No Nunes is good Nunes?

Devin Nunes won’t back down. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

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1. Yates awaits

Doubts over embattled House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes escalated Monday after the California Republican canceled a public hearing originally planned for Tuesday, during which two senior intelligence officials appointed by Barack Obama, and the former acting attorney general Sally Yates, were scheduled to testify.

Trump fired Yates after she refused to enforce his currently unenforceable travel ban. Photograph: Pete Marovich/Getty Images

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2. Nunes won't quit

Nunes reiterated his refusal to recuse himself from the committee’s investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, despite mounting calls from Democrats.

I tried to walk it away. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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3. 'Spicey' Russian dressing

In a testy exchange with reporters, Sean Spicer whipped out this little zinger on the administration’s recurring Russia connections.

Sean Spicer, honest to god: "If the president put Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight somehow that's a Russia connection."

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) March 28, 2017

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4. Miners and Paris

Donald Trump launched an all-out assault on Barack Obama’s climate change legacy Tuesday with an executive order that undermines America’s commitment to the Paris agreement.

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Trump declared an end to the fictional “war on coal” Tuesday. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

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Summary

With coalminers looking on at the EPA headquarters in DC, the president signed an order to trigger a review of the clean power plan, Obama’s flagship policy to curb carbon emissions, and end a moratorium on the sale of coalmining leases on federal lands.

Could one of you gentlemen find me a pen that will do more harm to the environment, please? Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

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5. One for the plug

A senior Democrat has called for US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin to face an ethics violation investigation over comments he made plugging The Lego Batman Movie, a film financed by one of Mnuchin’s companies.

KaPow!!!

Mnuchin called the alleged self promotion a ‘lighthearted moment’. Photograph: Warner Bros. Pictures/AP

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6. None of your business

Sean Spicer bizarrely told veteran White House reporter April Ryan, a black woman, to stop shaking her head while he answered a question during the daily press briefing.

Now who do you think you are, puttin’ your cheap two cents in? Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

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Summary

Here's Sean Spicer telling April Ryan not to shake her head. pic.twitter.com/ojHnkt7MVW

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 28, 2017

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...Just a lil bit

This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/EF6Hk3Y3ai

— Ali Segel (@OnlineAlison) March 27, 2017

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People know me on these streets

Was in New Britain, Conn last night. Ran into this. Did a double take. (Yes, he was born here in central Connecticut) His dad had been mayor pic.twitter.com/mvfZGko3K0

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) March 28, 2017

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Dressing on the side, please

Me: *opens twitter*
Twitter: *everyone is talking about salad dressing*
Me:
Me: *logs off twitter*

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 28, 2017

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...Finally, this

Donald Trump will not throw out the #Nats Opening Day first pitch. https://t.co/T9zgpQmImn pic.twitter.com/juhxbuYjeL

— CSN Nationals (@CSNNationals) March 28, 2017