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Today in 5 Lines During a court hearing in Manhattan, Fox News host Sean Hannity was revealed as a client of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Cohen’s attorneys are seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the government from reviewing documents seized in last week’s FBI raids on Cohen’s home, office, and hotel room. President Trump reportedly halted a preliminary plan to impose additional sanctions on Russia, backpedaling an announcement from UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. The Government Accountability Office concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency violated federal law when it spent more than $43,000 to install a private phone booth in Administrator Scott Pruitt’s office. Seven prison inmates were killed during fights that broke out overnight at Lee Correctional Institution in Lee County, South Carolina. Desiree Linden won the Boston Marathon, the first American woman to do so since 1985. Today on The Atlantic The View From Inside: Sunday’s ABC interview with former FBI Director James Comey captured the surrealism that has pervaded American politics for the last two years. (David A. Graham) ‘Unfit to Command’: America will soon face larger military decisions than whether to strike Syria, and President Trump is in no state to make them, writes David Frum: “He seethes with rage and resentment for all the world to view—and those emotions are visibly distorting his decision-making.” Combating the Opioid Epidemic: In 1995, France made a policy change that led to a reduction in heroin overdoses by 79 percent. (Olga Khazan) How Did Syria End Up Like This? : It all started with a little graffiti.

Earlier today, the Justice Department said that Cohen is "under criminal investigation." The revelation came amid a courtroom drama that unfolded today, as Cohen's attorneys and Trump's attorneys began a fight hours before with the US Attorney's Office in Manhattan over a massive raid of Cohen's records. Cohen did not appear in court Friday morning and has not been charged with a crime President Trump just tweeted about the Justice Department inspector general's report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The instances the inspector general cited McCabe's conversations with federal investigators and also with FBI Director James Comey in October 2016. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders continued her full-throated attack on James Comey Friday as excerpts of his upcoming book come to light. In the wake of news that Michael Cohen is under criminal investigation, Sarah Sanders was asked if President Trump still has confidence in the man who long served as his personal attorney and reported fixer. But when asked if he was still the President's personal attorney, Sanders said, "I'm not sure. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked today if President Trump is considering firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders came out swinging when a reporter asked if President Trump was worried about what James Comey was saying in his interviews with the media. She added that the fired former FBI director was "padding his pockets with a book that should be in the basement bargain bin," and said, "He'll be known as a disgraced partisan hack that broke his sacred trust with the President of the United States, the dedicated agents of the FBI and the American people he vowed to faithfully serve."