UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: California lawmakers vote to expand gun restraining orders — but ACLU says bill goes too far.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Big Meeting at WH Today and Much, Much More. “Ok, let’s get this straight right now, there will be no production of documents. I am positive of this. This will be another feckless attempt by Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to hide whatever parlor games were machinating against the Trump campaign. What started the investigation? When did it start? What aother evidence was used to obtain the FISA warrants? Congress cannot get straight answers out of these jokers.”

THIS IS NOT THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR: With death rate up, US life expectancy is likely down again.

ALEX GRISWOLD: Democrats Resurrect the Worst Talking Point in Politics.

SPY GAMES: U.S. Government Can’t Get Controversial Kaspersky Lab Software Off Its Networks.

“It’s messy, and it’s going to take way longer than a year,” said one U.S. official. “Congress didn’t give anyone money to replace these devices, and the budget had no wiggle-room to begin with.”

At issue is a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) enacted last December that requires the government to fully purge itself of “any hardware, software, or services developed or provided, in whole or in part,” by Kaspersky Lab. The law was a dramatic expansion of an earlier DHS directive that only outlawed “Kaspersky-branded” products. Both measures came after months of saber rattling by the U.S., which has grown increasingly anxious about Kaspersky’s presence in federal networks in the wake of Russia’s 2016 election interference campaign.

America’s intelligence chiefs have, too, issued public warnings about Kaspersky software. When asked by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at an intelligence committee hearing last year whether they would be comfortable using Kaspersky software on their computers, all six of the top intelligence leaders—from the Central Intelligence Agency chief to the director of National Intelligence—had the same answer: No.

Plus:

The company works so closely with Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, that agents are sometimes embedded in the firm’s Moscow headquarters. And like virtually all anti-virus products, Kaspersky’s has complete access to any computer on which it’s running, including the ability to riffle through files and, depending on the configuration, upload them to Kaspersky’s servers in Russia. It can also execute arbitrary instructions transmitted from the company’s headquarters.

What a mess.

POWER PROJECTION: China’s first home-grown aircraft carrier finishes maiden sea trial amid speculation Asia’s most advanced destroyer will be next.

Launched in April last year, the Type 001 carrier sailed out of the northeastern port of Dalian on Sunday.

Xinhua said that the main purpose of the trial was to test its domestically developed propulsion systems.

Engineers from the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation and PLA Navy will now assess the test results of the first sea trial, said Song Zhongping, a Hong Kong-based military expert.

The next trial would focus on a number of systems, including the ship’s electronics and radars, and would involve much more detailed tests, he said.

Tests on the new carrier will continue for the next six to 12 months in different waters and varied ocean conditions before it is delivered to the PLA navy.

“Engineers from the builder will work together with the PLA Navy for the tests until it is handed over to the PLA Navy,” Song said.

Related: Chinese J-20 stealth fighter jets carry out first sea training mission.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Checking the math on California’s cap and trade, some experts say it’s not adding up.

Far more troubling are red flags highlighted in reports from academia, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, independent market experts and other major carbon markets, all concluding that California has a serious problem with too many unused pollution credits.

In the cap-and-trade system, major polluters must either produce fewer greenhouse gases to comply with California’s emissions caps or buy credits to offset their excess emissions from companies that pollute less. Credits are traded at state-sanctioned auctions and on secondary markets. And the state gives some free to utilities, natural-gas suppliers and industries that are vulnerable to out-of-state competition.

Some companies have not yet needed to use up the allowances to stay within state emissions limits and probably won’t have to in the next couple of years, according to some analysts, who estimate there are hundreds of millions of unused credits in the system.

The result is a glut of credits that could allow businesses to keep polluting past state limits in later years, after the overall cap becomes more restrictive. Unless the oversupply is addressed, experts say, polluters will have no incentive to cut emissions to required levels by 2030; instead, industries could continue polluting and use banked allowances to offset their emissions and technically keep them under the cap.

The state Legislative Analyst’s Office foresees a reckoning, estimating that because of excess allowances, actual emissions could be as much as 30 percent over the statewide target by 2030.

Positive spin: Sacramento finally produced a surplus of something.

CHANGE: Tunisians Protest For the Right to Eat in Public During Ramadan. “Tunisia is a civil state and not an Islamic state.”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: No, Don’t Throw Stuff at Tomi Lahren (Or Anybody Else). “If you don’t like Tomi Lahren, do what I do: Nothing. Leave her alone.”

THE NEW PRAVDA: Elon Musk Unloads on Media in Tweetstorm, Cites Trump: ‘Why Do You Think He Got Elected?’

DEVELOPING: FBI Agents Raid Home of Former Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger.

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Trump Administration Weighs New Tariffs on Imported Vehicles.

President Donald Trump has already used a legal provision known as Section 232 to impose global tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, and now the administration is considering starting a probe of imported cars under the same law, possibly applying tariffs at the end, the people said.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of tariffs on auto imports in meetings. The plan remains in its early stages, and is likely to face significant opposition from a number of interest groups, from foreign trading partners to domestic dealers of imported cars.

Applying the tariffs under Section 232, meanwhile, would require a lengthy investigation and report from the U.S. Commerce Department. The administration is currently considering tariffs of up to 25%, according to those briefed on the plan.

Nothing official out of the White House so far, so who knows.

HMM: Garrett in turmoil, might quit Congress.

Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) has abruptly parted ways with his chief of staff and is considering not seeking reelection in November, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Garrett, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, split with his chief of staff Jimmy Keady on Tuesday evening, according to the sources.

That’s all we know so far.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: National Center for Sexual Exploitation Calls for ‘Show Dogs’ to Be Pulled from Theaters.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Texas Trooper falsely accused of rape by Shaun King cleared by body cam footage .

BREAKING: Judge Rules Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Critics on Twitter.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Left Transforms America By Transforming the Rules.

Read the whole thing.

NEWSBUSTERS: What Changed? The Same Media Who Excuse Bob Mueller Abused Ken Starr.

I’m guessing the “What changed?” is purely rhetorical.

MICHAEL CAPUTO: Former Government Official Offered Me Hillary-Related Emails in May 2016. “It was frightening to me.”

GORDON CHANG: Trump Blames China’s Xi Jinping for Sabotaging the Kim Jong Un Summit.

Last week, the North Koreans, who this year gave the impression they had turned over a new leaf, began acting like North Koreans again. They abruptly canceled high-level talks with Seoul, scheduled for last Wednesday, and cast doubt on their willingness to meet with Trump in Singapore on June 12. They cited their displeasure with long-scheduled joint military exercises and with John Bolton, Trump’s new national security adviser.

Moon has since tried to alleviate Kim Jong Un’s concerns, withdrawing, for instance, from the Blue Lightning air-training exercise with the United States and Japan this month. Seoul’s tactics have not worked to mollify the Kim regime, however.

Now, analysts want to know what caused the North’s return to the dark side, which took senior Trump officials by complete surprise. But the new hostility should have been anticipated. It was evident that Xi Jinping, whom Trump called a “friend” yesterday, put the North Koreans up to their new bristling posture.

Just last month it appeared as thought Xi had yanked Kim’s chain hard enough to force him to the negotiating table. But now this:

Xi obviously has been up to no good. In addition to openly violating U.N. sanctions in recent months, Xi has undoubtedly been schooling Kim in the art of defiance of the international community, especially the United States. That second Xi-Kim meeting—held May 7 and 8 in the Chinese city of Dalian—preceded North Korea’s return to bad behavior.

Stay tuned…

BRE PAYTON: James Clapper Just Lied Again About His Previous Lies About NSA Spying.

Meghan McCain confronted Clapper about a statement he made while testifying before Congress five years ago, when he was asked whether or not the NSA was spying on Americans.

“In 2013 when you were asked about it, you said ‘no,’” McCain said. “So that is a lie.”

“I made a mistake,” Clapper said. “I didn’t lie. I was thinking about something else, another program.”

Clapper then proceeded to prattle on about two different surveillance programs in an attempt to obfuscate his answer.

Our intel and counterintel chiefs can’t seem to remember which side they’re supposed to lie to.

BUT OF COURSE: After Santa Fe Shooting, Houston’s Police Chief Plays Politics.

Jack Dunphy has the story.

POSTMODERN PARENTING: Parents win suit to kick 30-year-old deadbeat son out of their house.

Mark and Christina Rotondo were forced to the extreme-parenting measure after giving their layabout millennial boy Michael cash for moving expenses, pleading with him to get on with his life and finally sending written legal notices demanding he grow up and move out.

“Michael, After a discussion with your Mother, we have decided that you must leave this house immediately,” reads the first letter, dated Feb. 2.

It concludes: “You have 14 days to vacate. . . We will take whatever actions are necessary to enforce this decision.”

When my boys are finished with school, I probably won’t change the locks… but we’ll see.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Election Results, ZTE, NorK Summit and Much, Much More. “The documents in question have to do with the origination of the investigation into Trump. When did it start? The story keeps changing. Early spring? July? What evidence was presented to the FISA court FOUR TIMES to continue surveillance on the campaign, even after Trump was elected and serving as president? It’s obvious the DOJ and the FBI don’t want you or me to know. Why?”

RENT-SEEKERS GOTTA SEEK RENTS: Occupational Licensing Reform Is Bipartisan. California Didn’t Get the Message.

A party-line vote in a California legislative committee derailed a promising licensing bill proposed by state Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin). The bill would not have made any immediate changes to California’s licensing laws; it merely would have created a petition process to allow individuals to ask a board to review and rescind its own regulations—with an eye towards reducing lawsuits challenging particularly onerous rules.

Additionally, the bill would have prohibited licensing boards from denying a license solely because an applicant had unpaid student loans or a criminal record.

But even those relatively mild reforms were deemed too dangerous by Golden State Democrats, who uniformly opposed the measure.

Those Democrats were backed by the special interests that benefit from keeping barriers to employment high.

But of course.