Is it alabama or is it florida . A new report is raising questions. Our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with Steve Patterson who has the latest on the ground in hawaii. Steve, whats the latest from there. I know theres still just so many people who cant get home or who dont have a home to go to. Reporter or who are missing Family Members, chris. The death toll has increased overnight. It is now 55. Everything we have heard from the mayor to the governor to Emergency Officials on this island and looking at the devastation and looking at the damage, that toll will almost certainly increase over the next few hours and days. The governor has just told some families that they may be able to go back to their homes soon, but youre right, in a lot of cases, they will find nothing there. Lahaina has been almost entirely reduced to rubble. Thousands of structures raised. Were expecting millions, if not over A Billion Dollars in damage. Federal help is on t
in delaware wrote a letting indicating he won t meet that dea deadline. it is to answer questions from jim jordan and other republicans. the reason according to david weiss on why he can t do this, is because technically the hunter biden investigation is still an ongoing investigation. he has yet to formally enter his plea in front of a federal judge. that will happen at the end of the month. that s one of the ropes weiss said he can t answer those questions. in his letter to jordan weiss quoted a prior letter from june saying i have been granted ultimate authority in this matter including responsibility when, whether to file charges. a few weeks later jordan asked to weiss who told him to sign that letter? he doesn t believe weiss called the shots in the probe. he thinks it was the justice department in washington based off the testimony of i.r.s. whistleblower shapley who investigated the hunter biden probe and he insists he personally saw david weiss in a meeting complain
Menstruation. now, there is investigation as to weiss had the charging authority, and remember he was only asked to be special counsel after the plea deal fell apart and looks like it is going to trial. at the time, merrick garland said he granted request because of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding this case, but these chairmen say that explanation is not sufficient enough for them, and they are requesting a slew of documents and information related to the appointment of david weiss as special counsel. they also want to see a memo outlining scope of the special counsel investigation into hunter biden. we should note that merrick garland is already scheduled to testify before the house judiciary committee september 20th, and he has a september 11th deadline to respond, and no doubt they will keep this hunter biden probe front and center in
They were cut out from the meetings that the prosecutors had with defense counsel now we know about the interactions. the threat to have joe biden testify came at important time. important for your viewers to understand. that letter was sent on halloween in 2022. that letter came at a time when u.s. assistant david weiss bass to have the 2014, 2015 tax charges, including a felony for 2014 for making false reports burisma income. about to expire. statute of limitations. weiss had a decision to make. i don t think it s a coincidence at all that chris clark is writing to weiss and saying hey, we would put the president on the stand at a time when he is making a decision about whether to let these burisma charges go. so i think that s very significant. the other thing that i think really stands out to the investigators is that this march
It s relevant and significant because it means that the attorney here now special counsel, david weiss, can pursue this case for a possible trial in the jurisdiction that he sees fit, not just delaware, where he serves as u.s. attorney. garland referring to weiss, you see there, as a career prosecutor and why it s notable as it demonstrates, again, in the words of the attorney general, the sort of independence of his agency, and also the need to have accountability on any matter, no matter who the defendant may be, in this case, the son of the president. democrats and the president have been frustrated with merrick garland over the course of his time serving in this office. they have said privately that they have had frustrations about how slow he was to pursue any possible charges against the former president for his efforts to subvert democracy in 2020, and separately for the appointment of a different special counsel, robert hur, who s investigating president biden s own handling of