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Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Smith

5am – A/B/C Democratic Debate Preview: What Are Your Questions For Hillary?

• Poll: Clinton holding leads in Nevada and South Carolina. Hillary Clinton is holding a strong lead among Democratic voters in the early voting states of Nevada and South Carolina, according to a new CNN-ORC poll. Democrats who say they are likely to attend Nevada’s Feb. 20 caucus prefer Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 50% to 34%. Vice President Biden, who is still considering whether he will run, was favored by 12%, according to CNN.
• O’Malley Polls in 4th Place in His Home State. A Washington Post/University of Maryland survey released on Monday shows O’Malley with just 4 percent support among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters in Maryland, which puts him in fourth place behind Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and Sanders. O’Malley does, however, poll ahead of fellow Democratic hopefuls Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee.
• The Democratic presidential hopefuls gather Tuesday in Las Vegas for their first debate: Here’s how to watch:
  • Who will be in the debate? Unlike the two prime-time Republican presidential debates, it’ll be much less crowded at the Wynn on Tuesday night, given the comparatively smaller Democratic field. Former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, former Virginia senator Jim Webb and former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee are scheduled to be on the stage. What about Biden? The big question in the Democratic race right now is, will Vice President Biden thrown his hat into the ring? As of now, he’s still considering, but CNN has made clear that should Biden enter the race at the last minute, he’d have a spot at the debate. However, the network has also reported that it’s expected Biden will skip the Tuesday forum.
  • Who will moderate? CNN’s Anderson Cooper will be the moderator with Dana Bash and Juan Carlos Lopez joining in the questioning. Also, the network is allowing for questions from viewers to be submitted through Facebook or Instagram. Don Lemon will be posing those.

5am – D/E     Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine. You can now say you really do read it for the articles.Playboy Magazine has decided to stop publishing photographs of fully nude models in its print edition, The New York Times first reported on Monday. Hugh Hefner, the publication’s founder and editor-in-chief, agreed with the decision, which was conceived by Playboy chief content officer Cory Jones.   “Don’t get me wrong… 12-year-old me is very disappointed in current me. But it’s the right thing to do,” Jones told the Times. The 62-year-old monthly publication has come a long way since its first issue in 1953, when actress Marilyn Monroe graced the inaugural cover. Today, the iconic brand faces intense competition from other publishers and the easy accessibility of free online porn.

6am – A/B     When should your kid get a phone? How young is too young? (USA Today) — Parenting is a tough gig. Every day is a struggle to make the right decisions, and no two days are the same. It doesn’t help either that there are outside factors pulling us in different directions and complicating our decision-making process, like, determining if your child is ready for a cell phone. How do you know when the timing is right? How young is too young? While age may be a contributing factor to making that decision, experts at the Pew Research Center believe there are other components to consider first, including ease of communication between parent and child, the maturity level of the child and proper cell phone protocol.

6am – C         Someone just uploaded their complete collection of Kmart in-store background music. (Chart Attack) — A strange time capsule of 1989 – 1993 via discount department store ephemera. Attention, Kmart shoppers: here’s one for the oddity file. Mark Davis worked behind the Service Desk at the Naperville, IL Kmart in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Every month, corporate office issued a cassette to be played over the store speaker system — canned elevator-type music with advertisements seeded every few tracks.  Around 1991, the muzak was replaced with mainstream hits, and the following year, new tapes began arriving weekly. The cassettes were supposed to be thrown away, but Davis dutifully slipped each tape into his apron pocket to save for posterity. He collected this strange discount department store ephemera until 1993, when background music began being piped in via satellite service. Nearly 20 years on, Davis has digitized his whole collection, 56 cassettes in all.

6am – D         Federal officials will assume responsibility for Metro safety. (Washington Post) — Metro now is the first U.S. subway system placed under direct federal supervision for safety lapses under a plan announced late Friday by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. Day-to-day operations would continue under the auspices of Metro, but Federal Transit Administration officials could intervene when safety concerns arise. Officials could conduct surprise inspections and issue directives to Metro to immediately address safety problems in the system. “This increased oversight means that FTA will now directly enforce and investigate the safety oversight of [the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority] Metrorail,” Foxx wrote in a letter responding to a pair of urgent recommendations issued last week by the National Transportation Safety Board.

6am – E         Entertainment News:

• Daniel Craig told to ‘shut up’ and stop bashing Bond movie. Daniel Craig, who griped he’d rather “slash his wrists” than do another Bond film just weeks before the new movie “Spectre” is to be released, has been told to shut up by execs at Sony, sources tell Page Six. Bond insiders said Craig’s cranky outburst to Time Out London was brought on by the tough shoot for the latest 007 installment. One source said, “They had problems initially with the script, Craig was injured on the set and needed knee surgery, and they were still doing reshoots last month, even though the movie is out in weeks. “It was a very difficult shoot, to say the least.” But Craig’s curmudgeonly comment hasn’t gone down well in Hollywood.
• Janet Jackson Earns Historic Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart. Jackson is only the third act to achieve No. 1 albums in each of the last four decades. Janet Jackson debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her new album, Unbreakable. It marks her seventh chart-topper and makes her just the third act to achieve No. 1 albums in each of the last four decades. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Oct. 24-dated chart (where Jackson is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s Web sites on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Unbreakable — which was released on Oct. 2 — arrives atop the chart with 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, the set sold 109,000 in pure album sales.
• Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are being held on $500k bail on charges of being fugitives from justice. Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi remain in custody in a Vermont jail on charges they left the United States and spent 5 years in Canada to avoid felony charges for vandalism. Each is being held on $500,000 bond. They were detained at the Canadian border last Friday night trying to re-enter the United States after being deported by Canada. The couple skipped a number of court appearances in 2010 for squatting in a home they previously owned. Quaid appeared in “Independence Day,” “Kingpin, “and “Brokeback Mountain.”
• Johnny Depp to Oscar voters: “I don’t want to win one of those things, ever.” Johnny Depp is at the top of industry watch lists for a best actor nomination this year, but that may be enough for the Black Mass star. “I don’t want to win one of those things ever, you know,” Depp tells the BBC. Why? “I don’t want to have to talk,” he says, presumably meaning the A-list star would rather avoid bounding up on the Academy stage to speak before a billion viewers.
• Whoopi Goldberg on relationship advice: “If someone says, ‘You complete me,’ run.” NEW YORK – What’s Whoopi Goldberg’s view of relationships? “If someone says ‘You complete me,’ run!” says the star, who’s happily single. It’s also the title of her new book from Hachette, which sports the subtitle: “Whoopi’s Big Book of Relationships.” The plain-spoken funny lady isn’t afraid to tell the world what she thinks (her 2010 book Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There?, enumerated several hundred pages’ worth of pet peeves). Her new self-help book offers anything but typical “how to get and keep a man” advice. “I think a lot of what is wrong in relationships, a lot of the reasons we have divorce in the world, is because people get into relationships for the wrong reasons,” Goldberg, 59, says in a backstage chat after her daytime talk-show The View has wrapped.

7am – A         INTERVIEW – ELEANOR CLIFT – covers politics for The Daily Beast – previewed the Democratic Debate tonight.

7am – B        Trumps Spars with Feminist Bush Intern Plant at No Labels Event. Donald Trump was confronted with a tough statement from a female audience member at the No Labels Problem Solver Convention in New Hampshire on Monday. “Maybe you can prove me wrong, but I don’t think you’re a friend to women,” the woman said. “I knew I shouldn’t have picked her,” Trump joked before responding to her claim. “Let me give you that answer right now,” he added. “I respect women incredibly. I have had women working for me in positions that they have never worked in terms of construction, in terms of so many different jobs. I had a woman who was in charge of the building of Trump Tower many years ago…I have given women more opportunity than, I would say, virtually anybody in the construction industry.”

7am – C        Barnes & Noble closing its last non-college store in the District. Big box bookseller Barnes & Noble will close its last bookstore not on a college campus in D.C. come winter, when it shutters its store on 12th Street NW. The 32,000-square-foot store follows the closures of several other large bookstores in the District in recent years: Barnes & Noble’s Georgetown store closed in 2011, and two large locations of Borders in downtown D.C. also closed that year after Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) still has college locations at Catholic University in Northeast D.C. and at Howard University in Shaw. It also recently announced that it will open a rare new location, this one at the One Loudoun retail development in Ashburn.

7am – D         INTERVIEW –REP DAVE BRAT – R-Virginia

• Dave Brat: Next House Speaker Must Oppose Amnesty for Illegals

7am – E         Debate Preview:

• Democratic Debate Preview: Will the other candidates take on Hillary? Will we see a lively debate or will the candidates be vying for Hillary’s VP?
• Poll: Clinton holding leads in Nevada and South Carolina. Hillary Clinton is holding a strong lead among Democratic voters in the early voting states of Nevada and South Carolina, according to a new CNN-ORC poll. Democrats who say they are likely to attend Nevada’s Feb. 20 caucus prefer Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 50% to 34%. Vice President Biden, who is still considering whether he will run, was favored by 12%, according to CNN.
• O’Malley Polls in 4th Place in His Home State. A Washington Post/University of Maryland survey released on Monday shows O’Malley with just 4 percent support among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters in Maryland, which puts him in fourth place behind Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and Sanders. O’Malley does, however, poll ahead of fellow Democratic hopefuls Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee.

• Trump: If You Watch the Democratic Debate, You’ll Be Asleep in Minutes
• The Democratic presidential hopefuls gather Tuesday in Las Vegas for their first debate. Brian and Larry will be live-tweeting tonight!

8am – A/B/C Trick or defeat: Connecticut school district reverses decision to cancel Halloween. Children in one Connecticut town almost found themselves all dressed up for Halloween with no place to go, after the district banned parades for fear they would exclude kids who didn’t want to take part in the celebration. However, officials from Milford Public Schools decided on Monday to reinstate parades and other Halloween activities at elementary schools in the district after parents protested the original decision. “The principals and I are about educating our children,” read a letter from School Superintendent Elizabeth Feser sent to parents Monday afternoon.”With this in mind, knowing that the issue of Halloween is detracting from what we are truly about, and our time with our children around teaching and learning is most important, we have decided to reverse our decision.”

8am – D         INTERVIEW – LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm – discussed the Democratic debate tonight and the House Speaker race.

8am – E         Playboy To Stop Publishing Nudes In Print Magazine. You can now say you really do read it for the articles.Playboy Magazine has decided to stop publishing photographs of fully nude models in its print edition, The New York Times first reported on Monday. Hugh Hefner, the publication’s founder and editor-in-chief, agreed with the decision, which was conceived by Playboy chief content officer Cory Jones.