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>> sure. well, this is a creature of state law. at last count, there were about 50 states, and each have different procedures. in georgia, apparently a district attorney through a regular grand jury can't compel documents or witnesses, and so in this case she needs a special grand jury. she goes to the chief judge of the county and asks that he empanel a special grand jury, and through it the district attorney can compel the production of documents and compel the attendance of witnesses. it's an investigative tool. interestingly, i come out of the federal system, i don't think that part's inte...

That bob mueller is not going to do a good job investigating. that is going to take a long time, and that is going to be a very secret process. and we also do need a transparent process to look at the integrity of our political system. and bob mueller is now going to provide that. i hope we're also going to have some kind of a congressional or independent commission that can provide that transparency which i think as a country we need. >> jill, if there is no independent commission of that sort, what would you expect from special counsel mueller in terms of public revelations? go to the extrem...

Return indictments if the evidence warrants it. there is a provision in the law that you can make a report. and it is what we did during watergate. on the day we returned indictments, we also asked the judge for permission to give to the congress a report which laid out a road map to impeachment. it put together all of the tapes and evidence that we had and what we thought were impeachable offenses by the president. and so that is something that can be done through the court system. but i think that we had underlying criminal indictments in which the president was an unindicted co-conspirator....