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>> sure, so you can imagine that the agents who were working under mr. lausch were really trying to get their hands around the big picture and the basics of what happened. what the folks are now working for rob hur, what the special counsel will do, is likely reproach any those witnesses that have spoken. and give them an in-depth interview to get the entirety of the scope of their knowledge of an involvement with these documents. whether its from the office of the house. its going to first be -...

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Wages, and what theyre proposing to do that would interfere with that would really put us on the edge economically. >> we expect to hear from the president any moment. well take you there live when it happens. in the meantime, lets continue the conversation. with me to share reporting and insights, cnns jeff zeleny, francesca chambers of "usa today," evan perez and security analyst carrie cordero. lets start, the new special counsel just named. where are we, is there a sense of how long this wil...

What else is there, right, what might happen here. and certainly i think the shifting stories that weve heard from the white house, the explanations that theyve given raise a lot more questions. and one of the things that rob hur has to confront is how do we make sure there are not additional documents. there are other homes and offices that the president used when he was a former vice president that will likely have to be searched. who does those searches? is it the presidents legal team? over ...

Hur spent much of his legal career serving in multiple positions in the Department of Justice. He is also the former U.S. attorney in Maryland, appointed by then-President Donald Trump.

Dose honest, which is he. for the first time in a long time there is blood in the water. mike davis is the president of the article iii project and a former senate judiciary committee chief counsel. so the doj scope memo that garland writes to her, this new special counsel, it gives this hur guy powers to do what any -- whatever he wants, investigate biden, handling the documents, blah blah, but he also could investigate anything that may arise from this investigation, like perjury, obstruction,...

There. this is the same rob hur who was the number one to rod rosenstein when they were running the russian collusion investigation. the russian hoax investigation. so you have to ask about rob hur. did he know that this russian collusion investigation was a complete hoax and go along with it or was he just duped? and either way is not a good sign for this investigation now. >> jesse: so the guys resume and pedigree doesnt inspire confidence. what about biden himself? if he is now trying to shut...

Context in how the documents were packed up. sources described to season season the chaotic final days for joe biden when he was vice president back in 2017. aides scrambling to pack up his work spaces and residence and what they call a muddled and hurried process that left aides packing boxes and documents and papers late into the night. how much does that matter? as the justice department tries to figure this out or the special counsel tries to figure this out? >> it matters enormously. those ...

Had then been turned over to justice department officials who accompanied the white house counsel, special counsel, who went to wilmington, to hand over the documents. the issue for this that at some point when rob hur has his operation up and running, theyre going to want some kind of statement, some kind of attestation that theres no aduditional documents. this is something were seeing play out in a parallel and separate investigation of former president trumps handling of classified documents...

Republicans calling it a cover-up. >> prior to an election, you found a sitting president when he was vice president with top secret documents. why do they not even tell america that that transpired? >> reporter: tonight the white house says its confident the special counsel investigation will show the classified documents were inadvertently misplaced. >> and kristen, all this puts a cloud over the white house in what they may view as an inconvenient time. >> thats exactly right, lester. in fact...