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This is a cbs news special report on scott pelley

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...the white house moments ago the department of justice announced

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status appointing a special independent counsel former fbi

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director robert mueller to head up the investigation into russian meddling

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in the election and any possible collusion with members of

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the trump administration it will also include any matters that arise

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from that investigation which would seem to include the president's

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decision to fire fbi director james comey last week

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miller firing comey last week muller is a well-respected

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former fbi director he ran the bureau for twelve years serving

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under president george w bush and barach obama we have jeff

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With more on this breaking story in our washington news room jeff the

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scott it was the deputy attorney general made this decision appointing mahler to be

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the special counsel of course he is acting as the attorney general

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in this investigation he is leading it because jeff sessions the attorney general had

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to recuse himself robert muller is you mention scott is widely respected

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he served as fbi director for twelve years now to the order that

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appointed this a special counsel...broad scott...it's

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important to note because he will now have the authority to investigate

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...not only russian interference in the two thousand sixteen election but

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also whether they were any contacts and the coordination potentially

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between trump campaign associates and russian officials so now

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as a he has been appointed a special counsel in this investigation

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muller will be able to investigate and,

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we are told from this

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...which says that the special counsel will

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be authorized to prosecute federal crimes so he has

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fairly broad powers investigating this case scott the our to prosecute the our

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to subpoena the our to investigate all of this thoroughly this is

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a major development in an unexpected one and

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this saga which has been unfolding here at the white

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house for the last several weeks the investigation of whether russia

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interfered with the us presidential election whether any members of the trump

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pant campaign colluded in that interference and now

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after the firing of fbi director james comey questions about whether

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the president had tried to pressure comey to shut down the fbi is

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investigation there will be much more on this story on your local news on this

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cbo station on our streaming network cbs

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...and the full wrap-up is just ahead

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on the cbs evening news until then I'm scott pelley in washington what

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...twenty four hours a day go-to cbsnews?

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Dot com.