1. It’s been another day of many headlines related to President Trump.

His frequent punching bag over the Russia investigation, Jeff Sessions, pushed back firmly. “While I am attorney general, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.”

Mr. Trump expressed support for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted on bank and tax fraud charges on Tuesday. And he derided his former fixer, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations the same day, for “flipping,” saying it “almost ought to be illegal” to do so.

He also found time to tweet a false claim that South Africa’s white farmers were being killed on a “large scale.”