BREAKING: the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller (2001–2013) as a special prosecutor for the Russia investigation.

Note: Robert Mueller has worked for five different presidents: Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Update: Guess what? The New York Times is reporting that the Trump team knew that soon-to-be National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was under federal investigation.

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"Michael T. Flynn told President Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign, according to two people familiar with the case.

Despite this warning, which came about a month after the Justice Department notified Mr. Flynn of the inquiry, Mr. Trump made Mr. Flynn his national security adviser. The job gave Mr. Flynn access to the president and nearly every secret held by American intelligence agencies.

Mr. Flynn’s disclosure, on Jan. 4, was first made to the transition team’s chief lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, who is now the White House counsel. That conversation, and another one two days later between Mr. Flynn’s lawyer and transition lawyers, shows that the Trump team knew about the investigation of Mr. Flynn far earlier than has been previously reported."

— The New York Times