Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein The waters of the swamp are rising around Scott Pruitt. Yet the EPA administrator might yet get carried to safety. Pruitt is the latest Cabinet member stuck in a curious kind of limbo – wedged in between competing priorities of President Donald Trump. He’s enmeshed in a widening, worsening, and weird ethics cloud, with few Republicans rushing to defend him, and a president who’s in a firing mood. Yet he’s also marching forward with the Trump agenda, rolling back car-emission regulations promulgated under President Barack Obama just this week. The president said Tuesday of Pruitt, “I hope he’s going to be great.” It might be read as a warning to Pruitt. But ultimately it’s Trump who needs to decide whether his “drain the swamp” pledges outweigh his regulatory agenda – and any personal rapport between the two men. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks After 15 months in office, President Trump has not been able to physically change the U.S.-Mexico border as much as he would like and that seems to be upsetting him. Although the Department of Homeland Security says illegal crossings have plunged to some of the lowest levels in 40 years, the president is anxious to do more and is frustrated Congress has not given him a green light. First, he thought about using Pentagon funds to build his wall, but that’s not how federal funding works. So now he says he plans to use soldiers to secure the border. At first blush that seem mon... Link to the full article to read more