there are questions that the mueller report couldn't—or wouldn't—answer. What actually happened to instigate the Russia investigation? Did President trump's meddling incriminate him? there's no mystery to what trump thinks. He claims that the Deep state, a cabal of career bureaucrats—among them, andrew mcCabe, Lisa Page, and Peter strzok, previously little known figures within the FBi whom he has obsessively and publically reviled—is concerned only with protecting its own power and undermining the democratic process. Here, James B. stewart sifts these conflicting accounts to present a clear-eyed view of what exactly happened inside the FBi in the lead-up to the 2016 election, drawing on scores of interviews with key FBi, Department of Justice, and White House officials and voluminous transcripts, notes, and internal reports.