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.
tonight. good evening, peter. mike, on this memorial day, president biden is expressing confidence that there won t be a debt default while also trying to express condolences to the families of fallen american service members. god bless all those who gave their lives so our nation might live. present arms. peter: hours after solemn wreath laying at arlington national cemetery. i never say i m confident with what the congress are going to do. i feel very good about it. headlines of the deal suspending the debt limit until 2025 and limiting federal spending. what this will do is it increases defense and increases veterans. if you take nondefense with veterans out it, goes bloat level of 2022. congressman chip roy doesn t like the deal and roy sits on the rules committee where the bill goes next. he tweets a reminder that during speaker negotiations to build the collision that it was explicit both that nothing would pass rules committee without at least 7 g.o.p.
january 6 riot and later in the day followed that up with the speech vilifying the gop on the money issues. speaker of the house went to wall street last week. used cuts in important programs, he and his maga republican colleague, they would rather see kids and seniors struggle to eat what they need. people on medicaid lose their healthcare. veterans lose access to doctors visits and cut subsidies to big oil that made $200 billion, and big pharma and the wealthiest corporations. did you hear anything about an idea that he might take to the table on the debt limit or budget and counter balance what republicans are asking for, no. just pounced on them and pounded. even members of his own political party now are not eager for another four years of biden. poll after poll showing more than half of people who say they vote democrat seem to be what i call abb, anybody but biden. the white house quite defensive about those polls, and don t dare touch the glaring fact he s the old
moment. she has her own ideas on how to reign in spending as america s debt is exploding. let s just say she s not signing on to what the president put out today. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. we have a busy show for you right now, this is your world. let s go to peter doocy in philadelphia where the president outlined his plans that he says are fair to average americans. and in a way, stick to it the rich. peter? and neil, president biden is back of the napkin math reads like, this cut the deficit $3 trillion by raising taxes on the wealthy and on corporations by about 4.7 trillion over ten years. anybody that thinks our present federal tax system is fair, raise your hand. i m not joking. people making $400,000 a year, do you think it s fair? the president is trying to contrast himself with what he calls maga republicans who he says have no plan to preserve medicare or reduce costs. the house republican leadership responded to this all at once in a statement t
democratic senator. peter? we had a chance to look at some of these polls and bring them to the briefing room. exactly thinks the president is doing a good job on inflation? we ve got a new poll that find he receives his lowest job ratings on inflation. that negative 38 points. we understand there s challenges that are in front of us here in this country that is why the president has taken action to lower costs. you know what though? even though it s his top domestic priority and he has low marks, president biden s job performance is at its highest since january. he ticked up to 46% approving compared to 53% disapproving. on the poll that i asked the press secretary about, on the economy broadly, 35% approval for the president and inflation specifically 29% positive compared to 67% negative. the president a few minutes ago came out to try to tout his administration s efforts that are currently held up in court to forgive a lot of student loan debt. trying to do ever