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.
entities give money to hunter biden other than the fact that they believe that the hunter family business peddling influence is there. and this is an individual that is rumored to be living in the white house with the president right now. sandra: so noting that, obviously the reaction from james comer leading the investigation in the house saying the move by a.g. garland is part of the justice department efforts to attempt a biden family cover-up, in light of the gop mounting evidence of the biden family scheme selling the brand to foreign nationals. that being said, final question congressman, creation of this special counsel, could it really interfere or block house committee s investigations into the bidens? can you tell us anything about that? could there be an even bigger clash as our own chad pergram suggests if the house were ever to launch an impeachment inquiry? where does all of this go next