it's a little hard to believe at this stage of the big sprawling that resulted in a guilty plea and two felony indictments but we have news of what we think is a first, not only is a first for me in the russia investigation, this is a first, first, never heard anything like this before, special counsel robert mueller was appointed by the second in command at the justice department by the deputy attorney general. he reports to the deputy attorney general. he could be fired by the deputy attorney general and that arrangement between muller and the justice department makes this a potentially awkward piece of news. siting a source who has not seen the request but told about it, abc news now reports the special counsel robert mueller just demanded that the justice department itself should hand over a bunch of documents that pertain to muller's investigation.