Special Counsel Named To Investigate President's Son
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jesse and Kennecott Alaska. Right now, I'm standing on Root Glacier and staring |
| 0:07.7 | up at the second largest ice fall in the world. This show was recorded at 158 p.m. on August |
| 0:15.0 | 11th, 2023. Things may have changed by the time that you hear it, but I'll still be |
| 0:20.0 | here freezing my toes off. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:27.0 | The ice is underrated as a natural phenomenon. It sounds particularly nice in August and |
| 0:30.8 | DC, especially when you have to run from the courthouse to the Justice Department at relatively |
| 0:35.7 | high speed. Yeah, it's been a sweaty summer over there, I presume. Hey there, it's the |
| 0:40.0 | MPR politics podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent. Well, and the reason Carrie that you are |
| 0:48.8 | doing all that running today is because Attorney General Merrick Garland has named a special |
| 0:53.2 | counsel to investigate President Biden's son Hunter. Today's announcement affords the prosecutors, |
| 1:00.6 | agents and analysts working on this matter, the ability to proceed with their work expeditiously |
| 1:07.6 | and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. This is the continuation |
| 1:14.6 | of an ongoing investigation of the President's son. Carrie, I'm hoping you can just explain |
| 1:19.4 | all of this for us. So this is Delaware, US Attorney David Weiss, who had already been investigating |
| 1:25.1 | Hunter Biden, but this is changing things. Changing things a little bit, Miles. He has been |
| 1:29.9 | investigating Hunter Biden for several years now since 2019 or so. And of course, David Weiss |
| 1:36.4 | was appointed by the former President, Donald Trump, but the current administration kept him on |
| 1:41.0 | because of this Hunter Biden investigation. And over time, there's been a lot of back and forth, |
| 1:47.0 | including with members of Congress on the Republican side. But Weiss has insisted he's proceeding with |
| 1:53.5 | this probe. Now this week, something has changed. And as of Tuesday of this week, David Weiss |
| 2:00.0 | notified the Attorney General that something had changed in his investigation that it had reached |
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