Attorne Attorney General Merrick Garland announcing he will give david weiss Special Counsel status to investigate the president s son. Hello and welcome everyone, im sandra smith. Gillian, great to have you back. Gillian this is America Reports. Garland says weiss told him he wanted to be given Special Counsel status to continue his probe into hunter biden. This after insisting for months that step was not necessary. Sandra the timing of this announcement is certainly being highlighted at this hour, and raising Big Questions about how the probe will intersect with a separate congressional investigation. And a Draft Plea Deal between hunters attorneys and weiss thats currently being reworked. Gillian Lindsey Graham as well as house ways and Means Committee chair jason smith are both here to react. Sandra mark meredith, live at the Justice Department at this hour for us. Why did the attorney yes decide to do this and decide to do this now, mark . Sandra, good afternoon to you. The u. S.
from the whistleblowers who were on the hill last month talking about their work, take a listen what one of them had to say testifying before congress. that was not the case. it appeared to me based on what i experienced the u.s. attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly ham strung, limited and marginallized by doj officials as well as other u.s. attorneys. i still think that a special counsel is necessary for this investigation. so as you just heard right there, one of the two irs whistleblowers saying he believed a special counsel was needed but i would imagine he would not think it was going to be the u.s. attorney who he was just talking about, david weiss, saying he felt there was handcuffs on him, that he was not able to do the job effectively. whether or not we will see additional testimony from the whistleblowers on the hill has yet to be seen, and david weiss was getting ready to talk to congress either in september or
said and i agree with his decision to remove past episodes from our platform, i realize some will want more and one point very clear. i do not believe that silencing joe is the answer. we should have clear lines around content and take action when they are crossed but cancelling voices is a slippery slope . and also says spotify will invest $100 million in music and audio content from historically marginallized groups. multiple musicians have pulled their music, showing him saying the n-word. he said it was taken out of context. he says he used it while discussing how the racial slur was used. i was talking about how there is not another word like it in the entire english language. it s a word where only one group
marginallized. schumer of new york will take a lesson from this. he has a chance to reset things in the senate. just basically a boxing ring. all they do is fight. i think schumer likes to be a player. see, the senate majority leader harry reid i saw as playing political games and doing everything he could. i m deeply deserved that the nominee for attorney general loretta lynch has not had a vote. i don t care if they re voting for or against her. the republicans promised they weren t going to do the political games that harry reid did. well, they did. from a democrats s perspective. that s going over the country. he is the leader of the democrats. so they are playing two roles. a key role in both parties.
progressism, i think you have to talk about them in terms of degrees, like conservatives. where you know that you are you cannot win in louisiana unless you cater to the oil interests, for instance. so you can sit there and be a prophet without honor and be marginallized. a single purpose is to defeat barack obama. what the democrats did not do is make their lives a living health. they made it a living heck maybe but not a living hell. we re staying right on this when we come back and i am going to get on the bus. literally. i got on the bus yesterday. it was fun. [ birds chirping ]