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.
Well see what happens. Kelly and i will speak with some voters that tell us what they would like to see and hear from the candidates on the stage and the message that they have ahead of the debate for former President Donald Trump as well. First, President Biden is about to make some remarks on the u. S. Economy. Theyve been pushing bidenomics very hard over the past couple days. Clearly this is central to the president s reelection push. Yesterdays speech though after it kind of got fact checked by many, it ran into some serious headwinds. Its a Head Scratcher as to why he brings up some of these things that are so easily unwound on the truth meter. There were about seven or eight of them in this speech that got picked apart one by one. Were not going to go through them all. The question is why he keeps raising the same things over that get debunked. Heres one random one. The president said i saw this Bridge Collapse in pittsburgh when i was on the scene last year. Watch this. I watch
They gave word what the judge has decided. Fani willis can decide if she wants to stay or leave the case and take nathan wade with her. So were waiting for more information on this. Welcome to friday. Dana has the day off today. Im bill hemmer live in New York City with my friend and colleague in tow. It will be a ride. Dana it is. Were getting big news this morning. Im Martha Maccallum and this, of course, is americas newsroom. We understand as you just pointed out, bill, that this decision is in. Judge mcphee gave himself a two week deadline. That landed today. Weve come to know this judge a little bit over the course of the last couple of months. Scott mcafee. Whether to disqualify fani willis in response to allegations that she was dating her lead prosecutor when she hired him and that was part of a motivation for hiring him and the two took some rather fancy vacations together and that they may have benefited financially from this Business Arraignment which it was alleged she crea
Martha is next with the story. Martha nice bag pipes there. Thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is the story. Were waiting response this hour from d. A. Fani willis. We could hear from here any moment after judge mcafee left it up to her if she wants to continue with the trump Election Interference case. He says she will have to do it without her former boyfriend and colleague, nathan wade, who you see to the right of her in that picture. The judge said although she showed a tremendous lapse in judgment in hiring wade, he could not conclude that that had had a Material Conflict in the trump case. In the decision, he did go after her for her unprofessional manner when she stormed in to the atlanta courtroom in february after wade testified. This combative testimony. Watch. As you know, mr. Wade is a southern gentleman. Me not so much. Your honor no, no, no. This is the truth. I object to you getting records. Youve been intrusive in to peoples personal lives. You
Mission, texas. Whats the story where you are there now . John, good afternoon to you. Our viewers might remember the day before title 42 ended back in may, dhs Secretary Mayorkas held a Press Conference at the white house where he promised there would be stiffer consequences for anybody caught crossing the border illegally after the end of title 42. What he had to say back then. I want to be very clear. Our borders are not open. People who cross our border unlawfully and without a legal basis to remain will be promptly processed and removed. Will be promptly removed, he said at the time. Well, that is not reality what we are seeing on the ground here in the Rio Grande Valley, we see mass releases of migrants taking place from the federal government. Our Team Shooting this video, Catholic Charities of Rio Grande Valley here in the mcallen area, we watched bus load of bus load dropped off, mostly family units, once they get to the charity they will be helped with travel, and dates in th