The attorney general also defended the investigation that led to the seizure of two months’ worth of AP phone records.

The Justice Department obtained two months of telephone records from a group of reporters and editors at the Associated Press in a secret probe, the AP itself reports.

TBD’s Ryan Kearney reports on the bizarre story of an Associated Press reporter who was fooled by ESPN producer Marc Sterne’s Christopher Walken impression and published a report Friday quoting Sterne — in character as Walken. Sterne does the impersonation regularly on D.C.-area station ESPN 980.

In which we share some thoughts on being a state and a little-d District.