like a weird story, it's outrageous, very over-the-top, based on claims from the new president and you can make of those claims what you will but once again what ends up being important here is not the wild claims of the president, right? not this distracting story that the white house has injected into the national bloodstream. it's not these wild tweets by the president. what instead ends up being really newsworthy and really interesting is what that wild story has shaken loose in terms of factual claims, confirmations, and other from this administration. don't pay attention to what they're saying -- especially if you don't believe them -- pay attention to what they're doing. pay attention to what this white house has done in the immediate aftermath and there is something really important that the white house has apparently done in the immediate aftermath of this ridiculous story. do you know who this guy is on the left there? obviously the guy on the right samuel alito, don mcgann is the