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hello, everyone. im bianna in new york. pressure mounts for garland to appoint a special counsel to oversee an investigation into president bidens handling of classified government records. we are following this from every angle, so lets begin with cnns evan perez. what are you learning about what we can expect to hear from the attorney general in just a few moments? >> reporter: well, bianna, we obviously know that the justice department attorney general garland are in a difficult pos...

Level as the principal associate deputy attorney general during the trump administration, who then really made a name for himself as u.s. attorney in maryland, prosecuting the former mayor of baltimore, the former police commissioner of baltimore, delegates and a state senator, a lot of democrats on corruption matters, but most importantly, if youre going to pinpoint this case, he did two very significant investigations into the nsa, two employees, both of whom carried large amounts of classifie...

Connection with certain kinds of crimes like wire fraud, insider trading, corruption matters and the like. im not aware of any situation which in a leak investigation, all of which are fraught and difficult for various reasons and often dont end up in charges of anyone, again, for various reasons, that in a leak investigation of this nature, you are asked for toll records and phone records of members of congress, their staff and, according to the reporting, to family members of those folks. ive ...

I want to look at some of the witnesses. some were fact witnesses. they have to decide when and if they will tell the truth and others are people who work for donald trump that have to decide if they want to get in on coverups or not which may have legal consequences. i have a update on another story with that. here is one of what i am calling the latter group. this is larry kudlow. >> you have to ask the president about the issue of china looking at other corruption matters. i cant speak to tha...

Never mention the violation of any statute. >> why not? why that choice? >> we dont want to be bound by what is in the criminal law. >> its a completely different proceeding? >> not only the proceeding but the idea is an impeachable offense is an agreesoegregious f power. >> thats the deep constituti constitutional question. the first president to be impeached was about how he talked about congress and how he lied literally about his rhetoric. thank you both. >> thank you. >> i should mention ou...

And again, hes addressed that head on and i think pretty effectively. >> and finally, whats happening across town at the white house in about an hour and a half? we talk about the presidents meeting. last time i spoke with you on this program, you were saying i asked about the 43 college students. i asked the president about it. do you think thats an issue that should be discussed between the leaders of the united states and mexico? >> no i dont. i think its an internal issue in mexico. but secu...

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