And the man investigating hunter biden, the u. S. Attorney out of delaware had been saying up until now that he never asked for and didnt need the powers that came with that appointment. So why was david weiss made Special Counsel today . We have reaction from the white house. Hunter bidens team, and republicans on capitol hill. Joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, nbc News White House correspondent monica alba, and ms p msnbc political contributor and cofounder of punch bowl news, jake sherman. Tom, i want to get some details from you. Sure. The question that is nagging me is why all of a sudden does this investigation, this case need a Special Counsel . Yeah, i really dont understand. And its a question i think we need some more clarity on. So to be specific, what happened here is there was clearly an ongoing plea negotiation, after the judge said, look, im not going to accept this, im not going to reject this Plea Agreement. You all have to get back tog
We start here in the uk where the government is once again under scrutiny over its decision to house Asylum Seekers on a barge off the south coast of england. The first men to be housed on the vessel called the bibby stockholm began arriving on board today. Ministers hope that up to 500 will follow, to await decisions on their asylum applications. The government says itll help reduce the costs of housing migrants in hotels and today new figures showed that a Record Number of Asylum Seekers more than 50,000 were in so called Contingency Accommodation. But campaigners have raised concerns about the conditions on the barge and its believed that some Asylum Seekers have had their transfers cancelled after legal interventions. Protestors gathered close to the barge in dorset. This was what they had to say a little earlier im against the barge, i think its extremely dangerous, as has been proved by the fire brigade. I dont think they should be on the barge. They. Its like a prison. And i thi
hello, i m sally bundock. a very warm welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where a three day ceasefire between two rival military groups has come into effect to allow people to be evacuated, but there are concerns that it may not hold. hundreds of people have died since fighting started between the sudanese army and rsf paramilitary force. in recent days, more countries have attempted to evacuate their diplomats and citizens. this is a member of the dutch military handing out earplugs as they get ready to take off. and this was the scene as the spanish defence ministry helped diplomats and citizens on to their plane. live now to kalkidan yibetal who s in the ethiopian capital, addis ababa. who has the latest. as far as you are hearing at the moment, is the ceasefire holding? it looks that way. reports indicate that on monday khatoum had a relatively quiet date which helped the evacuation of many people. many foreign nationals by different countries. but, you know, if t
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we re glad to be together on this couch. rachel: we are glad to be together. will: petition and i were talking, it s like we were talking in code and rachel s like i m not following. we were speaking in sports pet s metaphor. rachel: we do speak in code sometimes. we don t talk in code with you. we re grateful you re here, fourth hour of two days, four hours, we re in the home stretch. we have a lot of big news. rachel: we sure do. there s no bigger news in my house than our baby valentina turned 3 years old. she celebrated with a birthday dinner and we got her cake. she has come along way. she doesn t just have down s syndrome. she had a serious heart condition when she s was six months old, had open hearth surgery so we re so glad and i want to be put it up because so many viewers prayed so hard for her and her doctors during the surgery. she is doing great. she just started school. they start school for children with special needs with down s a little earlier so she s st