first amendment lawyers and they are going to fight the gag order. because of the news, legal experts are speculating this delays release of the mueller report. do you think a possible october date, does that unquestionably prolong the mueller investigation? well, i don t think so, alex, because the investigation that was done was done by the mueller team. the prosecution is a joint prosecution between the mueller team and the u.s. attorney s office in the district of columbia. in the event the mueller investigation is concluded prior to the stone, that s okay. the trial of roger stone will go on. in terms of the evidence, it s years. it s litt rally years of information that s been seized. at the end of the day, he s going to have a serious problem in terms of confronting hard evidence, objecting messaging, bank records, e-mail accounts.