"You're not going to be the sixteenth writer who asks me about Hillary, are you?" says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. "I know you would not do that. You want to ask me about the state of the economy, unemployment, poverty. You would not ask me about my views on Hillary Clinton."
Sanders, like the rest of his colleagues, was getting out of town. The Senate was finishing its week's work early, to avoid the airline-scrambling chaos of a snowstorm, and to allow a vote to override President Obama's veto of the Keystone XL bill. (The override failed, as expected.) The escape would mean an end to questions about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's e-mails, which had been sent from a private account, and hosted on a "homebrew" server at her New York residence.