departmental practice is to contact the u.s. attorney s office for the district in question to whether or not whether they want to partner on the case. if not, i may request special attorney status from the attorney general. here i administer that if necessary, i would be granted sex shun five 15 authority in the district of columbia, the central district of california or any other district where charges could be brought in this matter. okay? it is the difference as mrs. ocasio-cortez said between special counsel and special attorney, which might explain the confusion or the disagreement here. in any event, the u.s. attorney for delaware had all of the authority he needed to bring whatever charges he wanted wherever he wanted and he is the witness for that. thank you, mr. chairman. i d like to be clear that he was assured that authority. he was he was. he said he was assured the authority. and he is limited within delaware. right. but that s the rules. just restatin
fun morning. pete: i look at that shot of the intrepid an i m looking at the water in the hudson there look at how calm that water is will and i are swimming that. swimming that with the navy s.e.a.l.s. next month about a month from now will has been intraing vigorously aye done a few laps in my pool. he s text me like do you have any suggestions he s really hitting all of his resources. pete: look how calm that is. will has an advantage he s a sweller by trainings. you ve got fins. pete: you do get some fins. what is your prediction? who is going to win? pete: there s no winning it is surviving completion of the race without assistance. you re going it make me believe you re not goapg to note who goes got there first. joey: while you re swimming or do you have to keep pushing? you have to keep pushing pete: i ve done it twice before first time i didn t mac it second time i made it with some assistance. second time i got coaching on long distance swimming in
he had never quote been denied the authority to bring charge in any jurisdiction. with that said, irs special agent joseph ziegler joins us now. thank you so much for being here, we appreciate it. let me start with the big picture, what is the many allegation that you are making against hunter biden. i want to thank you so much for letting me be on the show. i think it s important that your audience hear the presented facts of testimony. it s the equitible treatment of taxpayers. we have to treat every taxpayer the same in investigating our cases with the justice department. and i think that s important that everyone understands that to have a fair justice system, we need to treat people the same. it doesn t matter what your political beliefs are. it doesn t matter how much money you have, everyone should be treated the same. right and the suggestion is that hunter biden was given special treatment and the u.s. attorney didn t proceed as aggressively as he would have if h
look at the american armor protecting ukrainian fighters. plus a special and rather odd gop invitation for robert f. kennedy jr., the presidential candidate, how rfk jr. attempted to defend his years of lies and conspiracy theories. but the room it happens, the federal grand jury that could decide whether donald trump will be indicted for his role in the january 6th insurrection. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. donald trump waiting to hear if prosecutors are going to try to hold him accountable for otryin to overturn the 2020 election. right now the grand jury investigating those efforts is meeting at the courthouse here in washington d.c. the grand jury is expected to hear from two witnesses, after which they could theoretically vote on whether to charge donald trump or anyone else in this case. we ll likely not find out about potential charges until trump announces it himself on social media, how he did in the other special
48%, a huge lead over nikki haley in second at just 14%. ron desantis is a close third at 13%. south carolina senator tim scott is in fourth place at 10%. joey: as gop hopefuls gear up for next month s debate stage, donald trump hasn t committed to joining them, and 59% of iowa gop caucus voters say that shows weakness and nearly the same amount of south carolina gop voters agree. so you see that there. i don t know it will be interesting to see how much it matters, if he s in the debate or not. i think it may help clear the field of who is left but i don t know that it will hurt him. pete: these polls reinforce the argument that donald trump is making right now, if i have nearly half of 46 to 48% in south carolina and iowa, considering the prominent south carolina senators that are there and considering the amount of time other candidates are spending in iowa, he has a commanding lead, half the republican party in both of these key states. so why submit yourself to being