united states, should face any charges. sandra: i was just going to make the point of timing here this. is happening on a friday just three days after the former president announced his 2024 candidacy. just noting the timing of all this. david, this news conference and announcement was just announced a short time ago to expect this at 2:15 eastern time. do we know if there will be questions taken? i hope so. they say the attorney general is going to make a statement, we are always going to try to get questions in. we are told this was signed today, this special counsel order was signed today and it s not surprising knowing attorney general garland. he s come under pressure from the right for not doing enough to investigate the president s son, hunter biden. that s being run by the u.s. attorney in delaware, david weiss, and the left has said that merrick garland has not done enough, quite frankly, on the post january 6th prosecution and the mar-a-lago prosecution.
general would make any final decision that comes before him. it s also important to point out that you know, we have one other special counsel right now, the department of justice is overseeing, and that s john durham. we have covered john durham, he was appointed by then attorney general bill barr back in 2019 to look at the origins of the trump-russia narrative, and john durham is doing his work independently, ultimately his budget is renewed every year by merrick garland. so a few minutes, looking at the clock here, we are going to hear from the attorney general. he will make the announcement. a special counsel to overlook mar-a-lago and the classified documents to take the heat off of merrick garland and the department of justice. he s been under a lot of pressure from both sides of the political both sides of the political arm to make a decision and also hear about the
things if we can win a jurisdictional battle versus delaware. this is important not only for who will get paid and in who order with what little money remains, but also potentially developing entanglement with the bam ma government over the bombshell transfer. john: onion has so many layers and just seeing how deep it goes. sandra. sandra: based on the news the top of the hour, await the announcement live at the justice department about ten minutes from now, david, what are we expecting from this? sandra, it s two-fold. we know the attorney general will announce a special counsel waiting on merrick garland to announce the name of the special counsel. this special counsel will deal with everything relating to mar-a-lago, the raid at mar-a-lago a few months ago and also aspects of the january 6th investigation. right now the u.s. attorney s
office in washington has been dealing with a lot of this january 6th investigation so the attorney general i m told by a justice department official will lay out specifically what this special counsel will do and will have to do involving the january 6th investigation. but back to mar-a-lago, that s interesting because former president donald trump announced just days ago he is throwing his hat in the ring once again to become president of the united states. by appointing a special council, merrick garland takes the political heat off of his plate dealing with all things donald trump, whether it be january 6th or whether it be mar-a-lago and the documents roughly 100 classified documents taken from mar-a-lago. it s important to point out that a special counsel will operate with his own office, his own staff, or her own staff, but at the end of the day, the attorney
of power is quite broad and again, i did hear the attorney general say they want to do this qui quickly but a lot of people involved, a lot of events, meetings, documents related to that that i think yeah, and also politically very, very significant. i mean, the interesting question here, the president, jonathan turley says everybody will approve of jack smith s appointment, well the former president certainly will and how he chooses to use this to his own political opportunity will be an issue in the next few weeks. sandra: reading from the letter from the justice department detailing the background of special counsel jack smith, last line of it, his work as special counsel begins immediately. john: and shannon, i want to drill down in this idea of merrick garland saying he wants this to happen quickly. i don t remember a special counsel investigation that happened on schedule that even resembled the word quickly. i think they are aware of the