Maybe they are cooperating because they have already destroyed crucial evidence.

Trying to give appearance of innocence and nothing to hide so he can persuade his fans it is a witch hunt...

That just makes them look more guilty.

the president's men seem to lie or obstruct the truthl. How many times has Jared resubmitted his Security Clearance application because he keeps forgetting all the foreign contacts that he had. Don Jr, Manaforth and all those tightly connected to Trump seem to suffer from the same problem.

now an alternate.

Let chips fall where they may.

If Comey didn't relent to state openly that a freak was 'not under investigation', why would, on God's green earth, Mr. Mueller do the opposite.

What do I know anyway.

The more artful deal is still out there. Mueller does seem to like prosecutors.

and ease him out, that would work. He has to be able to quit and say he won.

And in a way he did win. The most unqualified person in the nation's history and he became president. That's a victory in anybody's book.

If they push him to launch nukes to distract and he finds out that there were safeguards, that would really bruise his ego.

we should ease him out and let it look like he won. I don't care, as long as he is out.

That is what has worked in the past in North Korea, too. Let it look like they have gained something. Who cares?

Lawyers always urge cooperation with DOJ investigations. There's no sense in going to war with prosecutors before an indictment. Mueller is a super conservative prosecutor, unlike Ken Starr. He won't bring charges against Trump unless the evidence is overwhelmingly clear. There would have to be hard evidence of collusion.