The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Doctor Estranged

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-Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey)

Today in 5 Lines

  • President Trump’s longtime personal physician, Harold Bornstein, told NBC News that Trump’s bodyguard and lawyer “raided” his office in February 2017 and took medical files. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the move “standard operating procedure” and said records were being transferred “as requested.”

  • Trump lashed out at Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Twitter, saying that it was “disgraceful” that a list of questions Mueller reportedly submitted to Trump’s legal team was leaked.

  • Trump welcomed the crew and five passengers of the Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 to the White House. The plane made an emergency landing in Philadelphia last month after an engine exploded in flight and killed a passenger.

  • Two top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency resigned amid intensifying scrutiny of Administrator Scott Pruitt’s actions.

  • California and more than a dozen other states are suing the EPA over its decision to rollback greenhouse-gas emissions standards for cars.

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