So, my question this morning, after the NYT report, is does the administration try to ride this out, or do they escalate in some manner?

They’re losing control of the narrative at this point. Spontaneous protests are popping up all over the country, the media has begun to push back, and the intelligence community has clearly had enough of Trump’s bullshit.

They can either go into bunker mode and try to ignore the increasingly obvious, or Trump can pull some kind of idiotic power play to prove he’s the boss. I have zero idea of which way they’ll lurch at this point.

But if another shoe drops by tomorrow, it’s almost a guarantee that they’ll do something really stupid.