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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 ther ....
Statute says it s up to the attorney general to look at the situation and say where i need to appoint a special counsel. so it is interesting the attorney general holds this press conference and says weiss came to me about that. remember, this ongoing conversation. whistleblowers, irs agents saying weiss said to us in a meeting and there were other witnesses he didn t have the ultimate authority to decide this, but the same time weiss has said if i felt i needed to ask for more, they made clear i could ask. andy has pointed out to that statutory language saying it s the a.g. who should make that decision. gillian: so if as weiss said all along he had full authority to investigate and to prosecute as he saw fit, what more additional authority and power does this appointment give him? if you are in a particular district, he is delaware. we heard the talk from the whistleblowers he had gone to ....
Succumbing to pressure on this. anything i would respond to that would be complete speculation. i have no idea. it feels to me that this authority we have been told for weeks wasn t needed is now needed. that they were negotiating while at the same time weiss was asking garland to be made special counsel, so was that negotiation in good faith? a lot of questions here, katy, about what s happened. it s confusing. let s talk to jake sherman about what we have been hearing on capitol hill. the pressure i ve spoken about, republicans have been banging this drum that this deal was not fair. it was a sweetheart deal. they had those whistleblowers in congress. what are they reacting to or what is their reaction to this now? the reaction is that they don t believe this is the right person to be special counsel. and to be clear, they have been calling for a special counsel for a long time now that merrick garland has attacked mr. weiss s special counsel. they say this is not the guy for ....