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The TAKE with Rick Klein What Robert Mueller’s team knows – and how and when he plans to tell the world about it – is one of the great mysteries of 2018. The veil comes down just a bit starting Tuesday.

The TAKE with Rick Klein American politics is under attack. Who, exactly, is leading the fight back? Last week brought news that Sen. Claire McCaskill’s office was the subject of a phishing attempt that appears to be linked to Facebook pages and accounts playing on divisive political issues. The former attempt was thwarted by Microsoft.

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Rufus Gifford said he sent Leslie Moonves’s $2,700 contribution to Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts on Monday.  Former Boston city councilor and mayoral candidate Tito Jackson called Rachael Rollins a “friend” and touted her managerial experience and focus on criminal justice reform.  Michael Capuano continues to hold a solid lead over his Democratic primary challenger, Ayanna Pressley, with one month left in the race.   Capital Source The former poet laureate’s final poem was just three lines long, but it sure packed a political punch.

During a press conference Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said: “‘Our democracy is in the crosshairs.”  The senators cited a report that members of President Trump’s exclusive clubs in Florida appear to have been invited on a tour last year.  The issue of the White House’s relationship to members of the media has resurfaced after television reporters were targets of Trump supporters’ ire at a rally in Tampa this week.

During a press conference Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said: “‘Our democracy is in the crosshairs.”  The senators cited a report that members of President Trump’s exclusive clubs in Florida appear to have been invited on a tour last year.  The issue of the White House’s relationship to members of the media has resurfaced after television reporters were targets of Trump supporters’ ire at a rally in Tampa this week.

During a press conference Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said: “‘Our democracy is in the crosshairs.”  The senators cited a report that members of President Trump’s exclusive clubs in Florida appear to have been invited on a tour last year.  The issue of the White House’s relationship to members of the media has resurfaced after television reporters were targets of Trump supporters’ ire at a rally in Tampa this week.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that MORE when he tweeted the attorney general should bring the Russia probe to an end. "It's not an order. It's the president's opinion," Sanders told reporters during a press briefing.  Sanders called the special counsel's probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 "ridiculous" and said the president "wants to see it come to an end." "The president is not obstructing.

MORE's investigation in a tweet earlier in the day. As part of a barrage of attacks on the Mueller investigation on Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted that Sessions "should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further." “The president has issued no order or direction to the Department of Justice on this,” Sekulow told the Post. Giuliani pointed to Trump's use of the word "should" and added that the president "uses tw