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The TAKE with Rick Klein The Washington Post has recorded a landmark: President Donald Trump has, by the newspaper’s count, surpassed 3,000 false or misleading claims during his time in office. That mark was met before Trump tweeted that there were "No questions on Collusion" among the purported Robert Mueller

The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump has grown used to smashing norms and conventions — and Washington and the world have adjusted, or not, accordingly. But his biggest clash may still be ahead of him.

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Massachusetts is ground zero in the latest round of the nation’s culture wars.  ‘’Everything about his challenger and her campaign makes me proud,’’ Deval Patrick said in a statement that did not mention Pressley by name.

Former secretary of state John Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.

Former secretary of state John Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.

Former secretary of state John Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.

Two key advisers to former FBI Director MORE are leaving the bureau. James Baker, who served as the FBI's top lawyer before being reassigned in December under the agency's current director Christopher Wray, resigned on Friday, The New York Times reports. Lisa Page, another FBI official who served as a legal adviser to Comey and his deputy at the bureau, MORE, is also resigning, the Times reported. Baker told the newspaper in an interview that he would

on Friday called his new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, a “great guy,” but suggested he may have gotten details wrong about a payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, which she says was made to keep her from speaking about an alleged affair with Trump. “He started yesterday,” Trump incorrectly said of Giuliani, who was hired on April 19. “He’ll get his facts straight.

Rudy Giuliani released a statement Friday intended to clarify his earlier remarks that MORE repaid his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. But the new statement from Giuliani, who recently joined the president's legal team and shocked Washington with his comments to Sean Hannity on Wednesday, did little to offer clarity to the situation. "First: There is no campaign violation. The payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the President's family.