Subject: ?Axios AM: Mike's Top 6 — New trend in terror — Surprising Dems quietly prep for 2020 — Turn the tables: We interview Megyn Kelly
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New trend in terror — Surprising Dems quietly prep for 2020 =E2�� Turn the tables: We interview Megyn Kelly

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By Mike Allen = ·Jun 04, 2017

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1 big thing: New trend in terror

Saturday night revelers leave an area near London Bridge with their hand= up to show officers they're not suspicious (Reuters' Neil Hall)

CNN's Clarissa Ward said during last night's live cover=ge of the London Bridge terrorist rampage that the slaughter on a summery =aturday night was "sadly, rather unsurprising."

Why it=matters: In a series of tragic episodes, Western Europe is learni=g that the war footing against domestic terrorism will be permanent.
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The attack<=a> (seven killed, 48 injured in a two-location assault with a van=and knives; three suspects shot dead by police) came five days before U.K.=elections, and was England's third terrorist horror in

Then he went political (with critics pouncing on his use of "ban"): "We need to be smart, vigilan= and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Tra=el Ban as an extra level of safety!"

Only aft=r that did he go personal: "Whatever the United States can do to =elp out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD B=ESS!"

"Enough is enough" ... Prime Mi=ister Theresa May, seeking reelection on Thursda=, warned in somber remarks outside No. 10 this morning that there has been="far too much tolerance of extremism" in the U.K., and promised to step up=the fight against Islamist terrorism, per The Guardian:

must not allow extremism a place to =xist, but that there was also a need to tackle 'safe spaces in real world,= which would require 'difficult' conversations."

=ey quote: "In terms of their planning and execution, the recent a=tacks are not connected but we believe we are experiencing a new t=end in the threat we face. ... They are bound together by the=single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows divi=ion, and promotes sectarianism."

The new trend: "=T]errorism breeds terrorism and perpetrators are inspired to attack ... by=copying one another and often using the crudest of means of attack. We can=ot and must not pretend that things can continue as they are."

2. Dems' 2020 vision

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe tries his luck at shuffleboard in Ballad B=ewing in Danville, Va., on May 30 (Matt Bell/The Register & Bee via AP=

A bunch of out of-the-box names are getting buzz in eli=e Democratic circles for their quiet maneuvering to be part of the 2020 co=versation:

Joe Biden: In priv=te, he talks incessantly about what he'd be doing if he had the Oval. He'l= look for every reason and opening to run. If he weren't 74 (Trump is 70),=Biden would be in already. Watch for signs his campaign hands are quietly =aying the groundwork.

Virginia Gov. Terry McA=liffe: He has talked extensively with friends and advisers about =unning. The guy has boundless energy, ambition and access to money �=94 and the personality and love of the game to withstand the grind and gla=e of politics.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.): Sh= has met privately with top party officials and just hit California to rai=e money and her profile. Make no mistake: She wants to run. But that doesn=t mean she will.

Mark Cuban: He considers himself=a smarter, better-looking and more authentic version of Trump. He has coin= ambition and comfort in his own skin. Of all the CEO/celebrities, he's th= most likely to plunge into the shark tank of politics.

R=hm Emanuel: He has not given any signals he'll run, but friends t=ll us the Chicago mayor thinks he has a better read than the others on wha= it takes for a Democrat to win in today's America. That said, he runs a c=ty with huge murder and money problems.

Sen. Elizabeth War=en (Mass.): Although she's assumed to shun the idea of running, r=porters watching the field say Warren has the best developed, most intenti=nal message of any of the hopefuls.

Sen. Kamala Harris (Ca=if.): She was interviewed by Kara Swisher this week at Recode's C=de Conference, exposing the freshman to a new swath of the chattering clas=.

Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.): He'd be so hacked if I=left him off.

3. The Trump Show

Working on Interstate 11 near Boulder City, Nev. (AP's John Locher)

Trying to show action despite a balky Congress, and kno=ing the week's news is likely to be dominated by fired FBI Director Jim Co=ey's public testimony on Thursday, President Trump is hitting the road to =ry to generate a little offense.

On Wednesday, he'll =ly to Ohio (Ohio River, bordering Kentucky) "to address ways of improv=ng levees, dams and locks along inland waterways that are crucial to agric=ltural exports."

The White House's "infrastructure week" gets a top-of-front page story by =he WashPost's John Wagner:

"While a formal introduction=of most of Trump's infrastructure plans are likely months away, t=e White House plans to send its principles for overhauling the air traffic=control system to Congress separately this week."

A key message: "the White House's desire to =treamline the government permitting process for new highways and other inf=astructure, a prospect that has concerned environmental advocates."
Economic adviser Gary Cohn (a Cleveland nat=ve), during a preview briefing for reporters: "Time is money ... The cost =f infrastructure goes up dramatically as time goes on in the approval proc=ss."

For your radar ... L.A. Times' Dakota Smith: "Mayor Eric Garcetti says h= is worried that arrests of immigrants by federal authorities coul= trigger riots in Los Angeles and put police officers in danger."=/p>

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4. The climate conversation

Fallout from the Paris exit dominates non-London news a=d commentary ...

On "Face the Nation," Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassad=r to the U.N. tells John Dickerson, when asked if Trump believes in climat= change:

"He believes the clim=te is changing. And he believes pollutants are part of that equat=on."

IndieWire's Eric Kohn: "Thanks to Trump,=[Al] Gore just became the summer's biggest movie star — and, short=of Wonder Woman, one of its most exciting superheroes, a =arger-than-life figure whose ongoing efforts speak to the prospects of fin=ing hope in dire situations."

Maureen Dowd's column: "America is living through a fractu=ed fairy tale, in the grip of a lonely and uninformed mad king, an arrogan= and naïve princeling, a comely but complicit blond princess and a dy=peptic, dystopian troll under the bridge." Infrastructure week!
And, of course, Russia ... Monica Crowley, a foreign-=olicy assistant to Richard Nixon from 1990 to 1994, writes in the N.Y. Pos= ("The warnings Nixon would give Trump") that he told he= that ...

"[H]e should have rec=gnized that, given the grave threat he posed to the establishment=and media, he should have been hyper-vigilant and hyper-ethical, leaving no openings anywhere for anyone to leverage against him."
Chaser, also N.Y. Post: ='Kushnergate' is a big fat nothing-burger."

5. Turn the tables: We interview Megyn Kelly

Megyn K=lly landed a one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin=for tonight's debut of her "Sunday Night" (7 on NBC, against "60 Minutes")= David I=natius says she was tough on him in a roundtable that she moderated as=part of her St. Petersburg trip:

"[A] session with Kelly ... included sharp questions about the =acking scandal, Syria and Ukraine — and Putin grew increasingly ag=ressive, sarcastic and peeved."

As part of Megyn Kelly's P.R= push ahead of the show, NBC offered us a brief phoner, which we =aped while awaiting the closing of the boarding door on the DCA-LGA shuttl=, with a passenger in first class summoning a flight attendant because my =ushed conversation in coach was disturbing his reverie:

How Kelly sees herself: "I think that if there's one thing most =eople know about me, it's that I'm not in the tank for either side ... So,=when it comes to covering politics and the Trump administration, I think I=ve earned the trust of the viewers that is important and unique."

=span>Her plans for the show: "[C]able news is larg=ly political. You can get some other stuff in, but I was at least 85% poli=ical. And being over here has allowed me ... to do things other than polit=cs, and I actually think the country could really use some of that right n=w."

Sneak peek: "[O]ne of the first =nterviews we're going to roll out ... is when I sit down with [stalked spo=tcaster] Erin Andrews ... [W]e both cried. We talked about everything from=really scary health issues to really scary stalker issues, to love to ... =omen working in a man's industry."

What she d=d in her four months off, because of restrictions in her Fox cont=act: "I thought that on my 'garden leave' ... I would be at the Met every =ay and I would be working out ... And what I found is that I have two spee=s: 0 and 100. ... I was walking around my apartment ... bothering our hous=keeper, who really was desperate to see me go back to work."

Did you watch much TV news? "No, not much at a=l. In fact, I started to consume my news by print."

<=trong>Like a newspaper?! "I subscribed to The New York Times<=em> and The Wall Street Journal."

6. 1 fun thing: A flying car?

Tsubasa Nakamura, project leader of Cartivator (third from left), watche= the "flight" of the test model of the flying car in Japan yesterday as a =olleague, fourth from left, operates the remote control (AP's Koji Ueda)

This looks strikingly like a latter-day Wright brothers contrapt=on ... A startup backed by Toyota is building a tiny flying car t=at engineers hope will develop into a viable vehicle who drive will be abl= to light the Olympic torch at Tokyo's 2020 Tokyo Summer Games.

For now, though, the project is a concoction of aluminum frami=g and eight propellers that barely gets off the ground and crashes after s=veral seconds, AP's Uri Kageyama writes from Toyota Japan:

The goal ... is ... a seamles= transition from driving to flight, like the world of "Back to the Future =..

Toyota has invested=42.5 million yen ($386,000) in startup Cartivator Resource Manage=ent to work on "Sky Drive ." At a test=flight Saturday in the city where the automaker is based, the gadgetry, ab=ut the size of a car and loaded with batteries and sensors, blew up a lot =f sand and made a lot of noise.

It managed to get up as high as eye level for several se=onds before tilting and falling to the ground. Basketballs attached to its=bottom served as cushions. After several attempts, the endeavor had to be =anceled after one of the covers got detached from the frame and broke, dam=ging the propellers.

To tell your graduate ... Famed gol=er Phil Mickelson "says he will miss the U.S. Open [starts June 15 at =rin Hills in Wisconsin] for the first time in 24 years to attend his oldes= daughter's high school graduation in California."

"This is the same daughter who nearly caused M=ckelson to miss the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, where he carried a =eeper ... Amanda was born the next day. And now she's graduating high scho=l."

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