the mueller rrkr investigation involving the white house is cleared or exonerated. this investigation could go on at least another year and so they will not get that kind of news so they may become a little more combative and contentious. they feel like they have been co-op riddi-ooperating and turn documents and allowing witnesses to be interviewed and now may say what do you want from us? documents do you want? that may be what we re seeing next. do we know why white house lawyers keep telling the president he s going to be exonerated? it creates an interesting psychological dynamic where the president may be expecting that and then we all have to wonder about how he ll react if he doesn t get that thing he expects. is the basis for the lawyers advice to the president on that front simply that the mueller
advice to the president on that front simply that the mueller investigators haven t interviewed the president, they haven t held back any documents that nothing s happened thus far that has scared them? they may believe from the questions they ve heard about and the documents they ve been asked for that there s no collusion. and thus that the president is not vulnerable on that point. and that s what they re telling him. and of course we ve heard president trump say as recently as sunday there s no collusion. and the president also said this weekend that he s not going to fire mueller. and his spokesman told us this morning on the record that the attorney general and the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, should not fear for their jobs. hard to know what that really means because the president of course has been very angry with jeff sessions since march he when he recused himself and sort of everything from there led directly to the mueller investigation. and we also know that