Appoint him as Special Counsel. Charles a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case, but its the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a coverup. Were going to get the latest from Lucas Tomlinson on what the white house is saying. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop president ial candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. Plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the Attorney General this hawaii will be lawn a. Ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. Welcome, everyone. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. We bin at the white house where President Biden so far is staying quiet on the Special Counsel appointment in his sons case. Lucas tomlinson is there though. Reporter charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that Delaware Courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal issues would soon b
himself. one of the drops, he literally completely hit the ceiling and dropped down and was completely horizontal. reporter: on board, actor matthew mcconaughey and his wife, camila, they posted about the couple s chaotic experience writing everything was flying everywhere and the turbulence kept oncoming. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour on capitol hill, the senate back in session just one hour from now for a busy week ahead with top intelligence officials about to face a grilling about classified documents and the chinese spy balloon. an unforivable crime, that s what iran s supreme leader is calling the suspected poisonings of school girls. state media is reporting a journalist has been arrested while covering the story. officials have not confirmed that arrest. in atlanta, 23 people now facing charges after clashes between police and protesters, who police say is behind the violence.
every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva
we also need to be focused on the day after, and so in conversations that we ll be having through the course of this weekend, i expect you ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples, which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state that they re entitled to. so these will be the things that we re focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues, but i am convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place. that s what we ll be working to do. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point, and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on? and are you confident you ll actually be able to get them to make any movement on this given the maximalist positions we ve seen? as has been said and it s important, isr
we have new polling on what that message might do with a key bloc of voters. plus, what a raging wildfire in california is warning us about this summer s fire season. and two days after the supreme court rules to make it easier to rapidly fire a gun, a man shoots nearly 30 rounds at families using a community splash pad for kids. nine injured, including children. some seriously. an 8-year-old boy who has a gunshot wound to the head. he s in critical condition. those stories in a moment. first, let s begin with politics. the new more aggressive strategy from team biden to go after donald trump as a convicted felon. the new $50 million ad campaign is going up in battleground states, framing the election as a choice between a convicted criminal, that s in a quote, and a president who is, quote, fighting for your family. it was juiced over the weekend as george clooney, julia roberts, jimmy kimmel and former president obama laid out the stakes for november. the next pre