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.
That the judge piped up and said im not going to be a rubber stamp for this unprecedented plea deal. That fell apart as you remember. Heres the question for this afternoon did things just to get a little better or little worse for hunter biden and potentially by extension, for his father who was running for president. Theres a lot going on behind the scenes here on this friday afternoon, what it says, this means that a trial is in order but where . Would it be in d. C. , california, does it move it off his plate . Theres a jurisdictional question there about where this all goes, also the timeline, the clock is ticking on these charges. Some of these are displayed to run out while all of this plays out under the statute of limitations, heres attorney general Merrick Garland announcing all of this a short time ago, watch. 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 a
are going to impeach you, and it s happening very, very soon. on this vote the yeas are 214 and the nays are 216. the resolution is not adopted. you know, i have to say the season took an unexpected turn last night. willie, one of the more surprising but really good introductions to the season, who knew mike johnson would star as a happless speaker of the house who couldn t even get an impeachment through. all we re missing is the slow push in on his face. that was truly we have four hours, luckily, today to go through one of the most humiliating days in the house of representatives. they couldn t pass their own impeachment of mayorkas, couldn t get through an israel bill. they did find time to pass a resolution that says donald trump did not commit an insurrection around january 6th. want to make sure they protect him on that. they re getting ready to have a vote today, a procedural vote to turn away the senate immigration bill they ve been asking for for two gene
single sentence that favors or even slightly sympathizes with donald trump s argument for presidential immunity. instead, the d.c. appeals court stands up trump s defenses only to knock them down one by one. the judges reached back through history citing case law from the early 1800s along with founders themselves on how they envisioned the power and limitations of the presidency. the court concludes quote, for the purposes of h criminal case, former president trump has become citizen trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. on trump s argument that the separation of powers doctrine bars judicial review of executive actions, the court cited presidents nixon and truman, both of whom were found to have exceeded their authority by the supreme court. nixon on trying to shield his tapes and truman on trying to seize steel mills. they also cited an 1882 supreme court ruling that said officers of the government can be sued pulling directly from the decision, q
laura: good evening, everyone. i m back to iowa. i had fun but i did get back. the ingraham angle from washington tonight. biden meeting with the white house top congressional leaders. do you feel a sell-out coming over stalled talk on ukraine and our own border security. i m looking forward to speaking with mike johnson he was at that meeting and coming over to the ingraham angle to give us details about what happened inside. first, take the load off fanny. that s the focus of tonight s angle. oh, how the mighty have fallen. remember the media was instantly awestruck by the fulton county d.a. she was a woman on a mission. after she announced indictment on trump state racketeering charges in august. the new york times described her as a force to be reckoned with. fanny t. willis strolled up to the podium in a red dress last year in downtown atlanta flanked by an array of dark suits and stone faced officers in uniform. her voice rang out loud and clear with a hint of swa