Having a special counsel will take this investigation out of the news cycle.

[Honeycombe8]

It's overdue to have a special counsel take over the investigation.

But it WILL take the investigation out of the public eye and news cycle. Leaks may be fewer. And that's not good, since this will let the Repubs proceed with their march toward the big tax cut, as well as the bad health care bill.

[underthematrix]

1. Actually i was an adult when both Watergate and Whitewater happened

and I can tell you that the coverage will be more intense because the subjects and their lawyers will start talking and jockeying for most favored son position.

[Honeycombe8]

2. I hope this time it's the same, then.

Because if not for the free press and leaks, we wouldn't know about a lot of this.

[Hortensis]

8. True. Even most people working in DC government

only know at most a few unconnected things that they observe around them, if that. They probably learn what they may mean the way we do, from the press. The written press, of course. TV news is in the sewer.

[brush]

14. Yeah, TV news get their info from newspapers ... like Wapo and NYT.

Thank God that newspapers somehow keep going. I get a lot of news online but still keep a newspaper subscription just so papers survive to keep the profession of real journalism alive.

I would advise everyone to.

Fox just makes stuff up.

[Hortensis]

18. That's okay. Problem is, they don't report it.

They have little time left after all the commercials, and they use that in cynical coverage designed to pump up viewership for their advertisers, not to inform.

[brush]

19. Sure, there are problems with TV news, but are you on board with keeping newspapers afloat?

If you don't have a subscription to a newspaper, pls get one.

Our country would be in terrible shape without the actual reporting done by print journalists.

[Hortensis]

21. I subscribe on-line to NYT, WaPo and our little local paper.

The first two do a great deal of investigative journalism, as well as quality analysis.

The last is the only one we subscribe to mostly to support because most of it's free on line. It provides coverage and pictures of acquaintances at local public events to smile over, but its coverage of government meetings is more than a little lacking. What can I say? This is the Deep South, where authoritarianism is a virtue.

[brush]

22. Good on you. We've got to keep newspapers afloat. No one else does the digging like print media.

[Hortensis]

23. Yes. Not just digging, but reporting. Almost none of the

information available through print makes it to radio, TV or cable.

[murielm99]

3. He is going abroad soon,

unless his advisors get him to cancel.

I think he will create at least one international incident that will only magnify what is happening now. It will add insult to injury.

This is not going away.

[janterry]

6. The press abroad will be less forgiving than ours

in press conferences (or so I read).

That would ensure at least one misstep

[duncang]

4. Some of it may. But...

The news is still going after it. And you can be sure they are working on the next scoop. The house/senate investigations after they get to talk to Comey may slow roll and see what impact Mueller may have on this. One thing about dipshit donnie once he is drug out of his corner he will start something new to amuse the masses. All he has to do is make it through one day till he leaves overseas. Be assured he will probably be back whining soon enough.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Ahhh...he's gotten pretty predictable, hasn't he? :) n

[chillfactor]

7. I doubt it...

the newspapers are having a field day and they are NOT going to stop digging....and technology and social media are much more sophisticated now then back in the Watergate area and I was an adult during that time span.

[Worktodo]

9. ... except Trump couldn't stop mentioning it

Don't underestimate how weird this president is.

[Adrahil]

10. I don't recall Ken Starr taking....

The Lewinski scandal out of the news.

[Historic NY]

11. Think about those daily media gatherings of Ken Starr.....

the geese will cackle for news.

[justiceischeap]

12. Not gonna happen.

The print media smells blood and Pulitzer in the water. If they continue this type of reporting, we'll never be without stories of scandal. In turn, cable ne a will continue to report on print media scoops of the day.

[titaniumsalute]

13. Three Congressional Investigations will continue

So that will help keep it front and center.

But to some degree you want it to go shadowy.

Biggest problem I see is what they will learn internally at the FBI we may never know. Just charges if they happen.

[Ilsa]

15. I think so much has been uncovered already,

that this is going to accelerate. There may be fewer leaks, but at this recent rate, the bathtub still overflows pretty fast.

Also, with all of the dasdardly legislation the Rs have tried to push, the public needs to be reminded about who they are and what they stand for on legislation, taxes, healthcare, etc. We need to make sure they don't look like victims and we don't look like obstructionists.

I don't think the public is going to forget about this, and trump will continue to get more and more buggy, showing how unqualified he is.

[kentuck]

16. Somewhat, I suppose?

But these daily stories and lies from the White House will not disappear.

[Vinca]

17. I don't know. The NYT and Washington Post are like starving dogs who just found a butcher shop.

Their reporting has been amazing and I can't imagine they would suddenly stop digging.

[MoonRiver]

20. It's been all over the news non-stop.

I think this is all we'll hear about until Chump is removed from office.

[oberliner]

24. Good

There has been serious overload.

Let the system work as it should.