Counsel to look into the investigation against the president s son, hunter biden. Lucas tom lynnson has the latest on this story. Reporter it was just a few weeks ago that hunter biden thought he was minutes away from freedom are from any further charges. Of course, that thats not what happened. The plea if deal fell apart, and now it could be going to trial, according to federal prosecutors in a filing yesterday. A Special Counsel has been named. Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently are. Based only on a facts and the law. Reporter that Special Counsel, david weiss, of course, has been investigating hunter biden for the past five years now and negotiated with what many republicans call a, quote, sweetheart plea deal. President biden left the white house yesterday for the beach, he did not take any questions before Boarding Marine Wunsch the president one. The president has long main
snyder and strategy group co-ceo and vivek ramaswamy surrogate, ben yoho. you guys have been there many times before, that iowa state fair is really the kickoff of the political season. i ve seen the butter cow many times, i ve eaten pork chops on a stick. now you have all the candidates out there. but one thing that stood out to me was that the former president, trump, not meeting with governor reynolds, not doing that fair-side chat that both vivek and desantis have done earlier today. some just hours ago. you had one of the leaders in the iowa, bob vander platts, he s a kingmaker out there, talking about, you know, despite how far ahead donald trump may be, there may be an opening for one of the other candidates like desantis or ramaswamy. here is a little bit, listener