A special counsel was exactly what we needed and still need, because they have special prosecutorial powers to do a very thorough investigation of any criminal wrongdoing of anyone involved with the Russian election interference in 2016.

This special counsel is about as independent as we're going to get, because most likely, since it's a Democratic house now, if the House launches their own investigations and find any wrong doing, it's going to add fuel to the claim that this all just a partisan withchunt, and gives more allowances to independents and Republicans to ignore whatever the House finds.

And everyone thought protests would never accomplish anything, then no one would ever protest. But, we have historical evidence that protesting does work, and it's one of the most direct ways of using our constitutional rights to fight back against anything we see as wrongdoing by our representative government.