Were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O, say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the Home Of The Brave will we begin this morning with a fox news alert, a tragic update out of maui. Now at least 80 people are confirmed dead after devastating wildfires. Rachel Officials Say more than 1,000 people are still unaccounted for as rescue and Recovery Efforts continue. Joey another fox news alert, Washington Attorney general Merrick Garland making a big announcement about the hunter biden criminal probe. Im here today to announce the appointment of david weiss as a Special Counsel. On tuesday of this week, mr. Weiss advised me that, in his judgment, his investigation had reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a Special Counsel, and he asked to be so appointed. A. Joey Alexandria Hoff is joining us live with the9 story. Reporter Special Counsel
if you believe both of those things, then you have to believe merrick garland is simply doing this only to quash some of the criticism, not to actually the not necessarily change what he s charged with, but to further the investigation, i guess, would be the public, the public admission of why they re doing this. i think what s really important here is, and jonathan turley said yesterday, he was the first one on our network to really point it out, that this really kind of defines the the actual regulation as far as who a special counsel should be. and we have the regulation here, section 600.3 of the department of justice regulations, it says the special counsel shall be selected from outside the united states government. will, you may know a little bit more on this than i do, but regulations aren t law. basically, the law tells the justice department you must do something, and the justice department comes up with regulations how they will do it. so even though this guys that defie
and instead, he magnified the problems here. i mean, i don t know anyone who could possibly look at this appointment and not be completely mystified as to his thinking. rachel: jonathan, how is this going to affect the house investigation? well, that s a great question, rachel. i think that there was, obviously, a blowback on congress. the most immediate impact of this appointment was to insulate the department of justice itself and weiss. the house was closing in on weiss, demanding interviews from him and his lieutenants. this will make it much, much more difficult. but it won t stop things. in fact, in a curious way, they may have tripped a wire here by not expanding the mandate it s pretty clear now that congress needs to investigate including a possible impeachment inquiry,
do things, and what that has meant is it s brought with up some issues that we ve had to deal with. quite candidly, we should have anticipated those problems better. rachel: is that enough for you? no. [laughter] no. no, these decisions are made by seven individuals on our school board, and i don t think that parents were taken into consideration of what it is that that actually entails of three different so you can typically have three children at home at three different can schools at three different times. it s a logistical nightmare just in your home with childcare issues and all those types of things. our city has not recovered 100% from covid have had. so now covid. so now we just need to get our kids back to school safely. rachel: yeah. you make a great point, charlie. our kids have missed enough school, these people have to get their act together. by the way, i have nine kids, so
longer for kids in louisville, kentucky. jefferson county public schools had to cancel classes this week after an overly ambitious redesign of bus routes turned into a logistical nightmare on the first day of classes. many parents say buses didn t show up to pick up their kids wednesday morning, and some students weren t dropped off until 10 p.m. after school that day. here to react is jefferson county parent charlie bell. if charlie, welcome. so what is the excuse that the school has given you as to why this is happening? there was just that the bus drivers didn t really know the routes or the kids didn t know what bus stops that they were to get on or to get off at, and both could have been easily fixed. us having a bus shortage is not something new rachel: right. here in jefferson county. but there are some things that need to be tweaked for our kids