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Good morning everyone! Happy Monday to you! Joining today's show are Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Kasie Hunt, Chris Jansing, Rep. Mike McCaul, Lawrence O’Donnell, Ayman Mohyeldin, Miguel Almaguer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Clint Van Zandt, Cindi Leive, Sen. Tim Kaine, Rep. Mimi Walters, Ahmed Zayat, Justin Zayat and Joe (Scarborough) is off this AM today.

American Pharaoh wins the Triple Crown. Mika says that she tends to feel badly for the horses but when she saw the final stretch or watched the horses run around the track in these races that they look so nice (Or majestic is maybe what she was trying to articulate). The Tony Awards were done last night. Mika had a weird non interaction with Bradly Cooper because he basically ignored her when she tried to introduce her daughter to him. That is awkward sounding and then Mika gave Larry David another mint candy which is a running inside joke between each of them. And, also this weekend was Beau Bidens incredible funeral was had Saturday and Ashley (his sister) said that Beau and Hunter allowed her to hang out with them so long as she sung the song Fire On The Mountain by the Grateful Dead. That was quite a funeral. The speeches were just amazing. I love that family. I truly believe that Obama and Joe really...really love each other. His (Obama's) speech was so personal. (Mike) Barnicle is actually saying what i just said here about those two and their relationship. Oh and also, they are a beautifully looking family. Ashley is very pretty (and smart), the kids (Hunter and Beau) are good looking men. Beaus wife is very beautiful and Joe's wife is pretty. The speeches were just amazing to hear.

Also over the weekend, 7 GOP hopefuls were at Joni Earnsts pig roast and motor cycle ride out in Iowa. GOP Suitors Woo Iowa With Bikes, Barbeque And Barnstorming. 
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks with Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, before Ernst's Republican fundraising ride Saturday.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks with Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, before Ernst's Republican fundraising ride Saturday.
A herd of Republican presidential candidates spent some time in Iowa farm country this weekend. They were there for a fundraiser called Roast and Ride, a motorcycle ride and barbecue organized by Republican Sen. Joni Ernst.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker used the first Iowa cattle call this year, the Iowa Freedom Summit, to give an electrifying speech and shoot to the top of the pack in the first caucus state. Ernst, a political newcomer, is making herself a force in presidential politics.

On Saturday morning, Ernst, decked out in a leather biker vest and drinking a Monster Energy drink, was greeting hundreds of bikers in the parking lot of a Harley Davidson dealer in Des Moines. She joked with the press about Florida senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio turning her down for a ride on the back of her motorcycle.

Only two of the GOP presidential hopefuls rode motorcycles. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry led his own motorcade, from Perry — yes, Perry — Iowa.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker rode with Ernst. He hasn't officially announced he's running for president, but has been spending a lot of time in Iowa.

"When Joni told me in January she was going to do this I thought, well heck, that's easy," Walker said. "I'll do that in a heartbeat, right?"

After finishing the 38-mile ride to the small town of Boone, it was time for the roast. Iowa resident Connie Rueter waited in line for Barbeque sandwiches, baked beans and potato salad.

"It was amazing to see that many consecutive bikes and people along the way with their flags waving," Reuter said. "It just gave me a good spirit of, you know, USA and freedom, and it was just really great."

Swap the pork for steak and Republicans for Democrats and you could be at Tom Harkin's Steak Fry. Ernst replaced Harkin in the Senate this year, but she's copying his playbook, with a fundraiser designed to draw presidential candidates.

Former state GOP chair Matt Strawn said Ernst is showing the candidates a slice of Iowa.

"We're not in a ballroom with $100/plate dinners," Strawn said. I'm in my boots and jeans as we're talking here. My kids are here. We're eating barbecue. We're having fun."

The event included a full buffet of Republican candidates to sample: former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina — and, of course, a lot of speeches.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham earned some groans and laughter with this one: "Hillary Clinton couldn't be here today — because there's a crowd that might ask her a question."

As the Roast and Ride drew to a close, Ernst appeared to relish her roles as host and a new political force from an important state.

"Travel safely as you're heading home this afternoon," she told the crowd. "And make sure, as these candidates are coming back through, you're giving them a very warm Iowa welcome."

And, meet Marco Rubio, Miami driver and the biggest non story that broke over the weekend. So Marco Rubio, Republican presidential candidate, got four traffic tickets in the past 18 years.

News? The New York Times thought so, in a blog post that also dinged his wife, Jeanette, for her 13 infractions in the same period.

But what’s news in New York — where subways and taxis rule, and it’s next to madness to get behind a steering wheel — is a yawner in Florida, where four tickets in 18 years makes you, if not a model driver, at least a pretty typical one.

“This is something that humanizes politicians,” said J.C. Planas, an elections attorney and former state representative who served with Rubio in the Legislature but supports presidential rival Jeb Bush. “We’ve all gotten tickets!”

The violations by Rubio and his wife included speeding, careless driving and running a red light, caught by a traffic camera. They’ve paid more than $1,000 in fines as a result, and attended driving school on four occasions.

On social media, the Times’ blog post drew a few kudos as a public-records scoop — and a lot of scoffing for hardly counting as news.

Rubio wouldn’t comment. But his campaign seized on the story to raise money, calling the Times’ attention to the senator’s driving record “pretty ridiculous, huh?” On Twitter, @TeamMarco embraced the hashtag “#RubioCrimeSpree,” making light of the senator’s driving record with suggestions of other “crimes” he may have committed.

Miami’s reputation for messy driving is well-earned, due in part to a robust party scene, sizable elderly population and constant influx of immigrants who bring their home-country driving habits with them. Longtime South Florida road warriors can name their favorite traffic-attorney ticket clinics; Rubio’s is apparently Alex Hanna, of “Don’t Pay That Ticket” TV-ad fame, a Rubio political donor who helped the senator get dismissed the red-light camera ticket issued to his beige Buick in 2011.

It’s not just a South Florida thing. The police department of the tiny city of Waldo (where’s Waldo? Just outside Gainesville) was disbanded last year in part because the well-known speed trap had required officers to meet a ticket quota.

And, Oh Yeah. This is a great news story. 2 killers used power tools in upstate New York prison break. The two convicted murderers who escaped a New York maximum security prison near the Canadian border had to have been overheard by someone while they were planning the “elaborate” plot, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday, as bloodhounds and helicopters were on the hunt for them.

The two murderers who used power tools to escape from prison must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break through the bricks. 

"It was a sophisticated plan," Cuomo said. "It took a period of time, no doubt, to execute."

New York state is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of the two convicted.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday the unusual step is "appropriate" for the situation.

Authorities were investigating how the inmates obtained the power tools they used in the "Shawshank Redemption"-style breakout over the weekend.

David Sweat, 34, was serving a sentence of life without parole for the 2002 killing of a sheriff's deputy. Richard Matt, 48, had been sentenced to 25 years to life for kidnapping, killing and dismembering his former boss in 1997.

"These are killers. They are murderers," the governor said. "There's never been a question about the crimes they committed. They are now on the loose, and our first order of business is apprehending them."

Officials gave no details on how the men managed to avoid detection while cutting their way out. "They had to be heard," Cuomo told ABC's "Good Morning America."

After the search is over, "we'll go through the exact details of what they did and how they did it to ensure this never happens again," Cuomo said later.

Authorities set up roadblocks and brought in bloodhounds and helicopters. Hundreds of law enforcement officers fanned out around the prison, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, following up on dozens of tips.

"They're going through garages, sheds, homes, stores," said Dannemora local historian Peter Light, who worked at the prison as a correction officer for 31 years and now runs the prison museum inside the facility.

But authorities acknowledged they did not have a good idea where the convicts could be.

Dubbed "Little Siberia" by locals, the prison houses nearly 3,000 inmates, guarded by about 1,400 correction officers. Surrounded by farmland and forests, the prison is only about a 45-minute drive by car to Montreal.

Cuomo said the escapees may have crossed into Canada or headed to another state.

"This is a crisis situation for the state," he said. "These are dangerous men capable of committing grave crimes again."

Prison officials found the inmates' beds inside the 150-year-old Clinton Correctional Facility stuffed with clothes on Saturday morning in an apparent attempt to fool guards making their rounds. On a cut steam pipe, the prisoners left a taunting note containing a crude Asian caricature and the words "Have a nice day."

Officials said the inmates cut through the steel wall at the back of their cell, crawled down a catwalk, broke through a brick wall, cut their way into and out of a steam pipe, and then sliced through the chain and lock on a manhole cover outside the prison.

It was the first escape from the maximum-security portion of the prison, which was built in 1865.

The men may have had assistance outside the prison, perhaps meeting up with someone who helped them leave the area, investigators said.

Cuomo said investigators were confident the men obtained the tools inside the prison. Acting Corrections Commissioner Anthony Annucci said an inventory of prison tools had so far shown none missing and he was in contact with contractors who were doing or had done work at the prison.

Steven Tarsia, brother of slain sheriff's Deputy Kevin Tarsia, said that finding out his brother's killer had escaped "turns your world upside-down all over again."

He said that just the other day, he found he couldn't remember the names of the men responsible for his brother's death.

"All of a sudden, I remember them again," he said.

Tarsia said he couldn't imagine how the men could have gotten power tools and escaped without help, but "I don't know why anybody would help them."

Prison escapes "are a relatively rare event," said Martin Horn, former New York City corrections commissioner who is now a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "That tells you that a great deal of planning is involved because it's not an easy thing to accomplish."

In 2003, two convicted murderers Timothy Vail and Timothy Morgan escaped from a maximum-security prison in Chemung County. They were caught the next day, hiding in an abandoned mobile home not far from the prison.

A state investigation concluded that "staff complacency" allowed the inmates to smuggle tools from a prison carpentry shop to enable their escape. Two corrections officers and a carpentry shop instructor were disciplined.

The two inmates had spent a month chiseling a hole through the concrete ceiling of their cell with a sledgehammer head and other shop tools and made dummies with papier mache heads sporting their own clipped hair, which they left in their bunks the night of their escape.

"This escape (Saturday) is not a failure of the prison system as such," Horn said. "The prisoners serving life sentences have nothing else to do but dream up an escape plan. What did they have to lose?"

Horn added: "All over the country, prisoners are thinking and scheming every hour. The fact that escapes are as infrequent as they are is really remarkable. The one thing American prisons do very well is to hold on to their prisoners."

Saturday's escape had law enforcement swarming the area around Dannemora in the Adirondacks.

Beth Nichols, an employee of a Dunkin' Donuts across the street from the prison and a few hundred yards from the manhole where authorities said the men emerged, said their escape was "nerve-wracking."

She said one employee had a panic attack Saturday after being told about the prisoner breakout.

"She got really scared and she cried," Nichols said. The employee lives a walk away on the same road, but authorities would not immediately allow her to enter her home; her mother picked her up.

Dannemora covers just over 1 square mile within the northern reaches of the Adirondack Forest Preserve. The stark white perimeter wall of the prison, topped with guard towers, borders a main street in the town's business district. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Obama arrives in Germany, seeks to get Europe behind him on Ukraine. President Barack Obama and other world leaders huddled in a remote Bavarian castle Sunday, debating a way forward in Ukraine after economic sanctions failed to stop Russia's advances in the eastern part of that country.

The meeting of the G7 in Germany comes a year after the grouping of major world powers forced Russia from its ranks.

Ensconced in the Schloss Elmau hotel high in the southern German Alps, Obama was expected to urge his European counterparts to extend sanctions on Russia, which have weakened the ruble and caused some discontent among the Russian population, administration officials said.

Obama said Sunday that "Russian aggression" in Ukraine was at the top of the G7 agenda, along with bolstering trade, addressing climate change and combating violent extremists.

Referring to Ukraine, Obama said, "We think that there can be a peaceful, diplomatic resolution to this problem, but it's going to require that Europe, the United States and the Transatlantic Partnership, as well as the world, stay vigilant and stay focused on the importance of upholding the principles of territorial integrity and sovereignty."
Members of the G7 pose for their group photo. From left to right: President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.
Members of the G7 pose for their group photo. From left to right: President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.
Members of the G7 pose for their group photo. From left to right: President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.
During a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the White House said the leaders "agreed that the duration of sanctions should be clearly linked to Russia's full implementation of the Minsk agreements," a short-lived ceasefire in the Ukraine crisis reached in March. Since that agreement, there have been multiple violations, including advances by heavy weaponry.

More than half of the meeting was focused on the situation in Ukraine, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.

"We have said since the day the sanctions were in place that the U.S. and partners put these in place because our expectation is that Russia should live up to Minsk agreement," Earnest said. "We made clear we would relieve sanctions if they lived up to agreement. They've done the opposite and redoubled."

Those violations led leaders again to bar Russia from their gathering this year. Speaking Sunday, European Council President Donald Tusk said that "all of us would prefer to have Russia around the G7 table" but that that Russia wouldn't be invited "as long as it behaves aggressively toward Ukraine and other countries."

Earlier Sunday, Obama made a friendly stop in Krün, an Alpine village where lederhosen and dirndls abounded. He hailed U.S.-German ties, calling the two nations "inseparable" and praising Merkel for her leadership.

Later, Obama removed his suit jacket and joined locals for pretzels, sausages and tall glasses of German beer.

Making the case for sanctions
Obama must persuade his European counterparts to extend the Russian sanctions, even as the White House admits those measures have done little to slow the campaign of Russian-backed separatists along the border with Ukraine, where thousands have died since the conflict began last year.

Moscow denies allegations it is sending Russian troops and military hardware over the border, or arming the separatists.

Obama must also shore up support among U.S. allies for his strategy against ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq, where the fall of Ramadi has prompted new calls for ramped-up assistance to the Iraqi military and Sunni fighters in Anbar province. Obama planned to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Germany on Monday. Al-Abadi was expected to press the United States for more equipment he says is desperately needed to combat ISIS advances.

But Obama isn't likely to announce any new assistance to Iraq this weekend, according to the officials, who say the administration is continually assessing its training and equipment shipments to Baghdad.

Obama also has been reluctant to provide lethal aid to Ukrainian troops, currently engaged in some of the fiercest fighting in their conflict with Russian-backed separatists since a rocky ceasefire deal was agreed to in February.

Resistant to sending lethal aid
Vice President Joe Biden, speaking last month in Washington, said the shipments were still under consideration, and senior members of Obama's administration -- including Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey -- have voiced openness to arms shipments.

But European leaders, led by Merkel, have fiercely opposed lethal aid out of fear the violence could escalate.

Any decision on sending arms to Ukraine appeared unlikely at the G7 meeting.

"I think our general view is 'steady as she goes' on that front," said Charles Kupchan, Obama's senior director for European affairs. "We've always said that we favor and are pushing toward a diplomatic settlement to the crisis." Such a solution has so far evaded Western leaders, who attempted to broker a lasting ceasefire this year in Belarus. Recent violations have included heavy artillery fire near the eastern city of Donetsk. Observers said last week it was some of the worst fighting since the agreement was declared.

U.S. officials hope those violations will spur European leaders into expanding the economic sanctions in place against Russian interests, which have hurt the country's economy but have not yet prompted a change in strategy from President Vladimir Putin.

"Russia has not changed its behavior," said Heather Conley, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "If anything, President Putin I think is doubling down on multiple fronts. And the cohesiveness feels like it's not there."

European leaders -- who also confront economic instability stemming from Greece's debt crisis -- will decide at a separate meeting later this month whether to continue their sanctions on Russia.

"Clearly President Putin's calculus has not fully shifted by any means," said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser. He added that Western sanctions had delivered a "tremendous hit to the Russian economy." "It's important that that pressure is sustained," he said.

Morning Papers: Erdogan election upset: Turkey’s ruling party loses majority in parliament.

TRANSCRIPTALISON STEWART: A turn of events in Turkey’s parliamentary election. The ruling party was favored to win big, but early results show it could end up losing its majority altogether.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the country’s 53 million eligible voters to give his party 400 parliamentary seats. That would have created a supermajority that could rewrite the constitution and give the presidency unprecedented new powers.
The election has created real tension in the streets. Bombs exploded at a rally for a rival party Friday, killing two and wounding at least 200.
Joining me to help analyze these early results is Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
And, Steven before we go into the weeds on the — on the results, I want to step back and set the scene for people. Why was this election so important? Why was the world watching?

STEVEN COOK, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: Well, this was an important election because, one, President Erdogan, who had been prime minister for the previous 12 years, had wanted to change the Turkish political system from a hybrid presidential parliamentary system to a purely presidential system, which would mean that all of the power in the political system would flow to him.

At the moment, it’s the prime minister who is the primary political actor in the system. Under a presidential system, he would have all of the executive power.

The second reason why it was so power was because a Kurdish-based political party was poised and in fact has passed Turkey’s very high threshold for getting into the parliament. They have now gotten about 11 percent of the popular vote, which means for that, first the time, a Kurdish-based party will be a major factor in Turkish politics.

ALISON STEWART: And what impact will that have on the way Turkey is governed going forward?

STEVEN COOK: Well, up until this point, going back to 2002, when the Justice and Development Party first came to power, they have not had to share power in a coalition government. They have ruled essentially alone, with very few checks and balances, I might add.

Now they will have to go into coalition with another party. It looks like there will likely — at least initial discussions will be between the Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party, a party which — with which the Justice and Development Party shares a constituency and with whom they have worked previously.

Together, that would be the most likely coalition going forward.

ALISON STEWART: Obviously, because of its location, with — sharing a border with Syria and Iraq, Turkey is at the center of so many geopolitical discussions.
Tell us, who are the actors in the area who will be paying close attention to these results?

STEVEN COOK: Well, in the area specifically, the Syrian opposition, the Iraqi government, the Egyptian government, the Israeli government, and all of the governments in the Persian Gulf.

ALISON STEWART: Everybody, is what you’re telling me.

STEVEN COOK: The entire region.

And it goes to show how strategically important Turkey is to virtually every conflict in the region at the moment. There has been a significant disconnect between Washington and Ankara over the way to best approach the conflict in Iraq with ISIS and how to deal with the Syrian civil war.
The Turkish position has been that the best way to deal with the so-called Islamic State is to bring down the Assad regime. The change in government is not likely to fundamentally alter the Turkish position with regard to Syria. It may, though, put a break on the effort on the part of the Turks to fund and coordinate different extremist groups, as they have begun doing with the Qataris and the Saudis, to take on the Assad regime.
So, there might be some changes in the approach, but, overall, I think Turkish foreign policy will likely remain largely the same.

ALISON STEWART: In reading the wires and following Twitter, it seems that this outcome, this potential outcome, was unexpected.

STEVEN COOK: Well, there were a lot of different expectations going forward.
And I should say there were a lot of different expectations in the last few weeks. No one really can trust the polling that was done ahead of the elections. Everybody certainly expected the Justice and Development Party to do quite well. And they have done quite well. By any standard, other than their own past success, having 40 percent of the popular vote is a very successful political party.

But the fact remains that, with the Kurdish-based party getting more than 11 percent of the vote, the Nationalists doing better, the — the Justice and Development Party will have less seats than it’s ever had in the parliament since it came to power in 2002.

I would say, on social media, there’s a certain amount of schadenfreude, given the fact that the Justice and Development Party and President Erdogan in particular have ruled in a kind of thuggish way over the course of the last four or five years. And many Turks resent that kind of arrogance of power.

ALISON STEWART: Steven Cook from the Council on Foreign Relations, thanks for walking us through the Turkish elections.

STEVEN COOK: It’s my pleasure.

NJSP fire tear gas into angry Summer Jam concert crowd. A major hip-hop and R&B concert erupted into violence that included State Police lobbing tear gas at concertgoers who were throwing bottles at police in the parking lot.

Witnesses say the disturbance began around 7 p.m. due to an altercation between concertgoers. That's when officials shut the gates to the show, the Hot 97 Summer Jam at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, causing a logjam of people at the MetLife gate, which in turn led to metal barriers being toppled and thrown.

After concertgoers began throwing bottles in response, police then took up a defensive V-shaped position in front of the stadium gates as a barrage of bottles pelted the officers.

An armored State Police vehicle came into the middle of the crowd and activated a piercing alarm to try to disrupt the crowd of about 1,000 people.

"Apparently a fight happened inside, so they stopped letting people inside," said Chris Figueroa of Long Island, who was in the middle of the crowd. "I never experienced anything like that — I thought somebody might've had a gun."

Figueroa and companion Bryanna Ugarte, also of Long Island, left the scene when the bottles started flying.

"We ran by the police, and they were ready with their sticks and Mace," Ugarte said.

Several rounds of tear gas were released into the crowd, and one concertgoer was Maced pepper-sprayed in the parking lot.

Uniformed officers wearing helmets and gas masks and holding shields would briefly come out from behind the gates to make arrests before retreating.

The concert, which featured performers Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown and others, went on despite the disturbance in the parking lot.


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The crowd ultimately dispersed about 10 p.m., three hours after the disturbance began.

A police spokesman, Sgt. Gregory Williams, told The Associated Press that additional troopers were sent for "crowd control" and that arrests had been made.

"This evening, security personnel at one of the entrance gates to MetLife Stadium were confronted by crowds attempting to illegally enter the sold out Summer Jam concert by climbing over fences and forcing their way through security personnel," the New Jersey State Police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

"The gates have been shut and troopers on site have called for assistance from several nearby stations to help maintain order.

"Troopers and stadium security officials are insisting that all people outside of the gates depart the MetLife grounds to avoid congestion when the concert lets out. There is no number of arrests available at this time," authorities said through the statement.

A spokesperson for Emmis New York, owners of Hot 97, said Summer Jam 2015 sold out early Sunday evening due to strong demand for tickets.

"When fans realized tickets were not available at the box office, a small number of people created an unsafe environment, and for the safety of all guests, the New Jersey State Police were on scene to disperse the crowd.

"The gates were closed at that time. No further entry was permitted into the event.

"For ticket holders whose tickets were not scanned, refunds will be offered at the point of purchase," the spokesman said.

It wasn't immediately clear if there were any injuries.

The Associated Press contributed to this story. Asbury Park Press Staff Writer Chris Jordan: cjordan@app.com

Box Office: Melissa McCarthy Takes Top Spot With $30 Million Debut For ‘Spy’. Melissa McCarthy was #1 at the box office over the weekend. Her new movie Spy took in $30 million beating last week’s leader San Andreas which grossed $26.4 million.
Box Office- Melissa McCarthy takes top spot with $30 Million debut for 'Spy'
Overall it was a third week of disappointed for the summer box office which is performing lower that last year. But things should change next weekend when Jurassic World is predicted to take in $100 million.

Box Office- Melissa McCarthy takes top spot with $30 Million debut for 'Spy'

I’m still happy for Melissa McCarthy though. She took a movie to #1 on her star power alone. And it looks like Spy may have a good run according to Variety. The film cost $65 million to make and it’s worldwide total is already at $86.5 million.

See the first photos of Prince George and Princess Charlotte together.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte

Royal baby

Royal baby

William and Harry playing the piano

Birth of Prince George of Cambridge
Hillary Clinton to roll out policy ideas in series of speeches.
Hillary Clinton is planning about a dozen speeches and announcements in the coming months on social and economic policy, aides say, with topics that include college affordability, women’s pay equity and Wall Street regulation.
So far, Clinton has been silent on several economic issues that animate many core Democratic voters and that her Democratic opponents are pressing from the left, but which don’t win universal support inside the party.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, competing with Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, both support setting the federal minimum wage at $15, for instance, and breaking up Wall Street banks.
Clinton has taken a cautious approach, embracing social issues that tend to unify her party, such as gay rights and liberalized immigration laws, but steering clear of several riskier economic questions.
That may change after she holds the first rallies of her campaign, starting Saturday in New York City. The policy rollout is expected to begin soon after that. An expanded version of this article is available at WSJ.com.
And, last in the Morning Papers today is that legalized marijuana would be eliminated under a Christie presidency. Gov. Chris Christie vowed Sunday to eliminate legalized marijuana in states like Colorado and Washington if he's elected president.
The Republican governor, speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," said his administration would use federal rules that outlaw marijuana to clamp down on states that legalized recreational pot use.

"Yes sir," Christie told host John Dickerson when asked whether he'd go after Colorado and Washington.

"If you were president would you return the federal prosecutions in the states of Colorado, Washington states?" Dickerson asked.

"Yes," Christie said.

"So, if somebody's enjoying that now in their state, if you're president, that's getting turned off?" Dickerson continued.

"Correct," Christie responded.

Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational marijuana, which is still outlawed under federal rules. However, President Obama's administration hasn't penalized the states nor forced them to role back the initiatives that voters in those states approved. Christie has been an outspoken critic of legalized marijuana. He says it's a gateway drug.

US Lawmaker Says China Likely Behind Cyber-Attack Against Government. Mike McCaul is on Morning Joe now talking about this important issue today. The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee said on Sunday the Chinese government was likely to have been behind the recent breach of U.S. government computers, which may have compromised the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees.

The U.S. government last week said it was still investigating the source of the theft of data from the computer systems of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, including security clearance information and background checks dating back three decades. Given the nature of the hack and its targets, Republican Michael McCaul said he believed the attack had originated with the Chinese government.

"I believe in my judgment that all threat indicators point to the fact that it is China," McCaul said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program. "It was not done to steal credit card information," he added. "It qualifies as espionage, and it raises all sorts of issues that we need to deal with."

Several U.S. officials had said on condition of anonymity that the hackers were believed to have been based in China, though it was not yet known if the Chinese government or criminal elements were involved. "This was the most significant breach of federal networks in U.S. history," McCaul said.

The hacking raises questions about how the United States would respond if it confirmed the Chinese government was responsible. Representative Peter King, a senior Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, was asked on "Fox News Sunday" if Washington needed to retaliate. "I believe we do," he said. "But the fact is, nothing should be telegraphed in advance."

Did you guys see this video of that Texas cop threw the teenage girl down on the ground? He is now on leave after video raises questions and he needs a lesson in temper control or anger management. A police officer in the Dallas suburb of McKinney is on administrative leave after a YouTube video showed a chaotic confrontation Friday between teenagers and law enforcement at a community pool in an upper-middle-class neighborhood.
The approximately seven-minute video opens as officers try to gain control of a group of teenagers at the pool. Several minutes into the video, an officer throws a teenage girl wearing a bikini to the ground and shoves her head down. Two teenage boys approach and the officer takes out his firearm and chases them away, then turns his attention to the girl again. He grabs her arm and simultaneously re-holsters his gun.

"Call my mama, oh God!" she shouts.

He forcefully swings her by her arm to the ground.

"On your face!" he orders and presses his open hand to the back of her head and slams her face-first into the grass.

While other teens watch, the officer places both of his knees on her back.

Her crying is audible.

In a statement posted to Facebook, the McKinney Police Department said that the video "raised concerns" and it is investigating the incident. Some on social media, including comments on the YouTube post, are reacting to the video by saying that race was a factor.

The officers appear to be white and many, though not all, of the teenagers are black.

The department has not released the name of the officer placed on leave but Chief Greg Conley told reporters Sunday that the girl, who is 14, was detained and released to her parents. An adult male was arrested, Conley said, and charged with evading arrest and interference with the duties of a peace officer.

Conley said that two officers with the McKinney Police Department are conducting an investigation.

'No justification'
CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes watched the YouTube video and harshly criticized the officer who wrestled the girl.

The officer appeared to be "running around escalating" a situation that should have quickly calmed, he said.

Fuentes said there appeared to be "no justification" for the way the juveniles, particularly the girl, were treated.

The fact that she was wearing a bikini indicated that she was "clearly not armed," he said.

The officer appeared to be "running around almost like a one-man band," he said, and other officers appeared to distance themselves from him. "The other officers that are there don't really come right to him to give him a hand. I'm wondering what's going through their minds, 'Get me away from this guy. He's out of control.'

"He's out of control. He clearly has no self-discipline. He lost control of his temper. Nothing good can happen at that point. Thankfully he didn't shoot somebody."

There were 12 officers who responded but he didn't know how many were on scene at the time the video was shot, Conley said Sunday. The chief could also not answer how long the officer had been employed by the department.

A reporter asked if the officer has any prior complaints against him, the chief answered that he did not "have any data" on the officer.

Another reporter asked whether the actions of the officer on leave were consistent with training on how to disperse a crowd.

"It's something we're going to have to look into," he answered.

The video and questions it raises
From start to finish, this is what is seen on the YouTube video:

The video opens in the middle of crowd of young people in swim clothes on a residential street. One can hear a man, presumably an officer yelling, "Move, move!" as teenagers walk in different directions.

An officer runs into the frame, falls, rolls and pops back up and continues running. Another officer comes into the frame, running. They appear to be pursuing someone or some people in the distance.

Teenagers are heard screaming.

The videographer focuses the camera on a small group of teens and an officer -- not the one who unholstered his gun or held down the girl. There is an apparently polite moment in which the teenagers give the officer his flashlight that he'd dropped and he thanks them, telling them that when police tell you not to move, you shouldn't move.

To the right of that officer, a second officer comes into the frame. A teenager is holding that officer's flashlight and the officer is pulling the teenage boy toward him. The second officer shouts to the boy, "Get on the ground!" then shoves the boy's head down and says, "I told you to stay!"

The second officer yells to other teens, "Get your asses down on the ground!"

The teens comply and sit in the grass while the officer then runs toward to other teenage boys, shouting and swearing at them. He yells, "On the ground!"

Those teenagers comply, too.

The second officer then shouts to a crowd of teenagers, "Get your ass out of here!"

The girl who would be wrestled to the ground walks around while one teenage boy says, "Sir, we just came for a birthday party, please."

The second officer curses at the boys and then tells a group of girls nearby to leave.

There's some kind of conversation between the second officer and the girls, the details of which are inaudible. But that officer can be heard saying loudly, "You are leaving now! You are leaving now!"

The officer walks to the girl in the bikini and drags her back. The crowd shouts and the officer drags the girl to the ground. And the scene described above plays out.

The last two minutes of the video shows the officer taking his knees off the girl and placing her hands behind her back. She continues to cry. Not far away two officers are on both sides of a handcuffed young man whose mouth is bleeding. They sit him on the ground.

The McKinney Police Department's statement on Facebook said that officers went to the Craig Ranch North Community Pool because they got calls about teenagers who "do not live in the area or have permission" to be there and were "refusing to leave."

Some callers said that the teenagers were fighting. When police arrived, the teenagers refused to comply with police, McKinney authorities said.

'We are the professionals'
CNN law enforcement analyst Cedric Alexander, the public safety director of DeKalb County, Georgia, watched the video Sunday.

Cautioning that one video doesn't tell an entire story, he said officers were likely dealing with a very hard scene: a lot of teenagers running around and not obeying basic orders to disperse.

"I thought the kids were not compliant whatsoever," he said. "That in itself is a problem. Those kids attempted to over-talk the police."

Alexander said he would not "demonize" or second-guess the McKinney officers based on the video, but he thought that the officer who wrestled the girl to the ground could have better controlled his temper and refrained from swearing.

"They are teenagers and we are the professionals," he said. "You can't allow emotions to get in the way."

But it also appeared that the girl was "putting up resistance," Alexander said. "Had she just complied, it wouldn't have got to that point."

CNN legal analyst and trial attorney Paul Callan said more must be learned about exactly what police were told in calls.

"The nature of the police response should be proportionate and appropriate to the perceived threat," he said. Assuming that they were responding to a generalized complaint of juveniles fighting and possibly trespassing at Craig Ranch North, a private residential community, the cops had the right to respond and investigate."

But when the teenagers scattered and ran, the police went to an "inappropriate Texas roundup of all fleeing juveniles," Callan chided.

There are many questions that authorities must answer such as who exactly was behind any alleged criminal activity that warranted arrests?

"Since there was no specific description of the individuals who may have engaged in criminal conduct, this generalized detention of everyone who chose to run was excessive and probably an unconstitutional exercise of police force without reasonable suspicion or probable cause," Callan said.

Detaining, forcing to the ground and handcuffing any young person on the scene "appears to be improper and illegal," he said. "Much of the panic and running by the juveniles seems to have been caused by the overreaction and overly aggressive use of force by the officer" who showed his gun and wrestled the girl.

The officer's treatment of the girl "appears to be punishment for her attitude rather than for the commission of any crime and does not appear to be supported by probable cause or even reasonable suspicion," he added. "It appears to be an illegal and unconstitutional arrest and detention."

But the officer taking out his gun?

That might be justified, Callan said, because the officer could have reasonably assumed the young men who approached him to be a real threat. CNN's Devon Sayers and Chandler Friedman contributed to this story.

Sister of Alleged Dennis Hastert Victim Hopes More People Will Come Forward. The sister of an alleged victim of sexual abuse by Dennis Hastert said Saturday that she hopes others speak out in the case against the former politician and lobbyist.

Jolene Burdge told NBC News that she didn't want to talk anymore about the allegations surrounding Hastert, who served as House speaker for eight years, but said: "I just hope more people will come forward."

NBC News has made repeated attempts to reach Hastert without success since since he was indicted last week on charges that he structured bank withdrawals to avoid federal reporting requirements, then lied about it to the FBI. He has yet to comment publicly as well on allegations that he sexually abused high school wrestlers whom he was coaching in Yorkville, Illinois, decades ago when he was a teacher.

Federal law enforcement sources have told NBC News that Hastert, 73, was paying a man in 2010 to silence him about sexual misconduct while he was a teacher in Yorkville.

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Burdge, of Billings, Montana, told ABC News and The Associated Press that another man, her brother, was an alleged victim of Hastert's. Steve Reinbolt, who graduated from Yorkville High School in 1971 and died in 1995 from AIDS complications, was abused while serving as the equipment manager of the wrestling team, Burdge told the media outlets.

A friend of Reinboldt's told NBC News on condition of anonymity that Reinboldt also told him years ago that he had sexual contact with Hastert.

"I was hanging out at Steve's house in December 1974, I seem to recall we went for a drive and he told me that he was gay. He also said that his first sexual encounter was with Denny Hastert," the friend said.

Another former high school wrestler, Mike McDade, told NBC News on Saturday he was surprised by the allegations against Hastert. "He worked out my muscles and there were never any sexual advances or anything," McDade, who graduated in 1970, said.

Hastert was a strict but good coach, he said.

"My memories of Hastert were fond ones," he said.

Meanwhile, Scott Palmer, Hastert's former chief of staff who once shared a townhouse with Hastert, told NBC News from his house in Maine that he had no comment.

"I haven't worked for the man for nine years," he said.

Dennis Hastert sex scandal widens with allegations from a second accuser. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert will be in court next week to face charges involving bank transfers and lying to the FBI. But the scandal now features sexual abuse involving high school boys when Hastert was a teacher and coach. When former House Speaker Dennis Hastert appears in federal court next week, it will be to face charges that he improperly withdrew large amounts of cash from his bank account and lied to the FBI about it.

But to the political and legal worlds, the apparent downfall of the man who stood second in line to the presidency has become a sex scandal that has spread beyond the initial speculation – based upon the careful and deliberate wording of the indictment – that Mr. Hastert was using the money to pay for the silence of a man (at the time a high school student) who Hastert had sexually abused.

Now, allegations regarding a second victim are being made.

Meanwhile, questions are being raised about why Hastert as Speaker apparently did nothing in the face of reports that a fellow Republican in Congress had made improper sexual advances on underage male pages. Charges that Hastert himself sexually abused a second high school boy during the time when Hastert was a teacher and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School near Chicago come from the alleged victim’s sister.

Jolene Burdge of Billings, Montana, told the Associated Press this week that her brother Stephen Reinboldt told her before he died of AIDS in 1995 that his first homosexual contact was with Hastert and that the relationship lasted through all of his high school years.

"He damaged Steve, I think, more than any of us will ever know," Ms. Burdge said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America.”

Burdge was approached by the FBI to tell her story before the indictments against Hastert were announced – a story that has been corroborated by at least one source.

A friend of Stephen Reinboldt, who did not want to be named, told NBC News that years ago Reinboldt told him he had sexual contact with Hastert.

"I was hanging out at Steve's house in December 1974, I seem to recall we went for a drive and he told me that he was gay. He also said that his first sexual encounter was with Denny Hastert," the friend said.

Hastert and his lawyers have declined to comment on the charges or allegations.

Hastert last week was indicted by federal prosecutors for “structuring” his bank withdrawals to avoid a $10,000 limit (above which banks must report) and for lying about the withdrawals to the FBI.

The seven-page indictment also makes reference to an unnamed person (“Individual A”) to whom Hastert since 2010 had been making large cash payments, apparently in return for that person’s silence for past “misconduct.” By the time of the indictment, Hastert had paid “Individual A” $1.7 million – about half the $3.5 million promised as part of the arrangement.

Soon, multiple news sources were quoting unnamed law enforcement officials saying that “Individual A” is a male who had known Hastert for many years – back to when the former House Speaker was a high school teacher and wrestling coach. More specifically, the man known as “Individual A” was identified as a former student from Yorkville, Ill. who alleges that Hastert sexually abused him.

The indictment says that Hastert agreed to make the payments “in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against” the former student.

The allegations raise another issue about Hastert’s past, this one involving former US Rep. Mark Foley (R) of Florida, which led to a 2006 House Ethics Committee investigation that found Hastert and many others were "willfully ignorant" in responding to repeated warnings that Mr. Foley (who was forced to resign) had behaved improperly with young male pages and former pages.

"The fact that the speaker of the House did nothing when there were multiple attempts to intervene [with Foley] is in itself appalling, without any future allegations about Hastert's own past behavior," Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Chicago Tribune.

"If you're getting warnings about potentially inappropriate conduct by a member of the House toward the pages, and you don't at minimum take that member aside and say, 'Stay the hell away from those pages,' and you do nothing – even not knowing at the time about Hastert's own issues – I find it just appalling," Mr. Ornstein said.

Could Hastert be charged with a sex offense?

Legal experts told the AP that Hastert is unlikely to face charges on any sexual abuse he may have committed in the 1960s or 1970s. When Hastert taught and coached in Yorkville, Illinois' statute of limitations for sexual abuse was three years. State legislators have since extended that period, but those changes are not retroactive.

There is no federal law for criminal sexual abuse that might apply, said Steve Greenberg, a Chicago-area criminal attorney not linked to the Hastert case.

Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. Since resigning in 2007, he has become a wealthy Washington lobbyist.

Andrew Cuomo is on the show (Morning Joe) soon to discuss that incredible prison break in upstate New York. That search is continuing on today. Clint Van Zandt is on now too giving his opinions about how it went down and who may have known about it. There is a tip line and an award available now for information about their whereabouts (for $100,000). I agree with the Governor that by now they must be out of the area. They most likely had at least a few hour jump on everyone. Like I said above here, they were found to be gone at about 530AM.

Regardless of it all that happened over the weekend leading into today, please stay in touch!