Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
republicans that lunter biden was getting a special deal, he was being treated differently, this will give the assurance there s greater independence here, separate from the justice depa department, which is under the biden administration. kara, if you were stand by, i want to get to the white house, where arlette saenz is. whenever something developed with the department of justice, the white house obviously going to painstaking degrees to try to stay out of it. they don t generally get a heads-up on this kind of thing. what are you hearing from the white house? reporter: this is the same case in this matter as merrick garland appointed he was appointing a special counsel. a white house spokes heron declined to the comment on the matter, instead referring me to both the justice department and hunter biden s personal representatives, but a white house official did tell me they did not receive a heads-up ahead of the announcement.