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[CRAIG NIGRELLI]
GOOD MORNING
I’M CRAIG NIGRELLI
IT’S WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2025
AND THESE ARE YOUR UNBIASED UPDATES:
TROOPS STAY, TENSIONS RISE IN L-A
A JUDGE SIDES WITH TRUMP
BUT THE GOVERNOR SAYS IT’S A WARNING TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
PLUS: TRADE TRUCE?
THE U.S. AND CHINA CUT A DEAL.. BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY MEAN?
AFTER MONTHS OF TARIFF THREATS AND TENSE TALKS… WHAT COMES NEXT?
AND: ELON MUSK .. BACKPEDALS
AFTER A VERY PUBLIC FALLING OUT WITH TRUMP, MUSK NOW SAYS HE REGRETS HIS POSTS
IS THIS A PEACE OFFERING… OR JUST DAMAGE CONTROL?
L3: LOS ANGELES POLICE CONDUCT ‘MASS ARRESTS’ AS DOWNTOWN CURFEW TAKES EFFECT
THINGS ARE CALMER IN LOS ANGELES THIS MORNING — AFTER POLICE MADE ARRESTS AHEAD OF AN EMERGENCY CURFEW THAT TOOK EFFECT DOWNTOWN
MAYOR KAREN BASS SAYS THAT CURFEW COULD STAY IN PLACE FOR SEVERAL DAYS
NEARLY 200 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED TUESDAY — BEFORE THE CURFEW EVEN BEGAN
BASS ALSO SAID 23 BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN LOOTED DURING FOUR STRAIGHT DAYS OF PROTESTS.
MEANWHILE — A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS DENIED CALIFORNIA’S REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE TO BLOCK THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM USING MARINES AND NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS IN THE STATE.
GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM FIRED BACK — CALLING THE IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN AN OVERREACH — AND WARNING OTHER STATES TO PAY ATTENTION
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM, D-CALIFORNIA
“Trump is pulling a subject dragnet each crossed Los Angeles, good beyond his stated intent to conscionable spell aft convulsive and superior criminals. His agents are arresting crockery washers, gardeners, time laborers, and seamstresses.”
“This isn’t conscionable astir protests present successful Los Angeles. When Donald Trump sought broad authority to commandeer nan National Guard, he made that bid use to each authorities successful this nation. This is astir each of us. This is astir You. California whitethorn beryllium first, but it intelligibly will not extremity here.”
RIGHT NOW, ABOUT 700 MARINES ARE STANDING BY OUTSIDE L-A — READY TO DEPLOY
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ALSO ACTIVATED MORE THAN 4,000 NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS.
DEFENDING HIS MOVE TUESDAY, TRUMP SAID THE MILITARY PRESENCE IS WHAT’S KEEPING THE CITY FROM BURNING
“If we didn’t nonstop retired nan National Guard, and past clip we gave a small further help, you would person Los Angeles would beryllium burning correct now.”
“All I want is safety. I conscionable want a safe area. We have, Los Angeles was nether siege until we sewage there.”
PROTESTS ARE NOW SPREADING WELL BEYOND L-A … REPORTED IN NEW YORK, CHICAGO, SEATTLE, BOSTON.. AS WELL AS AUSTIN, AND DALLAS.
TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT SAYS THE STATE’S NATIONAL GUARD IS BEING DEPLOYED TO RESPOND.
L3: U.S. AND CHINA AGREE ON FRAMEWORK TO RESOLVE TRADE DISPUTES
THE U-S AND CHINA HAVE A DEAL — AT LEAST IN THEORY — TO GET TRADE TALKS BACK ON TRACK.
AFTER TWO DAYS OF CLOSED-DOOR MEETINGS IN LONDON, NEGOTIATORS SAY THEY’VE REACHED A FRAMEWORK TO MOVE FORWARD.
THE AGREEMENT STILL NEEDS FINAL SIGN-OFF FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CHINA’S PRESIDENT XI JINPING.
THE TALKS FOCUSED ON HIGH-STAKES FRICTION POINTS… ESPECIALLY RARE EARTH MINERALS AND TECH EXPORTS… ISSUES THAT THREATENED TO UNDO LAST MONTH’S TRUCE IN GENEVA.
HOWARD LUTNICK, U.S COMMERCE SECRETARY
“We do perfectly expect that nan taxable of uncommon world minerals and magnets pinch respect to nan United States of America will beryllium resolved successful this model successful implementation. That is simply a basal portion of that. Also, location were a number of measures nan United States of America put connected erstwhile those uncommon earths were not coming. You should expect those to travel disconnected benignant of, arsenic President Trump said, successful a balanced way.”
COMMERCE SECRETARY HOWARD LUTNICK SAYS THE U-S IS PREPARED TO ROLL BACK TECH RESTRICTIONS ON CHINA — *IF* BEIJING RESUMES EXPORTS OF CRITICAL MINERALS.
L3 MUSK SAYS HE NOW REGRETS POSTS SLAMMING TRUMP
EARLIER THIS MORNING, MUSK POSTED ON X: “I REGRET SOME OF MY POSTS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP LAST WEEK. THEY WENT TOO FAR.”
THE WALK-BACK COMES AFTER A VERY PUBLIC FEUD BETWEEN THE TWO … WITH MUSK SLAMMING TRUMP’S TAX BILL AS A “DISGUSTING ABOMINATION” AND HE EVEN AMPLIFIED CLAIMS LINKING TRUMP TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN FILES… A POST HE SINCE DELETED.
UNTIL RECENTLY, MUSK WAS ONE OF TRUMP’S CLOSEST ALLIES… CO-HEADING A WHITE HOUSE TASK FORCE ON GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY OR DOGE.
BUT AFTER LAST WEEK’S OUTBURST, TRUMP SAID THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS OVER.
NOW? HE SAYS HE’D HAVE NO PROBLEM IF MUSK PICKED UP THE PHONE.
TESLA STOCK JUMPED MORE THAN 2% OVERSEAS RIGHT AFTER MUSK’S POST.
L3 SOUTHERN BAPTISTS BACK PUSH TO REVERSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ARE GOING ON RECORD… CALLING FOR THE OVERTURN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
AT THEIR NATIONAL MEETING IN DALLAS TUESDAY NIGHT, THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST PROTESTANT DENOMINATION VOTED TO OPPOSE OBERGEFELL VERSUS HODGES: THE 2015 SUPREME COURT RULING THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATIONWIDE.
IT’S THE FIRST TIME THEY’VE FORMALLY ENDORSED WORKING TO UNDO IT.. AND THEY’RE CITING THE FALL OF ROE V. WADE AS A MODEL FOR HOW TO GET THERE.
LEADERS SAY THEY KNOW THEY’RE OUT OF STEP WITH MOST AMERICANS, BUT SAY THEY’RE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL.
THE SAME SWEEPING RESOLUTION CALLS FOR BANNING PORN, CRACKING DOWN ON SPORTS BETTING, AND ALSO ** PUSHING POLICIES THAT PROMOTE CHILD BEARING…
L3 TRUMP VOWS TO RESTORE ARMY BASE NAMES
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE’S BRINGING BACK THE OLD NAMES OF U-S ARMY BASES THAT ONCE HONORED CONFEDERATE GENERALS
… NAMES THAT WERE STRIPPED DURING HIS FIRST TERM
SPEAKING AT FORT BRAGG IN NORTH CAROLINA — NOW RENAMED BACK FROM FORT LIBERTY — TRUMP SAID BASES LIKE FORT HOOD, FORT POLK, AND FORT ROBERT E. LEE WILL BE “RESTORED”
BUT THERE’S A TWIST.
THE ARMY SAYS THE NAMES WILL TECHNICALLY HONOR DIFFERENT SOLDIERS WHO JUST HAVE SIMILAR NAMES.
FOR EXAMPLE, FORT GORDON IN GEORGIA — ONCE NAMED AFTER A CONFEDERATE GENERAL — WILL NOW HONOR A MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT, SERGENT GARY GORDON FOR HIS HEROISM IN 1993 IN SOMALIA.
THE MOVE SIDESTEPS A LAW CONGRESS PASSED AFTER GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER THAT BANNED CONFEDERATE NAMES ACROSS THE MILITARY… A LAW TRUMP TRIED TO VETO.. AND FAILED.
L3 : BIDEN AIDES TO TESTIFY ON HIS MENTAL ACUITY WHILE IN OFFICE
WILL THEY TELL STAND BY THEIR FORMER BOSS… OR TELL A DIFFERENT STORY?
FOUR TOP AIDES FROM THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE ARE NOW SET TO TESTIFY ON CAPITOL HILL ABOUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S MENTAL FITNESS WHILE IN OFFICE.
THESE FORMER OFFICIALS — NEERA TANDEN, ASHLEY WILLIAMS, ANNIE TOMASINI, AND ANTHONY BERNAL — HAVE AGREED TO VOLUNTARILY APPEAR BEFORE THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE LATER THIS MONTH,
REPUBLICANS WANT TO PIN DOWN WHEN JOE BIDEN’S HEALTH MAY HAVE STARTED TO DECLINE.. AND WHETHER OTHERS WERE MAKING DECISIONS FOR HIM.
COMMITTEE CHAIR JAMES COMER HAS ALSO SUBPOENAED BIDEN’S DOCTOR, KEVIN O’CONNOR, AFTER HE DECLINED TO TESTIFY.
BIDEN SAYS HE WAS IN CONTROL OF HIS DECISIONS WHILE IN OFFICE.. AND HAS SINCE REVEALED A DIAGNOSIS OF AGGRESSIVE PROTEST CANCER… WHICH HIS TEAM INSISTS WAS DISCOVERED *AFTER* HE LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE.
L3: DRIVERLESS TESLA ROBOTAXI SPOTTED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS
FINALLY THIS MORNING — THE FUTURE JUST TOOK A TEST DRIVE.
TESLA C-E-O ELON MUSK ANNOUNCING A TENTATIVE LAUNCH DATE OF JUNE 22ND FOR THE COMPANY’S LONG-AWAITED ROBOTAXI NETWORK.
MUSK SHARED THIS VIDEO ON X — SHOWING A TESLA DRIVING ITSELF THROUGH AUSTIN .. WITH NO ONE BEHIND THE WHEEL
HE SAYS THE DATE COULD SHIFT… BECAUSE THE COMPANY IS BEING “SUPER PARANOID ABOUT SAFETY”
THE VEHICLES WILL RUN ON AN “UNSUPERVISED” VERSION OF TESLA’S “FULL SELF-DRIVING” SYSTEM.
… AND MUSK SAYS THE CAR IN THE VIDEO WAS ALREADY USING THE NEWEST VERSION.
THESE ARE YOUR UNBIASED UPDATES FOR THIS WEDNESDAY.
DON’T FORGET TO LOOK UP AT THE SKY TONIGHT — BUT NOT TOO HIGH — AS THE SO-CALLED “STRAWBERRY MOON” WILL SHINE BRIGHTLY NEAR THE SOUTHERN HORIZON.
IT WILL BE THE LOWEST FULL MOON IN NEARLY TWO DECADES.
WE’LL SEE YOU BACK HERE TOMORROW.
FOR ALL OF US HERE AT STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS — I’M CRAIG NIGRELLI.
HAVE A GREAT DAY!
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