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NBC is reporting that it’s official: Schneiderman is Mueller’s Plan B for after the Saturday Night Massacre.
Not only will Flynn cooperate with the federal investigators, and testify in federal court if necessary, but he also agreed to cooperate with applicable state and local authorities, as well as testifying in state court cases if necessary.
The federal deals stipulate cooperation with state authorities. Should the federal investigation disappear entirely, the witnesses will need to either cooperate with the state authorities, or else the state authorities will charge the witness with every state charge the feds had threatened them/bargained with in the first place.
So Trump fires Mueller, Flynn is still over a barrel and still cooperates with Schneiderman, who seamlessly picks up where Mueller left off, since many (but not all) of the serious charges exist at a state level (money laundering, kidnapping, conspiracy, obstruction).
The idea being that firing Mueller accomplishes nothing except making Trump look really guilty, and might even pick up an extra obstruction charge in the very unlikely case the House or Senate decide get their own investigations out of neutral. IMO it’s still a matter of when, not if, he’s fired, though. Since when has Trump shied away from doing things that accomplish nothing except making him look really guilty?
