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merrick garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into president piedens classified documents that were found. >> on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. earlier today i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel for the matter i just described. the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. the s...

Counsel investigation can start on one element and then the scope expands, broadens over time, and we could be looking at different things very soon. >> reporter: yeah, you know, thats the problem with special counsels and why certainly i think throughout the history in this building, theres a resistance to doing it. i think merrick garland is very, very cognizant of that. he was reluctant to do the first one, jack smith, and im sure probably felt the same way. but once he had done the first one...

That up to a local authority and jurisdiction, that mightve occurred. >> and paul butler, theres also that standard line in the appointment document that the justice released today saying go ahead and pursue anything else that you might find as your conducting this investigation. and if you want to -- have necessary, you can from that up to a local authority and jurisdiction, that mightve occurred. >> and that happens quite frequently. i think in addition to perusing the hundreds of pages of gra...

Mandate that he has been given because it basically means not just donald trump but any of his conspirators or haters or a bettors are all within the ambit of jack smiths purview. and thats just the january 6th investigation. so its all aspects of what this purview except for the more low level people who are carrying out donald trumps orders. and that leaves entirely a said that he has also jurisdiction over the so-called documents case involving the documents at mar-a-lago and the obstruction ...

He charged michael flynn with false statemented. he charged rick gates with false statements, all have been charged with making false statements in this investigation. >> so lets -- i want to move forward on this. in the "washington post" story yesterday where they talked about a month ago the trump team getting word he is not a target they also said in august, rod rosenstein was asked by the mueller group now that we looked at manaforts stuff we see problems with what he did in ukraine with a r...

This is the first indictment, first set of indictments, well see when the charges are unsealed. and there are more to come. >> part of the reporting that cnn has done tonight which is more background rather than it is sort of some new fact that theyve dug up. the way theyre characterizing their report tonight is that the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, whos overseeing all matters related to the russia investigation because of the recusal of attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosenstein...