Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
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and one of the conditions for him not to be sitting in jail awaiting trial is that he can t talk to witnesses about the details of this case, and he also can t publicly try and intimidate them or obstruct them in a way that would hurt the system of justice that is ing to be put in place he as he heads to tal. another quote from the judge about a fair trial, it is a bedrock principle of the judicial process in this country. legal trials are not like elections to be won through the use of a meeting call, the radio, and newspaper. this case is no exception. alex? kate polantz at the courthouse, thank you very much. let s bring in a contributor and new york staff writer. let s start with the hunter biden part of this year. designation of a special counsel today, what is your reaction to that and really how we got to this point? you know, this justice department has done a lot of things that, you know, have been unprecedented including most
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can t say exactly what he wants to say in a political speech, that is just how it s going to have to be. those are the judge s words. and the reason she s saying them here, alex, is because she is putting some sort of parameters around what donald trump can do with the evidence he s receiving as his team prepares for trial. the things he will learn specifically about witnesses, searches the justice department conducted, things that are very sensitive to this case that have never been shared with him before. and so as he gets that information, judge tanya chutkan has found that there is law that allows her to say to him you can t share these things widely if they are under my order, that they must be protected going forward to trial. the reason to do that is to make sure that the trial has integrity, that the jury pool isn t tainted, that witnesses aren t intimidated, and then on top of that there are other restrictions for donald trump in that he s out on bail.
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change policy. that fact hasn t change, and now what we re waiting to see is where does this investigation go? anytime you get a special counsel. at the moment the facts on the ground remain the same. there is no evidence joe biden benefitted. evan, he mentioned the political side of this. you mention how unprecedent asked how bizarre this whole thing seems to you. how much do you see the political here impacting the legal? i think that they re intertwined, right, unfortunately for the justice department you can t take the politics out of the law in this situation. it s a variation the problem they have with the trump prosecutions, too. they want to have a clear delineation between law and politics, but these are political figures, the most prominent political figures in the country. to some extent i would imagine this is aimed at ploicating republicans on capitol hill who insist on having this designation. let me ask you about that because they are thoroughly unhappy about this.
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