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Judge orders 30-day notice before Kennedy Center demolition · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Today, the Trump administration is making its next move in
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  Speaker 1: the ongoing legal fight over the Kennedy Center. In a
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  Speaker 1: new court filing, the head of the performing arts venue
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  Speaker 1: said the historic building will be closed for at least
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  Speaker 1: a week because of, quote, structural deterioration. We should note
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  Speaker 1: Congress has allocated roughly $ 250 million to renovate the center,
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  Speaker 1: which is a memorial to President John F.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: But President Trump says it's going to cost more, and
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  Speaker 1: he's been adamant that he wants his name added to
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  Speaker 1: the building.
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  Speaker 3: For the Trump administration, for me, to get involved and
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  Speaker 3: to take that on long term and to carry it
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  Speaker 3: or to raise money to carry it, I think that
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration should certainly have recognition. Because frankly, if
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  Speaker 3: we don't do that, it's going to close. It'll end
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  Speaker 3: up being ripped down. It's in very, very bad shape.
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  Speaker 1: The president issuing that warning just hours before this photo
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  Speaker 1: of him on Air Force One, where he appears to
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  Speaker 1: be looking at a poster with the words Kennedy Center demolished.
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  Speaker 1: CNN's Kristen Holmes live for us from the White House
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  Speaker 1: on this story. And Kristen, I know we're getting some
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  Speaker 1: breaking news now.
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  Speaker 4: A judge with a new order.
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  Speaker 1: What are we hearing?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And this is likely to at least make some of
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  Speaker 2: the critics who are concerned about President Trump using the
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  Speaker 2: seven day period to completely demolish the Kennedy Center feel
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  Speaker 2: slightly better. And this is the filing we have here
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  Speaker 2: from Judge Cooper says this, that the Kennedy Center must
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  Speaker 2: provide at least 30 days notice in advance if a
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  Speaker 2: demolition or new construction at the historic cultural center is planned.
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  Speaker 2: So he also is asking for more information on this
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  Speaker 2: closure for seven days, which the Kennedy Center, the administration
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  Speaker 2: is saying is necessary for safety. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: big part of where the concern was, that they would
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  Speaker 2: close it down for seven days and then President Trump
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  Speaker 2: or the administration or the Kennedy Center would completely demolish
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  Speaker 2: the building, which would basically render everything that these legal
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  Speaker 2: actions moot. You would have a new set of legal actions.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what they were trying to prevent against. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we also have another update that just came in a
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  Speaker 2: few seconds ago. And this was a response to what
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  Speaker 2: President Trump was looking at on the plane. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: seem to fully answer it, but it does say that
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  Speaker 2: the Kennedy Center would, that President Trump said the Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: Center will eventually continue to decline.
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  Speaker 4: It says, for years.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats let the Kennedy Center rot, allowing water damage and
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  Speaker 2: crumbling infrastructure to turn a national treasure into a building
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  Speaker 2: in decay. As President Trump said last night, without his intervention,
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  Speaker 2: the Kennedy Center will.
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  Speaker 4: inevitably continue to decline.
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  Speaker 2: So not exactly duressing these photos, but clearly responding and
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  Speaker 2: not pushing back on the notion that they said Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: Center demolition, and he was clearly going through them. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other part of all of this is the fact
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  Speaker 2: that it seems as though the big sticking point now
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  Speaker 2: is President Trump getting his name on this building. And
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  Speaker 2: you hear him continuing to threaten to essentially not go
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  Speaker 2: through with the project or knock the building down if
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  Speaker 2: this doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 4: And I do want to play for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's saying it's going to cost more than $ 200 million.
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  Speaker 2: What he said back in February when he was asked
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  Speaker 2: about this.
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  Speaker 6: Do you plan on tearing it down? And how much
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  Speaker 6: will all of the renovations cost?
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  Speaker 3: Probably around $ 200 million that were fully financed.
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  Speaker 6: And so we're going to close it.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to make it unbelievable, far better than
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  Speaker 3: it ever was.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll be able to do it properly. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: ripping it down.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be using the steel. So we're using the structure.
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  Speaker 3: We're using some of the marble and some of the
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  Speaker 3: marble comes down. But when it's open, it'll be brand new.
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  Speaker 4: And really beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Now, of course, part of the issue here is that
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  Speaker 2: now he is saying that he might rip it down.
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  Speaker 2: He is threatening to do that. But on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of this, if he does rip it down, then
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  Speaker 2: what happens?
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  Speaker 4: Do they rebuild it or.
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  Speaker 2: Does he use this again, putting his name on the
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  Speaker 2: building as leverage to try and really strong arm into
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  Speaker 2: rebuilding the property?
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  Speaker 4: Jonah Goldberg.
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  Speaker 5: We talk about this story so much in the context
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  Speaker 5: of President Trump, his ego, his interest in renovation and
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  Speaker 5: gilding things. I just think it's important that we underscore
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  Speaker 5: that this particular piece of it is about more than that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, so for me, public funding of arts and
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  Speaker 7: all that kind of stuff makes me on the queasier side.
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  Speaker 7: I think the Kennedy senator is fine and a good thing,
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  Speaker 7: and Trump shouldn't judge it. What bothers me about it
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  Speaker 7: is that this is the most open and shut constitutional argument.
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  Speaker 7: It's like Congress flatly said, the Kennedy Center is for
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  Speaker 7: this and not for something else and not somebody else's name.
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  Speaker 7: It's black letter law. And you just got this guy.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why they did it, right?
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  Speaker 7: And that's why they did it. That was their intent.
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  Speaker 7: And if Congress wanted to change the rules about it,
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  Speaker 7: they could and all that kind of stuff. But instead,
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  Speaker 7: what Trump just did was he packed the board of,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's sort of like A couple clicks shy
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  Speaker 7: of Caligula pointing his horse to the Roman Senate. But
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  Speaker 7: it's pretty much the same sort of thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's just these.
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  Speaker 7: Yes men and yahoos who go in and.
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  Speaker 4: Say, what are you?
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  Speaker 7: And then he gets to say, oh, this is what
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  Speaker 7: they wanted to do when it's obvious that it was
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  Speaker 7: all set up from the first place. And the idea
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  Speaker 7: that he's presenting the American people in Congress and the
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  Speaker 7: courts with this choice of destroy this thing. Or let
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  Speaker 7: me have my name on it. It's a weird strategy
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  Speaker 7: right before the midterms, I'll tell you. There's that, of course.
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  Speaker 4: Ana Navarro, I mean, I want.
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  Speaker 5: To read you what Maria Shriver, of course, a member
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  Speaker 5: of the Kennedy family, had to say about the president's
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  Speaker 5: most recent statement about the Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 4: She says this.
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  Speaker 5: This statement from Trump blows my mind that a sitting
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  Speaker 5: president would not let any renovations to a public building
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  Speaker 5: go on unless he gets to first put his name
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  Speaker 5: in the said building.
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  Speaker 4: What a sad state of affairs. What a tragedy.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, how small-minded, how narcissistic. Actually great men devoted to
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  Speaker 5: public service and the public good do not act like this.
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  Speaker 7: Ana.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, endorse, fully endorse every word that Maria Shriver just said.
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  Speaker 6: I think it talks to Donald Trump's smallness, the frailty
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  Speaker 6: of his ego, and just also his insanity, right? But look,
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  Speaker 6: if Donald Trump is on Air Force One looking at
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  Speaker 6: a giant poster that says Kennedy Center demolition, he obviously
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  Speaker 6: wants the press to notice. He obviously wants us to
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  Speaker 6: be talking about it. But as insane as it may seem,
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  Speaker 6: the thing is that with Donald Trump, you cannot pretend
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  Speaker 6: that the insanity cannot become reality. Because we saw it
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  Speaker 6: with the East Wing. We saw it with the reflecting pool.
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  Speaker 6: We've seen it with Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden. There is
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  Speaker 6: nothing that he loves more than to demolish and destroy
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  Speaker 6: anything that has Kennedy-esque characteristics to it. But I also
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  Speaker 6: want us to remember that not too long ago, the
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  Speaker 6: Kennedy Center had a functioning board chaired by David Rubenstein. You,
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  Speaker 6: of course, Casey, know and love him because he is
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  Speaker 6: the owner of your beloved Baltimore Orioles. There was a
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  Speaker 6: lot of private funding that went into the keep up
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  Speaker 6: of the Kennedy Center. David Rubenstein himself donated over $ 100 million,
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  Speaker 6: raised over a billion dollars for the upkeep of the
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  Speaker 6: Kennedy Center. So this is a model that can work
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  Speaker 6: People are invested. The American people are invested in the
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  Speaker 6: Kennedy Center. They want to see it continue. And but
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  Speaker 6: I think that when Donald Trump says he's thinking of
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  Speaker 6: demolishing it, we better take him seriously because he's done
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  Speaker 6: that before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think that's part of why I carried and
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  Speaker 5: you're seeing the court essentially say, listen, you've got to
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  Speaker 5: give us a month's notice if you want to do
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  Speaker 5: anything to this. And let's pick up on what Jonah
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  Speaker 5: was saying, because, I mean, if you look at. polling
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  Speaker 5: on changes to the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center, nearly
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  Speaker 5: 60 percent of people told CNN they think that President
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  Speaker 5: Trump has gone too far on this. And this does
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  Speaker 5: not even account for what happens when you ask them
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  Speaker 5: if he has.
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  Speaker 4: The right priorities.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And even when you ask, like, MAGA voters, they're kind
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  Speaker 5: of like, eh, this is not a motivating issue for
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  Speaker 5: them either.
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  Speaker 4: This is solely a motivating issue for the president.
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  Speaker 1: And to your point, Jonah— I don't think most voters
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  Speaker 1: are following this and care about the Kennedy Center individually, right?
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  Speaker 4: They care about their kitchen table issues and cost of living.
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  Speaker 1: But the combined sort of the reflecting pool and the
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  Speaker 1: East Wing and the ballroom and this, they care about
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  Speaker 1: how the president spends his time.
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  Speaker 5: And cumulatively, it is becoming more and more obvious over
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  Speaker 5: time that these are the things that are really animating him,
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  Speaker 5: that he cares the most about and is talking about
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  Speaker 5: this far more than he's talking about what we're doing
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  Speaker 5: to bring down gas prices or what I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: do to address your ability to get health care for
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  Speaker 5: your family.