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
president assertions this will be all over by thanksgiving, i mean christmas i mean new year s that news has got to be causing some agita in the white house. i ll be talking about a washington post reporter about that in just a moment. i also want to oufr one more piece of evidence that the trump team is having a little bit of a freakout right now as to what the mueller investigation is doing. this lawyer was sent this weekend to two congressional committees apparently chosen at random by a lawyer for the trump transition team. his name is considery langhoffer. mr. langhoffer says that mueller s office has taken thousands and thousands of the transition team s e-mails without permission. he says he took them illegally. even though the transition team wrote their e-mails using government-issued computers and devices, using do the gov e-mail addresses the trump transition lawyer is saying those e-mails they sent were all private, those were all private and mueller can t have them. the
really? really? really? see zero in a whole new way. get zero down, zero deposit, zero first month s payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. now with the people first warranty. new reporting tonight from the washington post. white house lawyers are expected to meet with special counsel robert mueller s office late this week seeking good news that his sprawling investigation s focus on president trump will soon end and their client will be cleared. but people with knowledge of the investigation said it could last another year.
the general services administration seems to have responded to the allegations by saying, hey, listen, you should have read the fine print, bunce you re using dot gov e-mails addresses and our equipment that stuff you shouldn t have had any expectation of privacy. it s a strange bout of lawyering here. the admission that they were blindsided, the fact that they have taken this case that mueller acted illegally not to a judge, which is what you d think but they ve instead sent it in a letter to two random congressional committees. it feels to me as an observer that there s some idiosyncratics lawyering happening here. well, there have been lots of questions about the abilities of the legal team, trump s legal team, and we ve written a lot about that. you re right about those e-mails. the thousands of e-mails that the trump transition lawyer complained about. the special counsel s office has said hey, we got those legally. they say dot gov, they re not your personal e-mails and we re a
best check we ve gots while lots of other political norms seem to be falling by the wayside, you should just know that apart from and aside from the content of the allegations against judge kozinski his decision to resign is resonating like an earthquake within that branch of our government right now. that s an important story. in washington today and tonight there are two big competing news stories right now, one of which seems to be steaming straight ahead, the other one seems to be getting a little weird. the one that s steaming straight ahead is the republicans tax bill. since trump has been president the republicans have passed no legislation of any significance. but if they are able to pass this tax bill it will be a huge deal. it will be the largest overhaul of the tax system in 30 years. if they do pass it it s remarkable how big it is that they will pass it without holding any substantive hearings on this legislation, without any substantive expert testimony on this legislati