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Angles. I want to begin with our justice correspondent pamela brown. Pamela joins us from washington. Pamela, Justice Department naming the former fbi director as a special counsel to investigate russias meddling. What else can you tell us . Rod rosenstein making this decision and announcing today that hes chosen bob mueller, the former fbi director, to take the reins of the russia probe. And essentially the department of justice is now out of the equation and bob mueller will run this investigation, which means hell have the same authority as the attorney general. He can issue subpoenas and even interview the president. Anything he deems necessary in this investigation and whats so interesting here, don, is that they didnt give much warning to the white house or Jeff Sessions who has recused himself from the russian probe. The white house found out a half hour before rosenstein wanted to do this by the book clearly. Don . Heres the statement by Rod Rosenstein. My decision is not to fi

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