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Here’s what you need to know:

• Investigating the investigators.

President Trump’s lawyers and aides are scouring the backgrounds of investigators hired by the special counsel Robert Mueller, looking for conflicts of interest, people with knowledge of the effort said.

Mr. Trump, during a Times interview in which he made several misleading statements, said he would make the information available “at some point.”

On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would remain in the job “as long as that is appropriate” after Mr. Trump criticized him for recusing himself in the Russia investigation.