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got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let's get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president's corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? >> that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn't a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and und...

Point, which really kind of explains, at least for me, why hur has been engaged here and why the justice department is taking the aappropriates that they have, is to be as hands off and to be as transparent, and just presume as much as possible into this. and then take it off the table. it is easier to take stuff off the table than to have to go back and add, oh, now this looks like it is a criminal thing, it's easier to take that off the table by including it upfront and saying we want to come into this, in light of what president trump's story line has unfolded before the country, we want to...

Trump and many are calling it an attempted coup. we have to remember that every one -- if we weren't here today, if president trump had done three things. one, not hired michael flynn, two, hired james comey when he took off and three, don't tweet crazy things. >> jon: christy, can the president escape this in the next eight days over seas? >> sure. obviously there will be news that is about his foreign trip. that changes the conversation somewhat. at the same time, you're seeing -- again, these investigation moving forward, new drip drip drips again every hour. so you're going to have to see ...

So many of them lined up. do you think anybody's got netting through? >> i don't know, stephanie, but couldn't have pick add better week. no shart 567 of information. all getting through but all pretty bruised. a few proverbial black eyes but all manage to survive. i'd like to see those ethics reports and get all the information in so that they can be completely vetted, because the worst thing is, if it drip, drip drips, gets confirmed and then a report may, a bunch of hearings and get a lot of distractions. if we're going to do it, let's get it done. >> and without seeing ethic reports and ne...