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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

it's not the evidence. it's not the law. so, if anything changes, people should be asked, what else came into play? >> so, are you saying that you're confident nothing will change, or you're saying if thing dos change and this does grow broader in scope -- i mean, special counsels, they can staff up. they can have quite a budget. this could be bigger than it already is right now. >> well, you could have more agents that would come up with the same evidence that came up after five years. you could have more prosecutors, if you were in court -- you saw that there were eight members of the u.s. attorney's office in court that day, maybe seven. i don't know that you could find more bodies that would do anything different than the bodies have done over the last five years. so, am i confident that the conclusion should be the same? i am confident that if the prosecuting office follows the facts and the law, as they were prepared to say they'd done when they came to court on july 26th, that there should be no different conclusion than what they already came.

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What are special counsels and what do they do?

A look at the origins of the special counsel, the position’s powers and what to expect as Weiss pursues his work.

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BBC News

there's some sort of two—tier standard ofjustice, that donald trump has a special counsel who has been investigating him and has brought now multiple indictments against donald trump whilejoe biden and his family have been treated differently. now there's a special counsel, with all the powers that you discussed of special counsels, investigating...not joe biden directly, but, i mean, it could lead up to him if they find something, but hunter biden, the president's son, and his business dealings, and hunter biden very clearly was talking about his connections to his father when he was making these business deals. so, maybe that makes it a little easier for the democrats to say, "no, look, thejustice "department has handed all these off, the "investigations are all happening independently," but it's still going to be a headache for the white house. it's still going to be a distraction. this is going to drag on now clearly into 202a, the presidential election cycle, maybe even after the election. it's going to be something that they're going to have to deal with for the time forward. a planned meeting by west african defence leaders to discuss the coup

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Smerconish

friday attorney general merrick garland announced he was giving speshlg counsel status to the attorney investigating hunter biden saying it was in the public interest due to the, quote, extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter. the prosecutor had asked garland for the new authority after plea talks to are solve tax and gun charges fell apart with the trial now more likely. his decision gives more powers than a typical attorney and gives further independence from the doj. it puts america in uncharted territory with three doj special counsels currently investigating the sitting president, his son, and the previous president. a do j official told cnn that the white house and hunter biden's legal team were not

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BBC News

in charge of this investigation — someone who doesn't have the same history as david weiss. they don't think that david weiss is going to be able to bring this fully investigation fully intojoe biden, where they think the real crimes and the real political implications might be. there's been so much discussion about the politicisation of the department ofjustice, with all the full gamut of investigations that are going on. what's happened today — how does it feed into that? well, you know, i think that it makes it a little easier for democrats to counter the republican accusations that there's some sort of two—tier standard ofjustice, that donald trump has a special counsel who has been investigating him and has brought now multiple indictments against donald trump whilejoe biden and his family have been treated differently. now there's a special counsel, with all the powers that you discussed of special counsels, investigating — notjoe biden directly, but, i mean, it could lead up to him if they find something, but hunter biden, the president's son, and his business dealings,

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Fox News Live

this special counsel now, the scope of it, will involve influence peddling and possibly joe biden himself. we don't know the answer to that. it may are well be the case. but the larger point is with so many investigations, special counsels going on, are we nearing a dangerousing area from which we can't come back in terms of politicization of politics? i mean, we know if former president donald trump gets back into office, he's promising we're going to see more of what we've got right now. >> see i don't think this is pretty case. on both sides -- politicization. they both did things that deserve investigation, and it would be political if we didn't investigate them, if we didn't appoint special counsel, if we didn't treat them like any other person, all of whom are subject to the laws in the united states. so it's really important that we let this play out. and i would also note that for donald trump, he's going to make all sorts of defenses. he's going to conflate his campaign with his defense in

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

keeping your eye on the president's son, hunter biden, and all the legal cases surrounding him. what do you make of the justice department's decision? >> let's just remember the crazy moment we're living in. there are three special counsels right now in the justice department investigating the president for possibly mishandling classified documents, the president's son for his tax problems, and the former president, donald trump. the hunter biden situation, look, just three weeks ago it appeared that this thing was basically done, a plea deal, a controversial plea deal but a deal that was heading towards approval with a judge. it derailed in court three weeks ago. they tried to negotiate an agreement in the last few weeks, but we learned from court filings yesterday that those talks had collapsed, and what we learned from the attorney general merrick garland is that it was now time to take that prosecutor and turn him to a special counsel, potentially to take this case to trial.

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Andrea Mitchell Reports

something that he will be able to respond to questions really going forward on because that's really now all in someone who is officially a special counsel's hands. there does seem to have had a pivot point and what a senior justice department official has told us is that this was only a request on tuesday, so that's tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday we are not at, only a few days before publicly announcing that request, but up until a certain point weiss was saying that he did not feel that he needed to be special counsel. so obviously there's some sort of change more recently that we've seen and as soon as that request was made to merrick garland within the same week officially making him special counsel is the news we see coming out of doj. certainly something significant here. gosh, it's getting tough to continue to keep track of all the different special counsels we have going at this point. it's another one that could go on potentially for a while and it will be curious to see what happens in the hunter biden case specifically with that sort of

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Inside Politics With Dana Bash

point to the fact that previous special counsels, they did testify before congress but only after submitting their final report. here they're trying to emphasize that this requirement to submit a final report will add a layer of transparency to this obviously highly politically fraught investigation. they also answered our questions about whether the white house had been informed or hunter biden's lawyers and were told that the white house was not given a heads-up about this and neither were hunter biden's attorneys. and so far, we have not been able to get biden's attorneys on the phone for a reaction to this development. >> okay, thank you so much. let's go to the white house where priscilla alvarez is there with her reporting. priscilla, i'm guessing you're hearing the same thing from the people in the building behind you that we just heard from paula, that they had no heads-up? >> that's right. we have reached out to the white house. we haven't heard back yet. what we have heard from this

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CNN News Central

justice department had broken down. they went to a hearing where they thought they would solidify, and the judge pushed back, asking for additional briefing. it appears that this case is headed to trial. that may be the impetus here, but we're still trying to figure this out. as special counsel, weiss will now be required to file a final report, and they're committed to making that report with all of his findings, public. the other question will likely come from republicans. how does this special designation impact weiss' ability to answer questions. at this point it's unclear. we know previous special counsels have testified, but they have ohm testified after they submitted their final report. sources also tell me the white house was not informed of this before the attorney general's

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