At 1:04 p.m. this afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped behind the podium in the briefing room, just days after telling reporters that Friday would be her last press conference before stepping away for maternity leave. Yet instead of leaving, she came back. She told the room she felt it was too important not to be there, and then she launched into one of the most dangerous performances our country has ever seen come out of that room. And within minutes, it became clear this wasn’t a press conference about a shooting as the White House claimed it would be. It was about defining this administration’s next moves. Telling the country that...