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Has asked the justice department to look at this case, but from what i understand the office of professional responsibility that is overseeing this has no jurisdiction over acosta because he no longer works for the justice department. so it remains to be seen whether they're going to do anything about his role in this. but what i will say is in all of the explanations that i have heard from mr. acosta and from some of his assistant prosecutors who handled this they have never explained why they kept this deal secret. if it was such a good deal like they say, this was fair, this was, you know, ...

Fired? does the investigation get shut down, do we hear what happened? do we see what he found out? >> it's not clear. the only precedent we have for all of this is the saturday night massacre, and in that instance, the assistant prosecutors raced to the office to make sure they didn't lose the evidence. and they got a new prosecutor to replace cox, so maybe we get a replacement for robert mueller, and they keep going. but there are two issues there, robert mueller as the personnel, and whether there is a special counsel investigation at all. so, two separate issues. it's a little bit unknown ...

Behalf of watching the show. but if they were working together you might have suppression issues. >> you get people acting in a jail cell acting with a prosecutor who is an agent. >> bill: the family is very wealthy. $4 billion estimated worth. how do you -- this is the same man on the stand for four days in galveston texas and admitted he took the dead body of his neighbor cut it up threw it into the galveston bay and walked. how does that happen? >> i trained assistant prosecutors. the mere fact you have destruction of human remains doesn't mean you proved the person actually killed the pers...

He decided at the outset that he wouldn't make a case. he decided his assistant prosecutors would just dump out for the grand jury that turned up in the case everything. they would just let the grand jury sort it all out. it's a very weird way for a grand jury to decide. as those secret and unusual proceedings dragged on, st. louis public radio noted the conflict between the supreme court ruling and the law that was technically still on the books. we cannot know if the prosecuting attorneys saw the

Grand jury heard the testimony of officer darren wilson himself. now, it is worth pointing out that the grand jury proceeding in st. louis county was sort of unusual by design. he decided at the outset that he wouldn't make a case about what charges they might bring. he decided his assistant prosecutors would just dump out for the grand jury that turned up in the case, everything. they would just let the grand jury sort it all out. it's a very weird way for a grand jury to decide. as those secret and unusual proceedings dragged on, st. louis public radio noted the conflict between the supreme ...