Terms mr. Pied biden the president of the u. S. Would agree to be interviewed. And a devastating death toll rising on maui as rescue and recovery teams find more bodies and thousands of residents are homeless along with stranded tourists on an island that looks like a war zone. Good day, everyone, a busy day in washington. Im andrea. Where u. S. District judge Tanya Chutkan made quick decisions this morning on the size and the scope of that protective order in the criminal case surrounding Donald Trumps alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. In a ruling from the bench, judge chutkan after prosecutors argued that the order was necessary to prevent pretrial publicity and the defense countered that the pregs counsels parameters were extraordinary decided that the protective order would only apply to sensitive materials and not to all of the evidence turned over to them from the Special Counsel. Judge chutkan also added a clause to the order that would limit the universe of people
Announcement that he appointed a Special Counsel to investigate hunter biden was like a really bad practical joke. Here today to announce the appointment of david weiss as a Special Counsel consistent with the Department Of Justice regulations governs such matters. In keeping with those regulations, i have today notified the designated members of each House Of Congress of the appointment. Laura yes, thats the same david weiss who tried to give hunter that Sweetheart Plea Deal before a smart judge stepped in to say not so fast. Now, droned weiss isnt even eligible to be named Special Counsel under the regulation governing his appointment according to section 600. 3, he has to have a reputation for integrity and impartial Decision Making. Now, thats obviously in question, the impartial Decision Making part after how he handled the initial phases of this investigation. And the Special Counsel shall be selected, it says, from outside the government. Okay. Garland is not a stupid man, so im
they navigate that specific piece. but it is interesting, andrea, that this filing comes on the day that merrick garland appointed mr. weiss as the special counsel, meaning, i think, as a fair inference, that this was an independent decisiot this was an independent decision of his, that he is now saying as the independent counsel, i am withdrawing this plea. without prejudice. which means i get to file these charges again, and as we ve been saying now in whatever venue and in whatever jurisdiction that may be appropriate. so all of this is to say that hunter biden now has exposure not just for those charges that were the subject of that proposed plea agreement, but now there is a broader arena of facts. now there are a number of other issues, acts, and concerns that hunter biden is going to have to be paying attention to and that the special counsel most certainly will be thinking about in deciding whether or not to bring charges on a broader array
something that he will be able to respond to questions really going forward on because that s really now all in someone who is officially a special counsel s hands. there does seem to have had a pivot point and what a senior justice department official has told us is that this was only a request on tuesday, so that s tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday we are not at, only a few days before publicly announcing that request, but up until a certain point weiss was saying that he did not feel that he needed to be special counsel. so obviously there s some sort of change more recently that we ve seen and as soon as that request was made to merrick garland within the same week officially making him special counsel is the news we see coming out of doj. certainly something significant here. gosh, it s getting tough to continue to keep track of all the different special counsels we have going at this point. it s another one that could go on potentially for a while and it will be curious to see
having been a u.s. attorney and still be double added as a special counsel? and then his opinion of this, andrew weissman s is weiss already messed up the hunter plea agreement and now this. so do you see a conflict between him continuing as a u.s. attorney in delaware but having the ability to file an indictment in another venue, as now a special counsel. paul? andrew is right, the cfrs, the regulations that control the appointment of a special counsel call for somebody outside of government. i don t expect that that fact, that specific regulation, has escaped merrick garland s attention. somehow they have made this appointment, taking that issue into account, and went forward. i m not quite certain how it is they did so, but we can be certain that very smart people within the department of justice have addressed that issue, that that point hasn t escaped their attention. we will have to see how it is