Attorne Attorney General Merrick Garland announcing he will give david weiss Special Counsel status to investigate the president s son. Hello and welcome everyone, im sandra smith. Gillian, great to have you back. Gillian this is America Reports. Garland says weiss told him he wanted to be given Special Counsel status to continue his probe into hunter biden. This after insisting for months that step was not necessary. Sandra the timing of this announcement is certainly being highlighted at this hour, and raising Big Questions about how the probe will intersect with a separate congressional investigation. And a Draft Plea Deal between hunters attorneys and weiss thats currently being reworked. Gillian Lindsey Graham as well as house ways and Means Committee chair jason smith are both here to react. Sandra mark meredith, live at the Justice Department at this hour for us. Why did the attorney yes decide to do this and decide to do this now, mark . Sandra, good afternoon to you. The u. S.
That the judge piped up and said im not going to be a rubber stamp for this unprecedented plea deal. That fell apart as you remember. Heres the question for this afternoon did things just to get a little better or little worse for hunter biden and potentially by extension, for his father who was running for president. Theres a lot going on behind the scenes here on this friday afternoon, what it says, this means that a trial is in order but where . Would it be in d. C. , california, does it move it off his plate . Theres a jurisdictional question there about where this all goes, also the timeline, the clock is ticking on these charges. Some of these are displayed to run out while all of this plays out under the statute of limitations, heres attorney general Merrick Garland announcing all of this a short time ago, watch. 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 a
But rebuilding will cost more than 5 billion fox weather max Gorden Standing by live on the scene and maui. Well get to him in a moment but will speak to a Senior Pastor who is helping those whove lost everything from the flames appeared. Aishah a former the former pret trump speaking a moments ago in iowa whether or not its going to make it to the first gop debate its coming up fast in just 11 days here right here on fox news. Our Alexis Mcadams is on the ground. She is going to bring us his reaction from the Iowa State Fair. Eric first more legal troubles bring for hunter biden as you know Attorney General Merrick Garland has named u. S. Attorney david weiss who has been investigating him. As the Special Counsel in the investigation of hunters overseas business dealings. Weiss has been on the case since 2019 at the federal prosecutor in delaware. The Attorney General said he requested the Special Counsel status this week nearly two weeks after the plea deal that weiss oversaw with hu
Legal team fell apart in corporate hello everyone welcome to fox news like i am eric shawn. aishah: hi eric so good to be with you on this saturday good to see you i am aishah hasnie in for arthel nevertheless a day off. trump appointed u.s. attorney weiss said yesterday talks were a new hunter biden plea deal have all but failed with the case is likely to go to trial. he says as special counsel he looked more independence from the justice department on this case. top republicans are calling or have been calling for special counsel for months now. now they are saying they cannot trust weiss since he is the one who struck the so-called sweetheart deal. they call his appointment part of a d.o.j. attempts to cover up. they re going to follow the evidence wherever it meets. we are not going to let this go. weiss is not off the hook this up friday afternoon gambit is not going to work. we get are going to continue to ask questions about the biggest sweetheart deal and the history
October 7th at 2022, weiss told the team i was overruled, it s not my decision what to charge or where to charge it. i asked mr. weiss in a letter is that true or not, he better answer. changing special counsels becoming a special counsel does not absolve him of the obligation to answer questions legitimate by the you state senators and house members. i think they are trying to shut down the congressional investigation. to my house colleagues, you have done a wonderful job, i ve tried to be helpful. mr. weiss, you are not off the hook here. this friday afternoon gambit is not gonna work. we are going to continue to ask questions about the biggest sweetheart deal in the history of america. we are not going away in congress. gillian: senator, democratic strategists are weighing in on twitter already now saying look, republicans have been calling for months for a special counsel. now they ve got 1, 1 has been appointed and complaining about