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Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

 

5am – A INTERVIEW – Richard Kelsey  

The third announcement on Monday was the unanimous decision to vacate the conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell on corruption charges. (RT.com) “There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that. But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “It is instead with the broader legal implications of the government’s boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute.” For something to qualify as political corruption, the government official would have to take formal action on a pending matter, not just set up meetings, the court ruled. A lower court will decide whether to set a new trial for McDonnell. Monday’s announcements were the last opinions to be issued by the Supreme Court this term.

5am – B/C/D  Benghazi Update

• Report says U.S. did not attempt to deploy assets, troops during Benghazi attack (Free Beacon) The U.S. military never attempted to deploy any assets or troops to Benghazi during the 13-hour attack on the American consulate in 2012, according to a supplemental report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday morning. Although Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said he ordered three support teams to deploy to Benghazi about two hours into the attack, the committee said it found no evidence that these forces were mobilized until hours after the attack ended. Military assets, such as fighter planes and armed drones never left the ground, according to the report. “We are now convinced, contrary to the administration’s public claim that the military did not have time to get to Benghazi, that the administration never launched men or machines to help directly in the fight,” wrote Reps. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in the analysis. “That is very different from what we have been told to date. And the evidence is compelling.” The congressmen issued their assessment as a supplement to the long-awaited report by the Benghazi Committee. According to the analysis, the Obama administration was fixated on how to frame the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack to the public, and spent little time trying to coordinate a military response while the attack was ongoing
• House GOP Report: Despite eyewitness accounts, Clinton, administration pushed video explanation for Benghazi (FOX News) EXCLUSIVE –  The claim that the fatal 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks were sparked by an anti-Muslim video was crafted in Washington by Obama administration appointees and reflected neither eyewitness nor real-time reports from the Americans under siege, according to the final report of the GOP-led Benghazi Select Committee. The GOP report, released Tuesday, followed by less than a day a report by the Democrats on the panel saying that security at the Benghazi, Libya facility was “woefully inadequate” but former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection.

• Emails: Susan Rice Was ‘Off The Reservation’ For Blaming Benghazi Attacks On YouTube Video (Daily Caller) Former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice’s claims on five Sunday morning talk shows that the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks were sparked by a YouTube video were “off the reservation,” a State Department official wrote to colleagues in an email that was released on Monday. Democrats from the House Select Committee on Benghazi released transcripts of interviews conducted with numerous government officials familiar with the Obama administration’s response to the terrorist attacks, which killed four Americans. Emails cited in those interviews, which were conducted with officials from the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), shed light on the thinking of career State Department employees to Rice’s heavily-criticized claims about the Benghazi attacks. Rice, who now serves as National Security Advisor, claimed on the talk shows that a YouTube video that was critical of the Prophet Muhammad served as the catalyst for the attacks. The claim was immediately met with harsh criticism from those who believed the Obama administration lied in order to downplay terroristic threats. NEA officials appear to have agreed that Rice went too far in tying the attack to the video. They also appear to have realized that Rice’s comments would cause irreparable damage.
• Democrats’ Benghazi report calls compound security ‘woefully inadequate’ (The Guardian) Democrats on the House Benghazi panel said in a report on Monday that security at the Libya facility the night of 11 September 2012 was “woefully inadequate”, but former secretary of state Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection. The panel’s five Democrats said after a two-year investigation that the military could not have done anything differently on the night of the attacks to save the lives of four Americans killed in Libya. US ambassador Chris Stevens died in one of the two assaults that night at the US outpost and CIA annex. Democrats’ release of their own report heightened the partisanship of the inquiry, which has been marked by accusations of Obama administration stonewalling and finger-pointing. Republicans on the panel missed a self-imposed deadline to issue a report “before summer”, but the Democrats’ move in issuing their report could spur the GOP’s final product.
• House Democrats mistakenly release transcript confirming big payout to Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal (LATimes) The Democrats on the House Benghazi committee released their final conclusions from the inquiry into attacks on Americans in that Libyan city in 2012, and in the report they say, once again, that the investigation is a politically motivated sham aimed at damaging the reputation of Hillary Clinton. But the report, which the Democrats published as a preemptive strike before the Republican majority releases findings likely to charge ineptitude and deception by the former secretary of State, also revealed, apparently unintentionally, details about the eye-popping amount of money a close Clinton friend and advisor made in a contract with a pro-Clinton nonprofit. Democrats released but redacted a transcript of Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal answering the committee’s questions to make the point that Republicans do not want the public to know what went on during the his interrogation, during which GOP members arguably used their subpoena power to conduct political opposition research unrelated to Benghazi.

5am – E     HILLARY ON TRUST : Clinton on voters’ trust issues: ‘I know I have work to do’ (CNN) Hillary Clinton, facing direct criticism about her trustworthiness from rival Donald Trump, admitted Monday she needs to do more to earn voters’ trust. “I personally know I have work to do on this front,” Clinton said at a Rainbow Push Collation luncheon, from prepared remarks. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, spoke at length about a deterioration of trust throughout the country and institutions, but argued that her own trustworthiness issues are a byproduct of politicians looking to score political points and “25 years’ worth of wild accusations.” “A lot of people tell pollsters they don’t trust me. Now I don’t like hearing that and I have thought a lot about what is behind it,” she said. Clinton has long struggled to explain why voters don’t trust her, but Monday marked the most thorough and comprehensive attempt she has made to address the issue during this campaign.

6am –A/B/C  Men work longer hours than women and women do more housework, report finds The pressures on men to be breadwinners and women to be housewives have been on their way out over the years, but a government study shows they’re still far from gone. Employed men work an average of 42 minutes per day more than their female counterparts, according to the 2015 American Time Use Study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while that’s partially due to more women working part-time jobs than men, even among full-time employees men worked 8.2 hours per day compared to women’s 7.8 hours. Additionally, 50 percent of women said they did some housework, such as cleaning or laundry, every day, while only 22 percent of men said the same. And 70 percent of women said they prepped or cleaned up food in an average day, while 43 percent of men said the same. Men were slightly more likely than women to participate in yard work — 12 percent to 8 percent.    

6am – D Benghazi Update

• Report says U.S. did not attempt to deploy assets, troops during Benghazi attack (Free Beacon) The U.S. military never attempted to deploy any assets or troops to Benghazi during the 13-hour attack on the American consulate in 2012, according to a supplemental report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday morning. Although Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said he ordered three support teams to deploy to Benghazi about two hours into the attack, the committee said it found no evidence that these forces were mobilized until hours after the attack ended. Military assets, such as fighter planes and armed drones never left the ground, according to the report. “We are now convinced, contrary to the administration’s public claim that the military did not have time to get to Benghazi, that the administration never launched men or machines to help directly in the fight,” wrote Reps. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in the analysis. “That is very different from what we have been told to date. And the evidence is compelling.” The congressmen issued their assessment as a supplement to the long-awaited report by the Benghazi Committee. According to the analysis, the Obama administration was fixated on how to frame the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack to the public, and spent little time trying to coordinate a military response while the attack was ongoing
• House GOP Report: Despite eyewitness accounts, Clinton, administration pushed video explanation for Benghazi (FOX News) EXCLUSIVE –  The claim that the fatal 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks were sparked by an anti-Muslim video was crafted in Washington by Obama administration appointees and reflected neither eyewitness nor real-time reports from the Americans under siege, according to the final report of the GOP-led Benghazi Select Committee. The GOP report, released Tuesday, followed by less than a day a report by the Democrats on the panel saying that security at the Benghazi, Libya facility was “woefully inadequate” but former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection.

• Emails: Susan Rice Was ‘Off The Reservation’ For Blaming Benghazi Attacks On YouTube Video (Daily Caller) Former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice’s claims on five Sunday morning talk shows that the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks were sparked by a YouTube video were “off the reservation,” a State Department official wrote to colleagues in an email that was released on Monday. Democrats from the House Select Committee on Benghazi released transcripts of interviews conducted with numerous government officials familiar with the Obama administration’s response to the terrorist attacks, which killed four Americans. Emails cited in those interviews, which were conducted with officials from the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), shed light on the thinking of career State Department employees to Rice’s heavily-criticized claims about the Benghazi attacks. Rice, who now serves as National Security Advisor, claimed on the talk shows that a YouTube video that was critical of the Prophet Muhammad served as the catalyst for the attacks. The claim was immediately met with harsh criticism from those who believed the Obama administration lied in order to downplay terroristic threats. NEA officials appear to have agreed that Rice went too far in tying the attack to the video. They also appear to have realized that Rice’s comments would cause irreparable damage.
• Democrats’ Benghazi report calls compound security ‘woefully inadequate’ (The Guardian) Democrats on the House Benghazi panel said in a report on Monday that security at the Libya facility the night of 11 September 2012 was “woefully inadequate”, but former secretary of state Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection. The panel’s five Democrats said after a two-year investigation that the military could not have done anything differently on the night of the attacks to save the lives of four Americans killed in Libya. US ambassador Chris Stevens died in one of the two assaults that night at the US outpost and CIA annex. Democrats’ release of their own report heightened the partisanship of the inquiry, which has been marked by accusations of Obama administration stonewalling and finger-pointing. Republicans on the panel missed a self-imposed deadline to issue a report “before summer”, but the Democrats’ move in issuing their report could spur the GOP’s final product.
• House Democrats mistakenly release transcript confirming big payout to Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal (LATimes) The Democrats on the House Benghazi committee released their final conclusions from the inquiry into attacks on Americans in that Libyan city in 2012, and in the report they say, once again, that the investigation is a politically motivated sham aimed at damaging the reputation of Hillary Clinton. But the report, which the Democrats published as a preemptive strike before the Republican majority releases findings likely to charge ineptitude and deception by the former secretary of State, also revealed, apparently unintentionally, details about the eye-popping amount of money a close Clinton friend and advisor made in a contract with a pro-Clinton nonprofit. Democrats released but redacted a transcript of Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal answering the committee’s questions to make the point that Republicans do not want the public to know what went on during the his interrogation, during which GOP members arguably used their subpoena power to conduct political opposition research unrelated to Benghazi.
• GOP Benghazi report charges Obama-Clinton did nothing to save lives (Washington Examiner) House Republicans on Tuesday is expected to release their long-awaited report on the fatal Benghazi attacks, charging President Obama, House Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s State Department of stonewalling and claiming that Clinton’s team did nothing to help the Americans under attack. The GOP report comes a day after Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi released their report Monday that claimed the four killed in Benghazi, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were sitting ducks and that nothing could be done to help them. The GOP dismissed the report. The GOP takes a different view, as seen in the supplemental report from panel members Rep. Mike Pompeo, Kansas Republican and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican. The report was provided to Secrets in advance of the full panel’s report release.

 6am – E         METRO NEWS:

• DC Metro will cut 500 jobs: report (The Hill) The Metrorail system in Washington, D.C., will cut 500 noncritical jobs in the coming months as the beleaguered transit agency continues to deal with a massive repair project and declining ridership, according to a new report. In a memo obtained by The Washington Post, Metro general manager Paul J. Wiedefeld announced a management restructuring on Monday “in order to operate in a businesslike manner and achieve cost savings.” Metro fired 20 managers last month as part of a major overhaul effort.
• Small fire prompts service disruptions on Metro’s Green, Yellow lines (WTOP) WASHINGTON — Service was suspended for several hours on Metro’s Green and Yellow lines between Mt. Vernon Square and L’Enfant Plaza following a small fire Monday evening. The Gallery Place station was closed earlier in the evening after a fire on the lower-level tracks sent smoke billowing through the station and caused a short closure. A small debris fire started on the lower-level tracks that service the Green and Yellow lines around 6 p.m. and DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department arrived to extinguish it. The fire department’s response caused Metro to close the station while crews controlled the fire. About 25 minutes after its closure, Red Line trains began servicing Gallery Place. Service on the Green and Yellow lines was restored between Mt. Vernon Square and L’Enfant Plaza shortly before 10 p.m. DC Fire says one person was taken to the hospital for possible smoke inhalation.

 

7am – A         INTERVIEW — KEN KLUKOWSKI – Breitbart legal editor

• Supreme Court Strikes Down Modest Abortion Restrictions, Highlights 2016 Election Stakes (Breitbart) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pro-life supporters suffered their worst defeat in many years on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, as Justice Anthony Kennedy sided with pro-abortion forces for the first time since 1992, striking down Texas’s HB2 for violating abortion rights. HB2 is a statute requiring abortion doctors in the Lone Star State to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their abortion clinic. The state law also requires every abortion facility to meet the equipment and sanitation standards of an ambulatory surgical center. In 1973, the Supreme Court declared in Roe v. Wade that the Constitution implicitly contains an unwritten right (called an “implied right”) to abortion. Roe suggested that this is a fundamental right, one where the constitutional requirements shift based on which trimester the pregnancy is in.

• Supreme Court Throws Out Bob McDonnell’s Federal Conviction WASHINGTON—On the last day of its annual term, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously threw out the federal bribery conviction of former Governor Bob McDonnell from Virginia. Chief Justice John Roberts summarized the case for the Supreme Court in McDonnell v. United States, beginning:   In 2014, the Federal Government indicted former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, on bribery charges. The charges related on the acceptance by the McDonnells of $175,000 in loans, gifts, and other benefits from Virginia businessman Jonnie Williams, while Governor McDonnell was in office.     ….   To convict the McDonnells of bribery, the Government was required to show that Governor McDonnell committed (or agreed to commit) an “official act” in exchange for the loans and gifts. McDonnell was convicted of violating the Hobbs Act.

7am – B         Brexit is a reminder that some things just shouldn’t be decided by referendum Since British voters elected on Thursday to leave the European Union, signs have quickly emerged of the flaws in holding a referendum on such a messy, massive, far-reaching decision. Politicians responsible for explaining what’s at stake have admitted they may have fudged some of the consequences. Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, acknowledged Friday merely an hour after the election was called that one of the Leave campaign’s key promises to voters was inaccurate. Brexit backers pledged that money the U.K. currently sends to the E.U. — supposedly £350 million ($462 million) a week — would go to the country’s national health system instead. Former London mayor Boris Johnson even drove around Britain in a bus blaring that message.

7am – D         INTERVIEW — CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN — R-Ohio, member of the Benghazi Committee

• Washington Free Beacon: House Benghazi Report Details Military, Intelligence Failures. Report says U.S. did not attempt to deploy assets, troops during Benghazi attack — The U.S. military never attempted to deploy any assets or troops to Benghazi during the 13-hour attack on the American consulate in 2012, according to a supplemental report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday morning. Although Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said he ordered three support teams to deploy to Benghazi about two hours into the attack, the committee said it found no evidence that these forces were mobilized until hours after the attack ended. Military assets, such as fighter planes and armed drones never left the ground, according to the report.
• Fox News on Ben Rhodes: The report interviewed more than 80 witnesses previously not called before Congress to testify.   Among them was Ben Rhodes, the president’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, who with political adviser David Plouffe prepped Rice for her national TV appearances claiming the video was responsible for the terrorist attack. Rice said her statements were based on the best available information, but nobody from the intelligence community such as the CIA director or the Director of National Intelligence briefed Rice. That was done by the political appointees. In fact, a Sept. 14, 2012 memo from Rhodes included the subject line: “RE: PREP Call with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 pm ET.” The email was sent to a dozen members of the administration’s inner circle, including key members of the White House communications team such as then-Press Secretary Jay Carney, who also pushed the video narrative in the days after the attacks. In the email, Rhodes specifically draws attention to the anti-Islam Internet video, without distinguishing whether the Benghazi attack was different from protests elsewhere, including one day earlier in Cairo.
• Daily Caller:  Emails cited in those interviews, which were conducted with officials from the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), shed light on the thinking of career State Department employees to Rice’s heavily-criticized claims about the Benghazi attacks. Rice, who now serves as National Security Advisor, claimed on the talk shows that a YouTube video that was critical of the Prophet Muhammad served as the catalyst for the attacks. The claim was immediately met with harsh criticism from those who believed the Obama administration lied in order to downplay terroristic threats. NEA officials appear to have agreed that Rice went too far in tying the attack to the video. They also appear to have realized that Rice’s comments would cause irreparable damage. “The horse has left the barn on this, don’t you think? Rice was on FIVE Sunday Morning shows yesterday saying this. Tough to walk back,” wrote a spokesperson for NEA in a Sept. 17, 2012 email. The officials’ names are redacted in the reports released by Benghazi Democrats. In one email, NEA’s senior Libyan desk officer reacted a series of talking points issuing by the CIA citing the video, saying “I really hope this was revised. I don’t think we should go on th record on this.” “I think Rice was off the reservation on this one,” the officer wrote later in the email chain. NEA’s senior advisor for strategic communications agreed with the comment, adding that “luckily there’s enough in her language to fudge exactly what she said/meant.” NEA’s spokesperson chimed in about Rice: “Off the reservation on five networks!”
• The Guardian: Democrats’ Benghazi report calls compound security ‘woefully inadequate.’ Two-year investigation finds Clinton and military were not at fault.  Republicans miss deadline but report may heighten partisanship of inquiry. (The Guardian) — Democrats on the House Benghazi panel said in a report on Monday that security at the Libya facility the night of 11 September 2012 was “woefully inadequate”, but former secretary of state Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection.
• House Democrats mistakenly release transcript confirming big payout to Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal. (LA Times) — The Democrats on the House Benghazi committee released their final conclusions from the inquiry into attacks on Americans in that Libyan city in 2012, and in the report they say, once again, that the investigation is a politically motivated sham aimed at damaging the reputation of Hillary Clinton. Democrats released but redacted a transcript of Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal answering the committee’s questions to make the point that Republicans do not want the public to know what went on during the his interrogation, during which GOP members arguably used their subpoena power to conduct political opposition research unrelated to Benghazi.  And for Democrats, the exchange exposes once again the absurd amounts of money people in the orbit of the Clintons sometimes seem to rake in just for, well, being in the orbit of the Clintons. “I’d say it’s about $200,000 a year,” Blumenthal said when asked by a committee member how much the part-time work offering up advice and ideas was worth.  “Redacted due to Chairman Gowdy’s refusal to allow release of transcript,” says a footnote to the pages of thick black redaction marks. “If released, the transcript would show that Republicans asked Mr. Blumenthal questions about his relationship with Media Matters, David Brock and Correct the Record.” Brock is a longtime Clinton loyalist, and Correct the Record and Media Matters are among the nonprofits he uses to attack Clinton opponents.       

7am – D/E     Benghazi Update

• Report says U.S. did not attempt to deploy assets, troops during Benghazi attack (Free Beacon) The U.S. military never attempted to deploy any assets or troops to Benghazi during the 13-hour attack on the American consulate in 2012, according to a supplemental report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday morning. Although Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said he ordered three support teams to deploy to Benghazi about two hours into the attack, the committee said it found no evidence that these forces were mobilized until hours after the attack ended. Military assets, such as fighter planes and armed drones never left the ground, according to the report. “We are now convinced, contrary to the administration’s public claim that the military did not have time to get to Benghazi, that the administration never launched men or machines to help directly in the fight,” wrote Reps. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in the analysis. “That is very different from what we have been told to date. And the evidence is compelling.” The congressmen issued their assessment as a supplement to the long-awaited report by the Benghazi Committee. According to the analysis, the Obama administration was fixated on how to frame the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack to the public, and spent little time trying to coordinate a military response while the attack was ongoing
• House GOP Report: Despite eyewitness accounts, Clinton, administration pushed video explanation for Benghazi (FOX News) EXCLUSIVE –  The claim that the fatal 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks were sparked by an anti-Muslim video was crafted in Washington by Obama administration appointees and reflected neither eyewitness nor real-time reports from the Americans under siege, according to the final report of the GOP-led Benghazi Select Committee. The GOP report, released Tuesday, followed by less than a day a report by the Democrats on the panel saying that security at the Benghazi, Libya facility was “woefully inadequate” but former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection.
• Emails: Susan Rice Was ‘Off The Reservation’ For Blaming Benghazi Attacks On YouTube Video (Daily Caller) Former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice’s claims on five Sunday morning talk shows that the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks were sparked by a YouTube video were “off the reservation,” a State Department official wrote to colleagues in an email that was released on Monday. Democrats from the House Select Committee on Benghazi released transcripts of interviews conducted with numerous government officials familiar with the Obama administration’s response to the terrorist attacks, which killed four Americans. Emails cited in those interviews, which were conducted with officials from the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), shed light on the thinking of career State Department employees to Rice’s heavily-criticized claims about the Benghazi attacks. Rice, who now serves as National Security Advisor, claimed on the talk shows that a YouTube video that was critical of the Prophet Muhammad served as the catalyst for the attacks. The claim was immediately met with harsh criticism from those who believed the Obama administration lied in order to downplay terroristic threats. NEA officials appear to have agreed that Rice went too far in tying the attack to the video. They also appear to have realized that Rice’s comments would cause irreparable damage.
• Democrats’ Benghazi report calls compound security ‘woefully inadequate’ (The Guardian) Democrats on the House Benghazi panel said in a report on Monday that security at the Libya facility the night of 11 September 2012 was “woefully inadequate”, but former secretary of state Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection. The panel’s five Democrats said after a two-year investigation that the military could not have done anything differently on the night of the attacks to save the lives of four Americans killed in Libya. US ambassador Chris Stevens died in one of the two assaults that night at the US outpost and CIA annex. Democrats’ release of their own report heightened the partisanship of the inquiry, which has been marked by accusations of Obama administration stonewalling and finger-pointing. Republicans on the panel missed a self-imposed deadline to issue a report “before summer”, but the Democrats’ move in issuing their report could spur the GOP’s final product.
• House Democrats mistakenly release transcript confirming big payout to Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal (LATimes) The Democrats on the House Benghazi committee released their final conclusions from the inquiry into attacks on Americans in that Libyan city in 2012, and in the report they say, once again, that the investigation is a politically motivated sham aimed at damaging the reputation of Hillary Clinton. But the report, which the Democrats published as a preemptive strike before the Republican majority releases findings likely to charge ineptitude and deception by the former secretary of State, also revealed, apparently unintentionally, details about the eye-popping amount of money a close Clinton friend and advisor made in a contract with a pro-Clinton nonprofit. Democrats released but redacted a transcript of Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal answering the committee’s questions to make the point that Republicans do not want the public to know what went on during the his interrogation, during which GOP members arguably used their subpoena power to conduct political opposition research unrelated to Benghazi.
• GOP Benghazi report charges Obama-Clinton did nothing to save lives (Washington Examiner) House Republicans on Tuesday is expected to release their long-awaited report on the fatal Benghazi attacks, charging President Obama, House Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s State Department of stonewalling and claiming that Clinton’s team did nothing to help the Americans under attack. The GOP report comes a day after Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi released their report Monday that claimed the four killed in Benghazi, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were sitting ducks and that nothing could be done to help them. The GOP dismissed the report. The GOP takes a different view, as seen in the supplemental report from panel members Rep. Mike Pompeo, Kansas Republican and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican. The report was provided to Secrets in advance of the full panel’s report release.

 

8am – A         McConnell Discussion: Supreme Court overturns corruption conviction of former Va. governor McDonnell. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell’s public-corruption conviction Monday and imposed higher standards for federal prosecutors who charge public officials with wrongdoing. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. described the former governor’s actions as “tawdry” but agreed that instructions to the jury in his case about what constitutes “official acts” were so broad, they could cover almost any action a public official takes. McDonnell’s promising political career was derailed by his entanglement with a businessman who showered the governor and his family with luxury gifts and financial benefits. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were indicted and convicted after he left office in January 2014. Legal experts said the new standards would make it difficult for federal prosecutors to retry McDonnell, but Roberts said the Supreme Court was expressing no view on that.

8am – B         INTERVIEW – JACK EVANS – DC COUNCILMEMBER AND DC METRO BOARD CHAIRMAN Jack Evans Represents Ward 2 of Washington, D.C. since 1991, Evans is the D.C. Council’s longest serving lawmaker and serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

• DC Metro will cut 500 jobs: report
• Small fire prompts service disruptions on Metro’s Green, Yellow lines

 8am – C         Hubble Space Telescope Set to Keep Its Eye on the Cosmos Through 2021 (ABC) NASA’s overachieving Hubble Space Telescope keeps plugging along with its discoveries — and will be doing so for at least the next five years after NASA extended its science operations contract to operate the telescope through 2021. “Hubble is expected to continue to provide valuable data into the 2020’s, securing its place in history as an outstanding general purpose observatory in areas ranging from our solar system to the distant universe,” NASA said in a statement. NASA heralded the launch of Hubble on April 24, 1990, as “the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo’s telescope.”

8am – D         INTERVIEW — LARRY KUDLOW- CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm

• Kudlow: Brexit good for growth and freedom (The Hill) Financial commentator Larry Kudlow says people shouldn’t panic over their investments after Britain voted to leave the European Union, which created immediate uncertainty in global financial markets. “First of all, from an investor’s standpoint, my best advice is don’t panic. Ride through the volatility, and I’m sure it’s going to last on and off for a while,” Kudlow said on “The Cats Roundtable” radio show with John Catsimatidis. The U.S. stock markets suffered their worst drop in 10 months after Britain approved the departure. The drop erased roughly $800,000 in U.S. market value, according to USA Today.
• Clinton and Warren Demonstrate Power of Their New Alliance (NBC) Locked hand-in-hand in front of a rapturous Ohio crowd, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren sealed a powerful alliance Monday that could help unify the Democratic Party and give Donald Trump nightmares. The Massachusetts senator is on Clinton’s shortlist of potential vice presidential running mates, but campaigning with the presumptive Democratic nominee in Cincinnati, Warren demonstrated she will be a vital ally in any capacity.
• Donald Trump to give economic speech Tuesday in Pennsylvania (CNN) Donald Trump will give an economic policy speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, his campaign announced Monday. Trump’s address — titled “Declaring American Economic Independence” — in Monessen will be his first appearance on the campaign trail since his trip to Scotland, where he promoted his remodeled golf course. Monessen is a western Pennsylvania town located south of Pittsburgh and the venue is an industrial plant. A theme of Trump’s campaign has been re-energizing American manufacturing, as well as fighting the side effects of globalization

8am – E         Hillary on Trust

• Clinton on voters’ trust issues: ‘I know I have work to do’ (CNN) Hillary Clinton, facing direct criticism about her trustworthiness from rival Donald Trump, admitted Monday she needs to do more to earn voters’ trust. “I personally know I have work to do on this front,” Clinton said at a Rainbow Push Collation luncheon, from prepared remarks. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, spoke at length about a deterioration of trust throughout the country and institutions, but argued that her own trustworthiness issues are a byproduct of politicians looking to score political points and “25 years’ worth of wild accusations.” “A lot of people tell pollsters they don’t trust me. Now I don’t like hearing that and I have thought a lot about what is behind it,” she said. Clinton has long struggled to explain why voters don’t trust her, but Monday marked the most thorough and comprehensive attempt she has made to address the issue during this campaign.
• Emails Show Big-Time Clinton Donor Directly Asked To Be Placed On State Dept. Arms Control Panel (Daily Caller) A wealthy donor to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns and to the Clinton Foundation directly asked Clinton’s State Department staff to be considered for an appointment to a board overseeing arms control issues within the agency, newly released emails show. “If there is any way I can be a part of the list of the final 25 I would be grateful. Please let me know if there is anything you need me to do,” reads a Sept. 11, 2009 email from the donor, Rajiv Fernando, to Clinton’s deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin. Completing this poll entitles you to Daily Caller news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Fernando, who has donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and tens of thousands to Clinton’s various campaigns, was eventually appointed to the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) in 2011. The board provides independent advice to the State Department regarding arms control and international security.
• Huma Abedin to be deposed about Hillary emails (NY Post) The aide closest to Hillary Clinton will be deposed Tuesday about her emails. Huma Abedin, who worked her way up from White House intern to vice chair of Clinton’s campaign for president, will be questioned under oath by lawyers for lawyers of the conservative group Judicial Watch about her involvement with her boss’ private email system. The deposition comes more than a month after DC District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, granted Judicial Watch the right to interrogate Clinton aides as part of a Freedom of Information lawsuit to secure emails that should have been open to public review. Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management at the State Department, will also be deposed by Judicial Watch lawyers on Wednesday.