Michael Calderone, WXKC’s Kris Van Dyke, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Ann Coulter joined WMAL on Friday morning!
Mornings on the Mall
Friday, July 24, 2015
Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor
Executive Producer: Heather Smith
5am – A/B/C Trump threatens third-party run. (The Hill) — NEW YORK — Donald Trump says the chances that he will launch a third-party White House run will “absolutely” increase if the Republican National Committee is unfair to him during the 2016 primary season. “The RNC has not been supportive. They were always supportive when I was a contributor. I was their fair-haired boy,” the business mogul told The Hill in a 40-minute interview from his Manhattan office at Trump Tower on Wednesday. “The RNC has been, I think, very foolish.”
5am – D Gunman opens fire in Lafayette, La. theater: 3 dead, 9 injured. A man opened fire with a handgun Thursday night at a movie theater in Lafayette, La., killing two people and injuring at least nine others before killing himself, authorities said. Sgt. Brooks David of the Louisiana State Police described the alleged shooter in the incident at the Grand Theatre as a white male, about 58, who entered the theater by himself. Authorities know the identity of the man but are not yet releasing it, David said. About 100 people were inside of the theater at the time, authorities said. The victims range in age from their late teens to their 60s, Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft said. The man did have a criminal record but it was “pretty old,” according to Craft.
5am – E Immigration News;
- House OKs bill to crack down on ‘sanctuary cities,’ White House threatens veto. The House approved legislation Thursday to punish so-called “sanctuary cities” for failing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, in the first congressional response to a brazen murder earlier this month in San Francisco allegedly committed by an illegal immigrant. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., would penalize jurisdictions that bar the collection of immigration information or don’t cooperate with federal “detainer” requests, by blocking them from receiving certain federal law enforcement grants and funding. It passed 241-179. The Senate is considering similar legislation.
- MTV’s White People Asks White Millennials About Race in America, Gets Mixed Reactions. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas premiered White People, a documentary film last night on MTV. Vargas, who identifies himself as an “undocumented Filipino American,” asked multiple Caucasian young adults to think about and discuss race-related issues they might not have considered before. “How might your life be different if you weren’t white?” he inquired. “When you say white, what does that mean to you?”
- Hispanics love me, Trump declares at Mexican border. LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Ever sure of himself, Donald Trump paid a whirlwind visit to the Mexico border Thursday and predicted Hispanics would love him — “they already do” — because as president he’d grab jobs back from overseas and give more opportunity to those who live in the U.S. legally. “There’s great danger with the illegals,” the Republican presidential contender told reporters. But he claimed a “great relationship” with Hispanics, even as Latino leaders have come at him with blistering criticism for his painting Mexican immigrants as criminals.
- Obama Admin Plans More Executive Action on Immigration. Proposed rule expands number of illegal immigrants allowed to stay in country. The Obama administration is moving forward with plans to expand a waiver program that will allow additional illegal aliens to remain in the country rather than apply for legal status from abroad. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a proposed rule on Tuesday that would make changes to a waiver program created by President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration in 2013. The action created a waiver that primarily allowed illegal immigrants with a U.S. citizen spouse or parent to stay in the country instead of having to leave the United States and be barred from returning for three or 10 years, if they proved their absence would create an “extreme hardship” for their spouse.
6am – A/B/C Frigid offices, freezing women, oblivious men: An air-conditioning investigation. (Washington Post/Petula Dvorak) — You can spot them. The frozen ones who come outside at lunch like sun-seeking turtles, cardigans balled up next to them, bare shoulders defrosting in the noon sunlight, no matter how wilting it is outdoors. Every single woman I talked to in downtown Washington on a hot, humid July afternoon was thawing out. “I. Am. Fuh-reezing. Feel my hand — I’m still cold,” said Ruth Marshall, 64, who was seated on a park bench, face to the sky. And, yes, her hand felt like a cold steak. “I have to come out here for 30 minutes at a time just to warm up,” said Marshall, the director of administration at a construction firm where the air conditioning is set to Arctic. It’s the time of year desperate women rely on cardigans, pashminas and space heaters to make it through the workweek in their frigid offices. And their male colleagues barely notice. [Take our poll: Is your office too cold?] “Is your office too cold?” I asked a clutch of men — pinstripes, charcoal pants, crisp shirts with the faint outline of undershirts beneath. They looked at me as if I spoke in Finnish, confident faces contorted in puzzlement.
6am – D Kerry Defends Iran Nuclear Deal Before Skeptical Senate. WASHINGTON — After four and a half hours of contentious questioning, three cabinet secretaries deployed Thursday by President Obama to the Senate to defend his nuclear deal with Iran appeared to keep Democrats largely lined up as a bulwark against Republican opposition. The hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was the Obama administration’s first public defense of the agreement before Congress since it was unveiled this month. Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew parried questions — at times hostile — as they tried to stave off a resolution of disapproval that could come before lawmakers in September.
6am – E Officials: 3 dead, at least 9 injured in La. theater shooting. Gunman opens fire in Lafayette, La. theater: 3 dead, 9 injured. A man opened fire with a handgun Thursday night at a movie theater in Lafayette, La., killing two people and injuring at least nine others before killing himself, authorities said. Sgt. Brooks David of the Louisiana State Police described the alleged shooter in the incident at the Grand Theatre as a white male, about 58, who entered the theater by himself. Authorities know the identity of the man but are not yet releasing it, David said. About 100 people were inside of the theater at the time, authorities said.
7am – A INTERVIEW — MICHAEL CALDERONE – Huffington Post senior media reporter; NYU adjunct professor – discussed the changes coming to MSNBC.
7am – B 2016 News:
- Ted Cruz: ‘Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was probably a Republican. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz offered some surprisingly strong opinions on the politics of “Star Trek” in an interview published Thursday in The New York Times Magazine, arguing “it is quite likely that Kirk is a Republican and Picard is a Democrat.” “Let me do a little psychoanalysis,” Cruz says when asked about the fictional space captains from the landmark 1960s television series and its ”Next Generation” follow-up, which aired some 30 years later. “If you look at ‘’Star Trek: The Next Generation,’ it basically split James T. Kirk into two people. Picard was Kirk’s rational side, and William Riker was his passionate side. I prefer a complete captain. To be effective, you need both heart and mind.”
- Hillary Clinton’s private emails could be a criminal offense, federal inspectors say. WASHINGTON — Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday. The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton’s private account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails.” The memo was written to Patrick F. Kennedy, the under secretary of state for management.
- Hillary: Even Open-Minded Whites Get Nervous Around Blacks In Hoodies. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Thursday that even “open-minded” white people get nervous when they encounter a black male wearing a hoodie. Clinton used almost the same verbal construction last month at a speech in San Francisco when she said, “For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.”
- Trump on the border: Hispanics love me, Trump declares at Mexican border.
7am – C INTERVIEW – KRIS VAN DYKE – program director of Cumulus station KXKC
- Officials: 3 dead, at least 9 injured in La. theater shooting.
7am – D INTERVIEW — JAKE TAPPER – host of CNN’s The Lead and State of the Union – discussed the latest 2016 news.
7am – E Capitol Police could soon be able to search your bags. WASHINGTON — The Capitol Police Board has approved a measure that would allow officers to search the possessions of those within the U.S. Capitol grounds. Language approved July 15 says U.S. Capitol Police officers “may search packages, bags, and other containers in the immediate possession of individuals who enter and are within the United States Capitol Grounds for the purpose of detecting prohibited items.” Under current law, Capitol Police need probable cause to conduct searches when they see suspicious people on the grounds.
8am – A/B/C/D INTERVIEW – ANN COULTER- author of “Adios America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole” and MOVIE STAR of SHARKNADO 3 – discussed her film role in Sharknado 3 and her new book ADIOS AMERICA.
- Trump on the border: Hispanics love me, Trump declares at Mexican border
- House OKs bill to crack down on ‘sanctuary cities,’ White House threatens veto.
- MTV’s White People Asks White Millennials About Race in America,
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