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The TAKE with Rick Klein The point isn't winning. The point is fighting – and showing who is in control. That's fundamental to understanding President Donald Trump's actions on the domestic front, as a moment approaches where he's about to stand on the foreign stage like few times before. Trump didn't want a victory over the NFL on the issue of player protests.

The TAKE with Rick Klein Attitude is everything, unless of course it leads to nothing. Now that we know that as he put it– and that it could lead to a White House invitation, unless there’s a reason to return to “maximum pressure” – Trump has managed to open up the range of options in a way that downplays expectations. Yet Trump’s biggest foray onto the world stage, starting with the G7 summit in Canada on Friday, puts the emerg

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.

President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday night to continue attacking Justin Trudeau.

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President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday night to continue attacking Justin Trudeau.

President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday night to continue attacking Justin Trudeau.

Susan Rice, a national security adviser to former President Obama, blasted MORE on Sunday for suggesting Russia be readmitted to the Group of Seven (G-7). Rice said Trump made “a disgraceful statement" when he said Obama "allowed Russia to take Crimea." “Rather than understand Russia is our adversary, Russia had taken on behavior that is absolutely reprehensible … for the president of the United States to suggest all that is forgotten, that we are together, that we are fine with one country annexing another country’s sovereign territory is outrageous,” Rice said. Rus