Joyce Vance, a former United States Attorney who currently serves as a law professor and a legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC, says she is cautiously optimistic that Jack Smith, the new special counsel that Attorney-General Merrick Garland appointed to oversee the investigations into former president Donald Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection and the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago will be able to successfully pull it off without bias.