AXIOS (Marc Caputo) - Three Republican power players walk into a D.C. bar, and ...
It sounds like the start of an only-in-D.C. joke: - Three Republican power players walk into a bar for a freewheeling conversation. They unwittingly sit next to a liberal comic. She then skewers them in an Instagram post recounting their chat. Why it matters: It became no laughing matter for one of the Republicans —oilman Harry Sargeant — who's trying to improve his uneasy relations with the Trump administration, partly related to his business dealings in Venezuela. - His rapprochement efforts were complicated last month when senior administration officials became aware of the comic's social media post, in which she alleged that Sargeant spoke negatively about President Trump. The big picture: The story illustrates the panopticon of…