Federal investigation. The doj is pointing a special council. Republicans say this is not aimed at seeking justice. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke is live in d. C. With the breaking details on this. Good evening, david weiss is the man. The very same same david weiss who says Congressional Republicans attempted to paint a Sweetheart Deal for hunter biden, despite possible or some would say obvious violations. That david weiss is leading an escalation into hunter biden. His title became special council today. His powers were the same yesterday. Whats different . It does not make any difference to us given what we understood to be the case. Critics argued weiss should not have been named Special Counsel citing this as section 6. 3 in the doj regulations. A Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States government. This is a political decision, not a legal decision. Theyre trying to put out a fire, and they just poured gasoline on it. Nobody in their right
Continue to count the votes. All right, john, were heading into a major round of poll closings with 237 delegates at stake. All voting is about to nnp, three contests including one of the delegate jackpots of the night, texas. We have more projections to make. Right now. Lets take a look. Donald trump is the projected winner of the Republican Primary. In the state of texas, 161 delegates at stake. Dr. Cnn is projecting donald trump will win. Taxes in the state of maine 20 to stick cnn projecting donald trump will win the Republican Primary in the state of maine and in the state of arkansas, 40 delegates at stake cnn objecting to donald trump will be the winner of the Republican Primary in the state of arkansas. We have a couple of projections on the democratic side as well. Cnn can project jack. The joe biden will win the Texas Democratic primary 244 delegates at stake. Incumbent President Joe Biden will be the winner of the Texas Democratic primary in arkansas cnn can project that joe
Counsel jack smith. The 45page indictment accuses the former e president of three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Culminating in the january 6th attacks on the u. S. Capitol. Heres the Special Counsel tuesday after the charges were handed up. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 20211, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. If lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of clerking, counting and certifying collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnists dan Dan Henninger kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, its interesting, he cited the riots at capitol, but thats not really in the indictment, per se, nothing that links to the rioters in par
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spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s