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The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is making it all about … President Donald Trump. It's a fact of Trump's brand of leadership that all politics is personal.

The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is hardly a subtle person.

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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.

Boston officials presided over a gathering at Boston University on Thursday of 20 US mayors and four officials from cities in other countries, including China.  When the president arrives Friday in Quebec, he will find US alliances badly frayed, turning Trump’s tariffs into the focus of the G-7 summit.  ‘‘I’m sorry I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation,’’ Rudy Giuliani said.   The United States hopes to one day normalize relations with North Korea, Trump said Thursday.

Boston officials presided over a gathering at Boston University on Thursday of 20 US mayors and four officials from cities in other countries, including China.  When the president arrives Friday in Quebec, he will find US alliances badly frayed, turning Trump’s tariffs into the focus of the G-7 summit.  ‘‘I’m sorry I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation,’’ Rudy Giuliani said.   The United States hopes to one day normalize relations with North Korea, Trump said Thursday.

Boston officials presided over a gathering at Boston University on Thursday of 20 US mayors and four officials from cities in other countries, including China.  When the president arrives Friday in Quebec, he will find US alliances badly frayed, turning Trump’s tariffs into the focus of the G-7 summit.  ‘‘I’m sorry I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation,’’ Rudy Giuliani said.   The United States hopes to one day normalize relations with North Korea, Trump said Thursday.

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Republicans left a meeting Wednesday night in Speaker MORE’s (R-Wis.) office without an immigration deal ahead of what is expected to be a tense conference discussion on the topic Thursday. Lawmakers leaving the meeting said they were encouraged despite their inability to get a deal so far that would stave off a discharge petition launched by party centrists to force a series of votes on immigration measures. “I don't think these negotiations have been a waste of time at all.

Speaker MORE’s (R-S.C.) defense of the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s campaign and Russia. “Chairman Gowdy’s initial assessment is accurate, but we have more digging to do,” Ryan told reporters during his weekly news conference. While both Ryan and Gowdy received a closed-door briefing on the bureau’s use of an informant in the investigation, there is still an outstanding request to view the underlying documents to support the briefing. "We have some more documents to review.