you know, more of a hindrance than an actual help to have them around. i spoke with a gop operative earlier today who said regardless of where the truth lies in all this, jared needs to go, and this was from a gop operative, saying he was just becoming too much of a headache, to your point. you wrote something interesting this week, quote, even though robert mueller is worried about trump bullying jeff sessions. why, abigail? why would the president s relationship to his attorney general be of interest to the investigation? obviously when you re looking at the russia investigation, one of the things that donald trump has been frustrated with is jeff sessions decision a year ago, in march of last year, to recuse himself from the probe. ever since then he s sort of sought to hasten his attorney general s ouster. and that has become of interest to robert mueller who is kind of investigating this idea of whether trump s bullying, for lack of a better word, of jeff sessions fits into t