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.
up because of a good judge. they were going to wipe out the fina fina financial transactions, and weiss, according to the whistleblower has had pressure on him from day one to short circuit this investigation. so when i hear the attorney general tell me today i m gonna make weiss special counsel, that creates more problems than answers that it gives. sandra: senator, breaking news from jake gibson. it is unclear, we are learning, if or when weiss will testify before congress. okay. now, i asked him in a letter i wrote july 27th, did you tell investigators on or about october 7th that you are not the deciding person on whether charges are to be filed. the whistleblower says on