Secrets at CPAC: Water gun duels with a Bannon, a Grenell snub and Liz Truss is everywhere all the time

Welcome to Friday’s Washington Secrets, where we are on a road trip to Grapevine, Texas. We spent Thursday mingling with the crowds at the Conservative Political Action Conference, taking the temperature of the movement, as well as getting into a fight with Maureen Bannon and getting slapped on the chest by Ric Grenell. All in a day’s work …

8:57 a.m. Liz Truss, British prime minister for 49 days, is marching purposefully through the Gaylord Texan convention center’s corridors. She is everywhere all at once. This is the third time in less than 24 hours that Secrets has bumped into her. The first time she rebuffed a request for an interview (“I’m still getting my bearings,” she said, as she admitted no one had told her when or where she was due to speak) and then later in the bar, where she was having dinner.

9:30 a.m. The doors to the