2. It was a busy day for our White House correspondents.

President Trump excommunicated his former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, saying in a written statement brimming with anger that Mr. Bannon had “lost his mind.” It all started when The Guardian published an excerpt from a new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff.

Mr. Bannon, above at his swearing-in, is quoted saying that a Trump team meeting with Russians during the campaign was “treasonous” and that the special counsel in the Russia inquiry would “crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”

Separately, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sued the special counsel. He wants a court to narrow the special counsel’s mandate.