These tend to be long, drawn out affairs. Nixon took years sort through. This obstruction investigation has lasted all of a month. On top of that, the Trump team has issued perjurious statements and omissions over the course of the underlying collusion investigation, adding new elements and layers on an issue that could affect dozens of people within the administration and/or campaign team. In all likelihood, there is going to be one report per committee, not piecemeal reports about individuals that trickle out.

The CRAs have been, at best, infinitesimal in the grand scheme. For instance, the House Majority Leader estimates a whopping $200M savings/year — and he has all the incentive in the world to hike that estimate as high as possible. $200M might not be enough to cover POTUS travel costs, first family travel costs and FLOTUS added security in New York. Economic factors like jobs are lagging indicators and things like “enthusiasm” are inherently unmeasurable and used to promote an agenda absent quantifiable proof. (On top of that, most evidence indicates that regulations have a minimal effect, if any, on killing jobs.) Trump took credit for the jobs report in January, for instance, when those numbers were based entirely on pre-inauguration data.

Rosenstein isn’t personally investigating Trump. That’s the point of appointing a special prosecutor. Rosenstein wrote a letter that Trump — by his own words — would’ve ignored anyway. Trump then fires Comey and Rosenstein installs Mueller as an independent counsel. That’s it. If Trump wanted to throw his own deputy AG under the bus so publicly — brazen, even by his standards — he should’ve been clearer. As Sean Spicer said, Trump’s tweets should be considered “official statements.”