Attorney general Merrick Garland, appointing a special prosecutor david weiss us Special Counsel in the probe of President Bidens son hunter. Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. This appointment confirms my commitment to provide mr. Weiss all the resources he requests. It also reaffirms that mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently. Based only on the facts and the law the law. Brian lets try to break this down. Keep this in mind. David weiss is the same prosecutor who cooked up the original Sweetheart Deal that hunter kind of blew up. Judge kind of blew it up. Involved in foreign business dealings, now we are Learning Tl Prosecutors expect hunters taxing gun know my tax income. As for the big guys involvement in the new Hunter Special counsel, the doj is declined to comment on whether President Biden himself is under investigation. So, for now, we are just going to have to take joe at his word he never talked shop with hunter. Ive never discussed my business for their business, my Sons And Daughters beard ive never spoke to my son about his overseas business ive never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything to do with their businesses. Im confident. I knew you would have a lousy question. Why is that a lousy question . I can tell you it is not true. Thank you, mr. President. Brian republicans ripping into the decision to appoint weiss as Special Counsel. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy warning it better not obstruct congressional investigations into potential biden family corruption. And other lawmakers agree. This was a political decision, not a legal decision. They are trying to put out a fire, and they just poured gasoline on it. Nobody in their right mind believes that making him a Special Counsel of mr. Weiss cleans up the mess that has been created. Its about time. On the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. This is an attempt to whitewash the biden family corruption. I am very fearful that appointing the Special Counsel is just an attempt to Stonewall Congress investigation of the biden family appeared brian finally, team biden is said to be in talks with his classified Special Counsel to have personally interviewed. Nation secrets stashed in the garage next to his corvette amongst other places. Judge, your reaction to the place, the prosecutor, the same Guy David Weiss who has looked into this for years . Jeanine you know, it is kind of hard to convey my feelings because i am furious. Number one, stop laughing, lawrence. Number one, this guy, weiss, is compromised. He is untruthful. He is not capable of being a Special Counsel. Number one, a Special Counsel should be from outside the government, not someone inside the government because this is a Conflict Of Interest case. Okay, but more importantly is this. David weiss is the one who put together the plea deal that was rejected by a federal judge. That plea deal was not only a Sweetheart Deal, it was corrupt. What it is was it gave hunter biden legal immunity in perpetuity. That means for the rest of his life he could never be charged with a crime. Now, the amazing part of it is then why slide and he said but the case is still under investigation. Why . Because he didnt want the Republican House to investigate. So then Merrick Garland comes out and he says tuesday, weiss said he wants to be Special Counsel. Why . Weiss finishes no mike finished his investigation, weiss said he had all the power he needed. He told jim jordan that in june. Why today does he need a Special Counsel . Plus he wanted to bathe him in legal immunity, and it gets even better than this. The fact is, this plea deal not only prevented anyone from going forward, but the same guy who tries to pull the wool over the american peoples eyes and the federal judges eyes, its a contradiction. Because now he is stopping the congressional investigation by saying this case is still underway, preventing congress again from interviewing all the players. And let me just say one more thing. This is a good news, bad news cycle. We hear about the money from china that they never got any money in all of that hogwash, and now All Of A Sudden weve got a Special Counsel. This Special Counsel is not in a position to do anything, based upon the fact that the most serious crime has passed the statute of limitations, okay . Brian which is . Jeanine the fiveyear statute of limitation on this tax charges, which was the biggest years, the 5 million, 5 million, 10 million, okay . Now they cant comment on the pending investigation. Now the statute of limitations has run on the most serious crimes. Now there is no explanation to joe bidens immense wealth. The man is in government his whole life, his wife is a schoolteacher, give me a break. And weiss is going to issue a report that says joe biden, i have investigated him, and he is clean. There is no question right now that weiss is going to begin this investigation, cover for the bidens, and say it has all been handled. Now it is time for the republicans to move to impeach joe biden. Brian jessica, bad day or good day for hunter biden . Jessica for hunter biden . Bad day. Its ongoing, right . The expectation was there was a plea deal yes, and he should have his day in court and all of that. I think any day, especially when you think you are heading into the weekend and you find out you have a Special Counsel, is probably not a fantastic day. A good thing, i guess, it seems like it is going to be a good day for justice and he is going to be fully investigated. It seems to me that david weiss wanted this now because he wants to be able to charge him in california and in d. C. , which he wouldnt have been able to do as a special prosecutor. The republicans yet again are being incredibly craven and contradicting themselves 33 Senate Republicans signed a letter saying we need a Special Counsel. Half of the g. O. P. Conference signed brian but not the same i appeared jeanine thats the whole point. Jessica it isnt actually the whole point. There would be a problem except for john eastman and rudy giuliani, they were a Special Counsel. Jeanine david weiss jessica he did not. Jeanine did i finish . He lied to jim jordan when he said he had all of the power he needed. Je jessica no. Jeanine we know from an october 20202 meeting, business record, prosecute other jurisdictions. Jessica not in the room when that happened. David weiss lawrence you know what is not a live . Jessica that you are cutting me off. Katie finisher first. Lawrence go ahead. Jessica very generous of you. Merrick garland confirmed today saying he had all, would have made him Special Counsel but he did not ask me go jeanine he didnt ask because he wasnt interested in getting justice. Jessica thats not true. Brian according to the whistleblower, you may or may not believe, he was told he could not ask for a special prosecutor, that he wanted it, and the whistleblower said he couldnt do it. Jessica admit it know my gary shapley admitted under oath when he testified that he made e requests under the trump doj. Lawrence you know what else was admitted to under oath . The prosecution, as well as defense, when the court asked was there any precedent for this deal . They both told the court there was no precedent for this deal. Democrats cried when republicans and people that are civil libertarians said this is not fair. This is simply not fair. Democrats republicans are just making a big deal about this. The court asked them under oath and the prosecution said, we had nothing. That is why the deal was destroyed. So what we can expect as this case to continue to unravel. Not because weiss is some ethical man, it is because weiss deal got blown up before the court but democrats can save themselves here because ths unraveling before the american people. There is one way to do this. Either joe biden can resign right now, give Kamala Harris the presidency, and then they can have gavin newsom run for office, but the idea that this is over now, this is just beginning now. They could have just conceded. They have talked about unfair justice under the law for years. And All Of A Sudden, when their guy is elected and as it starts to unravel, they dont want equal justice under the law. I think it is shameful. Brian these issues were all in play but ignored in 2020. Real quick, this news, joe biden, close to the press, no shocker, i didnt ask for any questions or hear any questions. Katie . Katie the appointed david weiss a Special Counsel is a total joke when it comes to credibility. This is a guy come as the judge laid out, who decided they were going to do this unprecedented plea deal, whether the misdemeanor charges, five years of investigation, the lack of charges, or the Diversion Program for a gun charge, which would be a felony, in many years in prison for any regular person, especially the illegally possessed gone into a trash can next to school as joe biden and his girlfriend at the time did. How this is going to look moving forward. Hunter biden, bad news for him, pretrial release because today the depa Justice Department saiy cannot come up with an agreement to get him a second plea deal after the first fell apart. We has to be drug tested, get a job, inform the court when he is going to travel. The issue is brian case will not resolve short of trial. Katie correct vehicle the issue now is now problem. He was getting immunity from the plea deal and the biden defense team in court said no, no, no we need immunity. Now the Justice Department and Special Counsel is in this position where this is what they have to investigate. On its face, especially the documentation this week with James Comer Oversight Committee chairman, millions of dollars in foreign money, hunter biden facilitating the money, there is a lot of people politically who have gone to prison for fara violations on a much smaller scale and Big Questions about whether that is going to happen in because they couldnt come up with a second plea agreement, including the fara charges indicates to me that hunter biden is actually kind of worried about that and for weiss to get his credibility based on the law he is going to have to look at that at some point. Brian quick answer. We know comber was going to ask the bidens to come before him like don jr. Was asked, we know weiss was supposed to come before the committee. Is all of that stop . Jeanine yes. Thats the whole point. That is how corrupt this is. There is none of this on the level. Brian going to fight that come according to his people, but we will see. Thanks, guys. Even though it feels like the show is over, stick around. Coming up, another huge legal case with implications for 2024. Team trump going before a judge today on the former president s right to free speech. Stick around. With the freestyle libre 2 system know your Glucose Level and where its headed without fingersticks. Manage your diabetes with more confidence and lower your a1c. Its covered by medicare for those who qualify. Ask your doctor about the freestyle libre 2 system. This isnt just freight. These arent just shipments. Theyre promises. Promises of all shapes and sizes. Each, with a time and a place theyve been promised to be. A promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. Katie former President Trump notching a partial legal win during a preliminary hearing for his trial and alleged interference in the 2020 election. Federal judge refusing to issue a Blanket Order that would restrict the fo former President Trump talking about new evidence. She is instead imposing a more limited order that bars publicly discussing material deemed sensitive by the government. Trump railing against the case earlier this week, saying it infringes on his First Amendment rights. The case is is a ridiculous case. Is a First Amendment case vehicle but we dont want trump to sp speak so they take away your right to a First Amendment. Now they sue so now i have one of these lunatic reporters back there saying, sir, we would like to talk to you about your case. Im sorry, im not allowed to talk about it. Somehow that is not good for votes, do you agree . We say i cant talk. I will talk about it. I will. They are not taking away my First Amendment right. Katie judge, to you on the First Amendment question, and the judge here citing mostly with the president but i think it says a lot the prosecution was trying to get essentially a gag order. Jeanine never underestimate the feds. They are notorious for this. This is a trial about free speech. It is off and running with a prohibition against free speech. And that is the irony of all of this. I understand that what the judge is doing, i do. And in the article eight of the protective order, paragraph eight, it basically says there is certain information, like personally identifying witnesses or actresses, that makes sense. That needs to be prohibited. Rules, material, and grand jury material, grand jury testimony, i dont have a problem with that. Than what they do is order by the governments filter team come im not going to get in the weeds here. But they say there are certain evidence that will be produced at trial is sensitive and donald trump cannot talk about it. Well wait a minute. You are going to produce as evidence in a public trial in front of a jury, why cant he talk about it . What are you worried about . You are worried about your case . You are worried about the public hearing The Other Side . In other than a Courtroom Setting . With the best part of it is where the judge is putting an obligation on the part of Defense Counsel to not allow donald trump to take notes. From the information that he gets from the government. And counsel must inspect any other notes he takes to make sure the defendant, a. K. A. Donald trump, hasnt copied down personal information. I mean, this is ridiculous. Katie lawrence, not underestimating the fed, not just donald trump talking, they also didnt want twitter talking when they got into President Trumps twitter account, saying, subpoenaing this information in anybody at twitter should not tell the target that this is happening, which seems to be problematic. Lawrence they also thought he was a flight risk, as well, even though he has 24hour secret service. I hope the court understands that donald trump is almost fading them to arrest him. He wants to get locked up. He wants that to be the rallying cry for his supporters to say, look, they have been after me the entire time. I have been telling you this since day one, and by extension, they are after you. He is baiting the court to see how far they want to go. He already thinks it is a Sham Prosecution and his supporters think the same thing. If you want to see donald trump reelected, throw him in jail. That will be his camp a rallying cry. I would encourage the court, they decide to make this a political process and not a Legal Process to be careful. We already know she doesnt like trump. If you want to see him get reelected come hold him in contempt of court. Katie jessica, how many tshirts do you think the Trump Campaign will sell of a trunk mug shot should that happen at some point . Jessica he will be getting a mug shot in atlanta. That would be the only one of his indictments he will actually be photographed. Yes, i am sure the swag will be fierce. [laughter] but i dont think he wants to get put in jail. The man doesnt even like sleeping in a hotel, let alone in a jail cell, so i think that he is genuinely and obviously, you know, we are not pals, we dont chat about it, but i think when you look at what he is facing with the four indictments, and putting aside the new york indictment, which i think is not a different kind of level than the other ones, there is real concern, this many counts that you are facing, that you are going to get convicted of something, and i think that is scary for anyone, let alone someone who has had a tremendously privileged and lovely life in terms of how they live, this idea that you are going to be going to prison. I think it was a good thing that this judge mostly sided with the trump counsel just to put it out there that she is not in anyones bag here, that she can read the order an