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Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press The 7 Most Bewildering Moments From Trump’s CPAC Speech
The president rambled for more than two hours from the stage at the annual gathering of conservatives. One topic he avoided: Michael Cohen’s explosive testimony against him.
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Steve Helber / Associated Press The Furor in Virginia Has Quieted
Public opinion might help the state’s embattled Democratic leaders survive.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters President Trump’s Numbers Game
On Face the Nation, even Mick Mulvaney couldn’t say where his boss had come up with “25,772,342 illegal aliens” in America.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Longest Shutdown in History Reaches a Breaking Point
Hours after chaos hit the nation’s airports, lawmakers finally appear ready to bring the 35-day standstill to a temporary end.
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Scott Olson / Getty The Pain of the Second Missed Paycheck
As the government shutdown drags on, workers’ hardship grows—and soon could become a political break point.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Ex-envoy to the Anti-ISIS Coalition Says Trump Has ‘No Plan’ for What’s Next in Syria
Brett McGurk faulted the president for completely reversing Syria policy after one telephone conversation with Turkey’s president.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump and Cohen May Have Discussed the Moscow Project. ‘So What?’
Rudy Giuliani, on the Sunday shows, says the president never told Michael Cohen to lie about pursuing Trump Tower Moscow during the 2016 campaign.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump’s ‘Major’ Border Deal Is No Deal for Democrats
The president offered three-year protection for “Dreamers” and immigrants with protective status in exchange for $5.7 billion in border-wall funding. Democrats rejected it out of hand.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press The Dueling Narratives on Trump and Russia
While Democrats express alarm over Trump’s affinity for Vladimir Putin, Republicans see partisan conspiracy theorizing.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press Lindsey Graham’s Shifting Sands on the Shutdown
On Friday, the South Carolina Republican urged Trump to declare a national emergency and “build a wall NOW,” but on Sunday he proposed a short-term deal and more talks.
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Andrew Harnik / AP What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 60 Minutes Interview Actually Reveals
Media attention has focused on her comment that President Trump is a racist. But the more revealing exchanges centered on her plans for changing the Democratic Party.
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Steven Senne / AP A Former General’s New Broadside Against President Trump
Stanley McChrystal, who once led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, called the commander in chief dishonest and criticized his holiday visit to troops in Iraq.
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Susan Walsh / Associated Press The Criminal-Justice Bill Had Broad Bipartisan Support and Still Almost Died
The “permanent campaign” made some Republicans fear being cast as soft on crime.
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Evan Vucci / AP Stephen Miller as MAGA’s Angry Id
On Face the Nation, the president’s trusted domestic-policy adviser said the border wall was fundamental to “whether or not the United States remains a sovereign country.”
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Charles Krupa / Associated Press Rudy Giuliani for the Defense
President Trump’s lawyer has adopted a deny-nothing approach in which he argues no crimes have been committed.
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Richard Drew / AP The Dangerous ‘New Phase’ for Donald Trump
The incoming House Judiciary chairman says the president has allegedly been involved in “massive frauds against the American people.”
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press A Close Reading of the 235-Page Comey Transcript
The transcript from Friday’s closed-door hearing was made public late Saturday, and it confirms that Mueller is pursuing a possible obstruction-of-justice case against the president.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Mitch McConnell Appears to Be Killing Bipartisan Sentencing Reform
Advocates claim that the bill would pass with a supermajority in the Senate, but the majority leader says it’s dividing his caucus.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s ‘Da Nang Dick’ Tweets and the Definition of Hypocrisy
The president called out Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal for misrepresenting his Vietnam service, without reference to his own misrepresentations or his medical exemption for bone spurs.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP House Democrats Shift Their Focus From Collusion to Leverage
Michael Cohen’s guilty plea has raised the specter that Russia had compromising information on President Trump related to his business dealings during the campaign.
