by what doj continually told them about the investigation. it is what it is. you ask for special counsel and you get it but the most important thing is the american people have confidence in this investigation and that they know that each person is treated the same under law. i don t know how doj can conclude that weiss has that confidence and that the special counsel will really resolve any issues. , gary, he did not admit anything. he restated that he does have the independence that david weiss has claimed he has had to charge this to investigate and take this where this investigation goes. he said david weiss had simply asked him to be named a special counsel. i think it is an admission
special counsel. i consider his request as well as the if ordinary circumstances related to this matter so i have decided it is within the public interest to appoint him. joining me for an exclusive interview is one of hunter biden s attorneys, abby lowell. thank you for being here. when did you find out about the attorney general s announcement? i think all of us found out about the time you found out which was somewhere between midmorning and the time the attorney general spoke and while we didn t know that was going to happen given what was happening it wasn t a surprise to see where it went from here. i am assuming what you are referencing is how the legal team and david weiss are trying to privately negotiate a plea deal. were you surprised that trent fall asked to be made special counsel in the middle of that?
i mean, some of these candidates have picked up some pretty influential state officials. desantis, i saw him out senate, sinclair, a pretty popular person as well. so, there are some people dipping in, but if she got into it, it would be a major story. at this point i think she did say it correctly. iowa, it is early, and you get some breaking there from time to time. so, my question is she is probably trying to be a neutral arbiter. has she did trump make a mistake by attacking her publicly in the way he did? he took credit for her reelection success, what she said was up to iowans. well, the rules of politics don t seem to apply to donald trump here. what we do see is that the elephant in the room with this primary is that they don t want to attack donald trump, because of the fact that they are afraid of alienating his base.
primary politics, they all have to descend on this little state fair, and engage in quintessential local retail politics, what you really see there is they can t hide any longer, part of this republican field is really the parade of the socially awkward, which is why desantis is not pens is another great example of that, and you just can t hide in this type of retail politics. it is person-to-person, door to door in some instances, pork chop on a stick in other instances, and it is actually quite a beautiful thing. one person who is obviously deeply influential is the governor, kim reynolds. and she has been hosting these fair chats fireside chats with all of the candidates. trump is one who is not going. she was asked, essentially, about the idea that trump has been lashing out, he is upset that she has been posting that desantis is going around with
i think the point of surprise, not quite right. here s what people should focus on, caitlin. what happened today as a practical matter is not much different than what was the case yesterday or three weeks from before. the attorney general and mr. weiss have been set for weeks. he had all the authority he needed to bring any charge that was merited at any time that was appropriate in any place that made sense. and so, the power that a special counsel has is the special power he has had. so from a practical point of view, nothing really changed. his title may change as you also need to remember the most important fact and you alluded to it already. after five years of what has to be the most thorough investigations that office has ever done, started by a republican attorney general, given to a republican u.s. attorney, using a experienced career set up prosecutors, the