For more information how you can help victims of Hawaii Wildfires go to cnn. Com impact or text hawaii to 707070 to donate. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. A brand new Special Counsel now focused on hunter biden. The lead starts right now. The Attorney Generals surprise announcement. The prosecutor who was overseeing The Hunter Case is now being elevated to a Special Counsel. What will this mean for the president s son . What will this mean for the president . And donald trump might be told to zip it. The judge in the 2020 Election Fraud case signaling that she is going to be willing to restrict sensitive evidence as she tells trumps attorneys the former president s right to free speech is not absolute. And hawaiis catastrophe sadly getting worse. Historic towns gone, homes burned to the ground, 55 lives confir confirmed lost, and that number is sadly expected to climb. Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. And we start with our Law And Justice lead with a new Special Counsel
To possible witness intimidation, to questionable defense arguments. 100 questions for and Andrew Weissmann. And later, served as an Impeachment Manager and on the january Six Committee. Congressman jamie raskin joins me live to discuss his reactions to the charges and what she is watching for next. For the third time informants, the former president of the United States has been indicted, arrested, and arraigned. Lets face, that we have become oddly familiar with how this all goes. There is the release of the indictment itself, helicopters falling blackest movies, and of course, the court sketches, all followed by a barrage of deranged posts on so there is a rinse and repeat feeling that starting to sudden. This one did feel different because it is different. Felt bigger because it is bigger. The indictment filed by Special Counsel jack smith this week detailed the ways in which an american president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the will of the peop
campaign to perpetuate the brush hoax. the daily mail is reporting that in 2016 just as a bureau ramped up crossfire hurricane, the fbi shut down for separate criminal investigations into bill and hillary clinton and the clinton foundation. in response, the clinton foundation laughable he claimed there has never been any evidence of wrongdoing. not only to the fbi and department of justice abuse their power and buying to the public. they seem to be proud of it. there were no apologies after the durum report. no resignations. no admission of wrongdoing whatsoever. as they pointed out an op-ed i wrote for foxnews.com, the justice department cannot and will not police itself. the latest example, the fbi is still refusing to turn over an unclassified record alleging a criminal bribery scheme against joe biden. despite a legally binding subpoena from congress. today, german comber demanded access to the subpoenaed material. director ray is not budging. of course, this isn t just a
arrested another suspect who is on the terror watch list. he came in south of san diego. he was from afghanistan. the fbi is investigating him. he s one of dozens of terror watch list names who have crossed in to the country over the last several months. president biden though was pretty sanguin on how things are going. he s pleased since the end of title 42 last week. watch. how you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. just be disruptive. not anything else. when i went to bo s bench at the four miles up, i met two people come up to me, a bunch of people. that s why i was late. i was taking a lot of pictures. came up and said, we want to st. paul s in scranton. martha: never know who you run into from scranton as the public changes the subject from the border to folks he ran in to on the bike path. let s go to joe concha, a fox news contributor and brandon
tonight we are tracking multiple breaking stories including bombshell new allegations from a former irs whistleblower about your president joe biden, hunter biden, and at least one high ranking biden official. will you love this breaking news tonight. also new information about the biden family syndicate you did not know about, although with an explosive exchange between congresswoman marjorie taylor greene and eric swalwell. that s all coming up. oh, and don lemon s latest public meltdown. and i m saying don t fire don lemon. because nobody will get lower ratings. keep him right where he is. [cheers and applause] sean: we start with this bit of news i think you ll all like it. a big huge loss in court today for manhattan da alvin bragg. [cheers and applause] sean: a huge win for the rule of law and tonight in court a federal judge denied bragg s request to stop the house judiciary committee from issuing a subpoena to one of bragg s former prosecutors the guy that wrote t