is coming from the Russian attorney tomor is the first Hearing in the january6 case against the former president since the two proceeding in against him he's called these new charges election interference and a violation of the justice department policy against doing something to PO of the election how do you respond to that and how confident are you that your team has followed instructions from the Supreme Court following that decision I I stand by the actions of the special councel the superseding indictment is an effort to respond to the direct instructions of the Supreme Court as to how to effectuate a new indictment in an ongoing case the special councel is required by the regulations to follow the policies of the justice department including the election sensitivities policies and I'm quite confident that he did so last question Pier um inms Russian interference can you be more specific in terms of is it Beyond Sewing divide of ping a particular candidate this election cycle what can you give us a sense about the ultimate goal of these actions um as I said the effort in this case is to affect the preferred outcome of the presidential election documents that we are unsealing today including internal documents I point you to those to see exactly what's involved more generally the uh Director of National Intelligence test has testified that Russia's um um preferences have not changed from the preceding our thank you everyone