1. Trump’s cavalier treatment of other branches of government finally boomeranged. GOP senators were furious that Trump was treating them like fools – given the clear evidence from CIA intercepts that the crown prince directed the Khashoggi hit job. Graham and others were incensed at apparent White House pressure on CIA Director Gina Haspel not to testify before the full Senate body. After she finally appeared at a closed-door Senate briefing, Graham snapped that those who denied the crown prince’s involvement “have to be willfully blind.”