From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbar. This is the Daily.

Today, as the Special Counsel finishes his investigation, he can pursue three different paths.

Each one would have profoundly different impact on how Congress will proceed.

Why recent history makes one of those paths especially treacherous.

Part 2 of what to expect from the Mueller Report.

It's Monday, March 11.

Mike Schmidt, you are arguably the best source reporter in Washington.

When does the Mueller Report going to come out? And what is it going to say?

I don't know. I don't know. But seriously, best guess.

Best guess?

Sometime in the next month or so. But I don't want to be in a position saying that,

because a lot of our colleagues at other places have tried to put an end date on an investigation.

Right. And that's a very dangerous place to be as a reporter.

Yeah, I was just joking.

I'm just... There's no joking in Special Counsel.

Okay, so we know that the report will be coming out relatively soon. We don't know precisely when.

Which is why last week we spoke to Neil Cotill, the guy who wrote the Special Counsel rules

that have been guiding Robert Mueller. And he talked to us about the form and the size that

this report would take. And I want to talk to you, Mike, about its actual contents and conclusions.

What are those likely to be?

So, the president is being investigated for whether he obstructed justice or has been a

winning or unwitting agent of Russia. So, there are three possibilities. The first possibility

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