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Here’s what you need to know:

• Trump lashes out at Russia inquiry.

President Trump said on Wednesday that he wouldn’t have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known that Mr. Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation, calling that move “very unfair.”

In a wide-ranging interview with three Times reporters, Mr. Trump also criticized the officials involved in the inquiry, saying: “I’m not under investigation. For what? I didn’t do anything wrong.”