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What was the original memorandum that gave mueller his authority. remember, a special prosecutor is a person of limited authority that is dictated by a memo that no one has seen. the question is, what is his authority. can he indict the president. if his authority was to conduct an investigation concerning russian collusion and he has evidence the president engaged in russian collusion, then he's within the scope of his memo. after that it gets fuzzy. >> harris: we learned as breaking news this hour and i spoke with the congressman atop the hour about this, the judge, judge ellis, still now ha...

Figure out what happened here. for example, we would like to see the august 2 memo. mr. meadows and i wrote a letter a month ago asking the justice department to let us see the august 2 memo, some change to the scope of the special counsel information. two weeks ago the federal judge says he wants to see it as well. this is the kind of thing we need access to. the only way to do it now is for the president of the united states to tell the attorney general to give us the information. >> harris: i want to go real basic before i let you go. people will watch this around the country and wonder, ok...

Is the august 2 follow-up order because the special counsel went back to ask for jurisdiction. so he wanted to see the ruling, the judge said, i'll be the one to do that and that led to a repercussion. what is missing for the republicans in midterms? we'll tell you about that, next. . but then one night, a truck didn't stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story.

Powers he gave mueller, that's blacked out. and we're only learning about this right now because paul manafort's lawyers filed a legal attack on mueller's authority that backfired, leading to this news as rachel maddow reported. >> in the middle of the night we got a new court filing from mueller's prosecutors. we learned from this new court filing that there was also subsequent to that public statement establishing the mueller investigation there was also another bit of instruction. august 2 last year, another sheet of instructions from demty attorney general rod rosenstein to bob mueller's o...

Greatness. and the president interviewed a lot of people for this position, former prosecutors, law enforcement officials and this was his man, christopher wray. >> bill: a lot of people not familiar with him. he has only been on the job for four most took own for comey. wray was sworn in august 2. he stood and get sworn in in the committee. let's drop in. >> my first opportunity to appear before this committee. and i look forward to our discussion. let me start by saying that it is for me the honor of a lifetime to be here representing the men and women of the f.b.i. there is no finer institu...