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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...

Decided to search other areas where he may have stored documents, including his two homes in delaware, and when that search specifically began, we don't know, we just now know that that second batch of documents was discovered on december 20th, and we know that the search concluded, according to the president's legal team, last night, and that this morning, the president's legal counsel reached out to the justice department to say they had found one additional document. so when that search started, we don't know, when it concluded, the president's team said last night. >> let's see if it has c...

Today, you have another revelation of classified documents. i mean at some point it becomes the preliminary review stage has to end and you say i can't exonerate, i can't say that no crime is committed so we have to go forward with a special counsel. and it looks like that is the decision that merrick garland made. he didn't really lay out, as i thought he might today, some of the factors, some of the reasons behind why they couldn't rule this out as a series of innocent mistakes, but that's the facts, i mean that is just, that's on its face, that is the reality, because if the u.s. attorney i...

Here in this building at the d.o.j., and then he was appointed u.s. attorney in maryland, where he led a number of complex prosecutors, and really, he goes way back in the justice department. he at one point worked for christopher wray, now the fbi director, at that time was in the justice department, he is a graduate of harvard college and stanford law school where he was the executive editor of u-the -- of the law review. and outstanding reputation for anyone who is questioning whether this would be handled fairly and down the middle. >> let's talk about that, when you're appointing a specia...

Know rob hur says this is a man who will play straight down the middle and people who know him don't really know what his politics are and obviously if you're a republican appointee you're on that team to a certain respect, but he has a reputation as a person who is essentially a career prosecutor, and when you rise to a certain level in the justice department, you have no choice but to be a political appointee, all of the top jobs are filled by political appointees and you are sort of picking one side or the other, but his background is as a career prosecutor, katy. >> ken, not to stay with y...