Legal eagles john hugh, mccarthy, dupree. Concessions on the House Oversight committee and what this means for their investigation. Welcome, everyone. I am charles in for neil, this is your world. Fox Team Coverage with david spunt at the Justice Department with the fallout from all of this and peter doocy on how the white house is reacting to it. We begin with david. Charles, the plea deal is off the case in delaware is off. Right now it looks like hunter biden is heading toward trial, possibly in california or washington, d. C. , or even potentially both. I want to read a new court filing just posted on the public docket entered by the government within the last few hours. It says the parties have engaged in further plea negotiations, but are at an impasse. The government now believes the case will not result short of a trial. Remember, david weiss, the person just named a Special Counsel, was the same prosecutor who just a month ago, not even a month ago, charles, was in a courtroom with hunter biden at prepared to enter into a plea deal with him. Now it is possible he may put hunter biden behind bars if hunter is so found guilty in a court of law. Attorney general Merrick Garland was under tremendous pressure to appoint a Special Counsel. Listen. Todays announcement affords the prosecutors, agents, and analysts working on this matter the ability to proceed with their work expeditiously and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Charles, weiss will have an expanded staff and even more power to independently operate as Special Counsel. No question his profile has risen. His investigation may delay the republicans investigation into congress. Weiss was supposed to testify in late september or early october purely spokesman for judiciary chairman jim jordan tells fox news we expected the Department Of Justice to fully cooperate with our investigation, including not interfering with the 11 transcribed interviews we have requested and david weiss upholding his commitment to testify, and we have not heard anything from the department indicating it is no longer willing to do so pure however, charles, it is unclear if david weiss will testify given now that he is Special Counsel. One thing we can tell you, its likely all of this will now be delayed. Charles . Charles thank you very much. Meanwhile, President Biden is set to depart the white house in about an hour from now. That is where you will find our peter doocy. Peter, do you expect the president to say anything about any of this . Well, its friday in the summer, and so if the doj thinks thats a good time to be putting out this news, maybe they think it is a good time for the president to get on the record saying something so they dont necessarily have to do it next week and they can get on with their business. That said, this is an administration over the last two and a half years that has really tried hard not to comment on hypotheticals, but we did get them on the record talking about the Special Counsel as a hypothetical, so it is worth revisiting that now it is a reality. A lot of stories about hunter biden surfacing this w week. To assure the independence of the investigation, with the president support the appointment of a Special Counsel . Well, first, the president has never had a conversation with that affirmative justice about any investigations into any member of his family. He said that during the campaign and he will continue to abide by that. I point you to the deprived of justice for any additional steps they would make, they would maks independently. But just because he does not direct the Department Of Justice to prosecute somebody or not to prosecute, does not mean they dont know what he thinks about Hunter Bidens innocence, because i asked him about it, and he answered as president elect. Listen. Im confident. Well, that affirmative justice apparently is not so sure. President biden is set to leave about 55 minutes from now for a Helicopter Ride to his beach house. If he talks, we will have it. Charles . Charles i know you will. Thank you, folks. Legal eagles john hu, Andy Mccarthy, john dupree. Andy, i heard you on another network calling this whole thing a sham peer i want to start with john because you have been urging a need for a Special Counsel fear now that we have one, what do you say . Im glad that affirmative justice finally made this choice, it almost comes two years too late because as we get more information from the hill, it looks more and more like President Joe Biden is at least a witness, if not more in an ongoing federal investigation. We also saw the Ongoing Investigation means the plea deal many were complaining about with hunter biden is now down the tubes. There is an upside and a downside for the Biden Administration. The upside is now they can say any kinds of claims there is a twotier Justice System, now we have a Special Counsel for hunter biden and one for donald trump. They have a response now for people who are making demands about politicized justice, just shift that all over, it is all in the hands of a Special Counsel now. The downside for the Biden Administration as there is no way to clean this up fast like they were hoping with the hunter plea deal. This is going to definitely go on, drip, drip, drip, information, motions, pleadings on and on into the Campaign Next november. Charles tom, before i go to you, just moments ago, senator Lindsey Graham issued a statement, i will read part of it, saying the Plea Deal Arrangement by mr. Weiss team was the biggest Sweetheart Deal in history of American Legal System and they allowed the same team to continue to investigate potential financial Crimes Involving hunter biden and others, doesnt pass the smell test. He said of all of the Attorney General garland, to a point, mr. Weiss a Special Counsel, he has actually failed to put the story to bed and actually failed miserably and is going to make things worse. What is your assessment of the timing of it and also of course the selection . Well, the timing of it is suspect. John pointed out, this is an investigation that has been going on for literally years, extraordinary amounts of time. Why, after all of this time, does weiss finally become Special Counsel . Its obvious. The reason why is the plea deal just blew up. We have rarely seen a Plea Deal Implode in such spectacular fashion as the one in this case. The federal judge who kicked to the tires on this deal, we need to thank the folks in congress who kept the investigative spotlight on Hunter Bidens dealings. That is why whe we are where wee today. Come in as active Special Counsel, that would have given the American People confidence that this long last would be an investigation conducted fairly and independently. I dont think that was in the card or realistic. I think Merrick Garland was dragged into this kicking and screaming but i do agree with john this is going to stay in the news and play out over the course of 202424 appeared charles andy, you used a fourletter word to describe it all. I do, it is sham, and i agree with my colleagues, it would have been fine to bring in a credible Special Counsel at an early phase. But there is no real investigation here, and now they kick the guy who has been killing the investigation to be the Special Counsel, and there is really only one reason that he has been picked. He has almost completed his mission, which is to destroy the case against hunter biden because unlike any competent prosecutor, he hasnt indicted it, down the road five years, and he is letting counts go because he doesnt do the simple thing that any prosecutor would do, which is filed charges, which is what stops the clock. So the end of his mission is by being a Special Counsel, unlike other prosecutors, he gets to write a report at the end. So, sometime next year, we will get a report about how President Biden didnt have anything to do with the things that he couldnt charge hunter biden with because the Statute Of Limitations ran out. Charles some are saying next time next year, wink, wink, after the election. Meanwhile, an irs whistleblower Joseph Ziegler was asked about this delaware u. S. Attorney general, david weiss, during testimony before congress. This is what he had to say then. It appeared to me, based on what i experienced, that the u. S. Attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly hamstrung, limited, and marginalized by doj officials, as well as other u. S. Attorneys. Charles all right, hamstrung, limited, marginalized, and now of course he is the Special Counsel. Andy, to your point. Yeah, he is the Special Counsel, abracadabra. He wasnt brought from outside the government. He is the same guy who has been killing the case, and he is the guy who will write the report in the end, charles, and that is what it is about, writing the report in the end. Charles we all become a specialist in things beer i am not a lawyer but i am reading a Special Counsel will be selected from outside the United States government, statute 600. 3 come a lot of people pointed to that, some of the more obvious aspects of this, how did they get away with this . You may not be a lawyer but you are reading the laws pretty well, i have to say. There is a clear provision in the regulations that save us Special Counsel must come from outside the government. Now, there is not any real way to enforce it but i predict what will happen is this is what the House Republicans and their Oversight Hearings are going to ratchet up the pressure on. Demand that weiss be replaced with someone who is truly independent. As tom and andy have both made clear, this doesnt really help the Biden Administration that much if they are relying on the person who was giving that week plea deal to hunter to continue to be Special Counsel. The best way to turn the page and start off clean and fresh and make sure that the American People really have faith and confidence in this investigation is to appoint somebody new, and i think that is something about the house can demand as it continues its own investigation. Charles tom, to that point, the house, while they may demand that, also have to deal with, more than likely, weiss being able to say, hey, i can either come and speak to you and if i do speak to you, i cant say anything. Many are saying, that is a strategic part of this. One of perhaps the main decision, the main reason this decision was made, to delay this or Run Out The Clock until it was all a moot point illegally. Look, i have absolutely zero doubt that when it comes time for david weiss to fulfill his commitment, and he said he would come go testify before congress, and he got permission. He is going to say, look, when i made that commitment, we thought this investigation was wrapping up, i thought i would be testifying about an investigation that was closed and in the books. Things are very different now. This is an active investigation. I dont feel comfortable discodiscussing in public so i l ask for a rain check. I suspect a month or whenever the time comes, he is going to push back and we will see what congress does when he tries to walk back that commitment. Charles andy, last word to you. What are we missing . Is there Something Else the audience should understand about this right now . Just that there is no investigation. You know, just like there is no Special Counsel, you cant go abracadabra and make a guy who has had the case all along the Special Counsel. And if there was an investigation, charles, you would never, no competent prosecutor who had an investigation into a Bribery Scheme Worth Millions of dollars where it looks like they are hiding where the money comes from and where it goes, if you had an investigation like that, you wouldnt, in the middle of it, give a plea deal to one of the main subject of the investigation to two misdemeanor counts. It just wouldnt happen. There isnt any investigation, and there really isnt any Special Counsel, but we will pretend. Charles okay. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Great insight. Meanwhile, our Congressional Republicans looking to divide in Family Allegations worried this appointment will slow down their progress . Reaction from House OversightCommittee Member just next. Also, republican president ial candidates have been saying there is a twotiered Justice System. Now with the Special Counsel appointment into hunter biden, what are they saying . I dont trust it. 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Wondering, what is your take on the Attorney General appointing a Special Counsel in this Hunter Biden Investigation . Welcome i think it is about time. Look, the American People deserve to know what hunter biden and the biden family were up to. Especially when joe biden was Vice President of the United States. And you can hear they are, as well, some of the reaction pouring in, locals telling us it is the heartbeat of the midwest, not washington, d. C. , no suits and ties, lots of fun out here and they are trying to connect one on one with these politicians so we will see how that all plays out here. If anyone has any breakout moments, iowa is the first in the nati