Happy Monday everyone.

So a couple of thing to unpack today.

First, thank you to the very helpful reader who pointed out to me that last week, Nick Ayers, Mike Pence’s one time “man in the swamp” and White House chief of staff, was back from obscurity in the nick of time to suck up to Donald Trump by appearing on Fox News to trash-talk Gen. John Kelly after Kelly told the New York Times that Trump occasionally remarked that “Hitler did some good things” in an interview to the New York Times. (Ayers said that this was “egregious” on Kelly’s part, and that Trump never said this; other former Trump White House staffers have meanwhile lined up to support Kelly’s version.)

Read on at Vicky Ward Investigates