Finding the Lead: A witness claims he’s going to ignore a subpoena to testify in the Russia investigation. President Trump says he’s moving ahead with tariffs on steel and aluminum. House Speaker Paul Ryan says that will be a disaster. Gun control legislation is stalled in Congress. North Korea says it’s willing to get rid of nukes. Finally, a woman aboard a passenger jet shouted that she was God and tried to open the door while the plane was in flight.

Where to begin?

We’ll start with President Trump’s branded hotel, the Trump International Hotel Panama, where yesterday workers pried the Trump name off the front of the building with crowbars.

A Cypriot businessman named Orestes Fintiklis recently bought controlling interest in the hotel and almost immediately claimed the Trumps were mismanaging it, losing money. The Trumps don’t own the hotel, but they have a management contract that runs through 2031.

The Trumps refused to clear out, and what followed was 10 days of craziness that included physical confrontations, an intentional power outage, and visits by the police like the whole thing was a big domestic argument.

This isn’t the world’s biggest deal, but dissenters are chipping away at the supposed “prestige” of the Trump real estate empire. Residents succeeded in having the name removed from three large apartment buildings in New York, and the Trump SoHo Hotel also dumped the name. A hotel in Toronto actually paid $6 million to have the Trump name chiseled off.

It also might be interesting to see what Fintiklis finds in the hotel ledgers in Panama.

The Buried Lead: Everyone else is making a big deal out of the claim by former Trump aide Sam Nunberg, who says he’s going to ignore a subpoena to produce and testify about his political emails going back to 2015. “Screw that,” Nunberg told CNN’s Gloria Borger. “Why do I have to go? Why? For what?”

Nunberg has already spent more than five hours testifying. He’s being called back to appear again on Friday. He says he’s got nothing of value to reveal in the Russia investigation, but he said repeatedly yesterday that he believes the special counsel has damaging information on Trump. “They know something on him,” Nunberg told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Perhaps I’m wrong, but he did something.”

During an on-set interview last night, CNN host Erin Burnett bluntly said to Nunberg, “I have smelled alcohol on your breath.” He denied having had a drink.

Nunberg would almost certainly go straight to jail if he doesn’t testify. Late last night, after endless hours of cable news chatter, he said he will. Oh, nevermind.

Hermit Kingdom: South Korea announced this morning that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is willing to negotiate with the United States about giving up its nuclear weapons and is willing to give up nuclear tests and development while the talks continue.

It’s a major development if it comes to fruition. A statement from South Korea says North made it clear that it would have no reason to keep nuclear weapons if the military threat to the North was eliminated and its security guaranteed.”

Trade War: President Trump says he’s pushing ahead with steel and aluminum tariffs despite major opposition from within his own party. House Speaker Paul Ryan said, “We are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the White House to not advance with this plan.” He’s worried that the tariffs will roll back the economic benefits of the Republican tax cuts.

The President said he will make exceptions for Canada and Mexico so long as he gets a fair re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Spy vs. Spy: A former Russian agent convicted of spying for Britain is critically ill after being found poisoned on a park bench in Salisbury, England. Sergei Skripal, 66, was in intensive care. A 33-year-old woman who was with him is also in critical condition. Both had collapsed and were unconscious when they were discovered.

Skripal is reported to have recently gone to the police claiming he feared for his life. The incident recalls the murder 10 years ago of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian agent who was poisoned by radioactive polonium in a London hotel. Don’t get on the wrong side of Vladimir Putin.

Teacher Says: The West Virginia school strike continues into its ninth day. The governor had agreed to a 5 percent pay raise, but the state senate passed a bill offering 4 percent. The teachers, who are among the lowest paid in the country, are holding out for 5. Schools in all 55 West Virginia counties are closed.

The Obit Page: Russ Solomon, who founded Tower Records, the worldwide superstore for music that was put out of business by streaming, downloading, and copying over the internet, has died at age 92.

Solomon started in 1960 with one store in Sacramento, Calif., and grew the chain to 200 stores in 15 countries. His stores became a place to hang out and enjoy music and where, Bruce Springsteen once said, “everyone is your friend for 20 minutes.” — David Ogden Stiers, the tall and balding actor who played Major Winchester on the long-running television sitcom M*A*S*H*, has died at age 75. — Roger Bannister, the British runner who in 1954 was the first to break the four-minute mile, has died at age 88. Bannister was a medical student when he appeared in a meet against Oxford and finished the mile in 3:59.4. The record is now 3:43.13.

The Kicker: As for the woman who tried to open the doors of an airliner, the doors don’t open in fight even when you think you are God.

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