1/ Trump said he answered Robert Mueller’s written questions himself “very easily,� but he hasn’t submitted them because “you have to always be careful when you answer questions with people that probably have bad intentions.� Rudy Giuliani said there are at least two dozen questions that relate to activities and episodes from before Trump’s election. Trump spent more than five hours in meeting over three days this week with his attorneys working out written answers for Mueller about alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Despite telling reporters that “the questions were very routinely answered by me,� Trump’s temper boiled during all three meetings. Seemingly out of nowhere, Trump targeted Mueller on Twitter yesterday, calling the special counsel team “thugs� and the investigation a “witch hunt.� (Associated Press / Reuters / CNN / Washington Post / The Guardian)

Senate Republicans are urging Trump to quickly nominate a permanent attorney general to end bipartisan concern over the future of the special counsel. The challenge, apparently, is persuading Trump to trust the traditional choices he doesn’t have a personal relationship with, like former attorney general Bill Barr or former deputy attorney general Mark Filip. (Politico)

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker assured Lindsey Graham that he won’t end Mueller’s investigation, despite previously publicly disparaging the special counsel. (Bloomberg)

Dick Cheney’s former top national security aide has come under scrutiny from Mueller. The special counsel has been looking into the communications and political dealings of John Hannah, the former Cheney adviser who later worked on Trump’s State Department transition team, including his interactions with Lebanese-American businessman and fixer George Nader, who brokered meetings between foreign dignitaries and the Trump campaign, as well as Joel Zamel, social media “guru� with deep ties to Israeli intelligence. (Daily Beast)

George Papadopoulos asked a federal judge to keep him out of prison until a constitutional challenge to Mueller’s investigation is resolved. The former Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is scheduled to serve a 14-day sentence starting on Nov. 26. (Washington Post)

2/ The Justice Department inadvertently revealed that it secretly filed criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The disclosure came in an unrelated court filing where prosecutors inadvertently pasted text from a similar court filing i...