Virginia Del. Tim Hugo, Joe diGenova, Tucker Carlson and Fox 5’s Paul Wagner joined WMAL on Monday.
INTERVIEW – PAUL WAGNER – Reporter, Fox 5 DC
INTERVIEW – TUCKER CARLSON – Editor of The Daily Caller and co-host of Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends Weekend – discussed the transgender policy in Fairfax and the latest 2016 news.
INTERVIEW — JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — joined us from Budapest, Hungary.
INTERVIEW – VA DEL TIM HUGO — representing the 40th district, which includes the municipalities of Catharpin, Clifton, and Fairfax Station and is the Majority Caucus Chairman for the Virginia House Republican Caucus – discussed the transgender policy at Fairfax schools.
Mornings on the Mall
Monday, May 11, 2015
Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor
Executive Producer: Heather Smith
5am – A/B/C Attorneys Of Charged Baltimore Cops Ask State Attorney Mosby To Recuse Herself. (Townhall) — Baltimore City’s State Attorney Marilyn Mosby was dealing with questions about alleged conflict on interest issues when she brought charges against the six officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray that plunged the city into chaos. Now, the attorneys for those officers have this to say: recuse yourself (via CNN):
Attorneys for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray want the case dismissed or State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office to be taken off the case.
A lengthy motion filed in Baltimore City District Court cites a variety of concerns, including conflicts of interest and questions about the office’s independent investigation.
It spells out five conflicts of interest as reasons for the requests. The attorneys say in their court filing that:
— Mosby and her husband, City Council member Nick Mosby, stand to gain financially and politically;
— She has personal relationships with potential witnesses;
— Her office took a role investigating the case;
— There is a pending civil lawsuit against her office
Prince mixes politics and pop hits at Baltimore concert for Freddie Gray. (CNN) Pop star Prince made room for another color next to his signature purple in his Baltimore “Rally4Peace” concert Sunday — and next to his music for dash of political gestures. “Wear something gray,” his promotional materials asked of patrons — in remembrance of Freddie Gray, who died from severe spinal injuries after his arrest last month. On the concert poster, an illustration showed Prince wearing it, too. After protests over Gray’s death gave way to riots in the city, the singer-songwriter recorded a song called “Baltimore,” dedicated to residents and to Gray, in which he calls for justice and peace. “The system is broken,” he shouted to the crowd at the Royal Farms Area. “It’s up to you young folks to fix it.” Prince had announced he would come to town to play live. Audio from the concert was streamed free via the digital live music service TIDAL. In addition to “Baltimore,” Prince played many of his hits, opening with “Let’s go Crazy.” But he hatched a surprise when he invited State’s Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby to join him on stage, the Baltimore Sun reported. Mosby is heading the prosecution in the Gray case and has lodged charges against six police officers. The officers’ attorneys have filed a motion to have Mosby’s office taken off the case. They claim she has a conflict of interests, which she has denied. The concert tickets were a Mother’s Day gift from Mosby’s husband, Councilman Nick Mosby, the Sun reported.
5am – D Report: Obama lied about bin Laden raid. An expose published on Sunday alleges that President Obama deceived Americans with his narrative of the 2011 assassination of Osama bin Laden. Author Seymour M. Hersh accuses Obama of rushing to take credit for the al Qaeda leader’s death. This decision, Hersh argues in the London Review of Books, forced the military and intelligence communities to scramble and then corroborate the president’s version of events. “High-level lying nonetheless remains the modus operandi of U.S. policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids, bypassing the chain of command, and cutting out those who might say no,” Hersh wrote of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies. Hersh based his report on a single, anonymous source. This individual, he said, is a “retired senior intelligence official who was knowledgeable about the initial intelligence about bin Laden’s presence in Abottabad.” Hersh’s source alleged that the Pakistani government had an active role in approving and implementing the raid on bin Laden’s compound.
5am – E Parking meters will be installed to deter crime in Friendship Heights. (WJLA) — FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, Md. (WJLA) – New parking meters will be installed in Friendship heights to deter crime and create a safer shopping experience for customers. Crews will install 100 parking meters along parts of Wisconsin Avenue, Willard Avenue and Friendship Boulevard. Ken Hartman, a regional services director for Bethesda-Chevy Chase said the parking meters will promote business and prevent crime in the area. In 2013, thieves robbed a Cartier store and stole $150,000 in fine watches in 60 seconds. Their getaway car was parked in front of the store. David Churchill, a resident in Friendship Heights felt the pay as you go parking proposal provided limited parking options and would jeopardize his social life.
6am – A/B/C Family Kicked Off Flight After Daughter With Autism Deemed ‘Disruptive’. (NBC News) — An Oregon mom has filed a complaint against United Airlines after it removed her and family from a flight because it said her 15-year-old daughter, who has autism, had become “disruptive.” The woman, Dr. Donna Beegle of Tigard, Oregon — a prominent advocate for anti-poverty programs who frequently consults with state and federal government agencies — was returning home with her family from a trip to Walt Disney World last week when her daughter Juliette became agitated because she was hungry during a layover in Houston, Beegle said. Beegle said that after she persuaded a flight attendant to give her daughter some hot food, Juliette had calmed down and was quietly watching a movie when “the next thing we hear is we’re doing an emergency landing in Salt Lake City,” Beegle told NBC station KGW of Portland, Oregon. “We have a passenger on board with a behavior issue.” Police officers boarded the plane and escorted the entire family off, Beegle told the station. “As a mom it ripped my heart out,” she said. “I was shaking.”
6am – D INTERVIEW – VA DEL TIM HUGO — representing the 40th district, which includes the municipalities of Catharpin, Clifton, and Fairfax Station and is the Majority Caucus Chairman for the Virginia House Republican Caucus – discussed the transgender policy at Fairfax schools.
6am – E 2016 News:
- Presidential hopeful Ben Carson bases 10% tax plan on biblical tithing.Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Sunday his proposed flat-tax plan of about 10% was inspired by the biblical practice of tithing. “You make $10bn a year, you pay a billion; you make $10 a year, you pay one. That’s pretty damn fair if you ask me,” Carson said on Fox News Sunday. “I like the idea of a proportional tax – that way you pay according to your ability,” Carson said. “I got that idea quite frankly from the Bible.”
- Ruth Marcus: Fiorina A “Failed Business Leader… Why Are We Taking Her So Seriously?” Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wonders why former H.P. CEO Carly Fiorina is getting so much attention in the 2016 GOP presidential primary.
- Jeb Bush says he would have authorized the war in Iraq if he had been president in 2002. His comments, in an interview with Fox News set to air on Monday night, come in the wake of Bush’s private statement that he relies on his brother, former President George W. Bush, as an adviser on some Middle East affairs. “I would have [authorized the invasion], and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got,” Bush said in the interview.
- Jeb Bush to Megyn Kelly: We Have to Show Some Respect For Illegals. In a preview of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that will be aired Monday night, Bush said, we need to “fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show some respect for people.”
7am – A INTERVIEW — JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — joined us from Budapest, Hungary.
- DOJ investigating Baltimore police:
- Justice Department to investigate Baltimore police for civil rights violations. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the probe Friday morning. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday that the Justice Department is launching a civil rights investigation into the Baltimore Police Department. Previously, Lynch explained, her team had examined whether particular officers violated policies, but now it will look into whether the Baltimore Police Department violated the Constitution and the civil rights of residents. “When I traveled to Baltimore earlier this week, I had the opportunity to see the significant work that the city and the police department had done with the COPS [Community Oriented Policing Services] Office over the last six months through a collaborative reform process,” she said at a press conference. “But despite the progress being made, it was clear that recent events, including the tragic in-custody death of Mr. Freddie Gray, had given rise to a serious erosion of public trust.” To address this issue, city officials and community leaders called on Lynch to change the Justice Department’s approach to the problem, she said. Investigators will examine whether Baltimore police engage in practices that violate the Constitution or federal law. “This investigation will begin immediately and will focus on allegations that Baltimore Police Department officers use excessive force, including deadly force; conduct unlawful searches, seizures and arrests, and engage in discriminatory policing,” she said.
- Baltimore Case Is Full of Conflicts, Lawyers for Officers ContendBALTIMORE — Lawyers for the six Baltimore police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray unleashed a personal and professional broadside on Friday against the prosecutor who brought the charges, accusing her and her office of being riven by conflicts of interest and alleging that she had betrayed professional standards. The defense motion also seeks dismissal of the charges — which include second-degree murder, manslaughter and assault — against the six officers. If that request is not granted, then the motion asks for the removal of the prosecutor, Marilyn J. Mosby, the state’s attorney in Baltimore, and the appointment of an independent prosecutor to determine how the case proceeds. “Rarely in the history of any criminal case has a prosecutor so directly maintained so many conflicts of interest,” the defense lawyers stated in the motion. The motion filed by the lawyers for the six police officers attacks Ms. Mosby in three principal areas: It accuses her of using “inciting rhetoric” in announcing the charges that betrayed a motivation other than the pursuit of justice, constituting a violation of state rules of professional conduct. officers had reasonable grounds to arrest.
- DC Body Cameras
- D.C. officials, privacy advocates spar over police body cameras. A plan put forward by the District’s mayor and police chief to outfit officers with body cameras but not allow public release of the video would undermine the program’s goal of creating more transparency and accountability, say researchers studying the emerging technology. But Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Thursday that technology does not yet exist that would allow her department to adequately redact personal information from the videos. Noting that it would be extremely labor intensive to redact such information, Chief Lanier suggested that city officials move forward with the plan to deploy cameras to 2,800 officers by year’s end with a blanket exemption banning video release and later draft regulations to outline public disclosure when the technology becomes available.
- DC police chief: Police body camera videos can’t be redacted easily. D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie led a public safety hearing on police body cameras on Thursday. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier was the first city official to testify and raised numerous concerns about allowing the public to have access to the videos recorded by police. She cited privacy concerns and the cost and time it would take to redact private information. At one point, she claimed it could take as long as 17 hours to redact information from one short video. D.C. police began a pilot body camera program with just over 150 cameras. Now with the blessing of the mayor, they want to expand that to a permanent program with 2,800 cameras. The cost is expected to be just over $5.1 million.
7am – B “SNL” praised for “Draw Muhammad” skit. Saturday Night Live” received heaps of praise this weekend over a skit that parodied the fear of drawing the Prophet Muhammad. In a riff on the classic game show “Win, Lose or Draw,” the contestants are given a word or phrase they must sketch. Bobby Moynihan’s character picks up a card that reads “The Prophet Muhammad” and refuses to draw it. Keenan Thompson’s character is up next, but he, too balks at the suggestion. Based on their reactions, a third contestant, played by Reese Witherspoon, correctly guesses the clue.
7am – C Saudi Arabian King not coming to White House meetings with Gulf allies. Washington (CNN)Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud will no longer be in attendance at President Barack Obama’s meetings with Arab leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council this week. The late change of plans, could be seen as a snub to Obama, coming just four days before the start of two days of sessions beginning Wednesday and culminating in a Camp David summit on Thursday.
Joyce Karam @Joyce_Karam 18h18 hours agoJoyce Karam retweeted:
OFFICIAL: #Saudi Confirms that @KingSalman NOT attending Camp David Summit. White House said he is on Friday.
7am – D INTERVIEW – TUCKER CARLSON – Editor of The Daily Caller and co-host of Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends Weekend – discussed the transgender policy in Fairfax and the latest 2016 news.
7am – E Sports news:
- Rangers 4, Capitals 3. WASHINGTON — For the third time in four years, the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers are going the distance in a playoff series. Left winger Chris Kreider scored two goals and left winger Rick Nash and defenseman Dan Boyle each netted third-period goals, leading the Rangers to a wild 4-3 win over the Capitals on Sunday night at the Verizon Center. The win evens the Eastern Conference semifinal series at three victories apiece, setting up a decisive Game 7 Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden in New York.The two teams also needed a Game 7 to decide their playoff series in 2012 and 2013.
- Tom Brady will be suspended by Roger Goodell for role in DeflateGate, announcement expected next week. (NY Daily News) — Tom Brady will be the highest-profile player ever suspended in the 96-year history of the NFL. Roger Goodell’s decision is expected to be announced next week, and it is no longer a matter of if the NFL commissioner will suspend Brady, but for how long he will suspend him. In conversations I’ve had with several key sources who always have a good sense of what goes on at 345 Park Ave., there is little doubt that Goodell considers Brady’s role in DeflateGate a serious violation. The NFL is convinced, according to sources, that connecting all the dots of the evidence supplied by Ted Wells leads to one conclusion:
- Nationals’ Harper Hits Sixth Homer in His Past Three Games, Beating the Braves. (AP) — Bryce Harper did it again, extending his remarkable homer streak with a two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth inning on Saturday that sent the Washington Nationals over the visiting Atlanta Braves, 8-6. Harper homered for the sixth time in his last three games, one off the major league record set by Shawn Green in 2002. At 22, Harper had already become the youngest player in big league history to hit five home runs in two games. His one-out drive pushed the Nationals, preseason favorites to win the World Series, over .500 for the first time this year.
- Pierce’s banked buzzer-beater saves Wizards from Hawks comeback in Game 3. The 2015 NBA postseason has had many memorable moments, including a 20-point fourth-quarter comeback, big shots from a clutch veteran, and a banked-in game-winning buzzer-beater. Saturday’s Game 3 between the Washington Wizards and Atlanta Hawks saw all three occur in the span of two game-ending possessions. After leading by as many as 21 points in the fourth quarter and 20 with just 7:30 remaining, the Wizards saw the Hawks reserves mount a furious comeback and force a tie with just 14 seconds remaining. However, veteran scorer Paul Pierce, a player with many big buckets in his 17-season career, banked in a jumper over several Hawks at the buzzer to give the Washington a 103-101 win and 2-1 advantage in the series.
8am – A INTERVIEW – PAUL WAGNER – Reporter, Fox 5 DC
- DC police chief: Police body camera videos can’t be redacted easily. D.C.Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie led a public safety hearing on police body cameras on Thursday. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier was the first city official to testify and raised numerous concerns about allowing the public to have access to the videos recorded by police. She cited privacy concerns and the cost and time it would take to redact private information. At one point, she claimed it could take as long as 17 hours to redact information from one short video. D.C. police began a pilot body camera program with just over 150 cameras. Now with the blessing of the mayor, they want to expand that to a permanent program with 2,800 cameras. The cost is expected to be just over $5.1 million.
8am – B Prince mixes politics and pop hits at Baltimore concert for Freddie Gray
- Prince releases protest song: “Does anyone hear us pray? For Michael Brown or Freddie Gray”
- Prince in folk-protest tradition: “If there ain’t no justice then there ain’t no peace”
- Yvonne Wenger @yvonnewenger: Spokeswoman for @BaltimoreSAO Mosby says tickets were a Mother’s Day gift from her husband, @councilmanmosby, & Prince invited her on stage. 10:28 PM – 10 May 2015
- Deray mckesson @deray: And @MarilynMosbyEsq and her husband are seated on the stage. Prince brought them out on center stage and everyone cheered.
8am – C ‘You Must Be Naked’: College Demands Students Flesh Out Final Exam Answers in Eye-Popping Way. (IJ Review) — A class at the University of California, San Diego, takes the idea of showing up to class naked to a whole new level. Students in a visual arts class at the university are required to complete part of their final exam in the nude or they will fail the entire class. Even the professor, Roberto Dominguez, strips down to his birthday suit as a part of the test. The requirement didn’t sit well with the parent of one of the girls in the class, who told KGTV-TV that she was outraged her daughter would have to resort to such measures in order to get a passing grade: “It’s wrong. This is a memory my daughter’s going to carry with her for the rest of her life.” “To blanketly say ‘You must be naked’ in order to pass my class, it makes me sick to my stomach.” The class syllabus states that students must perform “a gesture that traces, outlines or speaks about your ‘erotic self(s)’” as part of the lesson. It is a prerequisite for students in order to enroll in higher-level visual arts classes.
8am – D MICHELLE VS. DENZEL: Michelle Race-BaitsWhile Denzel Glorifies God In Contrasting Graduation Speeches
TOMORROW: Amb. John Bolton, Larry Kudlow and Maryland’s youngest mayor
