From a number of ways...Mueller is a republican could be he takes one for the team and scuttles his own investigation somehow toward end...or...a couple of phone calls and a horse head from trump’s mafia buddies and key evidence all of a sudden goes up “missing”...there are a number of ways this goes sideways.

The other possibility is that trump has become delusional over the years by making all his problems go away with money and this is a problem money won’t fix. All the lawyers and money in the world won’t make the crimes go away.

Look at the Manafort prosecution. If there was even a whiff of collusion or treason in the evidence, Mueller's team wouldn't be arguing about track changes in an op-ed and the judge wouldn't be letting Manafort fly around.

With collusion off the table, the next most likely charge is obstruction, either for telling folks to lie to investigators or for Comey. Whether Comey's firing could be obstruction has been argued ad nauseum, however, I'd say that for any prosecution, it would be a pretty thin charge to go forward with.

So, what's left is did Trump tell Flynn to lie? Given that Flynn has already admitted lying once, even if he did finger Trump, I can't imagine any prosecutor building a case around testimony like that.

Fitzmas II

Bail was set as directed by the Constitution. The prosecutions are not thin; I’d be willing to go to trial with what Mueller has. The implicit pressure on Manafort are addional charges. Mueller is not limited to what is already charged.

In every bail hearing I've ever participated in or sat through, the prosecutor makes sure to let the judge know of every bit of uncharged or as-yet-uncharged conduct.

in my reading on Flynn, what the details big or small for Flynn's immunity for testifying against the administration?

his expectation of "a letter of exoneration." Not only doesn't that happen, it won't happen here.

If Trump doesn't see himself in imminent legal jeopardy, he may not feel the urge to lash out and start firing people, namely Rosenstein, to get rid of Mueller.

And if it's and Butt's were candy and nuts we would all have a wonderful Christmas!

As long as he continues to believe that, Mueller is safe, so I hope he goes right on being deluded.

Granted, what ever that plan is, it's not the brightest. My guess is he wants to either fire everyone around Mueller, or start a distraction/war. Or, he thinks he's got something on Mueller and can get things dropped.

Or, his lawers are cooking up something that they're telling him will work.