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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 ...

The job. now, listen, i think from a political capitol hill perspective, this is, i don't want to say the nail in the coffin, but i think this makes it much more likely as if it wasn't likely already, that they are going to launch some sort of the impeachment inquiry against the president. now, the grounds under which or on which they will do that are shaky, right, i mean, i don't think there's anything right now that we know of that indicates that he has committed high crimes that were misdemeanors. i just, i don't see that right now. but i think when they get back to washington in about a mo...

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. i...

Said his position on abortion was multiple choice because he couldn't decide where he stood on an issue pretty important to most voters. >> if i can make one statement in defense of the obama campaign. if you think what they were walking into, the obama campaign had had a series of bad months. not just weeks or days, bad months. a lot of republicans were talking about whether romney would go over the cliff and take the whole party with him. even his own party mates were wondering if he could be an effective candidate. a different guy showed up for that debate, governor of mitt romney. appears ...

Romney. appears moderate, but who sounded really good and convincing. the president chose not to engage him because i think he felt like the mitt romney he had been seeing all those weeks wasn't the romney-m that was going to turn the campaign around. unfortunately, that's not what they saw. it was a miscalculation. they won't make that [ female announcer ] with swiffer dusters,