“I’m not going nowhere, not until I impeach this President.”

— Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), quoted by CNN, clearly responding to President Trump’s attacks on her.

A Louisiana police officer posted a comment on his Facebook page calling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) a “vile idiot” who “needs a round, and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve,” the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.

The Washington Post notes the threat came in response to a false Facebook post.

President Trump continued his Twitter attacks on a group of four freshman Democratic lawmakers, calling the group of minority women a “racist group of troublemakers.”

Jonathan Bernstein: “For one thing, settling for a one-day, two-committee session is already a defeat.., For another, what they did eventually win – a third hour for the judiciary committee, apparently to allow each of the Democrats on the panel to have five minutes to question the witness – suggests the worst: We may be in for a whole lot of grandstanding by individual members.”

Seemingly every experienced observer has said the same thing about these hearings: Democrats should swallow their egos and turn over their time to the committee’s counsel to do the initial questioning – or, perhaps, to a handful of committee members who could coordinate.  Here’s my suggestion: New members of the committees should simply give away their time to other lawmakers designated by the committee chairs, on the condition that the questioners consult with them about what to ask.”

“This wouldn’t be an entirely selfless act. After all, new members go last in such hearings anyway. Few constituents will be watching live and it’s unlikely that the end-of-the-line group will win the battle of the sound bites. In other words, five minutes really isn’t worth very much. Giving their time away, by contrast, would probably generate some positive publicity and win some credit from more senior lawmakers. Most important, though, it would be good for the nation – because a better-run hearing will be better able to dramatize Trump’s misconduct, which is supposed to be the point.”

Chicago Tribune: “Top leaders of the Illinois Republican Party launched an effort at damage control Sunday after a social media post echoed President Trump’s criticism of four Democratic congresswoman and went further, referring to them in a movie-type poster of being a ‘jihad squad’ and contending they believe any criticism is racist.”

Mother Jones: “Like the president, the Florida Republican rode family connections, unorthodox real estate deals, and trolling to political fame.”

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told Fox News that Donald Trump has “violated the law 6 ways from Sunday” and that he would be indicted if he were not president.

Said Nadler: “The president and the attorney general and others have spent the last few months systematically lying to the American people about what the investigation found. They’ve said that it found no collusion, that it found no obstruction, that it exonerated the president. All three of those statements are absolute lies.”

New York Times: “Lawmakers choreographing the hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees warn that bombshell disclosures are unlikely. But over about five hours of nationally televised testimony, they hope to use Mr. Mueller, the enigmatic and widely respected former F.B.I. director, to refashion his legalistic 448-page report into a vivid, compelling narrative of Russia’s attempts to undermine American democracy, the Trump campaign’s willingness to accept Kremlin assistance and the president’s repeated and legally dubious efforts to thwart investigators.”

“For a party divided over how to confront Mr. Trump — liberals versus moderates, supporters of impeachment versus staunch opponents — the stakes could scarcely be higher.”

“The House Judiciary Committee is examining the truthfulness of former White House communications director and Trump confidante Hope Hicks’ statements in the aftermath of new documents released on Thursday, asking her to clarify her testimony to the committee last month!” CNN reports.

“The FBI documents released earlier Thursday revealing that one day after the tape came out, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen spoke on the phone with then-campaign spokeswoman Hicks and candidate Donald Trump. Those conversations were apparently about adult film actress Stormy Daniels.”

“House Democrats are moving to quiet the searing internal feud that threatened to spin out of control last week — starting with the deletion of explosive tweets that helped spark the infighting and a joint statement of unity,” the Washington Post reports.

“The detente is expected to continue next week, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tentatively scheduled to meet Thursday with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — the most prominent member of the four-member ‘Squad’ of liberal freshman female lawmakers.”

One Democratic aide called it a “collective de-escalation.”

“A Pentagon cybersecurity contractor has been charged with threatening to kill a member of Congress over the introduction of a bill that would require public schools to vaccinate children,” the Daily Beast reports.

From the contractor’s voicemail: “I’m gonna kill your ass if you do that bill. I swear. I will fucking come down and kill your fucking ass. And you’re a Congressperson, that’s fine. I hope the fucking FBI, CIA and everybody else hears this shit.”