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house oversight committee chair james comer has long felt that the move would take away investigative power from the committee as it continues to probe the biden family. here's the congressman last night. >> i don't think we need any more evidence to show that the department of justice has tried to obstruct the our investigation. i think merrick garland made that argument for us today. >> reporter: house speaker kevin marc car think state concern mccarthy said, quote, this action cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigation or whitewash the biden family corruption. if weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn't get approved, how can he be trusted as a special counsel? some republicans are not against the appointment of a special counsel which could indicate that a case against the president's son could go to trial. for senator chuck grassley, it's weiss that is cause for concern. >> i was one of those that sent a letter saying we should have a special counsel. on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. >> reporter: well, that's because there's been so much back and forth.
is an illegal move in and of itself. >> yeah. remember, this was a regulation that was implemented by the department of justice. it gives the attorney general a lot of discretion. but you're right, typically a special counsel is appointed from outside the the president of justice because the conflict applies to everyone in the death of justice. i'm -- in the department of justice. i'm sure they're thinking that putting weiss in here probably since he was a trump appointee, that somehow fixes that flaw. but there's a potential here that merrick garland did this, put in this flaw in to trip up the investigation and to lit gate about that issue and to fight about that issue instead of actually the facts and the slowness and the delay that this investigation has been going. charles: right. anchoring tv shows, i get that a hot, you know? someone will bring up something that's not true, and they know the audience won't say, hey, get 'em, get 'em, charlie, they'll go on social media, why'd you let so and so get away with that. because if you focused on that that, they get away with not
inappropriate, charles. there's so many things that are stacking up that i think merrick garland was, his hand was forced here, but ultimately, it just delays this case even more, and it's been going on for five years now. charles: the sweetheart deal centered around a couple of specifics. does elevating this to special counsel status now expand the scope of what is being investigated or will be investigated? because there's so many unanswered questions that, by the way, would not have been answered in that sweetheart deal. >> no, they wouldn't have. and remember, the government stood in court and said that, one, this deal has never been done before with any other defendant and also that, you know, charles, the most serious crimes have already lapsed, the statute of limitation has run. and, you know, the foreign corrupt practices act which gets to the bribery issue here on the firing of the ukrainian are prosecutor, you know, that happened in 20 # 15, 2016 time frame. so that's, you know, eight or nine years old as well. for me, what it does is it
answering the more critical issues. so that's why i wonder if this is some sort of a trap. people should know the rules have already been violated, and obviously, you know, the idea -- when i heard the words david weiss trip off of merrick garland's lips, i was, like, huh? wait a minute. it doesn't make sense to me. >> yeah, i think that's intention withal. you know, we're going to have te keys to this car is joe biden. he knows what happened, and he needs to be honest with the american people. but right now the white house is stonewalling, the department of justice is stonewalling, and, you know, it looks like there's really not an adversarial system because the department of justice and hunter biden's team are really on the same side, and that's evidenced by that plea agreement they tried to get through a court and thankfully the judge stood up and said this doesn't smell right. charles: what do you think -- some things, you've already mentioned a few things have passed the statute of limitations. >> yeah. charles: what exactly are we looking at here?
end, charles, and we were ready -- we should be booming right now, and we aren't because of just one example, why aren't we producing more oil and gas? why are aren't we producing more energy here? why aren't we doing something about controlling the border? why aren't we doing manager about bringing prices down by doing something about the biggest budget deficit we've ever had in the history of this country, charles? those are all contributing to these economic problems. charles: all right. crystal, steve, thank you both very much. meanwhile, folks, attorney general merrick garland saying newly-appointed special counsel david weiss will have full control over the hunter biden probe. what 2024 gop candidate, tim scott, we've got him up next. want to find out what he thinks about that and a whole lot more. he's next. from finish