Panic palpable at Kennedy Center as hearing looms on 'breathtaking' annihilation threat

Alarm swept the Kennedy Center's defenders hours before a hearing to consider a threat by President Donald Trump's board to tear down the center if his name was not added to the building. In a motion filed later Wednesday afternoon, lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) accused the board of holding the building hostage. Beatty is ex officio trustee on the board through her seat in Congress and sued…