But Democrats tell me that with his dodges, artful and otherwise (L.A. Times lead: “Sessions defends, demurs and deflects”), Sessions left a host of openings — about himself and President Trump — that congressional investigators will pursue. Bob Mueller’s prosecutors can be expected to do the same.

The real audience: Jeremy Bash, a lawyer and former Obama national security official, told Brian Williams on MSNBC: “I think Mueller could use a grand jury and overcome this [implied] claim of executive privilege.”