SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 9:25 P.M. ET: 

THE FUTURE PRESIDENT? – There's a new book coming by a Secret Service agent who guarded the Clintons when they were in the White House.  From LONDON'S DAILY MAIL:   A former Secret Service officer who helped protect Hillary Clinton while she was in the White House charges in a new tell-all book that the former first lady had a 'volcanic' temper and occasionally got violent with her husband – and that a loud 1995 fight left the president with a black eye.  In the book, 'Crisis of Character,' former agency officer Gary Bryne, details arriving at work after a 1995 shouting-match that left a light blue vase 'smashed to bits' and Bill sporting a 'real, live, put-a-steak-on-it black eye.'  Things got so bad that Secret Service agents had discussions about the possibility they might have to protect the president from his wife's physical attacks, the New York Post reported in advance excerpts of the book.  Hillary will twist this as proof that she favors a strong national defense.

WHAA..? – FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:   Buyers walking into a Cadillac dealer in the near future could find an interesting thing on the car lot: nothing.  General Motors Company's luxury division has about three times as many U.S. stores as German luxury auto makers or Toyota Motor Company’s Lexus, but sells only about half the volume. Short of steering around rigid state franchise laws and hammering out financial settlements to shutter stores, a plan is being hatched to convert a portion of Cadillac’s 925 stores into virtual dealerships that will be low on overhead and big on sophisticated technology.  In a somewhat unprecedented way of moving metal, Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen will this month begin looking for commitments from some store owners willing to set up showrooms where buyers can get a car serviced or learn about products via virtual reality headsets without getting behind the wheel. Driving off immediately with a new vehicle will be impossible because these stores won’t have inventory.  Yessiree, that's what I always wanted – the chance to buy a luxury car without ever driving it.  This will not go down as one of history's great ideas.

BULLETIN – CLINTON CLINCHES – FROM NBC NEWS:   Hillary Clinton has secured a majority of delegates to the Democratic National Convention, NBC News projected on Monday evening — making the former secretary of state the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.  Clinton, whose first quest for the Democratic nomination ended in a concession speech almost exactly eight years ago to the day, now becomes the first woman ever to win the nomination of a major political party in the United States.  Clinton reached the majority of 2,383 delegates with a combination of pledged and unpledged "super delegates." The new tally includes pledges from over a dozen new superdelegates as well as her accumulation of 36 pledged delegates in Sunday's Puerto Rico primary.  Clinton was widely expected to reach the 2,383 threshold on Tuesday, when six states hold their nominating contests on one of the final primary nights of the race.  She's got it, unless Bernie Sanders can turn her superdelegates.  Highly unlikely, although the FBI probe might produce that very result.  Nothing is certain this year.

June 6, 2016