Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your daily political dispatch from the Swamp. I’m Julia Ioffe.

I’m currently en route to the Aspen Security Forum, where there has been a flurry of cancellations and changes due to last weekend’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas pulled out because of the investigation into the shooting, as did Liz Sherwood-Randall, the White House homeland security advisor. C.I.A. head Bill Burns is also no longer attending; he is on call in case he needs to go to the Middle East for the umpteenth time to negotiate that elusive ceasefire deal. The morbid joking that these people are missing their last Aspen hurrah has already begun: This time next year, everyone seems convinced, there will be a very different administration in the White House.

That said, there’ll still be plenty of high-ranking and in-the-know folks out there, and I’ll bring you more of the conversation from the Aspen Meadows Resort next week.

A couple of notes before we get going, though…

• The Menendez non-news: New Jersey senator and former chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez was found guilty of corruption today, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer immediately called for him to...