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The TAKE with Rick Klein

Donald Trump’s presidency stands at this moment somewhere between nuclear war and a Nobel Peace Prize – and somehow seems more stable than it’s been in a while.

This particular split-screen – stepping toward an agreement with North Korea while bringing Americans home, stepping toward a confrontation with Iran with a fresh warning after ending the nuclear deal – may be united by little beyond the notion that if President Barack Obama did it, his successor wants to do the opposite.

But it’s also the fulfillment of a fundamental campaign promise, one based on Trump’s instinct: to disrupt. This he is doing, with reverberations felt this week alone from Teheran to Damascus to Pyongyang to Jerusalem.

Even Trump critics will muster credit for the president if the result is a more peaceful world.

That conclusion, though, is not preordained. The pieces Trump is moving on the global stage interact with each other in unpredictable ways – some that may adjust for…

The three men all had been detained at least a year.

A small group of House Republicans attempt to reignite the immigration debate.

In the broadest slate of primary showdowns thus far this midterm election season, Republicans and Democrats scored critical wins in Trump country.

The payments come from both obscure companies and well-known brands.

The president’s move goes against the wishes of America’s allies.

The president called it a “horrible” deal that should never have been made.

Trump and McConnell earned the right to celebrate the first batch of primaries.

Voters head to the polls in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.

The president’s self-imposed deadline is Saturday, May 12.