Sean Spicer told CNN reporter Jim Acosta that if he tried to ask a question at the presser...

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33. Have you noticed that our great friend Andrea Mitchell looks a bit sobered these days.

As well she should. She could NOT help herself, day after day, month after month, throughout the campaign - dishing whatever gossip she could scrape off the windshield about Hillary's emails. Info from fake news outlets that had been picked up by more "established" sites like Drudge (gee, and Breitbart, too, why not? As long as you're here...), or perhaps even handed to her by her gooooo-oooood sources within the RNC (gee, like they didn't have an agenda...). And throughout that her demeanor on air was just a whiff of smugness, that seemed to telegraph "this is such a fun story, I'm having so much fun on this story, ooo-oooh this story's juicy, oooh look we're closing in on her, dig the dirt! Dig the dirt!! Ooo-oooo lookey, I'm the lead again! Um - how soon am I on again?"

Now she looks sobered and more serious. Maybe it's just me, but I think I see just a touch of skittishness, the look of having to wear a guilty conscience around.

I interject here - from the confirmation hearing today:

Cory Booker was IMPRESSIVE. Made me suspect I was watching a Democratic presidential candidate someday (soon)? That was QUITE a speech he gave, sitting at the witness table.

John Lewis is seated at the same table. The word "magnificent" keeps popping up in my mind.