biden family. i don t think we need any more evidence to hoe that the the president of justice is trying to obstruct our investigation. i think merrick garland made that argument for us today. reporter: house speaker kevin mccarthy stated this action cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or hate wash the biden family corruption. weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn t get approved, how could he be trusted as a special come. some republicans are special counsel. senate chuck grassley, for him it s weiss that s the cause for concern. i sent a letter saying we should is are a special counsel. on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. reporter: well, that s because there s been so much back and forth. in may, irs whistleblower gary shapley testified that u.s. attorney weiss sought special counsel status because he felt limited in his powers to fully investigate hunter biden. weiss and attorney general merrick garland disputed the c
who congress is trying to force to testify before then. that would happen on parallel tracks same time the special counsel is handling his investigation. with special counsels that have come and gone, we don t know when the work will finish. it could take a month, a year, two years, there will be a gesdzing game that will happen without much leaking or information happening. we ll be reading the tea leaves going forward, imagine for the attorney general, he says the u.s. attorney asked for special counsel status and he granted it within a matter of days. from what we re hearing from republicans, this is not satisfying anybody. emily. emily: thank you so much. tammy get your thoughts in a moment, what mark said has to do with level of preparation districts have underwent before it being switched because of the plea discussions, but as special counsel david weiss wrote in this motion, the government now
special counsel can choose to obviously investigate and choose whether it is warranted to go to prosecution or not. i talked weeks ago, this move protects hunter biden, drags this out and special counsel says well, it is not warranted prosecution. harris: i m not worried about hunter biden, i want to know what protects the president from the rest of the country finding the truth. david: if you eliminate hunter biden and devon archer, you draw this out, not about hunter, it is not getting to joe biden. kayleigh: two big names i would love to hear from right now, gary shapley and ziegler. allegations were against david weiss, who has now been given special counsel status, you heard merrick garland say there is that letter of weiss corroborating merrick garland s story saying merrick garland, i never asked him for special
sometimes prosecutors can get around things with conspiracy charges, but that s something that s probably going to be a bit of a challenge for them. so two questions that i would have if i could find out anything tied to this case, number one, was this request for this special counsel status purely a way so that weiss could move forward in california, in d.c. without anybody objecting, he has the absolute authority to file whatever district he wants to and has venue to do so. that s the first question. is that the real reason why he requested special counsel status? number two, are there going to be any new charges added to this? is it basically just them repackaging what they ve already learned and filing those charges in court? i think a third question that comes to mind is is that what weiss wanted to do all along as some of these irs agents that have spoken before congress seemed to indicate and was he rebuffed in being able to do that? he seems to say in his letters to congress th
ongoing. and so the timing of it seems a little odd to me, but merrick garland, true to his word has always said that david weiss has sole authority to decide the case and he asked for special counsel status, which means he can pursue charges in other districts beyond delaware. fair to say, maybe a big understatement, this is a bad day for hunter biden. yes, i think so. it suggests that certainly the tax charges and the gun charges is not going to be the end of it, that david weiss is it doesn t mean he s definitely going to file charges. it means he wants to use a grand jury in some district, other than delaware, and so it s difficult to speculate as to what those additional crimes might be. but they seem certainly to exceed the scope of what he had planned to plead guilty to just a few weeks ago. so this obviously, brendan, will no doubt feed into what has been a constant drum beat from republicans about hunter biden, sort of the whataboutism when anything is raised about for