Article snippet: The TAKE with MaryAlice Parks On the anniversary of the violent confrontations in Charlottesville, Virginia, a year ago, the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said on ABC's "This Week" yesterday, "It's a low bar for the president of the United States to simply say he’s against racism." Obviously, Cummings is a Democrat and has been routinely critical of this president, still his line about changing standards seemed to hit on broader themes plaguing this White House. Many of the controversies swirling around President Trump could be whittled down to questions about what the appropriate bar is for any president. That was the issue a year ago. Several businessmen and political partners pulled out of White House business councils after Charlottesville. It was too low a bar for the president to read a prepared statement condemning neo-Nazis after saying nothing head-on about the protests and uttering lines about fine people on both sides. The frustration among moderate Republicans earlier this summer after that press conference in Helsinki? It's a low bar to say you don't question your own national intelligence. The president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani reset the bar when he said there was no collusion between the campaign and Russia, but if there were ... collusion is not a crime. In some ways it was a question of standards too, when the former senior adviser, Omarosa Manigault Newman, alleged over the weekend t... Link to the full article to read more