I’m grilling your steak just the way you like it. Meanwhile the wives are making salad in the kitchen

“Do you need another beer?”
“Want to hit the links in the morning?”
“How’re the grandkids doing?”

Etc etc!!

I see no way to your first option. Mueller worked too long and hard to just hand off almost 2 years of work.

I am in the camp that is still holding out that what Mueller is going to report is not his final report. If I am wrong and this is his final report, I think that Mueller will read Barr the riot act. I think that Mueller will explain to Barr that he has plans B,C, and D. if Barr tries to bury the report. There will be a lot of pressure on Barr to do the right thing, even though I don't trust him.

I'm worried that he was all for Bush1 to pardon all the Iran Contra people, supposedly as the investigations neared Bush. Those pardons slammed the investigations right away. No more pursuit of truth or justice. That sounds like someone whose political motives outweighed his principles of justice. I hope he's improved.

The guy is crooked. What he did in the Iran Contra saga, says everything.