e-mails are very interesting. there s been this accusation that state department officials were pushing this leaders in ukraine and other places to find this information. giuliani said he was basically working on the behest of the state department. exactly. that s never sounded right. i will be interested to see these e-mails. it s the counter narrative. this is not classified. none of it. rudy giuliani talks about it every night on fox news. is this normal? i don t i still don t