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The addendum describing Mike Flynn's cooperation makes it clear that Flynn did lie to Mike Pence before the Vice President elect repeated those lies on Face the Nation. The redacted lines after that reference are probably a real problem for the President.

Under an alternative theory of the structure of Mike Flynn's cooperation addendum, he may have cooperated on matters pertaining to Mueller's expanded investigation.

For over two years, Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone have been crafting a series of nested cover stories to hide the details of how they learned in August details of what WikiLeaks would release in October. It's fairly clear, this Matryoshka cover-up has become part of Mueller's investigation. It all suggests that whatever lies inside that last little doll is something so damning that the guy with the Nixon tattoo allowed the cover-up to become a second crime. 

Among the things Jerome Corsi alleges in his complaint is that he deduced that John Podesta's emails were coming in August 2016 from a document dump released on September 13, 2016.

Twice during election season, Richard Burr claimed his committee hadn't found any hard evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. But we now know his committee referred at least two people to Mueller's office for lying about the funding to Trump from GRU-tied people.

All the analysis about whether you can indict a sitting President focuses on the President's natural person. This President also exists as a corporate person.

Michael Cohen has probably given Mueller a great overview of Trump's sleazy business practices. But two past events, in particular, were probably particularly useful to the investigation: Trump's 2011 trial balloon for a presidential run (which was funded by Trump Org), and the negotiations around the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.

Michael Cohen's plea reveals he continued to pursue a Trump Tower deal -- with the assistance of Putin's office -- until the day the DNC hack was exposed.

One excuse Trump has given for refusing to sit for an interview is that none of this really affects him directly, so Mueller has no need to engage in back-and-forth with him. It's quite likely that a Corsi indictment and a Manafort sentencing report could be public within the next month alleging that both of the claims Trump made are false. While I still doubt Mueller would wait for a Trump interview, any inconsistency between Mueller's evidence and Trump's answers would make it far easier to demand an interview.