There was a noticeable absence of anyone from the Trump administration on the five main Sunday talk shows. President Donald Trump himself was just two days into his marathon foreign trip to Asia, but there seemed to be no eagerness on the part of the White House or the rest of the administration to talk about the previous week’s developments in the special counsel investigation, which revealed two indictments and a guilty plea.

Which meant consequently that there was also no one from the White House to talk about the newly released details of the Republican tax reform proposal, which the House GOP unveiled last Thursday. The exception was Vice President Mike Pence, who appeared on Fox News’s business-focused Sunday