plus former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. with me at the table for the rest of the hour former top prosecutor at the department of justice, msnbc legal analyst andrew weissmann. your thoughts. >> so that statement is interesting for a number of reasons. one, that it's issued so quickly. you have to remember that this is a case where the attorney general and the solicitor general know the law extremely well and know just how wrong this decision is. we have had special counsels under republican and democratic administrations.