Counsel to look into the investigation against the president s son, hunter biden. Lucas tom lynnson has the latest on this story. Reporter it was just a few weeks ago that hunter biden thought he was minutes away from freedom are from any further charges. Of course, that thats not what happened. The plea if deal fell apart, and now it could be going to trial, according to federal prosecutors in a filing yesterday. A Special Counsel has been named. Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently are. Based only on a facts and the law. Reporter that Special Counsel, david weiss, of course, has been investigating hunter biden for the past five years now and negotiated with what many republicans call a, quote, sweetheart plea deal. President biden left the white house yesterday for the beach, he did not take any questions before Boarding Marine Wunsch the president one. The president has long main
on business, the following day there was another frivolous indictment. the timing on this the he almost has stated if you listen to jack smith s statements, he s stated he wants this for political purposes. he, you know, the truth does come out at times x that s what s being done here. speedy trial to, because the number one goal here, a, is to keep joe and hunter out of jail, but also to destroy to the best of their ability the campaign of donald trump who s going to be their opponent. that s crazy. that s not america. molly: congressman dan meuser, thank you so much for giving us your insights. thanks so much. appreciate you. molly: griff? griff: a ravaging fire has devastated lahaina, a historic town on the maui island with 80 now confirmed dead as uncertainty looms about hundreds of people still unaccounted for. max gorden is live from maui with us now. hi, max. what s the latest? reporter: hey, good
minority of the situation. when we look at that. they re hard to find. they re hard to find. it s not the big reason for the 70 cents on the dollar number as we heard them. what are the big explanations for that, that pay gap? the two biggest are occupation, industry as you said. those two alone explain about half of the gap. so once you put people in the same occupation, same industry. that gap goes from 23 cents to about, 12 cents. which is what the white house had because people are pretty much in the same job. you have in the statistical buckite abuc buck bucket, a female social worker making x, silicone valley engineer, male, making something ten times x. those things are turned together. so the real thing, what, would, would the hourly wage be the closest most accurate measure of equal pay? the hourly the hourly wage
they re hard to find. they re hard to find. it s not the big reason for the 70 cents on the dollar number as we heard them. what are the big explanations for that, that pay gap? the two biggest are occupation, industry as you said. those two alone explain about half of the gap. so once you put people in the same occupation, same industry. that gap goes from 23 cents to about, 12 cents. which is what the white house had because people are pretty much in the same job. you have in the statistical bucket, a female social worker making x, silicone valley engineer, male, making something ten times x. those things are turned together. so the real thing, what, would, would the hourly wage be the closest most accurate measure of equal pay? the hourly the hourly wage is.