That the judge piped up and said im not going to be a rubber stamp for this unprecedented plea deal. That fell apart as you remember. Heres the question for this afternoon did things just to get a little better or little worse for hunter biden and potentially by extension, for his father who was running for president. Theres a lot going on behind the scenes here on this friday afternoon, what it says, this means that a trial is in order but where . Would it be in d. C. , california, does it move it off his plate . Theres a jurisdictional question there about where this all goes, also the timeline, the clock is ticking on these charges. Some of these are displayed to run out while all of this plays out under the statute of limitations, heres attorney general Merrick Garland announcing all of this a short time ago, watch. Upon considering his request as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as a
dick durbin says merrick garland avoided even the appearance of politics by appointing weiss but he also says he trusts weiss. thank you very much for that, let s bring in house oversight committee member texas republican pat ballin. could have you here, thank you very much. what s your reaction to this big news today? admittedly at first i thought special counsel, great. then when i hear it s david weiss a lot of paws for the reasons guests just mentioned. he had this case for years and hasn t done much with it, the irs agents said he was hamstrung but then he announces he has full authority, that was true, why would he need to be appointed special counsel? pretty much anybody but david weiss that can be independent would be great because you have to remember a gal named leslie wolf who worked for him one of his assistant u.s. attorney s was the one who tipped off