“The discussions came as the special counsel was building cases against both men, and they raise questions about whether the lawyer, John Dowd, was offering pardons to influence their decisions about whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the investigation.” Trump’s lawyer raised prospect of pardons for Flynn and Manafortas the Special Counsel closed in. (Something tells me we’re all going to have PhD-level knowledge of the pardon laws before this is over…)

+ WaPo: Mueller just drew his most direct line to date between the Trump campaign and Russia.

+ This week, the media is obsessed with Facebook. But the president is obsessed with Amazon.

+ WaPo: Trump privately presses for military to pay for border wall. (Problem: Trump can’t find anyone to pay for his see-through wall. Solution: Just tell him the Mexicans paid for it and it’s done. “And look, you can see right through it.”)