1. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plans to call on the House to investigate its own committee staff, including Rep. Devin Nunes. Rosenstein says he plans to "request that the House general counsel conduct an internal investigation of these Congressional staffers' conduct" after some of the committee staff said they felt "personally attacked" during a meeting with Rosenstein in January. (CNN)

  2. Scott Pruitt had a top aide contact Republican donors to see if they could help get his wife a job at a conservative political group that has backed Pruitt for years. Pruitt approached wealthy party supporters and conservative figures with ties to the Trump administration and enlisted the help of the associate administrator of the EPA's Office of Policy in order to find a job for Pruitt's wife. (Washington Post)

  3. Trump declared in a tweet that there is "no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea." Trump said that "everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office," and claimed his meeting with Kim Jong Un was an "interesting and very positive experience." He continued: "President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight!" (CNN / Washington Post)

  4. The Federal Reserve is preparing to raise interest rates today to the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis. Officials have indicated that they will raise the target rate by a quarter of a percent to a range of 1.75 to 2 percent. The rate increase will be the second one this year, and the seventh since the end of the Great Recession. (New York Times)