investigation. let's discus now with the attorney general of the district of columbia and douglas chin, attorney general of hawaii. good evening. thank you so much for coming on. carl i'll start with you. >> good evening. >> you are both among 20 state and district attorneys general who have signed a letter asking rod rosenstein to appoint an independent special counsel to investigate russia's attempts to meddle in the election. >> the simple reason is that we're concerned that the investigation of the russian meddling and whether there was any collusion on the part of the trump campaign needs to have an independent prosecutor, a prosecutor who was not partisan, a prosecutor who was not political. that's the only way we'll get to the bottom of this. that is the only way we'll restore confidence in the american people about the legal