A brand new special counsel now focused on Hunter Biden.

The lead starts right now.

The attorney general's surprise announcement, the prosecutor who was overseeing the Hunter

Biden case, is now being elevated to a special counsel.

What will this mean for the president's son?

What will this mean for the president and Donald Trump might be told to zip it, the judge

in the 2020 election fraud case, signaling that she is going to be willing to restrict

sensitive evidence as she tells Trump's attorneys, former president's right to free speech

is not absolute.

And Hawaii's catastrophe sadly getting worse, historic towns gone, homes burned to the

ground, 55 lives confirmed lost and that number is sadly expected to climb.

Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we start today with our law and justice lead

in a new special counsel investigating Hunter Biden.

The new title gives US attorney David White, a Trump holdover who had already been investigating

Mr. Biden's son more powers than he had as a federal prosecutor.

Now you might recall just a few weeks ago it looked as though this investigation was

coming to an end.

Hunter Biden went to court after his lawyers had supposedly struck a deal with White's

prosecutorial team.

But that deal fell apart in court among much skepticism voiced by the judge.

The two sides were told tried to keep negotiating but now the justice department says it looks

as though this case is headed to trial.

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