4. The special counsel inquiry into Russian election interference is using tough tactics. Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, above, woke up one morning in July to find federal agents with a search warrant had picked the lock of his home and raided it.

More recently, one of our Washington reporters was having lunch at a steakhouse when he realized that two men sitting near him were part of the Trump legal team — and that they were discussing just how rattling the investigation is. He describes the experience in this essay, and talked about it on today’s episode of “The Daily.”

Separately, the Senate Intelligence Committee abruptly postponed an interview with President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen after he released his opening statement to the media.

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