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.
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federal prosecutors, they have now filed three felony charges ,six misdemeanor counts against the president s 53-year-old son, hunter biden. all of this related to the alleged scheme to evade taxes on a massive of income these years between 2016 and 2019. quote, rather than pay his taxes, the defendants spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle. well, remember, hunter was previously indicted on federal gun charges in delaware. now, of course, the doj s original plan. let s take you back in time was to not charge hunter at all with nothing. they wanted to sweep all of all of hunter s misdeeds, if you will, under the rug, the biden family, misdeeds under the rug. and for a while, it was all going according to plan. remember, federal prosecutor david weiss? he d been investigating this for years. he dragged on what appeared to be a fake investigation, allowing the statute of limitations. this is very important tonight as we go through all of this, to actually r
and requested this special council designation. we saw there was a plea deal for hunter biden who was essentially going to get slapped with tax misdemeanor charges and have this diversion program to avoid a gun charge. but that still doesn t fully explain why at this point in the game, weiss wants the full powers of a special council. it would allow him to bring charges in any venue he wants. not just delaware where he is the u.s. attorney. what is the new special council saying about the status of the hunter biden case? as we said, hyraces minutes away. hunter biden at one point a few weeks ago was perhaps minutes away from completing this plea deal. reporter: yeah. and then things spectacularly fell apart. and what we learned in court filings is the newly designated special council saying behind the scenes, they have not been able to reach a new plea agreement with hunter biden s team. so weiss plans to go to trial.