Eli Lake, David Drucker, Bill Kristol, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Washington Post’s James Wagner, Nile Gardiner and guest host Amanda Carpenter joined WMAL on Tuesday!

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INTERVIEW – DAVID DRUCKER – Senior Congressional Correspondent covering Capitol Hill for the Washington Examiner – discussed what’s next for Congress in handling Obama’s Iran deal.

 INTERVIEW – BILL KRISTOL – Editor, The Weekly Standard

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Hosts: Larry O’Connor and Amanda Carpenter

Executive Producer: Heather Smith

5am – A/B     Q & A with Amanda Carpenter

• Amanda Carpenter is an author, political advisor, speechwriter and former Communications Director for Senator Ted Cruz.. She previously worked as a columnist for The Washington Times, and is the author of The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’s Dossier on Hillary Rodham Clinton.

5am – C         The only Republican woman running for president probably won’t be in the first debate. (Yahoo! Politics) – NASHUA, N.H. ­­— As it now stands, when Fox News broadcasts the first Republican presidential primary debate on Aug. 6 from Cleveland, Ohio, the lone woman in the field of 17 GOP candidates will not be on the stage. Carly Fiorina, the 60-year-old former Hewlett Packard CEO, will be watching the proceedings on TV like the rest of the nation. And America will see 10 men on the screen. The cutoff Fox News decided on for the first debate — which CNN also will use for the second debate, on Sept. 16 — is that only the top 10 candidates in the five most recent national polls will get to participate. Fiorina is stuck at around 2 percent in the Real Clear Politics polling average, which puts her in 12th place. Being shut out of the debates could be a fatal blow for a candidate like Fiorina, who has never held elected office and hopes to go from largely unknown to in-the-running.

5am – D         Scott Walker Enters 2016 Presidential Race. (NY Times) — WAUKESHA, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker, who built a national conservative following by crippling public employee unions and then defeating an effort to recall him, announced on Monday that he was running for president as a Washington outsider who would reduce taxes, challenge Iran and Russia, and cut the size of the federal government. Starting his speech with the words “I love America,” Mr. Walker, a Republican, said the nation’s fiscal health and global reputation required undoing many of President Obama’s priorities, from the Affordable Care Act to any deal with Iran on its nuclear program. He cast himself as an unwavering fighter who would not compromise his principles as president but would rather pursue a decidedly conservative agenda to make people less dependent on government programs and to transfer power from Washington to the states.

5am – E         MSNBC Slams Scott Walker’s Bid For President.

6am – A/B/C Amid sanctuary city debate, Obama administration takes heat for pulling plug on enforcement program. (Fox News) — The president said it worked. The nation’s top immigration agent said it worked. Even the inspector general said it worked. So why did the Obama administration kill a government program that did exactly what Congress intended by identifying and deporting illegal immigrants? “It worked! It worked, I think, a little too well in terms of broadly identifying individuals that had been arrested and charged with crimes,” said Julie Myers-Wood, who directed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency from 2005-2008. At issue is an ICE program known as Secure Communities. Launched after the 9/11 attacks under the Patriot Act, it required immigration agents to have access to the fingerprints and criminal history of any immigrant booked in jail. That requirement came after studies showed immigration agents failed to identify 86 percent of all illegal immigrants released from jail. Secure Communities cost more than $1 billion, and in 2012, then-ICE Director John Morton called it “the future of immigration enforcement.” That same year, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general called Secure Communities a success, “effectively identifying criminal aliens … with little or no cost” to local jurisdictions. But to critics, the program cast too wide a net. In large, Democratically controlled cities like Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, politicians said the program deported too many immigrants guilty of minor crimes, like traffic violations and non-violent offenses like theft and burglary. In response, some 200 cities created “sanctuary” laws to shield immigrants by prohibiting local police from cooperating when ICE sought to pick up an inmate.

6am – D         INTERVIEW — ELI LAKE – Bloomberg View columnist – analyzed the breaking news about the Iran Deal.

6am – E         Discussed the Iran Deal.

7am – A/B     LIVE: President Obama announced Iran Deal.

7am – C        INTERVIEW – DAVID DRUCKER – Senior Congressional Correspondent covering Capitol Hill for the Washington Examiner – discussed what’s next for Congress in handling Obama’s Iran deal.

• McConnell: Iran deal will be ‘hard sell’ in Congress. “This is going to be a very hard sell for the administration,” McConnell said on “Fox News Sunday” when asked about the likelihood of Congress signing off on a deal.
• Corker: Iran vote not likely until September. (Politico) — Congress is likely to wait until September to vote to approve or disapprove any nuclear deal with Iran, Sen. Bob Corker told reporters on Monday evening. Under a new law signed by President Barack Obama earlier this year, Congress now has 60 days to review a nuclear deal with Iran likely to lift some sanctions in exchange for scaling back that nation’s nuclear program. And that 60-day clock doesn’t start until a number of documents, including certifications from the Director of National Intelligence, have been submitted to Capitol Hill, which could take several days. “It’d be difficult to get here before the end of the week. And so then the 60-day clock would start. And then you’d have time when returning from August recess to still move [an Iran vote] across both floors,” said Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – BILL KRISTOL – Editor, The Weekly Standard

• A Very Good Deal—for Iran. (Weekly Standard/William Kristol) — We have a deal. It’s a deal worse than even we imagined possible. It’s a deal that gives the Iranian regime $140b in return for … effectively nothing: no dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program, no anytime/anywhere inspections, no curbs on Iran’s ballistic missile program, no maintenance of the arms embargo, no halt to Iran’s sponsorship of terror. It’s obviously a very good deal for the Iranian regime. It’s a very bad deal for America. So Congress should rise to the occasion. Congress should engage in a full and comprehensive debate; Congress should then pass a resolution of disapproval; Congress should then override President Obama’s veto, and return America’s Iran policy to dealing from a position of strength rather than supplication. If this happens, historians will look back and say July 13, 2105, was the bottom, the nadir, from which America went on to recover. If Congress cannot override the president, the recovery will have to begin a year and a half from now, but from a deeper hole, a worse position for America, the Middle East, and the world. Either way, this deal cannot stand.

7am – E         Discussed the latest news on the Iran Deal.

8am – A         INTERVIEW — LT. COL TONY SHAFFER – a CIA trained former senior intelligence officer and the New York Times bestselling author of Operation “Dark Heart: Spycraft an Special Operations on the Frontlines of Afghanistan – And The Path to Victory.”   His latest book is The Last Line. He is a senior fellow with both the London Center for Policy Research and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies – analyzed the Iran Deal.

8am – B         INTERVIEW — JAMES WAGNER – reporter, covers the Nats for the Washington Post   @JamesWagnerWP

• Nationals Preview: Tuesday’s All-Star Game

8am – C         Entertainment News:

• Dems and GOPers shake it off as the #TaylorSwift1989Tour unites Congress members. Washington (CNN) – There’s plenty of bad blood between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, but for two nights this week, one woman will bring them together: Taylor Swift. A whopping 26 congressional lawmakers and political action committees plan to host fundraisers in private suites at Swift’s concert at Nationals Park on July 13 and 14. A handful of lawmakers booked spots months ago, but since then, the number of politicos advertising events at the concert has exploded, according to information listed by technology firm Coalescent. A source who receives the fundraising reports provided a list to CNN. The bipartisan gathering might not amount to a love story between the parties, but 18 Republican and eight Democratic lawmakers and PACs plan to charge supporters between $750 to $2,500 per ticket for a chance to hobnob with elected officials during the show. Tickets are available to the public for around $60.
• Ariana Grande won’t be charged for Donutgate. (USA Today) — So long, Donutgate. Ariana Grande will not be charged for her notorious July 4 donut-licking escapade, according to TMZ and People. The pop singer, who was caught on security cameras licking a tray of pastries she had not paid for at Wolfee Donuts in Lake Elsinore, Calif. (while saying “I hate America”), has since issued two public apologies. The first landed with a thud, with Grande blaming obesity in America for her actions. The second, a video apology, attempted to sprinkle some sugar over the situation. “Seeing a video of yourself behaving poorly that you had no idea was taken was such a rude awakening,” said Grande, her cheeks puffy after wisdom teeth removal surgery. “I was disgusted with myself.”

8am – D         INTERVIEW: Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. – Foreign affairs analyst and is a Director, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. He is a former aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Nile analyzed the Iran Deal.

TOMORROW: KT McFarland and Amanda Carpenter!