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Speak with the conflicts of interest here are sickening, quite honestly. mueller andng comey are longtime allies, and partners. there is a reason why there are legal and ethical rules that demand recusal when you have a personal -- >> sean: you are saying that a personal special counsel should never have been appointed? > the law says you have to he an identifiable crime, it has to be named in the appointment order, the order named no such crime.ys it says investigator trump-russia collusion. that is not a crime in any criminal code in america. >> sean: david, you agree with greg's assessment...

Rosenstein order back in may which appointed robert mueller. and the order says that in addition to investigating the alleged meddling by the russians in the 2016 election, it also says that the mueller may investigate any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation according to the lawsuit filed by manafort just a short while ago, it says the rosenstein order gives mueller quote carte blanche to investigate anything while investigating no matter how remote as the subject of the appointment order. the basic part of this here, brooke, is that this is part of a, as you've see...

That's what manafort is now seizing on in this lawsuit that was filed in federal court here in washington. he's taking aim at one part of rod rosenstein's order to appoint robert mueller back in may. in that order it says that mueller not only has the authority to investigate alleged russian meddling in the 2016 election, it also says that mueller may investigate any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. manafort says that that is unlawful and that is an excessive authority that goes against what special counsels are supposed to do. you're supposed to have a discreet...

Starts, but now mueller is going to have a much wider berth here -- potential obstruction of justice and whatever else from this investigation -- that's how broad the language is written in rosenstein's initial appointment order. and so, you hear from darrell issa, a republican, that that is exactly what should happen, and this conversation, poppy, about restoring the public confidence. again, that is not something we're hearing from the white house or the most loyal trump supporters on capitol hill. that's something we're hearing from a vulnerable republican. >> no, it's a great point. darrel...

Philip first. >> i don't know how many need to be lawyering up, as you put it. but now that there is an investigation into the trump campaign's possible collusion with the russian hacking, there is obviously some exposure. and i think it's also important to point out what hasn't yet been discussed, perhaps because people have been kind of busy, could not have read the actual appointment letter from the deputy attorney general. but he not only says that the special counsel has authority to investigate the possible collusion between the russian government and the trump campaign but also any matt...