The Note: All the president’s men line up against special prosecutor

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THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein

Call it a reshuffling, or a shakeup, or a simple expansion of the team. Just don't call it an effective new strategy, not until certain other behaviors are moderated or changed altogether. Moving people around in the communications operation and the legal team suggests that President Trump's problems have stemmed from either the communications or legal advice he's getting. But it's his own behavior – from hiring Michael Flynn to firing James Comey, denouncing the special counsel's "witch hunt" and slamming the nation's three top law enforcement officials – that lie at the heart of the swirling controversies his aides and advisers are trying to calm. With talk of pardons and of undercutting special counsel Robert Mueller's team, not to mention his unprecedented public brushback of his own Justice Department, a president who respects no boundaries seems to be daring those investigating his activities to go further, with behavior that would not be tolerated in an underling. Bringing in new people won't make it easier for spokespeople to explain the inexplicable, or for lawyers to defend the indefensible.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I don't even pay any attention to what is going on with the administration because I don't care. They're a distraction. The family is a distraction, the president is a distraction." -- Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, to Politico

WHAT TO WATCH

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COULD CLIMATE CHANGE BECOME A VOTING ISSUE?

Global warming warrior and former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday there might be a silver lining to President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction," he said, citing a law of physics. "What we are seeing in the United States of America today is the biggest upsurge in favor of the climate that we have ever experienced, and it is in reaction to what President Trump has said." Gore listed U.S. governors and mayors who, in the wake of the announcement from the White House, have made their commitments to expand renewable energy and curb greenhouse gas emissions locally. "And we're seeing it around the world, where countries have doubled-down on their commitment to the Paris Agreement," he went on. During a Sirius XM town hall promoting his new movie, he added it was as if the president's announcement lit a fire under world leaders who are now saying they will meet their energy and environmental goals even faster, just to show up Trump, ABC News' MaryAlice Parks reports.

NEED TO READ with ABC News' Daksha Sthipam

Senators say Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. will get subpoenas if they skip hearing. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is threatening to issue subpoenas to compel Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. to testify before Congress if they do not cooperate with the panel's ongoing investigation and appear for a public hearing next week. "If they don't voluntarily come, they will be subpoenaed," Grassley said Thursday. http://abcn.ws/2uO20mN

Exxon slapped with $2 million fine for allegedly violating Russia sanctions while Tillerson was CEO. The Treasury Department announced Thursday that it has fined Exxon Mobil $2 million for allegedly violating Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was CEO. According to a penalty filed Thursday, the president of Exxon's U.S. subsidiaries in 2014 signed eight agreements for oil and gas projects with Igor Sechin, the president of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft. http://abcn.ws/2gNnD0C

Who is Rachel Brand, the associate attorney general under Sessions and Rosenstein? President Donald Trump's criticism Wednesday of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has cast a spotlight on the third person in this hierarchy, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand. Brand, the first woman to serve as associate attorney general, was nominated by Trump in February. http://abcn.ws/2uDMZ6M

WHO'S TWEETING?

@SenJohnMcCain: I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support - unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I'll be back soon, so stand-by!

@AmyEGardner: MUST READ -->> What John McCain learned from Ted Kennedy on challenging his own party, from @pkcapitol http://wapo.st/2uPsdBA

@markberman: As Trump fumes about Mueller's probe, he's told aides he's particularly disturbed Mueller can access his tax returns http://wapo.st/2tvyfaa

@FreedomPartners: "History is on the side of bold #TaxReform, it's time for Congress to deliver." http://bit.ly/2vn5U2Z

@shaneharris: Pompeo: "It is difficult to imagine a stable Syria that still has Assad in power." About as close as he'll get to US policy on the regime.

@joshrogin: Pompeo suggests regime change for North Korea, says twice U.S. will try to separate Kim from his own nuclear program. #AspenSecurity

@jimsciutto: Asked about POTUS saying "I love Wikileaks" during the campaign, CIA's Pompeo says simply "I don't love Wikileaks"

@brianstelter: >> @TuckerCarlson: "For God's sake, lay off Jeff Sessions, he is your friend -- one of the very few you have in Washington."

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