Circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. And to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger and kim strassel do you think Merrick Garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come . Well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. I mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of Kevin Mccarthy House Speakership Roll Forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the United States after one has already been appointed a special council to investigate the form
At right now he is headed to detroit to speak at naacp events. Earlier the president give a Keynote Address to the Graduating Class at Morehouse College morehouse, or the historically black universities in atlanta. The president is seeking to fire up his coalition to bring home traditionally reliable democratic voting bloc in november hello everyone im eric shawn this is fox news live. Hi arthel. Hi eric hello everyone i am Arthel Neville but President Bidens visit to atlanta is the first time he has been on a College Campus since they became the Staging Grounds avert massive protests over the war in gaza. We are reporting less than a dozen students at the commencement turn their backs to the president during his speech seemingly in a protest. This comes as the president is also seeing his numbers a road with black voters new fox polling Shows Approval among the key groups slipped seven Percentage Points since before the 2020 election but meanwhile President Trump has gained nine suppo
Attended court with the former president , and he responded to Michael Cohens testimony yesterday. Watch. This is a guy thats a convicted felon. He lost his haw license. He went down the tubes because he was, you know, defrauding, apparently, financial executions based on taxi cab me call thing ons medallions. His whole intent of being personal attorney to the United States was to troy and monetize it for selfserving purposes, he testified that today. Reporter now, trump is limited on what he can say about the proceedings because he continues to be the under the judges gag order. But trump did speak to press yesterday before court. Watch here. We should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse all day long. This is a biden prosecution. Its election interference. At a level that nobody in this country has ever seen before. This is the third this is for third world countries, not for the usa. Reporter maria, you mentioned speaker or mike johnson whos expected t
Was out of his handcuffs, waist chain and disappeared into the woods. I asked the director a couple of minutes ago if, in fact, he was wearing shack else, handcuffs an waist chain when he left the facility. He said absolutely he was in all lee chains. However, when the police told us held a News Conference at 2 30, they say they werent sure whether or not he had shack else on his leg, but thats what the detention director told me just a couple of minutes ago by phone. That he was in shack else. Now, there have been no reported sightings of this man in the last several hours. Weve been listening to police channels and hearing some reports of people that were suspicious. The police have gone and checked all those out and so far, they have not found this manning. Lets show you a little bit more about what weve been covering all day it began just minutes after david watson escaped with his handcuffs and ran into a wooded area off dorsey run road and jessup. Officers went through the woods
Officers with a metal rake and refused commands to put it down. It happened on chase street. We went to santa cruz and spoke to concerned neighbors who say the suspect was mentally unstable. Reporter people who live in this quiet neighborhood in my santa cruz say they are surprised to hear of a deadly shooting, let alone one where an officer pulled a trigger. Any death is a tragedy. Its scary that it came to that. Its scary it had to come to a shooting. I tend to not expect that out here. Reporter it was at this home on cherry street. Police got a frantic 911 call at 3 30 am. Resident called with a report of someone bashing on their doors and windows and screaming that they wanted to kill everyone in the house. Reporter a family was home at the time. When officers got there, they got the suspect away from the house. It was on the Streets Police say the man then confronted officers, attacking them with a metal rake and wouldnt stop despite several attempts with a taser. Officer lives we