White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly watches as President Trump speaks with North Korean defectors at the White House on Feb. 2. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

UP: Russia sanctions

DOWN: President Trump’s plan to get along with Russian President Vladimir Putin

UP: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s spending on security

DOWN: Likelihood Pruitt would remain in any other administration

UP: Trump’s racist rhetoric on immigration

DOWN: Number of border apprehensions

UP: Chief of Staff John F. Kelly threatening to quit

DOWN: Kelly not quitting

UP: Democrats’ possible pickups in the midterms

DOWN: How tariffs play in farm country

UP: Market uncertainty

DOWN: Wall Street affinity for Trump

UP: Iranian and Russian influence in the Middle East

DOWN: U.S. retreating from the Middle East

UP: Danger of exiting the Iran deal

DOWN: A coherent plan to contain Iranian aggression

UP: Number of open Cabinet-level posts

DOWN: Chances Congress will achieve much of anything the rest of the year

UP: “A federal district court judge in Boston has upheld the state’s ban on assault weapons – AR-15 semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines – finding that the issue is not a constitutional matter but one for each state to determine on its own politically.”

DOWN: The National Rifle Association