Hello, and welcome to The Best & The Brightest, your Tuesday foreign policy edition. I’m Julia Ioffe.

As you know, we have a new colleague at Puck, the fantastic political journalist and commentator John Heilemann. If you like TBTB, be sure to check out his new podcast, Impolitic, which premieres today! Andrew Weissmann, the former Mueller lieutenant, is his first guest. I promise you’ll like it.

Also, if you missed last week’s screening in D.C. of For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign, a moving documentary about Brian Wallach’s inspiring fight against ALS, you can find my Q&A with Brian, his wife Sandra Abrevaya, and filmmakers Christopher Burke and Tim Rummell by clicking here.

Tonight, congressional notes from Abby and my take on the N.S.C. staffer’s burden. But first, let’s check in on the Blob…

• Bibi’s coming to town?: Lost amid the glee and the rage over Trump’s hush money verdict on Thursday, and Biden’s ceasefire proposal announcement on Friday, was Speaker Mike Johnson finally getting his invitation out to Benjamin Netanyahu to...