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.
october. the justice department was going to allow that to happen. that would be put on hold because the special counsel work would be ongoing. likely asked to testify if not forced to testify and as the attorney general mentioned there will be a report but as to when that will come out, before, during, after the election, wait to find out. sandra: bear with us a second, mark, a lot of breaking news, a lot of reaction to what we have just learned over the past hour or so. james comer, the rep leading the investigation in the house, the hunter biden investigation, has just issued a statement, make sure our viewers see and hear this. this move by a.g. garland, comer says, is part of the justice department efforts to attempt a biden family cover-up in light of gop mounting evidence of president biden s role in family schemes, selling the brand for millions of dollars to foreign nationals. this also just in, too, read