Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein Robert Mueller’s investigation is now more than a year in, and we’re now less than half a year from the midterms. For all that, it is becoming clear how much President Donald Trump is counting on … Kim Jong Un to come through. A week that looked like it would bring a big step back for the Trump-Kim summit is ending instead on a positive note. That’s because Trump is being so relentlessly positive, choosing to ignore North Korean threats of scuttling the summit while even offering Kim “protections that are very strong” if a nuclear deal is reached. “His country would be very rich,” Trump said. The president is saving his Twitter wrath for the Mueller probe and Democrats these days. For now, Trump and the man he once called “Little Rocket Man” seem to be on the same wavelength. That’s remarkable – and the president needs it to stay that way for a while longer. The stakes for his presidency are bigger than even a Nobel Peace Prize. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Congress and the country again this week dealt with tangled and, at times, conflicting policy agendas from Republicans and the Trump White House. Imagine the roller coaster for farmers. A $350 billion, five-year farm bill, with crucial federal crop insurance programs, is in jeopardy as some conservatives have withheld support in order to force a vote on a hardline immigration bill instead (an extreme the Senate but that they think they need politically. On t... Link to the full article to read more