Swamp News: AT&T fired its chief of political lobbying and the company president said hiring President Trump’s personal lawyer to advise about the new administration was “a big mistake.” Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said in a memo to employees, “Our …

Swamp News: AT&T confirmed that it paid President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen $600,000 through 2017 to act as a consultant. The company said in an email to its employees earlier this week that it had retained Cohen in 2017 …

The Kimchi Kompact: In a goodwill gesture in advance of planned talks with President Trump, North Korea released three American prisoners of Korean descent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. President Trump was so thrilled he went to Joint Base …

America First: As promised throughout his run for office, President Trump yesterday announced that he’s pulling the US out of the Iran nuclear deal and reinstating severe economic sanctions. In  so doing, he’s dismantling the signature foreign policy achievement of …

Him Too: New York’s straight-arrow attorney general Eric Schneiderman fell faster than a rock. At 6:47pm yesterday The New Yorker posted an investigation titled “Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse.” At 9:46, Schneiderman resigned. Schneiderman has been a respected …

From Los Angeles — The White House Mess: Presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on ABC News yesterday that President Trump wouldn’t have to respond to a potential subpoena by the Special Counsel’s office to testify about the Russia connection. “We don’t have to,” …

From Los Angeles — Unforced Errors: NBC News made an egregious error yesterday, reporting that federal investigators had tapped the phone lines of President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The network later issued a correction, saying that the feds only …

From Los Angeles — Stormy Watch: President Trump’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani blurted out in an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity that Trump repaid the $130,000 attorney Michael Cohen paid in hush money to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. Although Trump previously denied …

The Threatdown: We were going to begin with bug bites or auto emissions. A shark attack would have been good. But once again President Trump knows how to dominate the top of the news. Question Mark and the Mysterions: The …

The Russia Thing: Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a list of 44 questions he’d like to ask President Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and whether he has attempted to obstruct the Russian election-influencing investigation, The NY …