1. President Trump wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey in April, our journalists learned, but the White House counsel warned him the move could lead to impeachment.

The encounter was one of the most blatant examples yet of how Mr. Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies

The episode has taken on significance as Donald McGahn, the White House counsel, left his post and Mr. Trump appointed a relatively inexperienced political loyalist, Matthew Whitaker, as his acting attorney general.