<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: The Ensuing Chaos
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Legal Developments: Ty Cobb, the head of the legal team representing the White House in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, is retiring. He’ll be replaced by the lawyer Emmet Flood, whose résumé includes significant work on disputes related to executive power in the George W. Bush administration. That—along with President Trump’s mounting threats to intervene in the Justice Department—could be a sign that the president intends to take a more confrontational approach to Mueller’s probe.
Harold Bornstein, the doctor who released a glowing, controversial health assessment of Trump in 2016, now claims that the then-candidate dictated the in any medical professional, but, as Conor Friedersdorf writes, the deception Bornstein alleges is all the more concerning because it
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