Announcement that he appointed a Special Counsel to investigate hunter biden was like a really bad practical joke. Here today to announce the appointment of david weiss as a Special Counsel consistent with the Department Of Justice regulations governs such matters. In keeping with those regulations, i have today notified the designated members of each House Of Congress of the appointment. Laura yes, thats the same david weiss who tried to give hunter that Sweetheart Plea Deal before a smart judge stepped in to say not so fast. Now, droned weiss isnt even eligible to be named Special Counsel under the regulation governing his appointment according to section 600. 3, he has to have a reputation for integrity and impartial Decision Making. Now, thats obviously in question, the impartial Decision Making part after how he handled the initial phases of this investigation. And the Special Counsel shall be selected, it says, from outside the government. Okay. Garland is not a stupid man, so im asking this tonight in all candor. Is he blinded by a desire to muddy the waters here during the Election Psych . I dont know what could have motivated him here. Andy mccarthy in National Review pit bluntly. There could not be a more serious blatant Conflict Of Interest in a situation in which the president S Justice Department is conducting an investigation of the president s son that implicates the president and in potentially impeachable conduct. The conflicts of course dont end there. Remember what one of the irs whistleblowers testified to. The Justice Department allowed the president s political appointees to weigh in on whether to charge the president s son. I watched the United States attorney weiss tell a room full of senior fbi and irs Senior Leaders on october 27, 2022, that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed. That was my red line. Laura and garland as appointment is even more devious than that. For weeks members of the house and numerous Ingraham Angle guests have been calling on weiss to testify before congress. His appointment to this role means that hes potentially now protected against having to testify until he releases his report. This Insulates Weiss and the Department Of Justice more than it necessarily moves the investigation forward. And hes going to be able to say now theres an ongoing investigation, id love to answer these questions but pound sand. The appointment of a Special Counsel would have the effect of delaying a resolution on the hunter biden matter, and it would certainly delay any anticipated testimony from the u. S. Attorney in Delaware To Republicans on capitol hill. Laura good for Catherine Herridge while jack smith wants to move expeditiously so donald trump can be hobbled during an Election Year, do we expect weiss will have the same sense of urge . Dont bet on it. Ive never seen a criminal case follow this strange path, five years, a u. S. Attorney from a prior administration, a Plea Agreement seemed like it was about to wrap everything up and now fallen apart in dramatic fashion and from here its very unclear where we go next. Laura what is clear, i think, though, is that this move was meant to protect joe biden, which his allies in congress and the media wanted to be sure to point out. Not a sin tell a of evidence that he did anything wrong and mr. Weiss has not surfaced any such evidence because there is none. You know, my constituents arent asking about it. It is top of mind for a lot of constituents. Laura when cnn is calling out their lame defenses, you know that the bidens are in trouble which is what obamas old architect David Action Rod alluded to. Im sure this didnt land all that well over at the white house because i think they would love to have this hunter biden case behind them. Anything that extends the hunter biden case into the Election Year is not welcomed news for joe biden. Laura and those concerns spilled out in a piece published by politico today about the biden team resign to a campaign shadowed by hunter drama. Garlands friday night bait and switch i think follows yesterdays news that his other special Prosecutor Jack Smith had asked the court to begin trumps january 6th trial on january 2nd, 2024. Obvious what hes up to there. Taking trump off the trail just as the gop primary season kicks off. Nice going. These people are shameless. Nothing but bad faith as far as the eye can see. But as weve been saying from the start, the hunter drama, while its important, is its own distraction. And republicans who think theyre going to defeat the bidens with investigations, i think theyre likely to be disappointed. The angle does not think youre going to get the justice youre looking for, not with garland in charge. You need to defeat biden and the democrats by going after them at the ballot box. Winning, after all, would be the best justice of all. Joining us now is Sol Weisenberg former deputy counsel and assistant us attorney and mike davis founder and president of the article three project. Sol, how does gore land, an experienced lawyer and judge, not know about the Special Counsels requirements . Oh, he knows about it and it was just the height of hypocrisy for him to say, in his press conference, pursuant to the regulations, im appointing david weiss as Special Counsel because its laid out right there. You have to be, not just outside the Department Of Justice, you have to be outside the United States government. I think the answer to your question is whether or not hes blind or corrupt. The answer is, he really doesnt seem to be in charge of the Justice Department. I think the number two person there is in charge. Laura and she is . Lisa monaco, the Deputy Attorney general, who i think is the one who got on the phone with david weiss and said, no, youre not going to have authority to bring this case in any districts you want to bring it in and, of course, i agree with Everyone Else who has commented that it is ridiculous. You have a tainted investigation that clearly has been tainted and compromised, and david weiss has been the person in charge of it. Now, he might not be responsible for all of the mistakes and the slowwalking that have been made but he is ultimately responsible because hes the person in charge. And his integrity has been compromised by Testimony Letters he wrote saying he was in complete authority, totally inconsistent with what we know he told his investigators. So it is a continuation of the coverup to have him as Special Counsel. Laura now, mike, on msnbc today, not surprisingly perhaps, they were praising this decision to appoint weiss. This decision to make weiss a Special Counsel is another marker that doj is renewing its independence during the biden administration. This insulates decisionmaking about the president s son from political appointees. Laura mike, that msnbc, that theyre happy kind of tells you all you need to know here. Why did attorney general Merrick Garland wait 30 months to make a Special Counsel appointment here . And why did he pick david weiss . And the answer is that he picked david weiss because david weiss is proven to be a loyal biden foot soldier within the Justice Department and they did it now because they ran into a roadblock in delaware called judge noraka who called into question the Sweetheart Deal for hunter biden that they put together so theyre using this Special Counsel appointment as cover to make garland look tough when actually what theyre doing is theyre going to move this case to dc or california to protect biden. Laura well, at this point, sol, is there any way to challenge or any point in challenging weisss ability to be Special Counsel given the regulations . No, in fact you cant do that. Thats a part of the regulations that theyre not enforceable in court. But heres a very key thing that nobody is talking about, laura. That plea deal that mike was talking about that blew up had two parts. The Plea Agreement, and whats called a pretrial Diversion Agreement. That Diversion Agreement is for the Felony Gun Charge that, after two years, was going to be completely dismissed and would be reeraseed from hunters record. But in the Diversion Agreement was the behind paragraph that they didnt even show to the judge until the last minute that arguably gave him broad immunity. Heres what no ones talking about. The biden defense team might very well move to enforce that pretrial Diversion Agreement. David schoen, who was on your show with me a few weeks ago, suggested that they do that. And, boy, if they do that, and they win, it doesnt matter who the Special Counsel is. Laura sol, mike, thanks so much now, one of the assumed byproducts of this announcement is that it could derail or somehow Short Circuit the house investigations that are ongoing, and then complicate any possible impeachment inquiries. But today the House Oversight committee released a Statement Reading in part, the biden Justice Department is trying to Stonewall Congressional Oversight T Committee will continue to follow the biden familys money trail and interview witnesses. Here now is the chairman of that committee james comer. Congressman, david weiss, i know you wanted to bring him up for questioning at some point in the near future. How is that going to work now and dont you foresee his saying not now, not until the investigation is complete . Right. Well, this is another example of the Department Of JusticeStone Walling and obstructing our investigation. Ive been complaining about it for months yet we continue to deliver evidence that shows a massive biden wrong doing and more evidence that shows joe was right front and center in this from day one. What this does is, a, it protects david weiss from coming in front of the committee, which is fine. This is an investigation about joe biden. I dont think we need anymore evidence to show that the Department Of Justice is trying to obstruct our investigation. I think Merrick Garland made that argument for us today. Were going to continue to follow the money, were going to continue to interview witnesses that we know have firsthand knowledge of what exactly the bidens were doing to receive the millions and millions of dollars from bad actors in bad countries around the world and what role joe played in this scheme. And thats whats important to every american, what role joe played in this scheme because we believe that we have a president of the United States thats compromised because of the millions and millions of dollars his familys taken in. Laura now, congressman, dana bash over at cnn mentioned you today when discussing the Hunter Biden Probe and the connections to joe biden himself. Watch. So far, there is no evidence, james comer, the head of this Committee Just told my colleague jake tapper, pretty much admitted, that they dont have evidence to show that joe biden did anything wrong. Laura congressman, your response to that. I pretty much didnt admit that. I pretty much admitted the evidence shows joe biden lied to the American People when he said he had never spoken to any of these people about anything, where joe biden was meeting with these people. We have emails, we have text messages, we have pictures, we have travel logs, we have travel records. We have sworn testimony from devon archer, who was front and center in a couple of these shell companies, that joe biden communicated with these people. In fact communicated with every Single Person who wired the bidens millions and millions of dollars. He even had dinner on more than one occasion with these individuals, which we didnt know. So joe biden lied when he said his family never got money while he was vicepresident. He lied when he said his family never got money from china. And he lied when he said he never communicated with any of these crooks who were sending his family the millions and millions of dollars. So weve proven over and over again that joe biden lied. What i think the evidence shows is joe biden was front and center in this from day one. Devon archer said what they were doing. Because we want to know what did they do to receive the millions and millions of dollars. Devon devon archer said it was the brand, and the brand was joe biden. Laura congressman, will you commit tonight to calling david weiss to testify before Congress Despite this appointment. Absolutely. Of course we will. Were not going to stop. This is just another day in the office for us leading this investigation of biden corruption. They have obstructed every step of the way. Theyve intimidated our witnesses. When devon archer was set to come in on Monday Morning the doj sent him a letter saturday and a letter again sunday. Thats never happened before. Never has the Department Of Justice sent a letter on a weekend and they sent two on two separate days for the seoul purpose of intimidating them. They intimidated every one of our witnesses, the biden legal team, abby lowell and company have more than crossed the line of witness intimidation. You saw what the legal team did in the delaware court, trying to intimidate another person to take something off of the web site. Theres example after example of obstruction but laura were going to continue to move forward with this investigation. Laura yeah. The question is, what are they trying to hide and, you know, trying to i think everyone knows what this is, even if theres not a check that went to joe biden, whether expenses were covered for his home or hes just happy his son is getting all this money. I mean, we all kind of know what this is. But, congressman, we look forward to that testimony and is going to give you the heisman not going to do it but we look forward to it anyway. Congressman thank you joe bidens true priorities, what are they . Are they on the home front or somewhere else . My angle discusses that. You dont want to miss it next. For colon cancer. Its time to use my voice, ive got a choice, more than one answer. I sat down with my doc. We had a talk. Knew just what to say. I asked for cologuard and did it my way. 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