Welcome to hour three of fox and friends. You see President Biden yesterday m milwaukee touting the Inflation Reduction Act, one year after signing it, but stayed silent on his sons legal problems, which are vast. Ainsley they are, hunter biden losing one of his lawyers after claiming the department backed out of a plea deal. Brian Down The Road in the d. C. Bureau, were covering all of washington, even sand lot sporting events. Peter, take it away. Peter interesting to see the ap headline. Yes, inflation is down. No issue the Inflation Reduction Act doesnt deserve the credit and President Biden may be aware that is the case. The bill is about climate spending, triple what the president told us it would cost climate wise. Today it is all on bidenomics. Hunter biden is retooling his legal team. Lawyer behind the doomed plea deal is out because he, chris clark, may become a witness in this case under the witness rule, inadvisable for mr. Clark to stay on this case. Withdrawal will not ca
The indictment follows a yearlong investigation, 75 witnesses and 98 pages. The Fulton County District Attorney. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election. Harris so in those 98 pages the indictment targets 19 defendants with a total of 41 charges. The former president faces 13 of those 41 charges himself. Prosecutors say they have various emails, texts, phone calls as evidence against all 19 plaintiffs. Trumps codefendants, the 18 others include some of his attorneys at the time and his former white house Chief Of Staff. The District Attorney says she hopes to go to trial in six months and try all 19 at the same time. Fox news contributor and legal expert Jonathan Turley says the two tiers of justice as plain as day. The contrast is extraordinary. Trump is being indicted for everything short of ripping a Mattress Label off. And
Outfront tonight at seven on cnn cnn Breaking News and you are in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington. We begin this hour with Breaking News Up On Capitol Hill just minutes ago, house lawmakers passed a bill that could lead to a ban of the very popular social media platform tiktok here in the United States, if passed by the senate and then signed into law by President Biden, the measure would give the company less than six months to sell to a nonchinese owner. If that doesnt happen, tiktok could be shutdown here in the United States chinas calling the bill an act of bullying. Users of the platform, which is widely popular, especially among younger americans, are rallying to try to protect it. Lets begin our coverage Up On Capitol Hill right now, our chief cnn congressional correspondent, manu raja, is watching all of this mono. This was a very rare overwhelming, bipartisan vote yes, im something you dont see in this very polarized political environment in these narrowly div
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
good afternoon. two hours and counting until david weiss has to meet this deadline for house republicans to answer questions about the hunter biden probe. i think we can say with confidence he won t meet the deadline. the reason we can say this with confidence, he said so himself in a letter to republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan late last week. i want to read party of it. this is from weiss to jordan. he said in his letter last friday to jordan, the donald trump appointed u.s. attorney quoted a prior letter from june where he wrote clear cheer. a few weeks later, trace, how judiciary chairman jim jordan wrote to weiss asking him who told him to sign that letter. jordan doesn t believe that weiss called the shots in the probe. he think us it was doj. jordan believes this based off of the testimony of irs whistle-blower shapley who investigated the hunter biden tax probe since 2020. he s been on the record numerous times say he saw weiss complain that he was