Joe diGenova, Lt. Col. Allen West, Simon Rosenberg and guest host Susan Ferrechio joined WMAL on Monday.
INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia
INTERVIEW – LT. COL. ALLEN WEST – President & CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis and author of ” Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom”
INTERVIEW — SIMON ROSENBERG – President, New Democrat Network (NDN), Clinton 1992 War Room Veteran
Mornings on the Mall
Monday, June 15, 2015
Hosts: Brian Wilson and guest host Susan Ferrechio (Washington Examiner)
Executive Producer: Heather Smith
5am – A/B/C Race of Rachel Dolezal, head of Spokane NAACP, comes under question. (CNN) – The race of one of the most prominent faces in Spokane, Washington’s black community is under question after her estranged mother claimed she is white but is “being dishonest and deceptive with her identity.” Rachel Dolezal, 37, is the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as at least partly African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two parents who say they are Caucasian. The parents shared that document and old photos with CNN. “We are her birth parents,” Lawrence Dolezal told CNN on Friday. “We do not understand why she feels it’s necessary to misrepresent her ethnicity.” CNN tried to reach Rachel Dolezal for comment by emailing and calling her, but was unsuccessful. The Spokane Spokesman-Review. newspaper reported, though, that she has framed the controversy surrounding her racial identity in the context of litigation over guardianship of her adopted brother. According to court documents obtained by CNN, Rachel Dolezal’s adopted brother, who is black, sought emancipation from Ruthanne and Lawrence Dolezal in 2010. The adopted brother, now 21, said the Dolezals used “physical forms of punishment” and had sent his brother and sister away to group homes because they didn’t cooperate with the couple’s religion and rules. The adopted brother wanted to live with Rachel Dolezal “in a multiracial household where black culture is celebrated and I have a connection to the black community,” the court papers said. The papers did not specify Rachel Dolezal’s race.
5am – D Susan Explains What Happened to The Trade Bill:
- House Rejects Trade Measure, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal. WASHINGTON — Hours after President Obama made a dramatic, personal appeal for support, House Democrats on Friday thwarted his push to expand trade negotiating power — and quite likely his chance to secure a legacy-defining accord spanning the Pacific Ocean. In a remarkable blow to a president they have backed so resolutely, House Democrats voted to end assistance to workers displaced by global trade, a program their party created and has supported for four decades. That move effectively scuttled legislation granting the president trade promotion authority — the power to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended or filibustered by Congress. “We want a better deal for America’s workers,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader, who has guided the president’s agenda for two terms and was personally lobbied by Mr. Obama until the last minute. The vote that prevented the president from obtaining trade promotional authority now imperils the more sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade agreement with 11 other nations along the Pacific Ocean that affects 40 percent of the global economy on goods ranging from running shoes to computers.
5am – E Catonsville and Arbutus restaurant owners still waiting for Maryland crab. (Baltimore Sun) — With Maryland not yet producing enough crabs to harvest and sell this year, the restaurant is subsisting largely on sales of Louisiana crabs, she said. But the situation of using crabs from out of state is far from ideal.
Maryland Crabs in Short Supply, Restaurants Still Waiting. Crab season in Maryland is off to a slow start leaving some restaurants still waiting for their local supply. Low crab populations in the Chesapeake Bay means some restaurants have not yet added crab to their menus, while others are shipping crabs in from out of state, causing the prices to surge. The cost increase is straining local businesses. Sam Molloy, co-owner of Captain Dick’s Crabs Galore in Baltimore County told the Baltimore Sun that the cost of a bushel of Louisiana crabs has gone up $100 from 2012, and is putting a financial strain on her family-owned business. Crab populations in Maryland are up this year, but still sluggish compared to pre-2013 levels. Watermen say they hope more crabs will move into the bay later this summer.
6am – A/B/C Hillary Made Big Campaign Speech on Saturday. Jeb! Jumps Into Presidential Race Today. Are They Inevitable?
6am – D Russia and China cracked Snowden’s files, identified U.S., UK spies. Agents have been withdrawn from overseas operations. Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies have reportedly decrypted files of former U.S. National Security Agency contractor and leaker Edward Snowden, and have identified British and U.S. secret agents. MI6, the U.K.’s secret intelligence service, has withdrawn agents from overseas operations in hostile countries, according to a report in the Sunday Times of London, citing U.K. government officials and Western intelligence agencies. The report contains some apparently contradictory information. Although The Sunday Times quoted a U.K. Home Office official saying that Snowden has “blood on his hands,” it also quoted a government source saying that there was no sign that agents have been hurt.
6am – E No Apology: CNN’s Anchor ‘Misspoke’ By Calling Would Be Cop Killer ‘Courageous And Brave’ [(Daily Caller) — CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield got into hot water with Texas police organizations Saturday for saying would-be Texas cop killer James Boulware was “courageous and brave” in his attack on police headquarters.
Fort Worth Police OA ✔ @FWPOA: @CNN & @FWhitfield should apologize immediately for this outlandish commentary in the #DallasPDShooting
7am – A INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia
- Transgender student sues school, citing restroom policy
- Hillary’s big speech in New York and Bill Clinton’s interview with Jake Tapper on CNN this weekend
- DC Mayor Bowser to announce new plan to fight drugs. She will announce Monday that drug suppliers will be the target rather than low level drug users.
- Looming Supreme Court decision on Obamacare
7am – B Obama taking steps to fund affordable housing in affluent neighborhoods: (The Hill) — The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America’s wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.” A final Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule due out this month is aimed at ending decades of deep-rooted segregation around the country. The regulations would use grant money as an incentive for communities to build affordable housing in more affluent areas while also taking steps to upgrade poorer areas with better schools, parks, libraries, grocery stores and transportation routes as part of a gentrification of those communities.
7am – C New Wegmans in Alexandria opens amid great fanfare Sunday. (WTOP) — WASHINGTON — They left the comfort of their beds early Sunday morning to come out for the grand opening of a supermarket. But this is no ordinary grocery store or shopping experience. Some 1,800 people were standing in line for the Sunday, 7a.m. grand opening of the Alexandria Wegmans, which is situated at the corner of Telegraph Road and Beulah Street in the Hilltop Village Center. The “Women of Wegmans” were the first in line. They got there at 3 a.m. All three women were dressed in pink polo shirts that read “Women of Wegmans” and all three wore pearls. “We are Wegmans ambassadors”, claimed Chef Nadine, adding, “the Women of Wegmans are just wild about Wegmans. We formed our own little club.” They take it on themselves to attend the openings — including similar events in Boston, the Philadelphia suburbs, and a re-opening of a store in Rochester, NY. What’s special about this Wegmans — the seventh store in Virginia — is that it has a full-service restaurant called the “Pub.”
7am – D Spokane NAACP leader cancels meeting amid furor. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The leader of the Spokane NAACP, Rachel Dolezal, has canceled a chapter meeting Monday where she was expected to speak about the furor sparked over her racial identity. Her parents have said the 37-year-old activist has falsely portrayed herself as black for years. Dolezal sent out an email Sunday canceling the monthly membership meeting “due to the need to continue discussion with regional and national NAACP leaders.”
7am – E Entertainment News:
- Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger voices Waze as the Terminator. (USA Today) — Starting Monday, drivers around the world could soon be directed by a familiar Austrian-accented voice telling them: “I’m a Terminator Cyberdyne Systems Model 101, and you’re coming with me.” It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California governor, who is lending his persona as the famed Terminator from the movie franchise to the community-based traffic and navigation app Waze. Snagging a star such as Schwarzenegger, even if he’s using the Waze gig to promote his next movie, Teminator Genesis, opening July 1, has become a popular method for navigation apps to try to stand out from one another.
- Actor John Stamos of ‘Full House’ fame cited for DUI in Beverly Hills. (CNN) – John Stamos — the Hollywood heartthrob known for his roles on “Full House” and “ER” — was pulled over in Beverly Hills, California, then taken to a nearby hospital where he was arrested for having allegedly driven under the influence, police said. Police got involved after getting numerous calls about a possible drunken driver, Beverly Hills police Sgt. David Armour said. The 51-year-old actor — the only person in his vehicle — was pulled over, after which he showed officers his driver’s license and identified himself verbally. Paramedics transported him to an area hospital due to a possible medical condition, according to Armour.
- Barry Manilow to Perform on National Mall for July 4. (AP) — Barry Manilow will headline this year’s Independence Day celebration on the National Mall, performing July 4 with the National Symphony Orchestra and other musicians. Organizers of the annual “A Capitol Fourth” celebration announced Friday, June 12, that Manilow will be the featured performer. Other performers have not yet been announced. Manilow will perform a patriotic medley he first performed nearly 30 years ago for the reopening of the Statue of Liberty. The “Capitol Fourth” concert at the U.S. Capitol leads up to the massive fireworks display on the National Mall. The event draws hundreds of thousands of visitors. It is also broadcast each year on PBS and NPR stations from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The performance will also feature the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets and U.S. Army Ceremonial Band.
- ‘Jurassic World’ bites off biggest global debut of all time. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dinosaurs are anything but extinct at the box office. “Jurassic World,” the fourth film in the series, became the highest global opener of all time with a staggering $511.8 million in its first days in theaters. It also devoured a number of domestic box office records with a $204.6 million take, the Rentrak media-measurement company estimated on Sunday. In addition to setting a record for 2015, “Jurassic World” is now the second-highest domestic opening of all time, right behind “Marvel’s The Avengers” which took in $207.4 million in 2012. By the time Monday actuals roll in, there is a chance the film could dethrone “Avengers.” It has been 14 years since there has been a new “Jurassic” film in theaters, and the combination of cinematic grandeur, nostalgia and awareness helped “Jurassic World” far surpass analyst predictions going into the weekend, which had the film on track for a $125 million opening.
8am – A INTERVIEW – LT. COL. ALLEN WEST – President & CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis and author of ” Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom”
- Lt. Col. Allen West: Obama made ‘the greatest military blunder the world will ever know’ in Iraq. Retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West pulls no punches when talking about the Islamic State’s rise to power, saying President Barack Obama’s decision to pull troops out of Iraq was “probably the greatest military blunder the world will ever know.”
- US says airstrike ‘likely’ killed Al Qaeda leader in Libya. The U.S. military launched an airstrike that targeted and “likely” killed an Al Qaeda leader behind the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed 35 hostages, including three Americans, a senior defense official told Fox News Sunday. However, an Islamist with ties to Libyan militants told the Associated Press that the airstrikes missed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, instead killing four members of a Libyan extremist group the U.S. has linked to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans
- Jeb Bush to Declare Presidential Run, Playing Down His Surname
- NAACP Chapter President Faces Backlash, Questions Over Her Race
8am – B Arrest made in Md. ice cream truck driver killing. (WTOP) — WASHINGTON — The man who is suspected of shooting and killing an ice cream truck driver in Frederick, Maryland, on Saturday has been arrested, police said Sunday morning. Larnell Tyran Lyles, suspected of shooting ice cream truck driver. According to reports, Brandon Brown, 22, was killed when he stopped his Big Daddy Ice Cream truck at approximately 5:30 p.m. in the 400 block of Vermont Court in the Frederick’s Lucas Village neighborhood. He got out and was approached by his assailant, who shot him at least once in the chest, police said in a news release. Frederick police say they arrested Larnell Lyles, 27, early Sunday morning at a residence in the 100 block of Sandalwood Court in Walkersville, Maryland, and charged him with first degree murder.
8am – C Al Sharpton Scolds Rachel Dolezal’s Parents: ‘Are You Really Gonna Do This To Your Kid?’ (Mediaite) — Al Sharpton has some questions for Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal about why they waited until Friday to appear on TV to discuss their controversial daughter, Rachel Dolazel. Dolazel’s parents outed the NAACP local president as a white woman pretending to be black, and Sharpton was approached by TMZ one day later to give his thoughts. When asked if what the Dolazel parents did was wrong, Sharpton first brought up the NAACP description of the story as a family dispute, but then said that Rachel’s parents were trying to create a distraction from her activism in social justice. “On one level, you’ve got to say to her, ‘you’re misleading us’, but another level, mom and dad, come on,” Sharpton said. “Are we gonna have this dysfunctional family stuff play out and distract us from key civil rights causes? Sharpton then brought up the fact that Dolazel’s parents knew about their daughter’s involvement in the NAACP, saying they betrayed their daughter by waiting until she became a center of attention. “You’ve got to ask the question, ‘what are Mom and Dad’s motives here… where’ve you been?”
8am – D INTERVIEW — SIMON ROSENBERG – President, New Democrat Network (NDN), Clinton 1992 War Room Veteran – discussed Obama’s trade deal and Hillary Clinton’s big speech in New York, Simon Rosenberg is the founder of the New Democrat Network, a leading, center-left think tank formerly allied with the Democratic Leadership Council. Rosenberg is a veteran of two presidential campaigns, including the 1992 Clinton War Room.
