joining me now is former acting solicitor-general neil katyal. thank you for being here. i'm so eager to get your expert assessment about the reasoning behind judge cannon's ruling. she sites critical document issues. are you buying it? >> i'm not, alex. and this is a very unfortunate decision today because i think we've lost any hope of seeing this trial take place before november, and this is a trial with very serious allegations. before i was in this trial at the solicitor it was office i was at the justice department. anyone who did the stuff trump's accused of would lose their job immediately, go straight to trial and go straight to jail. and i'm not going to characterize the motivations of this judge but this decision and the handling of this case from start to finish have been atrocious and the judge tossed overboard our right, the right to the public of a speedy trial. and she says there's complex pretrial motions. this is not a hard case. it does not require the amount of delay that we've had. the case is pretty simple. it's, alex, a guy stole some documents, he