Jeff Flake: “Burundi's escalating violence and instability has made for a complex situation that requires sustained attention.”

The Republican Party may believe or elected officials may believe that this will give them some short term benefit.

Just look at what has happened. The attorney general has been fired. And oversight for the investigation has been taken from the deputy attorney general where it belonged.

Nothing focuses the mind like a big election loss.

No doubt. No doubt. The president has particular, you know, sway over Republican voters, that subset of a subset that controls primaries.