BLAMING BOLTON: The White House disputes the narrative that national security adviser John Bolton is pushing President Trump into a military confrontation with Iran, while members of Congress still complain they haven’t seen the intelligence that sparked accelerated deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln and the dispatch of B-52 bombers to the region.

WE’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE: Democrats in Congress keep bringing up two historical precedents: the Gulf of Tonkin incident that began U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1964 and the flawed intelligence cited as the casus belli for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.