Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein This week seemed to do its best to overload Washington’s circuits. H.R. McMaster and John Dowd are out, while John Bolton and Joe diGenova go from defending President Donald Trump on television to working for him. Nice words for Vladimir Putin, and not-nice words for Robert Mueller. A Facebook scandal impacting the Trump campaign. The capital teetered between a budget-busting spending bill and a government showdown, with a spring snowstorm and Sens. Rand Paul and Jim Risch rocking things along. There are threats of a global trade war, and threats of a fight between the sitting president and a former vice president. (Along the way, Karen McDougal got her say last night, and Stormy Daniels gets her turn Sunday.) For all the wild storylines, the week proves again that there are forces bigger than the disruptive president – and no, that doesn’t include former Vice President Joe Biden’s fists. Congress and the judicial system are playing things out via their own rhythms. So is Mueller, and so are the markets, and so are allies and adversaries alike. Trump, as always, is in the middle of the wild action. Even when he’s driving that action, he isn’t always alone at the controls. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Whether or not the pairs of feet on the National Mall this Saturday will correlate to actual votes in November remains to be seen. Arguably, the purpose of the weekend’s “March for Our Lives” is much bigger and more ... Link to the full article to read more