Just before embarking on his "historic" trip to Asia, President @realDonaldTrump had lamented his inability to order the Justice Department to investigate his enemies, while at the same time urging the Justice Department to investigate his enemies.
And so, upon his victorious return to America, Trump was no doubt happy to hear that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had asked DOJ prosecutors to look into the possibility of appointing a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton.
Unfortunately for Trump, that happiness was almost certainly tempered by the news that his eldest son, Donald Jr., had engaged in some "backdoor overtures" with Julian Assange (cc: Jared Kushner) that are now a focus of the various Russia investigations.
In fact, at this point, the issue of whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians seems less like an open question, and more like an affirmative answer.
And, unlike the crazy Clinton conspiracy theories, you don't need a complicated chart to connect the dot(s).
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: OMB Director Mick Mulvaney; Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI); Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA); Roundtable: Amy Walter (Cook Political Report), Joy Ann Reid (MSNBC), Rich Lowry (National Review) & Robert Costa (Washington Post).
Face The Nation: OMB Director Mick Mulvaney; Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR); Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA); Roundtable: Ed O'Keefe (Washington Post), David French (National Review), Ruth Marcus (Washington Post) & Susan Page (USA Today).
This Week: White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short; Sen.Susan Collins (R-ME); Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA); Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina; Ronan Farrow (The New Yorker); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Lanhee Chen, Democratic Strategist Stephanie Cutter, "Independent" Strategist Matthew Dowd, Megan Murphy (Bloomberg Businessweek) & Cecilia Vega (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Rep. Mia Love (R-UT); Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC); Roundtable: Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Jessica Tarlov (Bustle), Jason Riley (Wall Street Journal) & Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: OMB Director Mick Mulvaney; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Sen.Susan Collins (R-ME); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Amanda Carpenter, Neera Tanden (Center for American Progress), Republican Operative Michael Caputo & Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the civil war in Yemen and the resulting food blockade (preview); and, a report on NASA's Voyager space probes (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Comedy Duo Desus & Mero; Rapper Vic Mensa.
Tuesday: Actor Benjamin Bratty; Actor Daveed Diggs; Singer Gregory Porter.
Wednesday: TV Personality Gayle King; Musician Elton John.
Thursday: Rerun.
Friday: Rerun.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday-Wednesday: Reruns; Thursday: Pre-empted.
Elsewhere...
Sean Hannity defended Keurig against his coffee machine-smashing fans.
Fox News personality Sean Hannity used his radio show on Monday to encourage his supporters to stop breaking their Keurig coffee machines in protest of a decision by the company to stop airing ads on Hannity's nightly television show, part of a larger advertiser backlash against the cable host.
The backlash-to-the-backlash began on Saturday, after Keurig responded on Twitter to an appeal from Angelo Carusone, president of the left-leaning media watchdog Media Matters for America. "We worked with our media partner and Fox News to stop our ad from airing during the Sean Hannity Show," the company said on Twitter.
Hannity said the Keurig-smashing videos were funny, but that the coffee-maker maker was duped by Media Matters. He also said he's a fan of Keurig coffee and owns five of the company's products.
Meanwhile...
Rush Limbaugh defended Roy Moore by noting that at the time of his (allegedly) criminal behavior, he was a Democrat.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday criticized Republicans for distancing themselves from Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, while saying that Moore was a Democrat at the time he allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with teenage girls.
"Did you know that before 1992, when a lot of this was going on, that Judge Moore was a Democrat?" Limbaugh said on his radio show. "Nobody said a word."
"When he supposedly was attracted to inappropriately-aged girls — he was a Democrat," Limbaugh added.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
– Trix