A look at the rationale behind CNN's hiring of Sarah Isgur Flores. (This is an open thread.)

Whatever the outcome of the predicted Mueller report next week, by doing it in the window where Rod Rosenstein is still supervising the investigation but William Barr is in place should vouch for the legitimacy of the decision.

The only way that Mueller is releasing The Report this week is if he's going to try to indict the President, which is highly unlikely to happen. Still, we will get a report, of sorts, this week.

Andrew McCabe's interview lays out more about how Trump came to be a focus of Mueller's investigation.

In the wake of Andrew McCabe's book publication, Trump wants to treat his investigation as a case of contested claims of betrayal. But the judges who have reviewed the record have used striking language to indicate that Trump's aides, not Mueller's team, betrayed their country.