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.
biden s legal team decide to do next, whether or not they will try to fight this and prolong this case, it will drag on for the next several months if not the next year, and the upcoming presidential election. the white house has made it clear they are going to stay away from this as possible say they were not interfering with the probe involving first son hunter biden. we even got the white house to announce for the first time two weeks ago there will be no pardon of the first son if he were to be convicted on the charges, especially now that it s heading to trial. the real focus is also on the u.s. attorney david weiss, who republicans were certainly interesting to see where he was going going into that plea agreement, but obviously they scoffed after the agreement was shut down by a federal judge saying they felt weiss was giving a sweetheart deal to the first son. however, we are hearing from some congressional republicans who say they are not happy weiss is the special counsel, th