THE WAR ROOM: Four House Republicans joined the Democrats in a vote to direct President Trump to withdraw US forces from the Iran theater or win approval from Congress to continue the fighting.  The Democrats broke into cheers.

  The undeclared war has entered its fourth month. The vote was a rebuke to Trump, albeit by a narrow margin, as doubts grow about the President’s war. Trump cannot veto the measure. 

  Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed yesterday that the war with Iran “has concluded” even as Iran hit US allies Kuwait and Bahrain with a barrage of missiles and drones. The attack was one of the biggest on Persian Gulf countries since the start of the war. Kuwait’s only international airport was hit, killing a civilian and many others. One of the airport terminals was left burning with a gaping hole in the roof.

TICK, TICK, TICK: CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss said in yesterday’s morning news meeting that “60 Minutes” Correspondent Scott Pelley had broken a foundation of trust in the newsroom openly attacking his new executive editor in a Monday morning meeting.

  Weiss said, “I’m only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect; we cannot do our work without it.”

  Pelley’s angry challenge came after Weiss had fired the show’ top management and two correspondents for no given reason. Pelley said Weiss was not qualified for her position and the new producer Nick Bilton barely had the credentials.

  “Despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately we weren’t able to do so, and so we had to part ways,” Weiss said. “We did not want that to happen, but that’s the path that he chose.”

  Pelley issued a statement saying, “There was no effort of any kind to ‘find a way back.’” He previously said he had been asked to put inaccurate and unverified information in some of his reports as Weiss dug her fingers into the workings of the show.

  After the resignation of Anderson Cooper and firing of three correspondents, “60 Minutes” is down to three, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitker, and John Wertheim. Weiss made reference to  “some new people that are going to be joining us.” 

INFINITE SCROLL:

— The Senate is moving ahead with an immigration bill after Republicans removed a $1 billion allotment for so-called security measures at President Trump’s White House ballroom.

— The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that has been operating for 10 years to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems, and currents that affect the global climate.

  President Trump believes climate change and global warming are a hoax so he is limiting the science to study the phenomena.

  The National Science Foundation will begin this month to remove more than 900 deep-sea instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington State, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea.

— The federal government has let out a $5 million no-bid contract for four statues near the National Mall to be covered in gold leaf by a deadline of July 4^th.  President Trump loves gold.

  The 19-foot statues depicting humans and horses are named the Arts of Peace and the Arts of War.

  Trump is intent upon imposing his notion of beauty on Washington and he’s taking money from other parts of the government to do it. The administration is diverting at least $90 million from entry fees to national parks to pay for a $1.6 million Fourth of July fireworks display and $76 million to repair fountains including the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. 

— Trump yesterday signed an executive order that takes away civil service protections for roughly 8,000 high-level federal workers by making them “at-will” employees.

— The Washington Post reports that a January 6^th rioter has been hired to a sensitive counterterrorism job in the Defense Department. The Post says that video analysis reveals that Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time, climbed through a broken window while holding a metal pole to enter the US Capitol. 

  Irizarry was hired to a post in the Pentagon’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict office. 

HOOP DREAMS: The New York Knicks came from behind last night to beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 1 of the NBA finals. Jalen Brunson had two lower-leg injuries but scored 30 points.

THE SPIN RACK: Los Angeles socialite Rebecca Grossman and her former boyfriend were found liable for $176 million in damages for the incident in which the two were street racing and Grossman ran down two little boys, killing them. Grossman is serving 15 years to life. — The FBI early yesterday shot and killed a man who claimed to be armed with explosives and had held 10 people hostage in an office building in downtown Bakersfield, California. Authorities said that all the hostages, employees of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, were unharmed.  

BELOW THE FOLD: The White House has put up a new website “aliens.gov” with the threatening message in green and black graphics that, “They Walk Among Us” and “For 60 years the U.S. government has kept a closely guarded secret.”

  But the website is not about space aliens, it’s about undocumented immigrants. The site says, “They’ve shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences.”

  The site says, “President Trump was the first to call out the real danger Aliens pose to every American family, every community, and the future of our nation.”

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