Attorne Attorney General Merrick Garland announcing he will give david weiss Special Counsel status to investigate the president s son. Hello and welcome everyone, im sandra smith. Gillian, great to have you back. Gillian this is America Reports. Garland says weiss told him he wanted to be given Special Counsel status to continue his probe into hunter biden. This after insisting for months that step was not necessary. Sandra the timing of this announcement is certainly being highlighted at this hour, and raising Big Questions about how the probe will intersect with a separate congressional investigation. And a Draft Plea Deal between hunters attorneys and weiss thats currently being reworked. Gillian Lindsey Graham as well as house ways and Means Committee chair jason smith are both here to react. Sandra mark meredith, live at the Justice Department at this hour for us. Why did the attorney yes decide to do this and decide to do this now, mark . Sandra, good afternoon to you. The u. S.
Heard around the world. You got david weiss as Special Counsel in the probe of special bidens son, hunter. Upon considering his request, i have concluded that it is in the publics interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. This confirms my commitment to provide mr. Weiss awesome the resources he requests. It reaffirms that mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently. Based only on the facts and the law. Lets break it down. David weiss is the same prosecutor who cooked up the original Sweetheart Deal that hunter kind of blew up, a judge kind of blew it up as we take a closer look. They realized it is ridiculous and it does not involve of his bus business dealings. So, as for the Big Guys Involvement in the new hunters Special Counsel. The doj is declining to comment on whether President Biden is under investigation. For now, well have to take joe as his words that he never talked shop with hu
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
president s son is expected to show up in about 30 minutes for a deposition behind closed doors. now at the same time, republicans today around noon are expected to move closer toward opening an inquiry on impeachment into his father, the president. we ll find out together what we get. what is it, dana? it s wednesday. dana: i wasn t sure what the question is. bill: you lose track this time of year. dana: somebody walked through and said they thought it was thursday. a busy time of year and busy time on the hill. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. a pivotal day for hunter and joe biden. speaker johnson said his party is going where the evidence leads. the white house has gone carefully as the constitution requires of us, it is a very serious matter. right now they aren t turning over documents or key witnesses and we have to defend our subpoenas in court. to do that you need and impeachment inquiry vote from the full house. dana: byron donalds sits on a
weiss lied and he said but the case is still under investigation. why? he didn t want the investigation. merrick garland comes out, weiss says he wants to be special counsel? why? why finish this investigation? weiss says he has all the power he needed. he told jim jordan about that is in june. plus, he wanted to evade him in legal immunity. it gets better than this. the fact is this plea deal, not only prevented anyone from going forward but the same guy tries to the wall over the people s eye is a contradiction. now, he s stopping the congressional investigation by saying that this case is still under way, preventing congress again from interviewing all the players. let me say one more thing. this is a good news/bad news cycle. we hear about the money from