Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Tuesday, September 22nd. In today's news, the Manhattan DA says in court that President Trump could face charges for

falsifying business records and tax fraud. Trump meets with his front-runner

candidate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Republicans

locked down the votes they need for confirmation and the CDC reverses its

COVID guidance yet again. But first, the big idea. A former top prosecutor on

Special Counsel Bob Mueller's team writes in a new tell-all book,

where law ends, that the group failed writes in a new tell-all book, Where Law Ends,

that the group failed to fully investigate

Trump's financial ties and should have stated explicitly

in their report that they believed he obstructed justice.

Andrew Weisman claims that Mueller's efforts were limited by the ever-present threat of

Trump disbanding their office and by their own reluctance to be aggressive against a sitting president.

The team made sure its work was logged into a computer system in a way

so that it would be preserved if Trump got rid of Mueller.

But Weisman says the pressure caused them to pull punches.

He likens it to a sort of Damocles, hanging over all of their investigative decisions,

leading them at certain times to act much less forcefully and more defensively than they would have if they were

investigating anyone but the president. Weisman says it led them to delay and

ultimately forego entire lines of inquiry that were quite promising,

particularly regarding this president's financial ties to Russia.

This bothered him deeply because in America, no one is supposed to be above the law, not even the president.

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