Omerta: Republicans who attended an FBI briefing about the use of an informant on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign suddenly went silent after the meetings. They’ve stopped spouting the conspiracy theory that the Obama administration planted one or more spies in the Trump campaign.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he wouldn’t discuss a classified meeting, but California Rep. Adam Schiff said nothing members of Congress were told supported the accusation that there was a spy.

President Trump appears to be the only one still saying there was a spy in his campaign. Yesterday he tweeted, “Can anyone even imagine having Spies placed in a competing campaign, by the people and party in absolute power, for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain?”

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, who worked for the John McCain Republican presidential campaign, was reading a series of Trump tweets on air then said, “I’m not reading anymore of this, these are bold face lies.”

She said, “It started with Donald Trump making up about the FBI spies implanted in his campaign. It exploded to the point where the Justice Department had to brief lawmakers about what actually happened. And finally today, after those classified meetings where the only public statements we’ve heard have shot down the original allegation, the conspiracy theory seems to have been largely debunked for everyone but Donald Trump and his allies.”

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Like two college kids with an on-again off-again romance, President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un both say they are still talking about meeting, despite Trump’s cancellation in what has been described as a “Dear Jong” letter.

Trump Tweeted, “We are having very productive talks with North Korea about reinstating the Summit.” As Trump himself would say, “We’ll see what happens.”

Cuff Him, Danno: Actress rose McGowan tweeted “We got you, Harvey Weinstein, we got you,” shortly after the deposed movie mogul was arraigned on charges of rape and sexual assault in New York. McGowan is one of many women in the entertainment industry who have accused Weinstein. Others celebrated as well.

McGowan said yesterday morning on ABC’s Good Morning America that, “I have to admit I didn’t think I would see the day that he would have handcuffs on him. I have a visceral need for him to have handcuffs on.”

Weinstein pleaded not guilty. “This defendant used his position, money and power to lure young women into situations where he was able to violate them sexually,” Manhattan Assistant Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said in court.

Weinstein was released on $1 million bail.

Him Too: The president of the University of Southern California agreed to resign in the middle of a sexual abuse scandal involving the university gynecologist.  The university didn’t say when President CL Max Nikias would leave.

Dozens of professors, students and alumni called for Nikias to resign following accusations that USC didn’t  respond to complaints of misconduct involving Dr. George Tyndall, the USC gynecologist for 30 years.

His accusers say Tyndall routinely made crude comments, took inappropriate photographs, forced young women to strip naked, and groped them under the guise of medical treatment, according to civil lawsuits filed this week.

And Him: Visa has pulled its television ads featuring the actor Morgan Freeman after several women accused him of sexual misconduct. The Vancouver transit system has also pulled back on plans to use Freeman to record public announcements. Freeman says he’s done nothing wrong.

Flag Waving: After the decision by the National Football League to ban kneeling during the national anthem, Golden State Warrior Coach Steve Kerr said, “It’s just typical of the NFL.” He went on, “They’re just playing to their fan base. Basically just trying to use the anthem as fake patriotism, nationalism, scaring people. It’s idiotic. But that’s how the NFL has conducted their business.”

The NFL has welcomed demonstrations of military pride and so-called patriotism but knuckled when President Trump criticized players who kneel as anti-patriotic. There’s no law requiring any American to stand, salute or make any demonstration of respect whatsoever during the Anthem.

Kerr said, “I’m proud to be in a league that understands patriotism in America is about free speech and peacefully protesting.” He continued, “Our leadership in the NBA understands when the NFL players were kneeling, they were kneeling to protest police brutality, to protest racial inequality. They weren’t disrespecting the flag or the military. But our president decided to make it about that and the NFL followed suit, pandered to their fan base, created this hysteria.”

Christopher Johnson, co-owner of the NY Jets, says he will pay any fines his players incur for kneeling. “I never want to put restrictions on the speech of our players,” he said. “There are some big, complicated issues that we’re all struggling with, and our players are on the front lines.”

The Vote of the Irish: Irish voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment yesterday to legalize abortion. It passed 68 to 32 percent in the predominantly Catholic country where the influence of the church is slipping. Abortion was made illegal by a constitutional amendment in 1983.

Big Sister: Be careful what you say when Alexa is listening. A woman in Oregon says the Amazon Echo in her home recorded a conversation she had with her husband and sent it to one of his employees.

Amazon says Alexa picked up on words and cues in the conversation and took them as a command to record, then took later words as a command to send to the employee.

The woman who identified herself only as Danielle in a radio interview said she disconnected all the Amazon devices in her house. Evidently Alexa, like Hal, won’t disconnect herself.

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