Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell joins us live. tell us about the study. a lot of people will say, wait, didn t we know there was a link here? absolutely. parkinson s typically affects the people over the age of 68. what was really known is there was an association between extreme contact sports like boxing and parkinson s. they sought to see if the association was also with football. 700 of the studied, what they found, people who had played football had a 61% higher risks of parkinson-ism, which is the