Paul Callan is a CNN legal analyst, a former New York homicide prosecutor and of counsel to the New York law firm of Edelman & Edelman PC, focusing on wrongful conviction and civil rights cases. Future historians might view the maudlin scene as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency. Of course, this is necessarily speculative, as prosecutors seal indictments to keep them secret. Prosecutors generally use sealed indictments in three situations. Mueller and the New York Southern District prosecutors are bound by a Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.

Source: CNN December 17, 2018 18:44 UTC