White House lawyer Ty Cobb has repeatedly promised the president that Mueller's investigation will be over soon, a pledge that outside Trump advisers worry is divorced from reality. Nonetheless, Trump has internalized Cobb's comments, telling friends that he isn't worried about the probe.

I write here as a criminal defense attorney, not a blogger on public occurrences. That is not effective assistance of counsel, which every person has a right to, that is advice counter-productive to a client's best interests, which an attorney as an obligation to advance.