archives. despite the vast differences between president biden s case and donald trump s, attorney merrick garland made this announcement earlier this week. i m here today to be announced the appointment of roberts her as a special counsel, pursuing department of justice regulations governing such matters. this appointment underscores the departments commitment to both independents and accountability, in particularly sensitive manners. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts in the law. joining me now is why our correspondent allie raffa. ali, will come in. thank you for starting us off this morning. what are you hearing from the white house this morning? cory, yeah. good morning. president biden is waking up in his bloomington home, where we now know that two of those three discoveries of classified materials were found just in the last month and this is, those discoveries and the timing of the white house acknowledgment of them now under intense
has told this programme that eu member countires have so far been discplined and prevented from making any meaningful pre negotiations with the uk. he also confirmed it would not be possible to agree all of the issues during the two year negotiation period, and he foresaw the distinc possibility of political and economic turbulence. we ll hear his interview with our diplomatic editor mark urban in full in a moment, but first, to our political editor nick watt. what are you hearing tonight? snp sources said that theresa may told nicola sturgeon that the uk government is confident they can do an overall deal within 18 months. so it means the future trading relationship. number ten doesn t believe the future trading relationship can be done and dusted them, it will need what it described as an implementation phase. but it shows that the uk is accepting the timetable by the eu, which is a greek it by the autumn of 2018 so it can be fully ratified. but the eu chief negotiator is s
Biden administration cover to say look, as you say these are completely different situations and i think that ultimately at the end of the day american voters are sophisticated enough to be able to see that these are not analogous situations whatsoever. okay ferdinand, weigh in here. talking points, melissa pointed out exactly what lucy just did here that merrick garland appointing robert hurd continues to long-standing tradition of democrats thinking republicans to either run the fbi or special counsel investigations. it is the 80 trying to appease the right with this choice or trying to appear that they are you know, really everything is above board here. it s a bipartisan investigation. it is this biden investigation a matter of force equivalency though? i m not to show to false equivalency cory. i think what the a.g. is doing, if you want to look at it another way, it is probably indicative that the indictment against former president trump was probably moving at a much