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hello, everyone. i'm bianna in new york. pressure mounts for garland to appoint a special counsel to oversee an investigation into president biden's handling of classified government records. we are following this from every angle, so let's begin with cnn's evan perez. what are you learning about what we can expect to hear from the attorney general in just a few moments? >> reporter: well, bianna, we obviously know that the justice department attorney general garland are in a difficult position given the fact that we are learning still new details about these documents that the presi...

Level as the principal associate deputy attorney general during the trump administration, who then really made a name for himself as u.s. attorney in maryland, prosecuting the former mayor of baltimore, the former police commissioner of baltimore, delegates and a state senator, a lot of democrats on corruption matters, but most importantly, if you're going to pinpoint this case, he did two very significant investigations into the nsa, two employees, both of whom carried large amounts of classified documents out of the nsa, one of them stored them in his home, in his car, another had massive in...

Connection with certain kinds of crimes like wire fraud, insider trading, corruption matters and the like. i'm not aware of any situation which in a leak investigation, all of which are fraught and difficult for various reasons and often don't end up in charges of anyone, again, for various reasons, that in a leak investigation of this nature, you are asked for toll records and phone records of members of congress, their staff and, according to the reporting, to family members of those folks. i've not seen anything like it. that's why, again, you're seeing the uproar you're seeing, because you...

I want to look at some of the witnesses. some were fact witnesses. they have to decide when and if they will tell the truth and others are people who work for donald trump that have to decide if they want to get in on coverups or not which may have legal consequences. i have a update on another story with that. here is one of what i am calling the latter group. this is larry kudlow. >> you have to ask the president about the issue of china looking at other corruption matters. i can't speak to that. >> but you could assure us that won't be part of discussions next week? >> well in some sense i ...

Never mention the violation of any statute. >> why not? why that choice? >> we don't want to be bound by what is in the criminal law. >> it's a completely different proceeding? >> not only the proceeding but the idea is an impeachable offense is an agreesoegregious f power. >> that's the deep constituti constitutional question. the first president to be impeached was about how he talked about congress and how he lied literally about his rhetoric. thank you both. >> thank you. >> i should mention our podcast has great episodes about the questions we're talking about. for instance, talk to me ab...