Reuters reported that a source told them Giuliani just made up the headline grabbing statement that Mueller was prepared to end his investigation on September 1st.
From the Hill:
The source called the deadline “entirely made up” and “another apparent effort to pressure the special counsel to hasten the end of his work,” Reuters reported.
The source went on to say that Mueller will wrap up the probe when “he thinks he’s turned over every rock.”
“He’ll wrap it up when he thinks he’s turned over every rock, and when that is will depend on how cooperative witnesses, persons of interest and maybe even some targets are, if any of those emerge, and on what new evidence he finds, not on some arbitrary, first-of-the-month deadline one of the president’s attorneys cooks up,” the source said.
This sounds a lot like the other scoop Giuliani had where he said that Mueller made the conclusion that they would not be able to indict Trump. Later when he was asked to clarify, he said he couldn’t remember who said it, and he kinda rambled on into another point. Of course they’d rather have it done sooner than later, especially as they head into the midterms. But recent polling shows that maybe Republicans will have very little to worry about in the midterms…