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It started out that way, yes. The reporting now is that this grand jury will not be shared with other prosecutors. It will be dedicated to Muller's investigation(s) alone.

Trump said something at tonight's rally about Mueller should investigate Hillary. I'm not sure that's in his job description but I am at a loss to explain why no one else is. It's a fair point that the Hillary investigation should be looked at if not revived. It strikes me as very strange that...

The formation of a grand jury could be characterized as a routine and expected event in an investigation of this nature. Nothing to get excited about, just part of the game, the White House could say. And initial commentary from Trump spokespeople has been spot on, I think. The statements that...

Trump says a lot of things.

That may be exactly what the country needs to move forward to a politically more functional future. The Democratic Party is in the midst of an identity crisis and the Republican Party is not much different in that regard. The two-party system's flaws were laid bare in the 2016 campaign. Sanders...

U.S. News & World Report Opinion Piece: Trump is Failing His Voters Donald Trump Lied to Americans Who Desperately Wanted His Help Excerpt: "During the campaign Trump promised $1 trillion in infrastructure investments and they are nowhere in sight; not because of Washington obstruction but...

Trump's immediate problem with the investigations is not what they are finding (nothing announced yet). It is his reaction to the investigations and the PR firestorms he generates. If he stopped bringing the investigations front and center with his unnecessary comments and tweets, many of the...

Interesting piece. If someone other than Pence was the vice president, I might not be as confident as I am in my impeachment prediction. The prediction is that the Republicans who have the power to do so will reach the point where replacing Trump with Pence is their best option. Pence served 12...

Trump's credibility continues to erode as explained in this piece. People who work under him or might otherwise be expected to respond to him are increasingly ignoring him. Trump supporters can explain the report away by dismissing it as unfair and biased MSM reporting. The continuing lies...

GOP establishment Priebus is out and a retired Marine Corps general will take his place. What remains the same is the chief's own leadership style and personality traits. It will be interesting to see how the White House team behavior changes, if it changes at all, with a considerably different...

Their problem is they took an absolutist, all-or-nothing partisan position in the beginning. The problem was compounded as public support for Obamacare grew over the years. The Republicans maintained their absolutist position, putting themselves in the untenable position of pushing a bill that...

Is that what happened last night when McCain cast the deciding vote against Trump? Is McCain remembering Trump's comment ("I like people who weren't captured") and other criticism previously delivered? Should we add this to Turtle's Politics 101 instruction? "Claw my back and be clawed in...

The Senate defeated Repeal and Replace last night, denying Trump a key win. This piece offered up an interesting response. Should Trump start a third party? Should he be like Abraham Lincoln and do to the Republican party what the Republican party did to the Whigs? Time to replace the...

If that happened, what difference would it make and for whom?

Noted. However that phone call is characterized or not characterized, I believe it will figure into Murkowski's calculation if senators are asked to vote in an impeachment proceeding.

I don't want to get too deeply into this. Discussing the dynamics of a dysfunctional entity can itself become dysfunctional. Suffice it to say the Trump team in the White House is dysfunctional in several ways and that dysfunction is rooted in the context set by the leader.

Only if the leader was too incompetent or too fearful to exercise the power he already has. Or, only if the leader is a super-narcissist who thrives on chaos and creates it for its own sake. Or only if the leader is a truly cruel man who enjoys seeing people who offend him twist in the wind...

Understood

That's my key point.

I said above that impeachment is fundamentally a political act. It will only happen if the political will for it develops in congress. How might that happen? Consider this: A report surfaced today in the Alaska Dispatch News (see this) that "... each of Alaska's two Republican senators had...