That they have gone through, frankly, are continuing to go through. This crisis is far from over. Theres so much frustration, theres so much suffering, you know . The real mourning has not even been able to begin to start because of people really looking to how do i just get me and my family to tomorrow. Joey yeah. And even still firefighters are working to pull ily contain some fires burning on the island. Officials calling it the worst Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. To a fox news alert, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a Special Counsel to the hunter biden criminal probe. Rachel but republicans and if even some democrats arent happy with who he selected. Will Alexandria Hoff joins us live washington. Reporter good morning. It is an interesting turn of events or at least title, right . Now Special Counsel david weiss and the Attorney General, they both previously maintained weiss did not need Special Counsel powers in pursuing charges against hunter biden. Of course,
something went wrong in the intervening period which led to the search that happened at the former president s home in palm beach last week. evan, big picture this for us. why are these interviews with trump s former top two lawyers at the white house, why are they significant? first of all, these were two of several representatives of the former president named as people to be in touch with the national archives should anything like this happen. so they would be in the position to be the first to get contacted. the other part of this, jake, that i think is important for people to know is these two men would know the answer to the big question that i think a lot of us are asking, which is is it true that the former president had some kind of standing order to declassify documents? was it true that by simply sending documents from the west wing to the residence, did that deem them declassified? those are questions that these two men, as top counsels to the former president
reporter: mr. president, are you urn investigation? reporter: house republicans are skeptical that by elevating trump-appointed weiss, the doj is taking investigative power into biden family business dealings out of their hands. well, this is another example of the department of justice stonewalling and on instrumenting our obstructing our investigation. i ve been complaining about this for months. this is an investigation if act joe biden. i don t think we need any more evidence to show the department of justice is trying to obstruct our investigation. i think merrick garland made that argument for us today. reporter: critics also argue that urn justice department regulations the special counsel should be selected from outside the u.s. government and that a u.s. attorney should not be the one to take the lead on this. as special counsel, david weiss will be under no deadline to conclude his investigate, it all could stretch well past the 2024 elections. guys? will: thank you
perspective candidates think they probably have to say. and it makes it very hard to break ahead of trump because by saying it, you re elevating trump. it s like it s a catch-22, for all of these would-be 2024 hopefuls. yet, you know who else has co-opted trump. so much of what joe biden has done in the last year is stuff that trump campaigned on. right? infrastructure, being tough on china when it comes to it s really remarkable. but that s the policy part of it. that a lot of republicans don t seem to be all that interested in co-opting. he has had some victories just in the last few weeks that democrats will be able to run on. on trump, though, i was out in erie, pennsylvania, last week at the fedderman rally speaking to voters there. i was really surprised that so many were talking about how they were concerned about the health of our democracy. a retired x-ray technician
they separated back into their normal houses. the moment of the anniversary is one that the white house is trying to use as a moment. they recognize there is been some criticism that the committee has not done enough to sell this to the public. that seems to be last week. the white house is approaching the anniversary, looking to highlight what happened that day with the president calling it as one of the darkest days of democracy. voting rights here, what happens on on january 6th and since then is all about an attack on our democracy as much as they re trying to stop joe biden being certified. we need to have some sort of push to preserve that freedom. the debate in the west wing of how big they want to go into this and they re on that day and they re nervous of elevating trump lies. they re in the works. and call for the troops to come