let's bring in cnn political commentator alyssa farrah griffin and elie honig. elie, let me start with you. manu laid out some distinctions between the trump documents or the pibiden document. what do you think about this call? >> it's the right call. it's the only call i think merrick garland could have made. the hallmark of a special prosecutor is conflict of interest. if a reasonable member of the public would look at a situation and say, gee, there's some crossed wires there, let's start with the fact that there already is a special counsel investigating donald trump. i think the potential conflict of interest is obvious. hence, there is going to be a conflict of interest, probably even more so when you're talking about merrick garland and his doj investigating his own boss joe biden. i see no daylight between donald trump's situation and joe biden's situation when it comes to conflict of interest. if there's a conflict of interest to donald trump, there absolutely is a conflict of interest when it comes to joe biden and there had to be a special counsel. >>