Why Trump's Lawyers Keep Saying the Russia Investigation Will End Soon

The White House treated a guilty plea from former national security advisor Michael Flynn last week like the beginning of the end of a special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

But if history is any guide, it's far from over. And suggestions that it might be help set the stage for Trump's supporters to argue next year that the investigation is dragging on and needs to be shut down.