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The TAKE with Rick Klein Of all the strange journeys President Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party on, the Russia detour may be the oddest -- and the most dangerous. It's long perplexed even members of Trump's inner circle why the president can't seem to bring himself to criticize Vladimir Putin and his regime.

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The two events will pit long-term Democratic incumbents against popular progressive challengers in two of the most high-profile races in the Sept. 4 primary.   A campaign spokesman said the reservation is an initial effort to make sure people vote yes on Question 3 on Election Day.  The $2.93 million that Warren aides said the Cambridge Democrat raked in between April and June was nearly 10 times the amount any of the three Republicans running in the Sept.

President Trump has appointed 44 judges since taking office – including more appellate judges than any president in American history at this point in their tenure.   Progressive voters are increasingly rattling primaries, and they promise to grow as a disruptive force in general elections.   President Trump suggested Saturday that there could be legal consequences for Michael Cohen, who recorded a discussion about paying a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump.

President Trump has appointed 44 judges since taking office – including more appellate judges than any president in American history at this point in their tenure.   Progressive voters are increasingly rattling primaries, and they promise to grow as a disruptive force in general elections.   President Trump suggested Saturday that there could be legal consequences for Michael Cohen, who recorded a discussion about paying a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump.

President Trump has appointed 44 judges since taking office – including more appellate judges than any president in American history at this point in their tenure.   Progressive voters are increasingly rattling primaries, and they promise to grow as a disruptive force in general elections.   President Trump suggested Saturday that there could be legal consequences for Michael Cohen, who recorded a discussion about paying a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump.

MORE’s bungled effort to warm up to Russian President Vladimir Putin has driven a wedge between him and his own administration as it seeks to crack down on Moscow’s hostile activities. Rank-and-file intelligence and national security officials feel demoralized by the president’s failure to publicly call out Putin for interfering in the 2016 election, according to sources inside and outside the federal government. “It’s just another day in paradise,” said one former White House official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.

Lawmakers have reached an agreement to strip a provision from the must-pass defense policy bill that would have sunk MORE's deal to save Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE. Two congressional sources confirmed to The Hill on Friday that the Senate's tougher language, which would have kept stiff penalties in place including blocking ZTE from buying American components, was booted from the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which has not been released.   Instead, the final NDAA is expected to line up with language included in the House's de

MORE's longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen secretly taped a conversation he had with the president ahead of the 2016 election about paying a Playboy model who says she had an affair with Trump — and the FBI has the tape, according to an explosive new report in The New York Times. The FBI seized the secret recording made by Cohen during a raid on his offices earlier this year,