If ethics matter at all, Flynn is fired and there's an actual investigation into Trump's ties to Russia.

Oh man, when she climbed out of the red, only to right back to negative on the next answer…

Also: the Washington Post had confirmed—from 9 different officials—that General Flynn lied about his discussions with Russian ambassadors, and had explicitly talked about repealing sanctions, before Trump had been sworn in. Not a surprise, but still a huge scandal.

Trump has gone on another tweet storm against John McCain. McCain had been critical of the Yemen raid and Trump's response; in particular, McCain feels it's inappropriate to call any mission where military personnel were killed a success. Trump has responded by calling McCain a loser, yet again, and claiming he's…

The Office of Government Ethics has gotten so many calls and emails on that, they are literally overwhelmed. Even Rep Chaffetz has shown a willingness to actually do his job, demanding that Conway face some sort of real consequence.

Technically yes, but it would kill the "urgent matter of national security" angle if the administration deliberately delayed appeal.

If I were Kate, I'd have flipped the podium and burned the studio to the ground.

Yes, that is the problem that scientists keep running into when they attempt to study this.

I'll see this court in another, superior court! A Super Court, if you will.

If you think about it, this was also the plot of Hannibal.

That's what you said about "Batman v Superman"!

Oh shit, son! Literary analysis !

Yep.

I imagine him just messing around on his phone in the middle of the briefing, while everybody stares.

Maybe. I could see Trump being so openly exploitative that he wipes out the rally around the flag effect. Of course, it's almost impossible to speculate on something like this, so who knows.

In international news, it seems Russia is attempting to replicate the "WikiLeaks and online trolling" strategy that got Trump elected for Marnie LePen in France. Wikileaks has vaguely implied they have damaging information on candidate Emmanuel Marcon (in between some other vague nonsense about "Vault 7" which could…

I was in the kitchen for that clue; I knew it was some Ivy League.

I want to highlight Kristen's visible frustration when she started falling behind, including buzzing in on the NBA player Olympics question then realizing she didn't actually know the answer. I don't have much to say about it, just thought it was noteworthy.

Wasn't he in the debate team at Harvard?

The Nordstrom tweet is one of the many things feared about a Trump presidency—using the power of the office for petty material gain. This is the action of a brazenly corrupt person. For added ridiculousness, the tweet was sent during a scheduled intelligence briefing.