Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
does plan to move quickly. kaitlyn po polantz is outside the white house. this was pretty dramatic. reporter: it was. usually you don t have a hearing on what they were talking about. how they look at it for the very first time, you sort of thing they ve not seen before, lie grand jury witness testimony, transcripts, maybe audio recordings of witnesses who testified, all of those things. not only was there a hearing, there was a judge ready to set the tone for the entirety of these proceedings. alex, one of the clearest signals she sent is this case comes first. donald trump may be running for president, he may be a political candidates, his lawyers may have all kinds of complaints about politics, but that s not what she s seeing here. donald trump is a criminal
happen. by deciding on how evidence can be governed today, decision what the nondisclosure order will look like, that gets the process rolling. it allows the justice department to turn over millions of files they say they have to trump s defense team, so they can start looking at those and get ready to go to trial. alex? it s going to be a very busy 2024. kaitlyn, thank you very much. a secretive company buying up land around an air force base in california, now the pentagon panel is paying close attention. we ll have a live report from the pentagon. you re watching cnn news central, and we ll be right back. uuuhhhh... here, i ll take that! woohoo! ensure max prorotein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gramam of sugar. enter the $10,00000 powered by protetein max challenge. your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed.