Is Donald Trump Cornered By The Mueller Investigation?

In this podcast, The Guardian's Anushka Asthana talks to The Guardian’s Jon Swaine, getting into the depths of the ever evolving investigation of Robert Mueller.

The investigation into Donald Trump’s election campaign has resulted in guilty pleas from more and more key figures of the president’s former inner circle. Swaine, reporting from New York, frames what we have learned so far from Mueller’s forensic investigation regarding "Russia's meddling" in the 2016 U.S. elections.

The president’s former lawyer, fixer, "right-hand man" and close friend Michael Cohen, his former campaign chair Paul Manafort, and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn are cooperating with the FBI in Mueller's investigation.

If you would like to walk mentally through the major turning points so far in Mueller’s investigation, this podcast is an ideal one. By now, it seems quite evident that Russia did indeed meddle in the 2016 elections and that Trump repeatedly lied about many, many things. 

Asthana and Swaine also discusses where Mueller's investigation could go next, trying to tackle the following question: 

Is the net closing in on the president, his property business and his immediate family?

The answer to this question lies in the very strategy that Mueller has woven the general/main investigation, and the spin-off investigations: bit by bit, step by step, never showing his cards.

In the subsequent parts of this podcast, there is also discussion regarding the  Grenfell Tower fire in London that claimed the lives of 72 people. It has been 18 months since this fire occurred, and The Guardian’s social affairs correspondent, Robert Booth, has been following the inquiry as it concludes its first phase. Booth reflects on what has happened since the fire, and how the families are reacting to the developments and delays concerning the inquiry.