but he would have actual authority. but he asked, it became a little bit of a point of contention, and congressional hearings. and when he sort of said to garland, okay, can i just have this authority, and put the matter to rest, garland i think was more less oxygen and said, all, right you can be designated as special counsel. even though by the way, he's not, he's from within the department, and typically special counsel's come from outside the department. >> so harry, if i'm hearing you correctly, excuse me, is this special counsel in the hunter biden investigation, given powers that the u.s. attorney already had, is this really cosmetic? >> well, i would say no in this sense. i don't think it's a good question that he has more power actually today that he did two days ago. but, i don't think hunter biden sees it as cosmetic in the sense that everyone saw the