California lawmakers are finding themselves at the heart of an epic struggle over who's in charge in Washington these days. Meeting by meeting, questions of competence, generational change, #MeToo politics, special counsel Robert Mueller's report and the 2020 elections are animating the fight for power.
This week alone, a selection of skirmishes big and small played out in public, including a Trump-size explosion by noon on Wednesday. In the span of three hours: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi jabbed at him, telling reporters that "the president is engaged in a cover-up," repeating for emphasis, "a cover-up" — and breezily added that she was due at the White House for a meeting on infrastructure.