Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will see showers with a high of sixty-eight. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:36 PM, for 15h 20m 21s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the nine hundred fifty-third day.
Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets at 5:30 PM.
On June 19th and 20th in 1944, the United States engages and decisively defeats Imperial Japan at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
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Erin Banco, Sam Brodey, Lachlan Markay, and Noah Shachtman report Admin Hid Shanahan’s Dark Past, Senators Say:
The senators tasked with vetting Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan say they were unaware of the accusations of domestic violence in his family that led to his resignation Tuesday. The altercations never came up during Shanahan’s 2017 confirmation hearing for the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense, lawmakers told The Daily Beast, nor did it arise as he was preparing to assume the role of Pentagon chief permanently.
“We’ve been wondering why we have not gotten an FBI report. It has seemed slow to us. And now we understand why,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, adding that he “didn’t know” about Shanahan’s ex-wife’s arrest for punching Shanahan in the face, nor his son’s arrest for attacking his mother with a baseball bat, until reports surfaced in USA Today and the Washington Post about the alleged incidents.
President Donald Trump nominated Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, for defense secretary in March 2019. Since then, his confirmation process lingered, leaving the Pentagon without a confirmed leader for the longest stretch in history and raising concerns among lawmakers who were told that the postponement was partly because of a hold up by the FBI. At least one of those lawmakers called for an investigation on Tuesday as to why they had not been told by the administration about Shanahan’s past.
“I want to know what was known, and whether it was fully disclosed,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who also sits on the armed services committee, told The Daily Beast. “It was material to this nomination when he was proposed for deputy secretary, as well as named his nominee as secretary, although the full paperwork was never sent to us.”
Felicia Sonmez reports Trump says supporters might ‘demand’ that he serve more than two terms as president:
President Trump on Sunday floated the possibility of staying in office longer than two terms, suggesting in a morning tweet that his supporters might “demand that I stay longer.”
The president, who will kick off his reelection campaign on Tuesday with an event in Orlando, has previously joked about serving more than two terms, including at an event in April, when he told a crowd that he might remain in the Oval Office “at least for 10 or 14 years.”
The 22nd Amendment of the Constitution limits the presidency to two terms.