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Former FBI director James Comey said in a recent interview that he has “never” seen President Trump laugh. Comey made the comment to George Stephanopoulos in a Sunday interview on ABC’s “20/20.” “You notice something else – during that dinner,” Stephanopoulos said to Comey during the interview, according to CNN. “You say the President didn't laugh.” “Yeah, not at all,” the former director responded. “And I was struck by it. So struck by it, it stayed with me, that I've never seen him laugh.” “I’m not a comedian but I occasionally say something that's funny that people chuckle with each...

Via Beltway Confidential: President Obama wants tighter gun control laws, but he does appreciate that armed Secret Service agents protect his daughters every day on their way to school. “It might come in handy to have these super locks,” Obama joked at Master Lock in Wisconsin, noting that he will soon have two teenage daughters. “For now, I’m just counting on the fact that when they go to school there are men with guns with them.”

RUSH: Joe Biden, they say that he really turned that gaffe around in Columbia, Missouri, really quickly, really fast, Joe Johns said he's really good at this, he's really good at screwing up and then covering up, really good at screwing up and recovering. There's nobody better at it than Joe Biden, that's right, 'cause he's got a lot of practice at it. He's has decided now to incorporate the whole notion of get up and stand up into his stump speech. This is in Media, Pennsylvania, yesterday, at a campaign appearance. BIDEN: Folks, don't buy this malarkey, and don't...

RUSH: This next is unreal. Joe Biden was on the Today show talking to the hostette there, Meredith Vieira, who asked him, "What specifically will your tax plan do to boost the economy?" BIDEN: Our tax plan would take that tax cut of another $130 billion that John wants to give to people making over $250,000 next year, not let it go forward and give it to the middle class, the very people who desperately need it to stay in their homes, to buy food, to take care of the gas to fill up their tank, to be able to...

RUSH: Joe Biden's campaign plane, the press section, is empty. This is from Jim Geraghty reporting at National Review Online's campaign spot. "Since the Delaware senator left Obama's side and ventured out on his own on Labor Day, he has hardly garnered any national media interest at all. His plane, a blue chartered 737, now crosses the country with about three-quarters of its seats empty, rows and rows with nary a warm body to be found. Biden's supporters maintain that he is connecting with voters and garnering positive media interest." Like he did in Columbia, Missouri, last week, introducing that...