Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein President trade wars are easy to win. But he can't pretend to be without ideology – not now, and not anymore. Trump's moves are signaling policy choices that will have real ramifications and that figure to draw significant blowback. The president accepted Scott Pruitt's resignation for reasons outside of his job performance – where he "has done an outstanding job" running the EPA, according to the president. Pruitt's legacy includes a dizzying array of scandals, but also a massive, pro-business shift in the regulatory functions of the agency. The president's family-separation policies are about to get new scrutiny, via court-imposed deadlines. His long-promised imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods leaves it up to the world's most populous country to respond. And when the lobbying over his Supreme Court pick is done, Trump will have made a selection that – if the president gets what he expects – will change the status of laws impacting abortion, civil rights, healthcare and a long list that follows. The noise around Trump this week is considerable, as always. But he will be judged on what he's done far more than what he's said about it what he's doing. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks In the middle of the week, the Washington Post ran this headline: "It's Independence Day, but Americans aren't feeling so proud." The article cited recent polling wherein Americans, at new levels, expressed little pride in their country,... Link to the full article to read more