Wildfire updates. What can you tell us now in. Reporter hey there, griff, good morning to you. Were alongside one of the main entry points into the town of a lahaina. People here have been lined up for hours, some of these folks sleeping in their cars waiting for the curfew in the town of lahaina to expire. Some of these people have nothing left, they just want to get in, see whats left of the town. Take a listen to some folks about what theyve seen there. I want people to know that there are people out here suffering, and we need donations. We need, we need people shipping things out here. We need families fed, we need yeah, we need so much men help. Reporter home after home in lahaina, gone. One estimate from core logic puts the estimate of destroyed homes at more than 3,000. The rising death toll now at 80 people as rescue crews search for more victims. Thousands of people have now left the island, and around 1400 are currently staying in Emergency Shelters here. Its still unclear h
Not have rapped up there. laugh rah laugh griff: well, i m ott not sure the crowd was really into it. they may have been shocked. what do you say, david? he s from my hometown, cincinnati. he s not a trained politician, experienced politician, he hasn t done this before, so there s some of these off the cuff appointments that i do think have some appeal. he got the words right, he looked like he did it april well, so i give him an a on performance. griff: all right, let s talk, you know, i was so excited when id had you guys in here today. i wanted to talk about as we get closer and closer, i know iowa s kicking off to the election, and fox, of course, has the first debate coming up just a in just a few weeks. it seems it is investigation after investigation, scandal after scandal, the issues are almost absent. no one s talking about health care, few people are talking about inflation but yet, obviously, we had the hunter biden internal counsel announced. what do you make about t
Biden family. i don t think we need any more evidence to hoe that the the president of justice is trying to obstruct our investigation. i think merrick garland made that argument for us today. reporter: house speaker kevin mccarthy stated this action cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or hate wash the biden family corruption. weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn t get approved, how could he be trusted as a special come. some republicans are special counsel. senate chuck grassley, for him it s weiss that s the cause for concern. i sent a letter saying we should is are a special counsel. on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. reporter: well, that s because there s been so much back and forth. in may, irs whistleblower gary shapley testified that u.s. attorney weiss sought special counsel status because he felt limited in his powers to fully investigate hunter biden. weiss and attorney general merrick garland disputed the c
The department of justice, he did not work for the attorney general, janet reno at the time. he was picked because he was a prominent attorney from outside of the united states government, from outside of the department of justice. that s how special counsels are supposed to work. and as you mentioned, the regulations that govern the department of justice specifically state that a special counsel is supposed to come from outside of the government. because remember, it s not just about making sure that the process is complete, come we e hencive and fair comprehensive and fair, it also has to have the proper appearance of or fairness. and again, here you have david weiss who literally works as an employee for the department of justice under merrick garland being picked by merrick garland, the hand-picked attorney general of joe biden to investigate joe biden s son. obviously, the optics don t look right here which is why you re supposed to, if you re the attorney general of the united
Record shows because if something changes in six months, i m bringing you back, and be, like, remember when [laughter] marc and dade, thank you very much. marc and david, great panel as always, guys. molly? molly: this week on fox news sunday, shannon bream sits down with republican house foreign affairs chair michael mccaul as well as democratic house armed services ranking member adam smith. check your local listings for time, for channel. and then there s mediabuzz, howard kurtz dives into the coverage of the hunter biden probe and yesterday s potential counsel announcement. that is tomorrow at 1 11 a.m. eastern. and all four sec editors along the southern sectors along the southern border either over capacity of immigrants, overcapacity or soon to reach it. we will have a live report from bill melugin coming up next.