Attorney general Merrick Garland, appointing a special prosecutor david weiss us Special Counsel in the probe of President Bidens son hunter. Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. This appointment confirms my commitment to provide mr. Weiss all the resources he requests. It also reaffirms that mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently. Based only on the facts and the law the law. Brian lets try to break this down. Keep this in mind. David weiss is the same prosecutor who cooked up the original Sweetheart Deal that hunter kind of blew up. Judge kind of blew it up. Involved in foreign business dealings, now we are Learning Tl Prosecutors expect hunters taxing gun know my tax income. As for the big guys involvement in the new Hunter Special counse
sean: welcome to hannity. tonight the latest from the epstein documents. are there videotapes of famous people in compromising positions? also, major news about donald trump and the witch-hunts against him. and fani may be facing legal troubles. and a hot mike moment from two trump-hating journalists who apparently wouldn t mind seeing the former president get assassinated. we ve got full details straight ahead. and later, take a look at your screen. yep. the state i once lived in, new york state, the rats are taking over new york city. watch till the very end. well, we ll show you. there s a bunch of critters underneath there sleeping with a homeless person. sad this is happening in a country as rich as ours, but that is real. just another day in biden s america. but first a clear pattern has emerged from the biden white house. it can be summed up with one word incompetence. while biden treats the white house like a glorified retirement home, the administration is tota
. [applause] greg: crawling all over each other. beautiful. every one of you is a princess snow flake, happy tuesday, everyone. not much changed from 2023. i am still under 7% body fat. well done. risk that trumps all others. quote, second trump term far more radical stretching governance boundaries and retributions he has been fighting since leaving office. global threat, he is unrivalled. so how was that a problem? i for one would like a second term more radical than the first. maybe we ll get that wall we were promised. i will get cabinet position as secretary of abs. 7% body fat. four years already. none of your word salad happen. if they admitted they couldn t create distraction imaginary gloom and doom. former first lady afraidy. what is going to happen in this next election i am terrified. our leaders matter. who we select. who speaks for us. who holds the bully pulpit. i think sometimes people think greg: michele is scared the dems are going to lose.
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
a very good thursday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. janet yellen is going to be on the hill where she is going to be talking about the budget, and there is going to be plenty of questions about the budget and she is going to need a calm tone where she tells americans that their deposits are safe. we will bring that to you live. and the moment when a russian jet collided with a american drone causing it to crash into the ocean. we will show you how. we rebbring you to the statf the u.s. economy now. matt egan is joining us, and everybody is paying attention to the secretary this morning and the words, and she is getting out ahead of this a little bit with the words telling americans to be calm and their money is safe. yes, this is a big moment for the treasury secretary and she knows that confidence is a fragile thing, and she knows that it has been shaken by the failures, and she wants the americans to know that the money in the bank is safe, a