Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein So President poison attack in the United Kingdom. “We don't get to dictate how other countries operate,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, when asked if the US government believes Putin’s election was “free and fair.” This is unusual White House behavior, by any modern standard. (It was all going on at the same moment that the bipartisan members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were outlining ways to block Russia’s future meddling in midterm elections that have already begun.) This is not just a matter of Trump refusing to criticize Putin. The now freshly re-elected Russian president gets to use Trump’s public kindnesses to further his agenda – an agenda that has been demonstrated to include doing further harm to the American political system. Maybe there’s a Trumpian method behind the buddy-buddy act. But these are some off public maneuvers taking place even as Americans are beginning to vote in 2018. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks If the outskirts of Chicago are any indication, change may be slow to come to the Democratic Party. Or at least a lot slower than expected given the energy and enthusiasm on the left. Despite a well-funded and well-orchestrated primary challenge to a very conservative sitting Democrat, progressives, who arguably had their best shot at taking down incumbent centrist Democrat this year, fell short. Marie Newman, the progressive running against the longtime incumbent Rep Da... Link to the full article to read more