From Esquire

Not much can amaze us any more but, you have to admit, this is pretty damn amazing. Flagged by lawandcrime.com:

“The mandate that Bob Mueller received has some broad language, including ‘related-to’ type of language, which tends to open the door, but there are some checks and balances,” Starr continued to say, “We don’t want investigators and prosecutors out on a fishing expedition.”

How does this sanctimonious hack have the guts to show his face in public, let alone spout the most incredible, back-flipping hypocrisy in the history of cable news? His alleged nonfeasance in office at Baylor while his athletic department was burying cases of sexual assault should have been enough to run him out of the company of decent people. And his direction of the Great Penis Hunt of 1998 should have been enough to keep him from getting hired at Baylor in the first place. The decades-long pursuit of Bill and Hillary Clinton remains one of the worst things that ever happened to American electoral politics, and Ken Starr was the ringmaster of most of it.

Remember that, when Robert Fiske tried to close the book on Whitewater, TravelGate, FileGate, and the death of Vince Foster, Republican senators engineered Fiske's dismissal on the grounds that he wasn't enough of a Republican tool. Enter Kenneth Starr. He not only went back into those cases again, while running a sieve of an office, it was he who decided that the president's liaison with Monica Lewinsky should be part of his investigation into a failed Arkansas land deal. What is really ironic in what Starr said to CNN on Monday was the fact that an awful lot of the bogus information he chased during his own fishing expedition came from an actual bait shop in the Ozarks, run by one Parker Dozhier.

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(Starr tried to quit in the middle of his probe when Pepperdine offered him a sweetheart deal running its law school, but the Republicans on whose behalf he'd been hired raised hell, and so Starr turned down the gig above Malibu Beach in favor of rooting around further in the president's underwear.)

It has become increasingly clear that the revelation in The New York Timesthat White House counsel Don McGahn gave 30 hours of testimony to Robert Mueller's investigators has set off some serious fibrillations at the White House, and among the members of the president*'s party.

The president’s lawyers said on Sunday that they were confident that Mr. McGahn had said nothing injurious to the president during the 30 hours of interviews. But Mr. McGahn’s lawyer has offered only a limited accounting of what Mr. McGahn told the investigators, according to two people close to the president. That has prompted concern among Mr. Trump’s advisers that Mr. McGahn’s statements could help serve as a key component for a damning report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, which the Justice Department could send to Congress, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

McGahn, it is said, has emphasized to the president* that his client is the presidency itself, and not its current, temporary occupant. I will bet serious cash money that the president* doesn't understand this, but it's the way things work whether he understands it or not. McGahn has declined to be sold down the river by someone who stiffs landscapers and is confused by time zones.