President Obama veered from White House strategy when he broke into a critique of Donald Trump's campaign style with reporters. A policy in effect since last December is to not discuss the presumptive Republican nominee --not even say his name. But a president can pretty well do what he wants.

"I think I would have been the best president." - Vice President Joe Biden. It's not the way it sounds. He wasn't comparing himself to President Obama. He was saying he had planned to run this year until his son Beau died, and if he had he thought he would have been "the best president."

"There was a glitch." That cavalier statement came from a State Department spokesperson after it was revealed that a video of a 2013 press briefing had apparently been edited to remove a damaging admission of lying to keep the Iran negotiations secrt.