Appoint him as Special Counsel. Charles a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case, but its the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a coverup. Were going to get the latest from Lucas Tomlinson on what the white house is saying. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop president ial candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. Plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the Attorney General this hawaii will be lawn a. Ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. Welcome, everyone. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. We bin at the white house where President Biden so far is staying quiet on the Special Counsel appointment in his sons case. Lucas tomlinson is there though. Reporter charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that Delaware Courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal issues would soon b
house oversight committee chair james comer has long felt that the move would take away investigative power from the committee as it continues to probe the biden family. here s the congressman last night. i don t think we need any more evidence to show that the department of justice has tried to obstruct the our investigation. i think merrick garland made that argument for us today. reporter: house speaker kevin marc car think state concern mccarthy said, quote, this action cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigation or whitewash the biden family corruption. if weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn t get approved, how can he be trusted as a special counsel? some republicans are not against the appointment of a special counsel which could indicate that a case against the president s son could go to trial. for senator chuck grassley, it s weiss that is cause for concern. i was one of those that sent a letter saying we should have a special counsel. on the othe
is an illegal move in and of itself. yeah. remember, this was a regulation that was implemented by the department of justice. it gives the attorney general a lot of discretion. but you re right, typically a special counsel is appointed from outside the the president of justice because the conflict applies to everyone in the death of justice. i m in the department of justice. i m sure they re thinking that putting weiss in here probably since he was a trump appointee, that somehow fixes that flaw. but there s a potential here that merrick garland did this, put in this flaw in to trip up the investigation and to lit gate about that issue and to fight about that issue instead of actually the facts and the slowness and the delay that this investigation has been going. charles: right. anchoring tv shows, i get that a hot, you know? someone will bring up something that s not true, and they know the audience won t say, hey, get em, get em, charlie, they ll go on social media, why d you
inappropriate, charles. there s so many things that are stacking up that i think merrick garland was, his hand was forced here, but ultimately, it just delays this case even more, and it s been going on for five years now. charles: the sweetheart deal centered around a couple of specifics. does elevating this to special counsel status now expand the scope of what is being investigated or will be investigated? because there s so many unanswered questions that, by the way, would not have been answered in that sweetheart deal. no, they wouldn t have. and remember, the government stood in court and said that, one, this deal has never been done before with any other defendant and also that, you know, charles, the most serious crimes have already lapsed, the statute of limitation has run. and, you know, the foreign corrupt practices act which gets to the bribery issue here on the firing of the ukrainian are prosecutor, you know, that happened in 20 # 15, 2016 time frame. so that s, you kno
answering the more critical issues. so that s why i wonder if this is some sort of a trap. people should know the rules have already been violated, and obviously, you know, the idea when i heard the words david weiss trip off of merrick garland s lips, i was, like, huh? wait a minute. it doesn t make sense to me. yeah, i think that s intention withal. you know, we re going to have te keys to this car is joe biden. he knows what happened, and he needs to be honest with the american people. but right now the white house is stonewalling, the department of justice is stonewalling, and, you know, it looks like there s really not an adversarial system because the department of justice and hunter biden s team are really on the same side, and that s evidenced by that plea agreement they tried to get through a court and thankfully the judge stood up and said this doesn t smell right. charles: what do you think some things, you ve already mentioned a few things have passed the statute of l