Day before labor day...

There has been much speculation that the Mueller probe had until labor day to shit or get off the pot. Many people believed labor day was an artificial deadline (at least for Mueller report certain findings). Any actions taken by special counsel between labor day and the election would have political ramification that many believe to be hypothetically out of line.

This apparently means that pretty much "everyone" on the left expects that there will be some big shoe dropping today, the unofficial "last day" for Mueller to make a move. Apparently speculation is that that we receive big information on one or more of the following:

• President Trump's tax returns.
• Trump bank records, which are more valuable than tax returns.
• Internal Trump Organization records.
• More recordings from Michael Cohen.
• Cellphone records (metadata showing calls placed/received and duration) related to the Trump Tower meeting.
• White House and campaign emails and text messages. (Trump's legal team said in January that the White House had produced more than 20,000 pages of materials, and the campaign had provided more than 1.4 million pages.)
• Contemporaneous notes of White House staffers from meetings with Trump.
• A full reconstruction by former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who made a plea deal, of his conversations about Russia and subsequent lies.
• Scores of hours of testimony of Trump insiders (including at least 20 White House personnel) about his private dealings, much of which is unknown to POTUS and the public.
• National Enquirer files revealed by today's N.Y. Times: Trump and Cohen "devised a plan to buy up all the dirt on Mr. Trump that the National Enquirer and its parent company had collected on him, dating back to the 1980s."

Now I am not "exactly" sure why our media believes that the general public is entitled to the President's tax returns, internal corporate records, privileged records of Presidential actions, or the transcripts from "hours of testimony". I am not even sure why anyone believes that Mueller has garnered the President's tax returns, bank records, or internal Trump Organization records (unless he served a subpoena alleging criminal action). Moreover, there would be no way to decipher which cell phone calls had to do with what, unless those cell phone calls were recorded (which would not have been done without a secret FISA warrant - which would also make that information secret from the public anyways). 

Contrary to popular exaggeration, General Flynn was asked about "one phone call" he had with the Russian ambassador, and the FBI had that conversation recorded at the time. The summation of that phone call has been well known for quite some time. There were not multiple conversations with Russians, or multiple conversations with the FBI. 

Oh, and Mueller himself is not even investigating Michael Cohen, The National Enquirer, or "hush money". The entire affair was moved off to the New York office and an entirely different set of investigators and prosecutors. 

I guess time will tell if the Mueller probe comes out with big news today. Generally speaking a Friday news drop is done when you are attempting to downplay something (most people do not keep up with the news over the weekends like they do during the week).  If you really wanted to downplay something, you would drop it on a Friday right before a long holiday weekend. I personally suspect that Mueller doesn't give a bigger hoot about the Labor day deadline. I have no doubt that if he has news to drop between now and the election, that he will drop it. The fact that it might be harmful to Trump and the GOP politically would be considered a feature to Mueller and his gang, not a bug.