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Special counsel's in cases where they're not needed for example this one. i don't think one was necessary in the trump case, i don't think one was necessary here. as i, said having a point to one of the first case, you're necessarily required in the second. the history of special counsel shows that oftentimes, they tend to go in all kinds of places you don't expect. this is different in the situation in 1990, is when the independent counsels that one accountable to the attorney general. the special counsel will be accountable to, directly supervised by the a.g.. but if he wants to pursue somet...

Who worked for the department of justice? >> that has to have been intentional because what merrick garland wants here is credibility. you want to be able to point to the sophistication and say that this is not somebody who was in lead with joe biden. i think it was a smart move to put someone who has conservative credentials but also is an accomplished, established veteran federal park so cuter. ultimately, both of these apartments a special counsel is about independent credibility. >> ultimately, whose decision is it on whether or not charges are brought? >> but special counsels will go abou...

Know, bill $200 an hour to go over there and clean it out for them? 1500 bucks an hour. that's a lot of hours. >> republicans want to get to the bottom of it. senate intel committee wrote the director of national intelligence and said we want access to these classified documents, a damage assessment by the intel community and a briefing on biden and trump's classified documents. republicans, like josh hawley and lindsey graham are calling for the a.g. to appoint a special counsel to investigate. listen. >> the answers given by the white house are nonsensical. if there's not a special counsel a...

Biden's attorneys discovered the documents, they immediately contacted the national archives, which in turn reached out to the justice department, which has launched a preliminary investigation. former president donald trump, on the other hand, who took more than 300 classified documents with him to mar-a-lago, refused to turn over all the material for months, which ultimately led the fbi to search his home. >> all right, so, let's bring in pierre thomas tonight with late reporting from washington. and pierre, you're learning that attorney general merrick garland could soon decide whether to n...

Awaiting some direction from the a.g. as to how this will be handled. i agree with the republicans. there should absolutely be a special counsel appointed to review this matter. so let's think about it. the special counsel. there is nothing magical about a special counsel's legal authority. they can investigate crimes that a u.s. attorney as. you have very competent u.s. attorneys to do it. the whole reason to put a special counsel in is when the public would be reasonably concerned that an investigation might be, could be, possibly was tainted by politics. there is certainly that concern here...