Congressional republicans are already saying weisss new status makes him a Fire Wall Insulating President Biden and his Justice Department and could actually impede congressional efforts to get to the truth. Look into that. Also tonight, the Justice Department has moved to officially dismiss the now defunked plea deal with the president s son. Correspondent dazed spunt has the details from the Justice Department. Good evening, david. Reporter bret, good evening to you. The legal jeopardy for the president s son only deepens now that this case has Special Counsel status, and we can say tonight that it appears hunter biden is headed for trial. I have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. David weiss, the u. S. Attorney who had been leading the Justice Departments probe of Hunter Bidens tax and Business Dealings now getting a new job title and new legal responsibilities. Reporter mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigat
Weve been talking about today. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges. Details from the court as we get them. Thats happening this morning as we speak. My wife and five kids we all got in the ocean. We hung onto a floating board. Explosions and burning, cars blowing up. Embers flying. We couldnt breathe. People are found in houses in a huddle holding each other. The fire surrounded their homes before they could get out. Nowhere to go. We have food, water, and a place to shower and people who love us. Dana just the trauma theyre dealing with there. The devastating wildfires leaving behind a Path Of Destruction of maui. 55 confirmed dead. More than 1,000 listed as missing. Entire communities are burned to the ground as Search And Rescue teams comb the island looking for survivors. A grim situation there. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom. Im dana perino. Bill hemmer off today. Bret im bret baier. The governor calling it the worst National Disaster his state has ever seen. It wi
joining the crowded field. is there room for another candidate from the sunshine statesome with him there are three of them. we ll can him. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. i hope for dads tomorrow s a great day. in the meantime, fast-moving political developments. lucas tomlinson. reporter: good morning, neil. president biden departed for philadelphia for his first re-election campaign rally, as you mentioned. hopefully, the traffic situation is okay after that mess on i-95. biden removing this endorsement from some of the largest labor unions in the country. it s the earliest endorsement from the afl-cio in history. here s the president. we are a democracy, and so we ve been engaging our members, listening to them, and they want someone who will stand up and fight for them. and that s exactly what this president has done. he said he wants to be the midwest pro-union president when he took office, and he has absolutely delivered. reporter
jackie. good evening, bret, the administration is still gauging the scope of today s cyberattack on multiple federal agencies and pressure is on to stay tough on china after its foreign minister told secretary blinken to show respect in a call yesterday. but the president keeps getting questions on things he doesn t want to answer. on the cyberattack. president biden not responding to bribery allegations detailed on an fbi 1023 form allege ago burisma executive paid then vice president joe biden and his son hunter to gain u.s. oil rights $5 million each. that money going to hunter and indirectly to the big guy via shell companies. why telling [inaudible] why do you ask such a dumb question? the document did not say joe biden received any payment. but the president also did not want to comment on federal agencies hit in a global cyberattack. initial reports from the administration suggesting china may not be behind it? we are trashing it as a criminal group. many
is willing to unseal some portions of the document. also this morning, ukrainian president zelenskyy warns the world could be on the verge of a nuclear disaster as a volatile situation unfolds at a power plant. meanwhile, be in los angeles, 50,000 students did not show up for the first day of school. we ll talk about challenges facing the l.a. unified school district with a new superintendent. and with the federal pause set this month, the president faces uncertainty in his own party. we begin with a surprising development of the fbi search from former president trump s mar-a-lago resort. they are reviewing the affidavit for potential reactions after the judge, who approved the warrant, said he is inclined to unseal parts of it. the judge gave the department until next thursday to submit proposed redactions. it is very fortunate for the public to have as much as information as he can about this unprecedented church. it is a partial victory for president trump and m