esquire.com – Imagine, for a moment, you serve in the Obama administration. For years now, you’ve spent each and every day under intense scrutiny from Republican leaders and thousands of media outlets, including right-leaning ones hell-bent on your destruction. Now, the 2016 campaign is in full swing. You have some interns in the back of the room at your State Department press conference. How do you handle this situation? Do you:

1.) Ignore them and continue as normal?

2.) Mention them and say that it’s great to have them, then swiftly move on?