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A push for vast executive power

• President Trump’s claim on Monday that he has “the absolute right” to pardon himself for any crime was the latest in a series of moves asserting his control over federal law enforcement. No president has ever pardoned himself, and it’s unclear if Mr. Trump could legitimately do so.

The idea that presidents, by virtue of their unique constitutional powers, are above the law has surfaced before. Richard Nixon famously claimed after Watergate, “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” But assertions by Mr. Trump’s team that obstruction-of-justice statutes do not apply to him carry new twists. Read more from one of our Washington correspondents.

Also on Monday, prosecutors accused Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of trying to tamper with witnesses in his tax and money laundering case. The prosecutors, who work for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, called for Mr. Manafort’s bail to be revoked or revised.

• For nearly a year, Mr. Trump’s aides denied that the president had been behind a misleading statement, released in his son’s name, about a meeting at Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected lawyer. But in a confidential memo to the special counsel, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledged that the president had, in fact, dictated the statement.