Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein His brand is disruption. But it's in putting broken pieces back together that President Donald Trump finds fresh challenges. The dynamic makes itself clear as the administration continues to explain the president's meeting with Vladimir Putin last week, along with the concession that another summit can't happen until 2019. It's evident in the president's efforts to blunt the impact of the very tariffs he continues to champion. A trade-war pause with Europe allowed Trump to celebrate a "big day" and a "new phase" where what was really agreed to was to work toward an agreement. Thursday brings another marking point in the Trump administration's difficulties in cleaning up self-created messes. The court-imposed deadline for reunification of migrant children separated from their families has arrived. There's substantial progress, but also new evidence that the task almost certainly can't be completed – and that there was little front-end consideration to reversing the policy that reached full-blow crisis levels just weeks ago. "This country was in no way prepared for the industrial scale of family separation," Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat who represents El Paso in the House, said on the "Powerhouse Politics" podcast. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks The White House would never admit it, or refer to the events the way they unfolded this week, but twice in the last two days the president has arguably backtracked big time. Fi... Link to the full article to read more