Congressional republicans are already saying weisss new status makes him a Fire Wall Insulating President Biden and his Justice Department and could actually impede congressional efforts to get to the truth. Look into that. Also tonight, the Justice Department has moved to officially dismiss the now defunked plea deal with the president s son. Correspondent dazed spunt has the details from the Justice Department. Good evening, david. Reporter bret, good evening to you. The legal jeopardy for the president s son only deepens now that this case has Special Counsel status, and we can say tonight that it appears hunter biden is headed for trial. I have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. David weiss, the u. S. Attorney who had been leading the Justice Departments probe of Hunter Bidens tax and Business Dealings now getting a new job title and new legal responsibilities. Reporter mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigat
disabilities as some physicians opt out of medicare and medicaid. the motion is adopted. reporter: during the pandemic, lawmakers enacted stop gap measures that are about to expire, potentially dropping reimbursement rates even lower in 2024. the american medical association calling for action. its president writing, patients and physicians desperately need congress to develop a permanent solution that addresses the financial instability and threatens access to care. in recent decades, lawmakers have applied patches to the law to temporarily stop reimbursement rates from dropping. experts tell us, they expect that to happen again this year. bret? bret: a lease i can t thank you up next the panel on the hunter biden special counsel and today s ruling in the trump election interference case. first beyond our borders tonight, ukrainian officials say a russian missile strike killed an 8-year-old boy in the west of that country. meanwhile russian officials say ukraine targeted mosco
college as well as expanded medicaid coverage for things like dental, vision and hearing, those likely aren t making it in this reconciliation bill. so what the president started doing last night he started floating some solutions to that, some stop gap measures. specifically looking at things like possible $800 vouchers for hearing that will take effect or in some ways supplement the efforts they were trying to do on medicare, increasing pell grants which could get them closer to sending more people to community college. so we re starting to see the contours of this. of course nothing is over until it s over, but things are moving more quickly now. i think we re going to have to get our red bulls and coffees for next week. the universal pre-k bill i feel like that s the one piece that s never been touched in these negotiations. the white house seems to have these negotiating days behind the scenes and out in the public
directly with mitch mcconnell. and we can assume from what happened tonight that mitch mcconnell didn t budge from his position. we know, brian, that congress is crisis activated institution. for the last three and a half months they ve been running on a series of these stop gap measures. until now they had no reason to turn off the lights in the federal government as they might in less than a hour. the difference here is that democrats are dug in. they believe they have political leverage. they believe this issue they re advocating for, protections for the d.r.e.a.m.ers, and beyond that they feel it s a moral issue worth fighting. and we re seeing this play out apparently now on the floor of the u.s. senate. thank you for that. let us know if there s news from the white house. we have robert costa, national political reporter for the
in that sense. that s really unfortunate. especially coming off a day where he said, any sort of daca deal which should be a deal of love, a deal that deals with people who are here through no fault of their own, which includes people who are protected by this temporary status, who have been here, are going to school, are working, and so it s just a terrible way to refer to a group of people. i don t know how else you dress that up. an official response from the deputy press secretary. the statement, michael steele, certain washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries. president trump will always fight for the american people, reject weak stop gap measures. that is not a denial. a statement. not close to a denial. this is what drives regular republicans bonkers about this president. he had a decent couple of days. he was coming out from under the michael wolff stories. the televised negotiations over immigration went over pretty well. he sounds like a, like jeb