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Your World With Neil Cavuto

special counsel. he asked the attorney general for special counsel status and then he charged hunter biden for the exact same charges that hunter biden was ready to plead guilty to back on july 26th. he was ready to plead guilty to the federal firearm charges and ready to plead guilty to the tax violations. now he's being charged on the fir firearms, here in california where he's lived on taxes and the same thing that he was getting ready to plead guilty to and now he's not completing guilty to. i'm going to check with the team here. looks like the hearing continues, release conditions from delaware remains, was asked if he understood if he violated the terms of release. could be revoked. he said i do. nothing majorly significant now. any updates we'll pass them along. >> neil: david, even though his lawyer was more than happy to talk to reporters outside this congressional hearing room yesterday and in fact hunter himself was responding to hillary vaughn's questioning, none of that is planned for

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FOX and Friends

>> steve: that's what i'm getting to. those two irs whistleblowers, obviously, and according to everybody who looked at this. given the david weiss suddenly asking for special counsel status. those whistleblowers spilling the beans on hunter biden and how he got special treatment. that changed the entire case. >> david weiss wasn't going to charge anything. the fix walls. in it was a protection react by merrick garland at the doj and david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware. the calculation completely changed, but then, you know, weiss said well, let's get him to cop a plea to a couple of minor misdemeanors, which is ludicrous under the circumstances. favorable treatment. political interference. this is a classic case. >> brian: the question is when we see the vice president of the united states bragging to the council on foreign relations bragging i'm leaving in six hours. you don't get the billion dollars unless you fire that

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America Reports

emails showing hunter tagged along to at least 13 countries, and setting up business calls or meetings on the trips, unclear if they ever panned out. house republicans are investigating to what extent the president may have been involved in his son's business dealings. and inquiry could come after congress returns from recess, and they are looking into whistleblower allegations that david weiss was not allowed to prosecute how he wanted before he got special counsel status. >> starting to connect the dots but following the facts, it's going to lead to something that may not be the most fitting for the president of the united states. >> last night chris christie derided the soft treatment the justice department is giving hunter biden over the gun charge saying under his administration, hunter would be locked up for the ten year mandatory minimum, sandra. >> john: jacqui heinrich, thank

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Way Too Early With Jonathan Lemire

clark witnessed hunter biden in the plea negotiations in a five-year investigation into gun and tax charges. plea talks broke down meaning the case will likely go to trial. in a major shakeup of course announced at the end of last week the prosecutor in the case was elevated to special counsel status. that was announced by attorney general merrick garland. still ahead in this show we're going to have much much more about donald trump's legal trouble in georgia, but next we'll turn to sports and show you a very, very questionable strike zone last night here in washington. plus more misery for yankee fans. it's a shame. while out west the dodgers continue to surge. all of that and an update on the women's world cup next. pdate one women's world cup next ...to not only enhance the fan experience, but to advance how the game is played. now's the time to see what america's largest 5g network can do for your business. age is just a number, and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein

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case because he's a potential witness as they try to figure out their next steps. today is a deadline in this case for the prosecution to weigh in on hunter biden's team saying that the gun part of the deal, that was the gundy version agreement, hunter biden's team said it's still valid and binding. prosecutors have until noon today to weigh in. the judge is asking the team to weigh in by the end of the day about where their view is on the tax plea agreement and where they go from here. all this in the backdrop of merrick garland giving sglsh that was my next question. these can be separate and happening at the same time, but david weiss was just given special counsel status. does that factor into this? >> so he was given special counsel status. he asked for that on the tuesday telling the attorney general he thought they were at this moment in the case where that was necessary to give him these different authorities.

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FOX News Sunday

, assistant attorney general. well welcome back to both of you. this is a regular thing. there's plenty of legal wrangling going on abbie lowell spoke about the in the symbian, so let's talk about this. appointment of david weiss and whether it confers any new powers. here's what he said is once again people need to understand that the attorney general and he, that he, mr. weiss, has sai for a long time, he had all the authority needed to bring any charge that was appropriate, an any place. so what does the special counse do that he couldn't do? the answer should be nothing different. >> so that banks will question to be here to revoking jim jordan treated. first devin white said he didn' have power needed and wanted special counsel status. then he said he had all the power he needs. he gets personal counsel status because he didn't really have the power he needs? something is not right. tom, what you make of the

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Meet the Press

former spokesperson for kamala harris and betry woodruff swann. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning. in case you needed another sign that the 2024 a good sunday morning. gn in case you needed another sign that the 2024 campaign will be shaped by legal dramas in courtrooms in washington, delaware, miami, and new york, rather than door to door in the state of iowa. we got a reminder again. merrick garland announced it -- david weiss -- had now requested special counsel status. and he's going to get it. after a plea deal collapsed in court a few weeks ago when a federal judge granted hunter biden immunity. >> the appointment of mr. weiss reinforces for the american people that the department is

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Way Too Early With Jonathan Lemire

order to bring charges outside of the state of delaware? >> the answer is yes to both. it is theoretically possible that the special counsel will be expanding the investigation to, for example, and this is just one theory that's out there, that you might need a special counsel if you were investigating or even had to speak to the current president, joe biden, but on the other hand it could be as simple as the fact that the plea deal broke down unexpectedly to both sides means that the case must go forward to trial and if venue for some of these tax crimes lies only in d.c. or maybe the central district of california, that could be why the special counsel status was sought, although the existing -- david weiss already had significant broad investigative and prosecutorial power, but it may be as simple as that, that as the government is now shifting to a trial mode, they need that special counsel status in their minds to take this case to trial, whereas as long as hunter

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Americas Newsroom

congress saying the first letter said he had all the authority he needed to charge anywhere, any time he wanted to. attorney general garland was echoing those comments that weiss had all the authority and even more authority than special counsel has. then he wrote a second lets saying it's common practice to consult with u.s. attorneys in other districts to partner up with them if you want to bring a case. only in those circumstances if that's denied would he seek special counsel status. well, gary shapley, if you recall, his october 7th, 2022, meeting the red line meeting where weiss told him that and other executives with the law enforcement agents that he tried to bring it in d.c. and tried to bring it in l.a. but he was refuted and denied. and he sought special counsel back then authority from d.o.j. and declined for that. so these statements are bouncing all over the place. when attorney general garland said that weiss had more

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The Faulkner Focus

then it will mean that he or they decided that something other than the facts and the law are coming into play. >> congressional democrats are framing it differently saying it shows the independence of president biden's justice department. >> david weiss, the trump-appointed u.s. attorney in delaware was right all along. he did have ultimate authority and when he requested special counsel status, because the plea agreement had broken down and he may have to charge hunter biden outside of his own district, which he requires additional authority to do, he got it. >> president biden returns from delaware where he spent the weekend any minute now. he has so far not commented on this new twist in his son's case but also gave a no comment from the beach when asked about the rising death toll in hawaii. reporters are out there eagerly awaiting his arrival. >> harris: thank you very much for getting us started here.

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