not think that mueller will issue a report right before the midterms. so my guess is this continues at a bare minimum into the next year. and, cynthia, you know the parlor game in law and media is to ask whether you think the mueller investigation writ large or the southern district of new york investigation of mr. cohen which one of those two is a more pressing and existential danger to the presidency? well, i don t know, but i will say i don t think that they re independent necessarily of each other. just because the mueller team handed over and rosenstein handed over the search warrant into cohen s house and lockers and everything to the u.s. attorney s office, if in the course of that search there are things that are relevant to the russian investigation like apparently there is with this columbus nova, uncovering of their payments, that will go back to mueller. so i don t think they re not either/or. they work together. daniel, talk a little bit
just because the mueller team handed over and rosenstein handed over the search warrant into cohen s house and lockers and everything to the u.s. attorney s office, if in the course of that search there are things that are relevant to the russian investigation like apparently there is with this columbus nova, uncovering of their payments, that will go back to mueller. so i don t think they re not either/or. they work together. daniel, talk a little bit about this is a tough one to explain, this effort to expose the memoranda. why is this important to new. this is important because it s part of an effort by the house republicans who are trump supporters to obtain a detailed memo outlining the mandate that bob mueller has. mm-hmm. and they have asked the department of justice directly, and the department of justice has said no because it s part of
thinking. my hunch is that it s going to be difficult to wrap this up. there are a lot of things still to do. there are a lot of details to still be uncovered and discovered. and then once all of the investigation is done, it has to be written up. i don t believe that can happen before the midterms, and i do not think that mueller will issue a report right before the midterms. so my guess is this continues at a bare minimum into the next year. and, cynthia, you know the parlor game in law and media is to ask whether you think the mueller investigation writ large or the southern district of new york investigation of mr. cohen which one of those two is a more pressing and existential danger to the presidency? well, i don t know, but i will say i don t think that they re independent necessarily of each other.