Friday – May 1, 2020

Mike Opelka · Two-Minute Drill: Joe Biden’s MSNBC interview may not have been a good idea (for him)

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1486 – Columbus convinced Queen Isabella to fund his expedition to find the new world

1915 – The Lusitania (a British luxury cruise ship) leaves NYC for Europe, a week later it would be sunk by a German U-boat’s torpedo

1931 – The Empire State Building opened

1948 – North Korea is established

1960 – American U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is shot down over Russia

1986 – Russia’s news agency reported an “accident” at their Chernobyl nuclear power plant

2011 – President Obama announced the killing of Osama bin Laden

News and The Politics out of D.C.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMS HE’S SEEN EVIDENCE LINKING THE VIRUS TO THE WUHAN LAB

ON BIDEN — TRUMP SAYS BIDEN ALLEGATIONS COULD BE FALSE — BUT, ‘HE SHOULD RESPOND’

TODAY ON THE BBN — JOE BIDEN TO APPEAR ON ‘MORNING JOE’ AT 8AM TO RESPOND TO ALLEGATIONS

BIDEN’S ACCUSER SAYS SHE’S HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTION TOO — UNDER OATH

REPORT: BIDEN SENT CAMPAIGN OPERATIVES TO REVIEW HIS PAPERS AT UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

WATCH PELOSI SNAP AT REPORTER WHO ASKED ABOUT DEMS DOUBLE STANDARDS ON BIDEN ALLEGATION

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CONSIDERING BRINGING GEN FLYNN BACK INTO HIS ADMINISTRATION

‘DON’T CLOSE RAZOR’ — MORE DETAILS EMERGE POINTING TO AN FBI SET UP OF GENERAL FLYNN

PELOSI WANTS ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS IN FUNDS — FOR STATES AND LOCAL GOV’T

BUT, IT’S NOT POLITICAL — PELOSI APPOINTS ONLY DEMS TO THE HOUSE VIRUS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

JUST BECAUSE IT’S FRIDAY — SOME OF KIM JONG UN’s CRAZY MOMENTS

OPINION: AS BIDEN STRUGGLES, HILLARY WAITS FOR THE CALL

General News

THE VIRUS UPDATE — NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

MICHIGAN IS SENDING FREE CONDOMS TO LOCKED DOWN LOVERS

THE MICHIGAN HOUSE REJECTS LOCKDOWN, VOTES TO SUE GOVERNOR

IT’S ABOUT PRIORITIES — BEVERLY HILL CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO ALLOW COSMETIC SURGERIES TO RESUME

GERMANY CONSIDERS ISSUING ‘CORONAVIRUS CARDS’ TO ALLOW IMMUNE CITIZENS TO TRAVEL FREELY

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER BIG HIT TO THE EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS — 30+ MILLION NOW OUT OF WORK

CHICKEN SH*T MOVE? SWEDISH TOWN SPREADS A METRIC TON OF POOP ON FESTIVAL SITE

TIME FOR A GAP YEAR? HARVARD TELLS STUDENTS TO PREPARE FOR ONLINE ONLY FALL SEMESTER

McDONALD’S STARTS TO RATION MEAT AS SUPPLY CHAIN CONCERNS ARISE

WATCH: MIKE ROWE SAYS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A ‘NON-ESSENTIAL’ WORKER (HE’S RIGHT)

Other News Catching My Eye

BREAKING NEWS — CNN’S ANDERSON COOPER ANNOUNCED THE BIRTH OF HIS SON, WYATT

#FIRECHRISHAYES IS TRENDING BECAUSE MSNBC HOST DARED TO COVER BIDEN SEX ASSAULT ALLEGATION

CDC EXTENDED SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES TO DOGS

CHICAGO AND OPRAH ARE SET TO HOST THE FIRST CITY-WIDE, VIRTUAL GRADUATION FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS

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