The Russia Thing: President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani admitted on CNN yesterday that Trump and his White House are attacking the credibility of the special counsel investigation to influence public opinion. “It is for public opinion,” he bluntly said.

He went on, “Because eventually, the decision here is going to be: impeach, not impeach. Members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, are going to be informed a lot by their constituents. So our jury … is the American people. And the American people … Republicans largely, independents pretty substantially, and even Democrats now question the legitimacy of it.”

Neither Trump nor Giuliani says they want the special counsel to find the truth about Russian election influencing. And it’s interesting that he thinks impeachment will come to the brink of a decision.

The President pressed his attack early yesterday, tweeting, “Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation…They went back home in tatters!”

He didn’t list who he was referring to … maybe the highly-valued Hope Hicks, who left his staff. The people who’ve been indicted are neither young nor beautiful.

Giuliani said, “I know 50 years of investigatory experience tells me they don’t have a darn thing because they would’ve used it already and they wouldn’t be off on collusion, they wouldn’t be off on Manafort, they wouldn’t be off on Cohen.”

Trump tweeted, “Why didn’t the 13 Angry Democrats investigate the campaign of Crooked Hillary Clinton, many crimes, much Collusion with Russia? Why didn’t the FBI take the Server from the DNC? Rigged Investigation!”

The Korean Konnection: American technical and diplomatic experts went into North Korea yesterday in an effort to salvage and re-set a meeting between President Trump and Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The US team is looking for concrete commitments from the North Korean leader  about his willingness to give up nuclear weapons.

Trump tweeted, “I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial Nation one day. Kim Jong Un agrees with me on this. It will happen!”

Heavy Weather: A roaring flood raced through Main Street of Ellicott City, Md. yesterday after eight inches of rain fell in two hours. It was just two years after a similar flood forced major reconstruction. Some of the same stores and businesses were gutted for a second time. Just two weeks ago the city was awarded a $1 million federal grant to mitigate the risk of floods.

Spinout: Race driver Danica Patrick had planned for yesterday’s Indianapolis 500 to be her last race and it was … just a little bit early. Patrick spun out on lap 68, hitting the wall and coming to a stop on the grass infield. She was done.

“Today was really disappointing for what we were hoping for and what you want from your last race, but I’m grateful for all of it,” Patrick said. “I just wish I could have finished stronger.”

Nation: Former President George HW Bush checked into a hospital in Maine yesterday with exhaustion and low blood pressure. He turns 94 next month. — More than 200 headstones at a cemetery in Glen Carbon, Ill. Were defaced with spray-painted swastikas. Volunteers were trying to remove them by today.

Red Pencil: A retired high school English teacher who received a letter from President Trump responding to her about school shootings corrected the President’s grammar and sent it back to him.

Scrawled on the letter were such comments as “Federal is capitalized only when used as part of a proper noun” and “specific agency?” and “OMG this is wrong!”

At the top she wrote, “Have y’all tried grammar style check?” The short answer, no.

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