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merrick garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into president pieden's 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 special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department....

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, that's the problem with special counsels and why certainly i think throughout the history in this building, there's 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 i'm sure probably felt the same way. but once he had done the first one, he absolutely knew he had to do the second one, which is rob hur. i will say, though, that ther...

That up to a local authority and jurisdiction, that might've occurred. >> and paul butler, there's 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 might've occurred. >> and that happens quite frequently. i think in addition to perusing the hundreds of pages of grand jury testimony regarding both january 6th and mar-a-lago, special counsel smith on the play ri...

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 smith's purview. and that's just the january 6th investigation. so it's all aspects of what this purview except for the more low level people who are carrying out donald trump's 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 of justice of either of those two investigations which is also within his ambit. there's any con...

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 let's -- 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 manafort's stuff we see problems with what he did in ukraine with a russian sympathetic leader and we want to know if we can investigate what manafort did as it relate...