Joe diGenova, Rep. Mike Rogers and Tucker Carlson joined WMAL on Monday morning.
Mornings on the Mall
Monday, June 8, 2015
Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor
Executive Producer: Heather Smith
5am – A/B/C Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wouldn’t rule out re-invasion of Iraq. (WASHINGTON) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he wouldn’t rule out a full-blown re-invasion of Iraq if he were to become the next commander-in-chief. The likely Republican presidential candidate and early frontrunner in several polls said he would consider a re-invasion if it were deemed necessary to protect American national security at home and abroad. “It would not be limited to anything out there,” Walker told ABC’s Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview with for This Week. “Once we start saying how far we’re willing to go or how many troops we’re willing to invest, we send a horrible message, particularly to foes in the Middle East who are willing to wait us out.”
5am – D/E 2016 GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham wants Caitlyn Jenner’s vote. Republican presidential contender Lindsey Graham says his party has room for transgendered people like Caitlyn Jenner. The South Carolina senator calls himself a “traditional marriage kind of guy.” But he says he “can only imagine the torment that Bruce Jenner went through” before becoming a transgendered woman. He hopes that, now, she’s “found peace.” The underdog Republican candidate is campaigning on the need to counter threats from terrorists and Islamic State militants. He shares the opposition to same-sex marriage expressed by his rivals but says the Supreme Court is settling that question. Graham says if Jenner wants to be a Republican, she’s welcome. And he says if she wants a safe country and a strong economy, she should vote for him.
6am – A/B/C The kindergarten testing mess. (Washington Post) — Kindergarten wasn’t what Kimberley Asselin expected when the school year started last fall — and, unfortunately, that turned out to be a bad thing. Asselin, a first-year teacher in Virginia who had dreamed about teaching since she was a child, learned what many new teachers around the country have: That the K-12 experience has become dominated by standardized testing. And if there is one grade where it seems most detrimental and concerning, it is kindergarten. My Post colleague T. Rees Shapiro wrote this story about Asselin and about why her first-year teaching experience at Riverside Elementary School, which serves a low-income area of Fairfax County, has her reconsidering whether she really can stomach a long career as a teacher under the circumstances she found herself in this year.
6am – D Santorum says Pope Francis has ‘more pressing problems’ than climate change. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a practicing Catholic, on Sunday defended his criticism of Pope Francis weighing in on global warming, saying “there are more pressing problems on Earth” for the pontiff to be tackling. The former Pennsylvania senator on “Fox News Sunday” also argued that it’s more appropriate for him and other lawmakers than the pope to speak publicly on the issue because they make public policy decisions that affect American workers.
6am – E Is your cat making you crazy? Maybe so. You may want to think twice before you cuddle with that cute little kitten. According to CBS News, “any warm-blooded species” can catch Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite carried by cats that, while usually harmless, has been linked to mental disorders, miscarriages, flu-like illnesses, blindness and death. Apparently, more than 60 million Americans may have T. gondii, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A recent analysis published in Schizophrenia Research compared two previous studies that explored the link between cat ownership and conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The news wasn’t good. “Cat ownership in childhood has now been reported in three studies to be significantly more common in families in which the child is later diagnosed with schizophrenia or another serious mental illness,” authors E. Fuller Torrey, Robert H. Yolken and Wendy Simmons said.
7am – A INTERVIEW — JOE DIGENOVA — legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia
- Baltimore State’s Attorney seeks to block release of Freddie Gray autopsy
- Former House Speaker Hastert To Appear In Federal Court On Tuesday
- Federal judges again strike down Virginia redistricting plan
- White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez to be sentenced
- GOP signals support for extending ObamaCare subsidies if SCOTUS guts healthcare law
7am – B/C Thai parents cryonically freeze toddler in hopes she may live again. (Global Post) – BANGKOK, Thailand — If all goes according to plan, a little Thai girl nicknamed Einz who is now dead will some day read this sentence. That plan, however, requires incredible faith in technological advancements. Elinz’s body has been cremated and all that remains is her head — which is now filled with medical-grade antifreeze and stored in a vault in Arizona. Einz, whose formal name is Matheryn Naovaratpong, died from an aggressive strain of brain cancer in early January. She was nearly 3 years old. Her death would have unfolded as a private tragedy had her parents not made a profound choice. They decided that Einz would become the youngest human — and one of very few Asians — to undergo cryonic preservation. “We believe death can be overcome in the future,” says Sahatorn, the girl’s 41-year-old father.
7am – D INTERVIEW – REP. MIKE ROGERS – former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
- Hacking Linked to China Exposes Millions of U.S. Workers. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday announced what appeared to be one of the largest breaches of federal employees’ data, involving at least four million current and former government workers in an intrusion that officials said apparently originated in China. The compromised data was held by the Office of Personnel Management, which handles government security clearances and federal employee records. The breach was first detected in April, the office said, but it appears to have begun at least late last year.
7am – E Sports News:
- LeBron James, Cavaliers escape Warriors in OT to tie up series. OAKLAND — Breaking down the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 95-93 overtime victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 2 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena. What happened: LeBron James had 39 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists as the Cavaliers evened the NBA Finals at 1-1, proving it’s not going to be easy for the Warriors to win the title even with Cavs missing Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. It was LeBron James’ fifth Finals triple-double and the 13th time he has done it in the postseason. It was also James’ 56th playoff game – more than any other player – with at least 30 points, five rebounds and five assists.
- American Pharoah became the first horse since 1978 to sweep the Triple Crown. As American Pharoah came out of the far turn and squared his shoulders to let his rider Victor Espinoza stare down the long withering stretch of Belmont Park, a sense of inevitability surged through this mammoth old grandstand. The fans in a capacity crowd strained on the tips of their toes and let out a roar from deep in their souls. It was going to end, finally — this 37-year search for a great racehorse. No, a battered old sport was looking for an immortal thoroughbred, one worthy to stand alongside Sir Barton and Assault, War Admiral and Whirlaway, Count Fleet and Citation, a horse able to earn the title of a Triple Crown champion. There had been only 11 of them in history, and America had elected five presidents, fought three wars and lived through at least three economic downturns since Affirmed had last completed the feat in 1978. In the interim, 12 other very good racehorses had pulled into the starting gate at this grand old racetrack on Long Island with a chance to become the next great horse, only to fall short at the hands of a great rival, as Sunday Silence did to Easy Goer in 1989 or as Real Quiet did in 1998 in a heartbreaking photo finish, or to find the mile-and-a-half distance of the Belmont Stakes just too much, as California Chrome did last year.
8am – A INTERVIEW — TUCKER CARLSON – Editor of The Daily Caller and co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend – weighed in on the latest 2016 news.
8am – B Weekend violence in the District includes 10 shootings, 10 stabbings. At least 10 people were shot during the weekend in the District as gunfire was heard in eight widely scattered locations. In addition, at least 10 people were stabbed, including four in the 1400 block of T Street NW Sunday night, and at least three in a single incident on Seventh Street NW in Chinatown early Sunday, D.C. police said. One person was in custody in the T Street incident, which appeared to be domestic, said Lt. Sean Conboy, a police spokesman. A suspect was also in custody in the Chinatown incident, he said. There was no immediate indication of fatalities in any of the incidents. The rate of shootings was more than twice the recent rate in the District.
8am – C ‘Fun Home’ wins best musical at the Tony Awards. “Fun Home” was one of the biggest winners of Broadway’s biggest night at the 69th annual Tony Awards, taking home four awards including best musical and best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical for Michael Cerveris. As for plays, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” came out on top, winning best play, best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play for Alex Sharp, best direction of a play and best scenic design of a play. “The King and I” was also a victor, winning best revival of a musical and nabbing prizes for Kelli O’Hara and Ruthie Ann Miles for best performance by an actress in a leading and featured role in a musical, respectively. Helen Mirren moved one step closer to an EGOT with her win for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for portraying Queen Elizabeth II (again) in “The Audience.”
8am – D Marco Rubio: 4 tickets ‘not that many,’ red light cameras a ‘scam’. AMES, Iowa – Marco Rubio is proud that he doesn’t have more than four traffic tickets after nearly two decades of living in Miami. “I can tell you, being from Miami, where you drive everywhere, having four tickets in 17 years is not considered bad,” he said in an interview Saturday. The New York Times this week published a story on Rubio’s driving record — and that of his wife, Jeanette. Rubio has been cited four times, while his wife has received 13 traffic tickets, according to the Times. Rubio was cited for careless driving, running a stop sign, speeding and for running a red light, an infraction caught by a camera, not a police officer. “Let me just say, I really don’t like red light cameras,” Rubio said Saturday. “That’s a big scam. But that’s another topic for another day.”
Tuesday: Larry Kudlow
