Even with all the hubbub about the Michael Wolff book this week, there was actually a bigger and potentially more damaging story from the NYT’s Michael Schmidt in which we learn of the president’s repeated efforts to keep a grip on the Russian investigation, including efforts to convince Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself. “Mr. Trump said he had expected his top law enforcement official to safeguard him the way he believed Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general, had done for his brother John F. Kennedy and Eric H. Holder Jr. had for Barack Obama. Mr. Trump then asked, ‘Where’s my Roy Cohn?'”

+ The Atlantic’s James Fallows explains why the blockbuster book does little more than confirm what has been an open secret all along: “Fire and Fury presents a man in the White House who is profoundly ignorant of politics, policy, and anything resembling the substance of perhaps the world’s most demanding job. He is temperamentally unstable. Most of what he says in public is at odds with provable fact, from ‘biggest inaugural crowd in history’ onward. Whether he is aware of it or not, much of what he asserts is a lie. His functional vocabulary is markedly smaller than it was 20 years ago.”

+ The FBI is currently investigating the Clinton Foundation, and Republican senators have raised the idea of possible charges against the author of Trump dossier. (So the old Roy Cohn tactics aren’t completely missing from DC…)