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What up, what up, what up? Welcome to the Michael Still podcast. Yes, I'm still Michael Steele. So glad you guys could be with us today.

A lot of stuff has been happening in just the last few days since we were last together with the Mueller Report coming out, the President's reaction to it, the response by people across the country, which I take at this point was largely a big ho hum, but we'll get into that a little bit.

Certainly you can find us on Apple Podcast Stitcher 2 and in, or wherever you get your podcast on, I appreciate the downloads, keep it coming.

So let's just get into it. We got a little bit of the Mueller hangover at this point folks. I feel like we started down this road so long ago and the tank was full and the energy was high.

And we got to last Friday and folks were like, okay, can I get off here and just kind of park at a hotel and call it a night. And I think a lot of people felt that way.

Well, I wanted to tap into some knowledge and some wisdom to help us kind of process what this hangover is all about and why we feel the way we feel about some of this stuff.

Couldn't think anyone better than our guest today. He is an attorney and the co-founder of Savales and Wong. He is Danny Savales. And he is a criminal defense and civil, civil litigation attorney with his own firm in Philadelphia area, which I love Philly. I spent a little, a few years up that way at Villanova.

But just as importantly for me, he's an MSNBC legal analyst, which means he's a colleague. And I told him, Danny, welcome number one and number two, I was telling you, as I said before, I'll tell the folks, I wish I could be on air with you because sometimes you raise points.

And I'm like, man, let's talk about that. Let's get into it. And you just bring such smart information and knowledge about the process, but more importantly, the substance of some of these big legal questions. So welcome to the podcast, man.

Wow. I am honored. Thank you so much. If you're hearing that from you, someone, it's a mutual admiration society. So thank you very much and thank you for having me.

No, it's a great pleasure. And so let's just let's just deal with the hangover. You know, like most hangovers, you know, folks go out, they find some aspirin and a lot of self-servant or they just keep drinking Michael. Let's be honest with some of them do.

I have been in that room. Yes, where I just I have rationalized, you know what? I'm at this point. I'm just keep going. And sometimes you do.

It's right. So what do you, what's your just broad, this start big and we'll, we'll get down into the weeds of it a little bit. What is your broad takeaway from what we saw happen with Muller's report?

I felt for a long time that this was actually going to be one of the more anti-climactic legal at political events in modern times, quite honestly, particularly given the build up to it.

And I don't think I was too wrong on that. So I want to get your thoughts there. But also, right, you know, from the sense of the big picture, what does it mean?

Yeah, I think for many people, the Muller report and the barbed letter of last week represented the tragedy of high expectations. When I think for people who when Muller was first appointed, who thought, okay, if they saw Muller as somebody who's going after Trump and is going to with the objective of taking him down, then I think they were setting themselves up for disappointment.

And the investigation rolled along. We were given glimpses into the progress, not from Muller's team themselves, but almost as close by their speaking indictments, which gave us a running narrative of what exactly was going on.

And one of the things they concluded early on was, yes, there was Russian interference with the election. Yes, there was a Russian social media campaign against the United States.

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