White House Prepares for Mueller Week

Jonathan Swan: “Much of Washington has spent the weekend on pins and needles preparing for this week’s release of the Mueller report. But in one particular quarter, people seem quite relaxed.”

“Two of the president’s top advisers who will be handling the response to Mueller’s report were watching the Masters when I called them about it this weekend. By all accounts, the president himself is also taking a fairly blasé approach. The subject has barely come up, if at all, in recent senior staff meetings, according to two sources with direct knowledge. And in recent calls to aides and allies, Trump has barely mentioned it.”

Rudy Giuliani told the Wall Street Journal that Trump’s outside lawyers have prepared a counter-report that is currently 140 pages but they’re trying to whittle it down to 50 pages. Giuliani added that they expect to focus their defense mostly on the topic of obstruction of justice and will largely ignore collusion.