steve: want something from hannah montana.r. i'm only kidding. brian: i believed you. steve: it's the judge with us today. we have plenty to talk about. in fact, judge, we start with a fox news alert. steve: the department of justice has received congressional criminal referrals from a number of congressional republicans. they want the department of justice to, perhaps, name a special counselor to look into that one and any connections to uranium one. the clinton foundation, and on and on. what do you think? >> i think these matters should have been investigated a long time ago. but i don't think we need another independent counsel. independent counsels are dangerous for two reasons. one, they are not accountability through the ordinary political chain of command to the attorney general and to the president. they operate on their own. justice scascalia warned about n a case he wrote dissent. you can't delegate authority to independent entity that answers to no one. two, they often want to justify their existence. are they goin