10 takeaways from the Comey-Trump feud

In Washington’s hyper-partisan environment, both major political parties need scandals the way pyromaniacs require fire. In the Donald Trump era, at least, the media is playing the role of gleeful arsonist. All week, CNN ran a clock counting down the hours, minutes and seconds before James Comey’s Senate Intelligence Committee appearance; all cable news networks provided wall-to-wall coverage of the hearing, and newspapers covered it with online banner headlines posted in real time.