MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Silent for so long, Robert Mueller is beginning to show the public the building blocks of a case that could imperil Donald Trump’s presidency. In the process, the special counsel is beginning to expose the lies and obfuscations that people around Trump, and the President himself, erected to try to hide multiple, unexplained ties to Russians in, and before, 2016. He is offering implicit explanations along the way for the President’s oddly solicitous relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And Mueller is now crossing a red line Trump once warned could prompt his firing — by probing his business empire. By securing a cooperation agreement with Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, Mueller Thursday [11-29-18] scored a motivated witness who has intimate knowledge of Trump’s past business and personal life.”
–Stephen Collinson, “Mueller starts to piece together Russia puzzle in most significant move yet,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, November 29, 2018 4:15 pm