and when you think about a special counsel, obviously gives political insulation to merrick garland who will make all the decisions regarding this as the information is handed up to him, but also the appointment of a special counsel adds another level of sort of political intrigue about everything because it s not just the doj that s investigating now, it s a special counsel, and we remember through mueller and obviously other special counsels that there seems to be a greater focus of attention on the part of the media when a special counsel is involved. yeah, like the battle of coral sea. torpedos and shells flying every direction. the house is ramping up on investigation and garland is at the epicenter of that. they have a lot of questions,
biden. the attorney general mentioned two people said they are running for president. one of them is joe biden. and his name keeps on coming up as part of that investigation. and so i think that as i ve said before it is the case for special counsel in that matter, in my view is also unassailable. but risks on all sides here. if this moves quickly as clearly garland wants it to, you could have the president being cleared of criminal conduct with regard to january 6th but potentially face charges on mar-a-lago. so you could have a mixed bag. but any charge of a person running currently for office is going to be devastating for most voters. and so i think garland is signalling that he s he understands this race has started but that he i think
course you would expect the white house to say that and trying to insulate themselves from accusations this is a politically motivated investigation, and of course again, if crimes were if crimes were committed, then they do, they need to be investigated. i do agree. i agree with shannon there will the president will exploit this for his own advantage, say look, i m being persecuted, and in his very announcement, declaration he presented himself as a victim and use it as another example of that. and the fact is many, many people will believe that. this is the unfortunate situation we are in. wherever the rights and wrongs, whatever we find out from this investigation, many people will believe it s yet another attempt by donald trump s enemies to use the law to pursue him, to pursue what a political cause, whether or not that s right, that s how a large number of people will
criminal division prosecutors under the able leadership of assistant attorney general have played a significant role in those prosecutions. assistant attorney general olson has been leading the team for the matter, classified documents and other presidential records. as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation. all of the career prosecutors assigned to these matters are conducting their work in the best traditions of the department of justice. i also want to recognize the efforts of the many fbi agents and other law enforcement personnel who are assigned to these matters. they are working courageously and steadfastly and are serving our nation honorably. i am grateful to them, we all are. department of justice has long recognized in certain cases it s in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to
continue to trickle out during the campaign. sandra: shannon, if you could stand by on the breaking news, we will bring in jonathan turley, constitutional law expert and fox news contributor. ok, jonathan, thank you for joining us ahead of the breaking news. what would you like to tell us as we await this live news conference from the justice department? well, we have been hearing rumors the last couple weeks the department of justice has been batting this around with the appointment of a special counsel. announcement of donald trump for the 2024 election may have sped that calendar up a bit. the things we are going to be looking for besides obviously who will be the special counsel will be whether there is any tipping of the hand as to the scope of the investigation. the january 6th controversy is going to be a difficult, you know, area for this special counsel because the speech