Are the knives out for Nikki Haley in the West Wing? Will Mother approve of a Pence-Haley ticket? Can Mark Zuckerberg lobby his way into the hearts of Republicans in Congress? Has Instagram made Snapchat disposable? And could aspiring Nobel Prize winner Donald Trump become the Dennis Rodman of nuclear diplomacy? The Hive’s crack team of reporters discuss it all, and more, on this week’s episode of V.F. Hive on Cheddar, featuring a special guest appearance by Michael Avenatti, the impeccably tanned Los Angeles super-lawyer whose client, Stormy Daniels, may be the key to Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“With each passing day I smile more and more,” Avenatti tells the Hive, reflecting on growing speculation that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, now under investigation by federal prosecutors, could crack under pressure. “Michael Cohen is ultimately going to flip on the president . . . I think the likelihood of him being indicted is very, very high, extremely high, close to 100 percent, and I think that when that happens he is going to roll on the president.”

Plus: T.A. Frank charts the Zelig-like movements of Trump lackey Sean Hannity, and Chris Smith joins the Hive on set at the New York Stock Exchange to explain how Mueller could use Stormy to make Cohen sing.