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circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. let s bring in wall street journal columnist dan henninger and kim strassel do you think merrick garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come? well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. i mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of kevin mccarthy house speakership roll forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the united states after one has already been appointed a special council ....
And this is their big reform? i mean figure this out. why are we rewarding three adversaries to the united states cuba venezuela and one fail state sending us 30,000 a month and we ll accept them and we can be guaranteed there are 30,000 people a month trying come here legally. we don t know that there are going to be 30,000 of them coming here illegally to expel but this is the big reform. and then they say we need more resources mayorkas says spell it out and we need republicans to fix the broken system. well why didn t you do that when you were in control so republicans are being given ammunition but they got to do this in the right way which means they got to seek balance between, you know, investigating only and trying to legislate. yeah i think that s a very difficult job for kevin mccarthy new speaker karl thanks so much. appreciate the insight thanks for coming. still ahead with his student loan forgiveness plan in limbo ahead of a supreme court ....
By the fbi in american politics. what risks are republicans undertaking here do you think politically if they go after the fbi? i don t think there are too many risks politically from going after the fbi. i mean, fbi has showed itself at least during the trump collusion stories to have been actively involved. i think, in politics, the problem i think the political vulnerability for the democrats in the house is just from a purely political perspective these oversights hearings indeed could reveal interesting important information. i think the danger is they could get to the point of investigation overload and as there s a pongt where american people trying to follow all of the detail of these investigations which other nature involved bureaucracy it gets very process oriented bureaucrats are very good at defending and deflecting ....
Attention. will the public simply begin to tune out and begin asking when the republicans are going to do something that they regard as normal politics? now kevin mccarthy says he intends to do that. they re going to attack spending doing something about the borders and so forth. but they really are going to have to strike a balance i think, and not get too bogged down in the weeds here of investigation. paul: really good point dan particularly with press that doesn t won t be helping republicans here in the same way for example the media echoed what the democrats did with the january 6th committee. yeah, that s right, and sure. the media is going to look the other way on a lot of these things. you asked kim what she thought most important investigation was. i personally think one of the most interesting things is going to be congressman james comer s look into joe biden s business dealings with his son, hunter. i mean, this is something i think that intrigues the ....