NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 6/28/2020

"Wear a mask, wherever its indicated"

Those words from Vice-President Mike Pence today speaking at joint media appearance with Texas Governor Greg Abbott discussing the spread of the coronavirus in Texas...... VIDEO LINK.......Governor Abbott says that Covid-19 has taken a "swift and very dangerous turn" in the state....VIDEO LINK

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes there should be a nationwide requirement to wear masks.   She spoke on ABC's "This Week" program.......VIDEO LINK

More coronavirus news later in this summary......

Strong denials from President Trump and Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell about reporting from the "New York Times" and other mainstream media.     That reporting quotes an intelligence official as saying that a Russian intelligence unit offered bounties to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan and that President Trump was told about it.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWITTER POST SUNDAY MORNING 6/28/2020 822 AM

"Nobody briefed or told me,@VP Pence,or Chief of Staff @Mark Meadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an "anonymous source" by the Fake News@nytimes.   Everybody is denying it & there have not been any attacks on us....."....PRESIDENT TRUMP TWITTER 728 AM SUNDAY 6/28/2020

LATE TODAY PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED THAT THE INFORMATION WAS NEVER GIVEN TO HIM OR THE VICE-PRESIDENT BECAUSE IT WAS NOT CONSIDERED CREDIBLE.

One analysis of the situation suggests a strong political motive for President Trump's opponents to spread this story around.....MOON OF ALABAMA

A SUSPECT UNDER ARREST AFTER THE DEADLY SHOOTING AT A PROTEST IN LOUISVILLE LAST NIGHT.    THE MAN HAD BEEN ARRESTED SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE  FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND WAS INJURED WHEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.....BBC NEWS

After a day of rumors about an armed militia group coming to counter protest demonstrators occupying a park in downtown Louisville, Kentucky one man shot and killed an another person wounded Saturday night.

Shots rang out just after 9 pm.     Police investigated what happened and following the shooting incident tents were removed and protesters cleared from the scene.....WHAS 11 LOUISVILLE NEWS STORY

The Justice Department announcing charges against four men in connection with the attack on the statue of Andrew Jackson at Lafayette Square in Washington last Monday.

Lee Michael Cantrell,   Connor Matthew Judd, Ryan Lane and Graham Lloyd are the accused.   Judd was arrested on Friday and appeared in court yesterday.   The others have not been arrested yet.....JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NEWS RELEASE

The name of a former US President being removed by the university he was once president of.    Woodrow Wilson's name no longer being used on Princeton University's school of public policy or on a dormitory building.    The Board of Trustees met Friday to make the decision.     The university citing Wilson's "racist thinking and policies" for the move.....NJ.COM STORY

The exit polling in the first round of Poland's presidential election today shows incumbent Andrzej Duda with 41.8 percent of the vote and his main opponent Warsaw Mayor Rafa Trzaskowski with 30.4 percent of the vote.     The race will have to go to a second round between the two on July 12th.  Duda is from the Euroskeptic and Nationalist Law and Justice Party while Trzaskowski represents the pro-EU Mainstream Civic Platform Party......TASS STORY

A low turnout for the second round of France's municipal election and a generally disappointing night for President Emmanuel Macron's  LaREM  Party.   "Green" candidates won many major cities with Socialist incumbent Anne Hidalgo re-elected the mayor in Paris.   Another Socialist, Martine Aubry, won re-election as mayor of Lille.     

Macron's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe did win election as mayor in the port city of Le Havre and he's expected to designate a substitute to take the post.    And the National Rally Party of Marine Le Pen won control of the southern French city of Perpignan.   Its the first time the National Rally has won control of a French city with a population above 100,000 people.

CORONAVIRUS STATS KEEP ROLLING OUT AND TODAY THEY SHOW 8,530  NEW CASES IN FLORIDA, 5,240 IN CALIFORNIA, 4,330 IN TEXAS AND 3,857  IN ARIZONA ALONG WITH 2,225 IN GEORGIA.

A MAJOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA HEADLINE TODAY IS THAT SOME 10 MILLION CASES OF COVID-19 HAVE BEEN RECORDED AROUND THE WORLD.......

"The pandemic is raising its head around the world.   We have passed the threshold of ten million infected people and 500,000 dead."

Part of the assessment of the coronavirus from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today as Israel's coronavirus cabinet acts to tighten control in the country again.   Netanyahu also saying:

"You open it and if you see the disease returning and spreading--you tighten it.   This is not a zigzag; it is the policy of any sane country and it is also how we will act"

More restrictions and tougher enforcement being enacted in Israel over Covid-19 today.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS.......THERE IS OPINION POLLING IN ISRAEL SHOWING THAT ONLY 40 PERCENT OF ISRAELS APPROVE OF NEW RESTRICTIONS AND A MAJORITY CALLING THE PRIME MINISTER'S CORONAVIRUS POLICY 'NOT GOOD'........ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Police in London cracking down on 'unlawful' and 'unregulated' music events in London Saturday nights that drew large crowds.     Cops moving in to disperse the street parties.....BBC NEWS

The coronavirus story around the world as reported by BBC News on its daily blog........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 6/28/2020

In other news.....

Boeing is set for testing involving pilots and technical experts in the coming days on its troubled 737 MAX aircraft that was grounded 15 months ago following two deadly crashes.......BBC NEWS

And that's the way it really is Sunday June 28th, 2020, another day in the Dictatorship of Covid-19.