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>> paula reid, appreciate it. thanks so much. joining me now, chief correspondent kaitlan collins, former prosecutor elie honig, and adam kinzinger, also ashley alison, former national coalitions director of the biden/harris campaign, and former senior obama adviser, david axelrod, and john miller. el li, just from a legal standpoint, what stands out to you? >> ive read a lot of indictments and sometimes they fall into two buckets. sometimes you cant tell. theyre too general and you dont know if...

Person, this new prosecutor, who is going to be in charge of it. and the idea being that these are already pretty far along, and this person is simply going to take them over. its not going to start from scratch. thats the theory. but in practice, what alisyn just said is absolutely true. they have -- special counsels have a way of just going on and on, and so thats going to be the challenge for this person. >> all right. evan, jessica, paula, elli, stand by. were going to take a quick break but...

Hes still going after being appointed by bill barr during the trump administration. so, the question is, how do you limit that? and the answer is, theres no really good way. the law -- as elli just described, the law really makes it clear that the pouspecial counsel is kind of his own boss. he or she is going to be in charge of this investigation. what theyre going to do is theyre going to take over the investigation thats already ongoing. the mar-a-lago investigation is being run out of this bu...

Counsel. crucially here, this will be an independent prosecutor. however, ultimately, it will -- whatever decisions this special counsel makes, it will have to be approved as to potentially whether to charge the former president or any of his associates. it will have to be given the green light ultimately by the attorney general and top officials at the justice department. so, whereas this will be operating independently, there is still some involvement in the end from the attorney general here....

Particularly the mar-a-lago investigation. so, its not great news for the presidents attorneys, who will be the first ones to tell you they were kind of hoping things would wrap up soon. >> we just got the two-minute warning while paula was answering that question. let me bring you in on what this means for trump and his team, elli. >> well, i dont think it makes an indictment any more or less likely than it was otherwise. the justice department, normal prosecutors, the regular rank and file, we...

For Mel Li, who has a passion for baking, Shanghai's continuing lockdown has transformed an ongoing battle with depression into a mental health disaster. "Even if you are a mentally healthy person, you are probably in a bad place by now, let alone people like me," she said. "Every day is a struggle." Li, who lives alone, has been stuck...

>> we want to keep you updated on metro which went on high alert following the bombings in boston. we speak with dan earlier today. he tells you security may be heightened. he stresses theres no specific threat against metro or any transit system. >> from the rails to the roads there an impact on drivers today because of emancipation dayion activities in the direct. >> julie wright joins us with wt the details on that thats a traffic mess, isnt it? >> weve seen the closures in place al...