From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg's temporary decision earlier this week to ignore a subpoena from the special counsel instantly spun out of control on live TV.

An ill-advised legal decision became an all-day spectacle fit for the times.

Are you worried about getting arrested?

I think it would be funny if they arrested me.

You're held in contemptu-granted...

I think it would be really...

Donald Trump caused it because he's an idiot.

Because he decided to give an interview to Lester Holt the day after he fired James Coe.

I'm talking to you. I have smelled alcohol in your breath.

Well, I have not had to drink.

As cable news McNuggets go, this one was dipped in Habanero Ranch.

But look, a turning point it was not.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible campaign and election

criminality has offered periodic spasms of intrigue, a raid here, a subpoena there,

an indictment, a guilty plea,

but the timetable and endgame remain as mysterious as ever.

Countless attempts to extrapolate Mueller's path, based on those few juicy events,

have yielded little more than guesswork.

Marcy Wheeler is an independent investigative reporter who actually makes a living decoding the behavior of prosecutors and spies. She says the biggest problem is journalists'

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