Counsel to look into the investigation against the president s son, hunter biden. Lucas tom lynnson has the latest on this story. Reporter it was just a few weeks ago that hunter biden thought he was minutes away from freedom are from any further charges. Of course, that thats not what happened. The plea if deal fell apart, and now it could be going to trial, according to federal prosecutors in a filing yesterday. A Special Counsel has been named. Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently are. Based only on a facts and the law. Reporter that Special Counsel, david weiss, of course, has been investigating hunter biden for the past five years now and negotiated with what many republicans call a, quote, sweetheart plea deal. President biden left the white house yesterday for the beach, he did not take any questions before Boarding Marine Wunsch the president one. The president has long main
Government not shut down. We will put a clean funding stop gap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the house and senate to get their work done. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy moments ago saying that government will not shut down as a midnight deadline approaches. This as the house has gavelled in for a rare saturday session and a lot of questions about that deadline. Welcome to Fox News Live, im griff jenkins. Youll Jacqui Heinrich and aishah is on capitol hill. There are a lot of them, why dont you start off. Good morning, good afternoon to you, theres been a lot thats happened this morning and now were all here outside the House Floor Waiting For A vote to take place on a brand new continuing resolution, which would fund the government, this one is 45 days long. It does include disaster relief. It does not include ukraine aid and it does not include Border Security. Lets look at the house floor together as we await this vote. This is coming up under a suspension rule.
here. listen here. obviously, supporters for the former president, donald trump, there s also a lot of them kicking the tires on who could be the alternative to trump. and so there from desantis to ramaswamy, to nikki haley, mike pence, tim scott, the race is wide open right now. griff: pete, what do you say, what is the case ron desantis makes that a changes mindsesome. sure. i think ron desantis is doing beautifully in iowa right now. no one has a better ground game, he has 120 county cochairs, there are only 99 counties in iowa. he just had talk maker steve days endorse him the other day. you know iowa, griff, you ve got to put in the work, and right now the person putting in the most work is ron desantis, and that s why he s going to win come january. griff: now, one thing ron desantis has not yet proved he can do, and that is to rap
snyder and strategy group co-ceo and vivek ramaswamy surrogate, ben yoho. you guys have been there many times before, that iowa state fair is really the kickoff of the political season. i ve seen the butter cow many times, i ve eaten pork chops on a stick. now you have all the candidates out there. but one thing that stood out to me was that the former president, trump, not meeting with governor reynolds, not doing that fair-side chat that both vivek and desantis have done earlier today. some just hours ago. you had one of the leaders in the iowa, bob vander platts, he s a kingmaker out there, talking about, you know, despite how far ahead donald trump may be, there may be an opening for one of the other candidates like desantis or ramaswamy. here is a little bit, listener