Jamee Whitten, Charlie Gischler, Joe diGenova, VDOT’s Jenni McCord, Pepco’s Vince Morris, Loudoun County’s Tim Hemstreet and Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett joined WMAL on Monday!

Mornings on the Mall

Monday, January 25, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C Snow Updates / WMAL Traffic Reporter JAMEE WHITTEN

• What’s It Like In Your Neighborhood? Were You Able To Dig Out?

5am – D         INTERVIEW – CHARLIE GISCHLER – MD State Highway

• Governor Hogan Announces Statewide Recovery Efforts for Winter Storm Jonas
• Though snow has stopped, Maryland officials say stay off the road

5am – E         State Department Seeks to Delay Release of Final Clinton E-mails until After Iowa & New Hampshire. Blaming an unforeseen “oversight” and the blizzard starting to sweep through the nation’s capital, the State Department has asked a federal court to push back its deadline for the final release of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails a full month, to February 29. Government attorney Robert Prince appeared in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. Friday morning to argue that the State Department needed more time to process thousands of pages of e-mails from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. After VICE news filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last year, the Department was ordered to release the e-mails in monthly batches with a set completion date of January 31. The State Department has repeatedly failed to stick to that court-ordered schedule, missing a deadline in July, nearly missing another in August, overshooting its New Year’s Eve due date by more than a week, and then postponing an already-delayed January 7 deadline into the wee hours of January 8.

6am – A/B/C Snowed In? You Coming To Work?

6am – D         INTERVIEW — MATT LEWIS – Senior Contributor for The Daily Caller and author of new book “Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections (and How It Can Reclaim Its Conservative Roots)” (out January 26 – book is about the dumbing down of the GOP–and how to fix it.)

• ABOUT HIS BOOK: “Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections (and How It Can Reclaim Its Conservative Roots)” From a leading voice among young conservatives, an impassioned argument that to stay relevant the Republican Party must look beyond short-term electoral gains and re-commit to historic conservative values.

6am – E         Broncos hold on to beat the Patriots 20-18 and advance to their 2nd Super Bowl in 3 years. Manning: 176 yds, 2 TDs. Super Bowl 50 is set: Broncos vs. Panthers and Manning vs. Newton Broncos dethrone Patriots, win AFC’s spot in Super Bowl 50. DENVER – Breaking down the Denver Broncos’ 20-18 victory Sunday over the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game. THE BIG PICTURE: In the much-hyped 17th matchup between quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, it was the player that most had counted out that shined the brightest. With a tightly contested victory, Manning and the Broncos are going to the Super Bowl.

7am – A         INTERVIEW — JOE DIGENOVA — legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

• State Department Seeks to Delay Release of Final Clinton E-mails until After Iowa & New Hampshire

• Hilary Clinton says groups that paid her $200,000 to give speeches don’t expect any political favor in return.
• Clinton, Sanders and O’Malley will be at CNN’s Dem Town Hall in Iowa Monday 9p ET.

7am – B        INTERVIEW — JENNI MCCORD — Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) spokesperson – discussed the state of the roads in Northern Virginia.

7am – C        Bloomberg to run third party?

• Trump would ‘love’ a third-party Bloomberg bid. Donald Trump said Sunday he’d “love it” if former New York mayor and fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg entered the presidential race as a third-party candidate. “He’s very opposite on me with guns and he’s opposite on pro-life and he’s opposite on a lot of things, so I would love to have Michael get in the race,” the real estate mogul and entertainer said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Michael’s been a friend of mine over the years; perhaps we’re not friends anymore.”
• Disgraced Weiner Says Michael Bloomberg Could Win the White House. The Daily Beast is reporting that disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner believes ex-Gotham Mayor Michael Bloomberg could win the 2016 election if he decides to make a run for White House. Sharp-elbowed Weiner is no fan of Bloomberg, whom he said is “cocktail buddies” with “GOP big-wigs.” But when asked said if Bloomberg had a shot, Weiner responded “I suppose he could win.”
• Michael Bloomberg to decide on presidential run in first week of March, friend says: A close confidant of Michael Bloomberg told ABC News the former New York City mayor plans to make a decision on whether he will make an independent run for president in the first week of March. His decision will be based in large part on the state of the Democratic and Republican primaries after the Super Tuesday contests on March 1, the confidant said.

7am – D         Did You Shovel? Did You Get Your Kids To Shovel?

7am – E         INTERVIEW – VINCENT MORRIS – Spokesperson, Pepco

• “Great Job Pepco!” is not the typical response. But this time the power stayed on. (Washington Post) — It’s not often that power companies win praise for just keeping the lights on. But that’s what was happening Sunday morning, as the region woke up to historic snow totals and — surprise — fully-charged cell phones. For the most part, the power stayed on in the Washington area on Saturday and into Sunday, depite dire warnings from the utilities that residents would be in the dark for days or weeks. And D.C. area residents, accustomed to extended blackouts when major storms strike, showed their appreciation on social media. “Great job Pepco!” one person tweeted Sunday morning, referring to the often criticized utility company that serves the District and parts of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Another commenter posted a copy of Pepco’s nearly spotless online outage map and cheered: “Looking pretty good.”

8am – A         INTERVIEW — Loudoun County Administrator TIM HEMSTREET – discussed the latest news about the dig out efforts of Loudoun County and Loudoun handled the snow storm

• NBCWashington Verified account ‏@nbcwashington: #BREAKING: Loudoun County Public Schools CLOSED Monday, January 25 and Tuesday, January 26. http://nbc4dc.com/7jjikfP
• Jim Cantore Verified account ‏@JimCantore Jan 23: Dulles at #2 ALL-TIME: Dulles International Ai [Loudoun Co, VA] official nws obs reports SNOW of M28.3 INCH at 07:00 PM EST —
• Blizzard 2016 hits Loudoun County. Loudoun County has declared a state of emergency, this following the statewide state of emergency declared by Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Thursday. County facilities and programs are closed Sunday and Monday.

8am – B         SNOW UPDATE/TRAFFIC NEWS

8am – C         Speaker Ryan livestream of #blizzard2016 has a sizzling hot soundtrack. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) office has set up a live stream to watch the National Mall as this weekend’s snowstorm hits Washington.

8am– D          INTERVIEW – MONTGOMERY COUNTY EXECUTIVE IKE LEGGETT – discussed how his county handled the snow storm.

• Montgomery County Extends General Emergency, Announces Monday Closure. UPDATED: There will be no Montgomery County Ride On bus service. ORIGINAL POST Montgomery County Government is extending its declaration of a General Emergency through midnight on Monday, January 25. Officials have announced that Montgomery County Government will also be closed on Monday. Essential personnel must report as scheduled. Government facilities, other than public safety facilities, will be closed.

8am– E          Oscars So White:

• Matt Damon says Oscars has ‘a long, long, long way to go’ to solve diversity issue. Hollywood star Matt Damon is working on a new project — Good Will Confronting. Even though he received a Best Actor nomination for his film “The Martian,” Damon said the movie business has “a long, long, long way to go” when it comes to diversity. “We’re talking about huge systemic injustices around race and gender that are a lot bigger than the Oscars,” Damon told The Associated Press. “They’re massive issues in our industry and in our country.”
• Chris Rock Not Dropping Out Of Oscars, Rewriting Monologue to Address #OscarsSoWhite Outrage. Outrage over the lack of diversity among nominees at the Oscars will not keep Chris Rock from his hosting duties, the show’s producer told ET exclusively. ET’s Nischelle Turner sat down with Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin at the 47th NAACP Image Awards Nominee Luncheon on Saturday, where he confirmed that Rock will not be dropping out of the show. Hudlin also revealed that though the 50-year-old comedian finished writing his monologue a week ago, once the #OscarsSoWhite outrage came to a head with Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s pledge to boycott, Rock scrapped his jokes and started working on a new script. “Chris is hard at work. He and his writing staff locked themselves in a room,” Hudlin told ET. “As things got a little provocative and exciting, he said, ‘I’m throwing out the show I wrote and writing a new show.'”
• Danny DeVito on #OscarsSoWhite: ‘The Entire Country Is a Racist Country’ Danny DeVito gave a pretty blunt take on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, saying at Sundance yesterday, “The entire country is a racist country.” DeVito lamented how “even though some people have given great performances in movies,” they were overlooked, possibly on the basis of race. “We are living in a country,” he said, “that discriminates and has certain… racist tendencies. So sometimes it manifests in things like this and it’s illuminated. But just generally speaking, we’re a bunch of racists.”