Washington just experienced one of the strangest 24-hour stretches we’ve seen in months.
Three Secret Service officials are under investigation. Democrats are openly fighting over the direction of their party. Hakeem Jeffries quietly met with Jared Kushner. A bizarre security incident unfolded near the U.S. Capitol. ICE arrests surged, the Trump administration is preparing what could become the largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an extraordinary unannounced trip to Moscow.
Then there were the E-6B Mercury aircraft—the military planes responsible for critical nuclear command-and-control communications.
But after examining all of it, one image stands out.
The Department of Homeland Security posted a photograph of President Trump accompanied by only four words.
What did DHS mean—and why choose those words now?
Tonight we separate what is confirmed, what remains unknown, and what the headlines are getting dangerously ahead of.