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The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump’s anticipated birthday present comes with a reminder: not all gifts are welcome ones. The long-awaited Justice Department inspector general’s report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton emails investigation is due to come out Thursday, which happens to be the president’s 72nd birthday. It figures to provide endless fodder for Trump and his backers to talk about James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, and less-familiar names like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. But ne

The TAKE with Rick Klein The visage of President Donald Trump looms everywhere, through another remarkable week of presidential domination. It’s smiling alongside Kim Jong Un and saluting one of his generals.

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If those votes on state budget amendments seem at odds with the image that state Republicans often try to project — they are.  Capital Source Samantha Ormsby, who has served as a deputy press secretary, will replace Nicole Caravella, who left the mayor’s office last week for a job in the private sector.

Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, called the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families “cruel and inhumane.”   “The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility,” President Trump said Monday. “Not on my watch.”   Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their parents during six weeks in April and May.

Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, called the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families “cruel and inhumane.”   “The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility,” President Trump said Monday. “Not on my watch.”   Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their parents during six weeks in April and May.

Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, called the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families “cruel and inhumane.”   “The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility,” President Trump said Monday. “Not on my watch.”   Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their parents during six weeks in April and May.

FBI agent Peter Strzok offered to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in a letter from his attorney released on Sunday. The letter was drafted by Strzok's attorney Aitan Goelman and was sent to House Judiciary Chairman MORE (R-Va.).  The letter comes amid reports that Goodlatte had begun initiating procedures to subpoena Strzok, who was removed from special counsel MORE's probe into Russia's election meddli