Wildfire updates. What can you tell us now in. Reporter hey there, griff, good morning to you. Were alongside one of the main entry points into the town of a lahaina. People here have been lined up for hours, some of these folks sleeping in their cars waiting for the curfew in the town of lahaina to expire. Some of these people have nothing left, they just want to get in, see whats left of the town. Take a listen to some folks about what theyve seen there. I want people to know that there are people out here suffering, and we need donations. We need, we need people shipping things out here. We need families fed, we need yeah, we need so much men help. Reporter home after home in lahaina, gone. One estimate from core logic puts the estimate of destroyed homes at more than 3,000. The rising death toll now at 80 people as rescue crews search for more victims. Thousands of people have now left the island, and around 1400 are currently staying in Emergency Shelters here. Its still unclear h
Appoint him as Special Counsel. Charles a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case, but its the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a coverup. Were going to get the latest from Lucas Tomlinson on what the white house is saying. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop president ial candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. Plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the Attorney General this hawaii will be lawn a. Ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. Welcome, everyone. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. We bin at the white house where President Biden so far is staying quiet on the Special Counsel appointment in his sons case. Lucas tomlinson is there though. Reporter charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that Delaware Courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal issues would soon b
Whistleblower gary shapley testified in may that david weiss wanted potential counsel status because he felt limited in his powers to fully investigate and charge hunter biden. weiss then denied that to be true. here s one of shapley s attorneys. to use that very same person to go ahead and elevate them to special counsel status when he has been claiming to congress all along that he didn t need it seems like an odd choice. reporter: critics also argue appointing a sitting u.s. attorney goes against doj regulations which state that a special counsel should come from the outside the justice department. charles? charles: thank you very much. so what is the impact of the special counsel appointment on hunter biden in this probe? former acting u.s. attorney general matthew whitaker joins me now. the initial reaction was, okay, this was all done to sort of create, delay this to run the clock out, to postpone think sort of real sort of any sort of real sort of conclusion until after
to choose that very same person to go ahead and elevate them to special counsel status when he has been claiming to congress all along that he didn t need it is, seems like an odd choice. reporter: and, griff, last hour you spoke with democratic congressman ami bera, he provided his thoughts. it s good for the country to see a former president on trial or, you know, a president s son on trial. i just would hope that there s a way to resolve these without putting the country through either one of these cases. reporter: well, critics also argue that appointing a sitting u.s. attorney goes against doj regulations which state that a special counsel should come from outside the justice department, griff. griff: no shortage of thoughts on this issue, and a lot more to come. alex, thank you very much. molliesome if. molly: all right. for more on the potential legal fallout from the special counsel appointment and how it might affect the hunter biden probe, we have constitutional attor