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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
Place by giving the first Sweetheart Deal of the century until a judge lit up and you got gop president ial candidates and lawmakers calling out how they see it. David weiss cannot be trusted. Kid gloves is the treatment hunter biden received from the Department Of Justice appointing david a Special Counsel like keeping your protecting. Think the people trusted. What took so long . Is it hunter biden or the biden family . Did they do it is a distraction take away from the place of coming out . Is another reason form of justice serious issues and needs to be we not along with our intelligence agencies. David weiss the u. S. Attorney that will allow statute of limitations to expire on serious tax returns. This was, this will not restore confidence all. Of course the liberal media is pulling out the stops to defend hunter biden saying is being treated worse than donald trump. I think the evidence ive seen so far in this case is is under fire . Never met him being treated worse than anyone
Place by giving the first Sweetheart Deal of the century until a judge lit up and you got gop president ial candidates and lawmakers calling out how they see it. David weiss cannot be trusted. Kid gloves is the treatment hunter biden received from the Department Of Justice appointing david a Special Counsel like keeping your protecting. Think the people trusted. What took so long . Is it hunter biden or the biden family . Did they do it is a distraction take away from the place of coming out . Is another reason form of justice serious issues and needs to be we not along with our intelligence agencies. David weiss the u. S. Attorney that will allow statute of limitations to expire on serious tax returns. This was, this will not restore confidence all. Of course the liberal media is pulling out the stops to defend hunter biden saying is being treated worse than donald trump. I think the evidence ive seen so far in this case is is under fire . Never met him being treated worse than anyone