SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

COMPARISONS – Britain's Brexit vote is already producing at least one good result.  Members of the journalistic and political classes in the U.S. suddenly realize, and some are saying, that Brexit was a warning to the elites and establishments in the United States:  listen to people.  Listen to voters, to senior citizens, to veterans.  Stop listening only to the people you agree with you or who went to the proper schools, or who are members of the approved, aggrieved groups.  There is a sense building – you can feel it in the commentary – that Brexit will have an effect on politics here, but especially in Europe.  Already there's serious talk of other countries leaving the EU. 

CUBA SI, YANQUI NO – FROM FOX:   Cuba is refusing to approve visa applications for members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, according to the committee's chairman.  Members were hoping to leave on Friday afternoon to examine lagging security in the country's airports, which are set to begin making flights to the U.S. this year. The lawmakers were forced to cancel when their applications were denied that morning.  "We wanted to look at their airport security ... because TSA has been backchanneling to us that it's not adequate," said Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas. "So I attempted to go down there to just look at them, there were five of us, and they denied our visas."  Officials say Cuba is set to begin making 110 daily flights into the U.S. from 10 airports in the country this fall, but they lack security measures that include scanners and bomb-sniffing dogs.  Some great act of friendship by Cuba.  And such contempt for passenger safety.  I wonder if Field Marshal Obama will have anything to say about this.  Probably not.  Must not upset the Castro brothers, those kings of democracy.

WHY AM I SUSPICIOUS? – FROM FOX:  CAIRO – Initial attempts to download information from the flight data and voice recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have failed, and key parts of the recorders are being sent to France for repairs, according to Egyptian and U.S. officials.  The "electronic boards" of the recorders are being flown next week to the offices of the French aviation accident investigation bureau near Paris, authorities said. After the boards are repaired and salt removed, they will be sent back to Cairo for data analysis, Egypt's Investigation committee said in a statement late Thursday.  Makes me uneasy.  EgyptAir has a controversial history, and some feel that substandard performance in accident investigations is part of this history.  In 1999 Egyptair Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic.  An investigation produced strong evidence that the crash was intentional, caused by the co-pilot.  But the Egyptians never accepted that conclusion, despite the evidence.  Now we have another mystery, and I wonder whether we'll get a straight story from EgyptAir.  I hope my concerns will prove unfounded.

June 24,  2016