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Attorney general, i determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a special counsel to assume responsibility for this matter. my decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. the person at the helm of this new probe, as i said, former fbi director robert mueller, well known to everyone in this country. he now has the power to have a grand jury, issue subpoenas, and to sign a slew of federal agents to this case. he became fbi director just days before 9/11. he served an extended 12 year term after his n...

The department of justice, the first time that regulation was used was a 1999 by then attorney general janet reno, who appointed former missouri senator jack danforth to investigate botched federal rate in waco, texas. in this case, attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself from the russian investigation, so, the power to appoint falls to acting attorney general rod rosenstein. it is also rosenstein who decides the initial scope of the special prosecutor, meaning whether or not former fbi director robert mueller's investigation would focus solely on russian meddling in the election or...

[laughs] >> martha: -- may be. thank you, guys. thank you very much. good to see both of you. shock waves throughout washington tonight, as the doj just announced the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the investigation into russian meddling into the presidential election. what exactly does that mean? trace gallagher has the details from our west coast newsroom tonight. >> some of this has been touched on before but it's very important to give a step-by-step. after president nixon fired watergate special prosecutor dear archibald cox, the appointing of a special counsel went through s...

Look into a lot of the dealings surrounding the trump campaign. this is different, we should point out, then the special prosecutor, special counsel statute under with ken starr conducted that five year long investigation into the clinton administration. that statute was allowed to expire. special prosecutors and appointed by top officials of the department of justice, in this case, rod rosenstein. it is also interesting to see that just a week after andrew mccabe, the acting director of the fbi, said we have enough resources to carry out this russian investigation, if rosenstein independently...