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It certainly isnt, and as the House Republicans continue to investigate hunter biden, the Justice Departments investigation, including bringing the iris whistleblowers, investigating that, its going to be a continuing thorn in the side of joe biden as he pursues reelection. Tell me more about Special Counsel david weiss and what he might do with these new Special Counwers . He was appointed byr President Donald Trump in 2017 and confirmed unanimously by e senate, so he was something that the Biden Administration decided to keep on because he was already independent, not somebody that biden put into place, now with the Special Counsel powers it means you have additional resources, a budget to bring in additional staff if you want also remove him from the daytod oversight of the justice will be able to continue to u invee this as they have been, and also allowed to look into charging any potential crimes in other jurisdictions, he doesnt have to stick in delaware, where the case has gummed up before one judge, he can pursue charges and other jurisdictions, that gives them some of the additional authorities and a report required, garland said he will make that public. David weiss has been investigating this for about five years, i think its a legitimate question, why now, why did he ask just on tuesday for Special Counsel powers, he had asserted in writing that he had all the power you needed to that is the question, that we posed to the Justice Department officials and we havent gotten an answer, according to garland, he asked for on tuesday and today in the press conference or statement, garland had said the investigation had reached a stage where Special Counsel status was necessary, he did not elaborate on what that means and we have not gotten a response on that so far but also in the Court Filings the prosecutors told a judge today that today was the deadline for him to get back to them, it is unclear how it fits in, certainly theres a lot of questions here on why exactly now, david weiss needs Special Counsel status, when before he and garland said he had all of the authority he needed to decide when, whether and where to bring charges. Thank you so much for being on top of that for us. Deputy assistant Attorney General, tom dupree, and let me start with you tom, the Special Counsel weiss, as a u. S. Attorney, he worked on the plea deal that blew up last month, the same ones that a Delaware Judge said she was not ready to approve because it was confusing and not straightforward, atypical, unprecedented, why would the Justice Department appoint someone to be Special Counsel that isnt able to the case wrapped up the first time . Thats a great question, the Special Counsel regulations contemplate that, when you point one you will choose someone out side the Justice Department, that way you can ensure they are untainted and come in with a fresh perspective. I suspect whats going on his Merit Garland was approached by mr. Weiss who said this case is actually going to go to trial now. I may have to file charges in jurisdictions other than delaware. I thought the investigation may have been reaching closure, its not, still several chapters to be written, and because i have to do additional things i did not contemplate, i want more authority. That is my guess as to why it unfolded, and a great question as to why he wasnt made a Special Counsel years ago. Having direct answers on ould be good, some transparency is needed. Statement today, saying quote, it is hard to see why he would have proposed such a resolution, if there were other offenses he could have successfully prosecuted, and we are aware of non. So another question of my many of all these, now Special Counsel david weiss was ready to basically let hunter off with a slap on the wrist, misdemeanor and a diversion program. And now he wants to be a Special Counsel . Yes, again, there questions why this is happening now and questions about what it means if the investigation is continuing with him as a Special Counsel. The concern always when you are the subject of a Special Counsel investigation, these things have a way of ballooning, the order of that, saying it was an investigation of hunter biden amongst others announcing a Special Counsel, he can investigate Ongoing Investigations and any other matters that have arisen or may arise, so i think is a great question about what does this mean, does this mean we have a lot of investigators thats ahead of us in that he was looking to or just a question of if are going to trial i want to be able to do this in dc or california, and has a Special Counsel, without having a partner with a bunch of u. S. Attorneys. Thats what hunter biden lives now . Figure yes. The iris whistleblowers, we had a few weeks ago, they testified before congress that the u. S. Attorney david weiss had privately complained he did not have the power to charge in any venue and the Justice Department pushed back on that at the time but today suggest that the whistleblowers were correct. It seems to validate the testimony. That would be the number 1 reason why he wanted a Special Counsel designation, because he knew he needed now to charge hunter biden california and maybe also the district of columbia, he didnt have the authority as he was attorney for delaware, thats why he needed a Special Counsels examination, thats why he has been chafing behind the scenes for years saying i want to bring the prosecutions to other states but i cant because Merit Garland hasnt made me a Special Counsel. It seemed a little puzzling and perplexing, but it seems to be borne out by todays event. Yes, the politics of this are unavoidable, joe biden is running for reelection, now there is a Special Counsel investigating his son, who has already admitted doing things wrong in his book and was ready to do so before a criminal court. If you are joe biden right now you would be happy to have the attention on donald trump and his myriad legal problems in various indictment and instead you now have a Special Counsel when it comes to your son and dealing with a Special Counsel yourself, still in the middle of investigation that has not shown any sign of wrapping up. It makes it messy, hes the commanderinchief, so the republicans especially on capitol hill are going to continue to take game and anything that appears to be wrong, any delay between what the Justice Department is doing now what theyve heard from whistleblowers is going to be a constant source of fodder for attack against joe biden. Tom, this trial, and i cant help but think wow, they shouldve settled but this trial , might present biting have to testify . That is the 64,000 question, my sense is the answer is no if it remains a tax case. If the Special Counsel comes up empty as to other charges and defendants, its hard to see how President Biden testifies but American History is replete with Special Counsel investigations that expanded and ballooned, bill clinton ended with Monica Lewinsky after whitewater, so yes if they start looking at his Business Dealings and charges arise out of that, i would say theres a very good chance that we see President Biden take the witness stand. Wow, thanks to both of you. How will the Special Counsel investigation impacted possible Impeachment Inquiry from the house of representatives, republican Congressman Ken Buck joins me. And then its all gone, the horror from hawaii fires, as people are allowed back to what once were there homes. E were n. 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So you heard from the house ary mmittee spokesman saying e that they still want to hear frodad weiss, quote we expect the department to fully coope witour investigation, including not interfering with 11 transcribe interviews we have requested, and david weiss upholding his commitment to testify. They are arguing they have not heard anything to the contrary from the department of justice, we have reached out to see if the calculus is changed on their end. A lot of democrats telling me it does kind of change the mechanics of whether or not the Special Counsel can testify about a potential Ongoing Investigation. That is one of the huge Question Marks coming out of today and something we expect that House Republicans might continue to push on, have a conference wide call to discuss the appropriations process but also the portfolio, you can expect it will come out. Easier to call a attorney rather than a Special Counsel. How much might accommodate things republicans who are intent on moving forward on the Impeachment Inquiry they want to open, targeting President Biden . If you look at what conservatives are saying in statements, we should note that they are away on congressional recess, they think it emboldens their argument that they have been making, that they think the doj is politicized, hunter biden has not been investigated to the full extent he needed to be, there investigations are making up ground that it will be a dereliction of duty not to continue the investigations, i spoke with one republican today who argued despite the fact they may not be ready to vote for impeachment, they have no concerns about opening and Impeachment Inquiry, important to mention that Kevin Mccarthy has been trying to make, theyre talking about opening an inquiry but not talking about a formal vote on impeachment, as you note jake, its important to point out once you open the floodgates its very hard to pull back members from potentially calling for impeachment at the end of the day. Thank you so much, colorado republican congressman and member of the committee, ken buck, is david weiss the wrong guy to be Special Counsel . I dont think he is at all, hes a republican appointee, so i dont think he will show bias towards the bias the Biden Administration or hunter biden, having run the u. S. Attorneys office, you dont have to get a hold bunch of people to speak, statute of limitations are running and you dont want to blow his statute in order to just get someone else onboard. The allegations of bias were bias regarding the political appointees in the department of justice, they were not to my Knowledge Allegations that the u. S. Attorney was biased at all. Right but mccarthy and the spokesman for jim jordan has said the u. S. Attorney and Special Counsel negotiated the plea deal that was rejected, so he should be the Special Counsel, it sounds like you dont agree with that. Hekker no i dont agree with that, the plea deal was rejected, ambiguity in the Plea Agreement, as to whether the u. S. Attorneys office could continue bring charges in the future. And the toughest decision the Special Counsel now, charging misdemeanors because there was a Plea Agreement, this is felony conduct. If the Plea Agreement has withdrawn, they to make a decision on whether they charge felony tax crimes. And go on those on felony tax crimes, and the agent registration act. There could be some questions about getting david weiss to testify, and he still wants him to show up, how do you expect that to work, in the past use attorneys, its easier to get them to testify than Special Counsel. Its a great question, i think it was today new president and a bad president , Special Counsel are designed to investigate a very serious case, this might lead to impeachment, the investigative here in the house as a whole to investigate someone and be able to talk about the information gleaned from investigation but i dont think the House Judiciary Committee wants to interfere with an Ongoing Investigation that could lead to impeachable information coming forward. I think the best we could possibly hope for is a very narrow scope of a hearing, where the Special Counsel now would not be crossing the line into discussing issues that are involved in ongoing prosecutions. Have you seen any hard evidence that President Biden broke any laws or did anything wrong in any of this . Weve been hearing from the Oversight Committee chairman James Comber Talking about investigating the president , but we had Attorney General gonzalez on earlier in the city had not seen any evidence of present biden doing anything wrong . I have not seen it, youre talking to prosecutor of 25 years, i havent seen hard evidence. Hard evidence is visually listening to a witness, hearing evidence, being able to examine documents, to me weve heard a lot of hearsay from these sources and conjecture on the internet but in terms of hard evidence that joe biden was directing hunter biden and his dishonorable conduct in selling the office of the Vice President or receiving money from hunter biden is not regard, there is certainly conjecture as to those issues. The fact that devon archer testified that joe biden was on the phone with many of Hunter Bidens clients doesnt look good but until we actually have hard evidence of what was discussed and whether hunter biden was directing people joe biden was directing people to engage with his son, i think it would be criminal and impeachable, i have not seen hard evidence of that. I believe Devon Archer Has said then vice President Biden would get on the phone and talk to business associates, they never talked about the business per se, for whatevers thats worth, ken buck, its always good to see you, thank you. Thank you. Our next

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