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Donald J. Trump is running for president again. Donald J. Trump is back on Twitter again. And now a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate Donald J. Trump again.

In the saga of the Trump investigations, there seem to be recurring rhythms and patterns. Here’s what to know about the latest developments.

Trump Faces a New Special Counsel

From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is a daily.

On Friday, in a moment of political deja vu, the Attorney General appointed a special

counsel to investigate alleged criminality by Donald Trump.

Today, Mike Schmidt, who covered the last special counsel to investigate Trump on what we

So we can't see you, which is fine. No, hold on.

There he is. Michael, thank you for joining us on a Sunday morning. It's good to be here.

Always the same response. It's good to be here.

So Mike, I woke up this morning thinking that it really feels like we're in some kind of time machine

because we have Donald Trump running for president again.

We have Donald Trump back on Twitter again.

And now a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate Donald Trump again.

And it was this feeling of like what year exactly are we living in?

There are certain rhythms and patterns to the Trump story that I've noticed over the past.

I don't know how many years it is at this point five, six years.

Yeah. It sort of repeats itself over and over again.

Each time the story is a little different, but it sort of has a general theme to it.

So we had seen this before. We had seen a special counsel before.

And I'm not so surprised to see another one again.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is a daily.
0:11.0	On Friday, in a moment of political deja vu, the Attorney General appointed a special
0:17.5	counsel to investigate alleged criminality by Donald Trump.
0:23.0	Today, Mike Schmidt, who covered the last special counsel to investigate Trump on what we
0:30.0	need to know about the new one.
0:35.0	It's Monday, November 21st.
0:44.0	So we can't see you, which is fine. No, hold on.
0:48.0	There he is. Michael, thank you for joining us on a Sunday morning. It's good to be here.
0:55.0	Always the same response. It's good to be here.
0:59.0	So Mike, I woke up this morning thinking that it really feels like we're in some kind of time machine
1:06.0	because we have Donald Trump running for president again.
1:10.0	We have Donald Trump back on Twitter again.
1:14.0	And now a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate Donald Trump again.
1:20.0	And it was this feeling of like what year exactly are we living in?
1:25.0	There are certain rhythms and patterns to the Trump story that I've noticed over the past.
1:31.0	I don't know how many years it is at this point five, six years.
1:34.0	Yeah. It sort of repeats itself over and over again.
1:37.0	Each time the story is a little different, but it sort of has a general theme to it.
1:44.0	So we had seen this before. We had seen a special counsel before.
1:48.0	Right.
1:49.0	And I'm not so surprised to see another one again.
1:54.0	So let's talk about all that.
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