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Looks that way, and he is being held on an unrelated charge of interfering with the police. how long can they hold him? can they keep him indefinitely? >> well, on that case, they have him on a half a million dollar bond. he could get out if theoretically he could post that enormous bond. but i assure you, if there is any indication he is going to post that bond, it will speed up the timeline on their murder case, which they are taking their time on because he is in, and the minute they filed ch...

But robert muellers court filing today indicates that the case is much more complex than that. joining our discussion now, glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. jason johnson is back with us. glenn, translate the mueller memo today, the motion to delay the trial. >> the motion was basically an effort to get out from under the speedy trial clock, the 70-day trial deadline. and i think its interesting that mueller was the one who filed the motion but the defense immed...

Majority report radio show and contributor and user of icloud and karen ill policy who dealt with the mueller team with george papadopoulos and you are closer than most. so i begin with you. what does it mean in plain english when mueller said i have so much evidence i need an exception to what is the federal law that you have to have a speedy trial. >> it is not terribly extraordinary in a complex white-collar case for the government to ask for an exclusion under the constitution, a criminal de...

About? >> this, think is part of the presidents ongoing campaign to delegitimize the mueller investigation, to delegitimize the fbi and of course to delegitimize the intelligence community as we saw in oversight hearings a couple of days ago. anyone who might be compiling evidence against him or members of his administration comes in for this sort of treatment and the reality is theyre no merit to the presidents criticisms here. >> all right, the special counsel filed a motion to exclude the spe...

Have a belief that he acted in self-defense, you cannot arrest until you get to the point of probable cause. from that perspective, they did the right thing because they waited until they gathered more evidence to decide what to do. and thats not a bad thing. there are many cases where people are shot, people are killed and arrests are not made. the third point is this, and as a former prosecutor, when you arrest the six months speedy trial clock starts ticking. if you arrest on january 1st, you...