He was happy to say, for example, that he and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, discussed firing Comey before they were confirmed. Sessions was willing to say that he and Rosenstein told Trump they were concerned about Comey's performance (concerns he admitted he never shared with Comey).

During the presidential campaign, some imagined that the more overtly racist elements of Donald Trump's platform were just talk designed to rile up the base, not anything he seriously intended to act on. But in his first week in office, when he imposed a travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries, that comforting illusion disappeared fast.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer just learned in real time what happens when you paint Hitler as the lesser of two evils. During Tuesday's press briefing, when Spicer was asked how the Russian alliance with the Bashar Assad regime might be affected after the U.S.