Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein The visage of President Donald Trump looms everywhere, through another remarkable week of presidential domination. It’s smiling alongside Kim Jong Un and saluting one of his generals. It’s grumpily rebuking some of America’s closest allies, in a viral series of photos. It’s on the wall at a detention center for children, near the Texas-Mexico border. It’s just off-screen in remarkable text messages between FBI employees who couldn’t believe he’d ever be president. It’s everywhere in GOP primaries, another batch of which proceeded according to Trump’s liking. Amid such omnipresence, the comments by Sen. Bob Corker, describing the “cult-like situation as it relates to a president,” stand out – in part because Corker stands virtually alone among Republicans in conveying such sentiments publicly. In the realm of what’s being argued publicly, Trump continues to show dominance. It’s in what’s going on more quietly – in investigations, and in still-hushed talk on Capitol Hill – that the road ahead looks more questionable for the president. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks When it comes to the practice of separating children from their parents apprehended at the border, the White House’s political finger-pointing appears to be falling flat. That’s mainly because even Republicans on Capitol Hill are moving the issue beyond politics. “We don't want kids to be separated from their parents,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said yesterday, add... Link to the full article to read more