Hans Von Spakovsky, CPAC’s Matt Schlapp, KT McFarland, Gen. Michael Hayden and DC Marine Chris Marquez joined WMAL on Wednesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

 

5am – A/B/C INTERVIEW – CULLY STIMSON – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs and currently Manager, National Security Law Program and Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation

• Obama: Guantanamo Bay undermines security, must be closed. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s plan to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba slammed into a wall of Republican opposition on Tuesday, stopping cold Obama’s hope for a bipartisan effort to “close a chapter” that began in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

5am – D/E     McConnell refuses to meet with any Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he won’t even meet with President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. McConnell said Republican members of the Judiciary Committee unanimously recommended to him that there should not be confirmation hearings this year to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. In light of that, McConnell said, a meeting with Obama’s nominee is unnecessary. “I don’t know the purpose of such a visit [by the nominee.] I would not be inclined to take one myself,” he said. Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) echoed that position. “I don’t see the point of going through the motions and creating a misleading impression that something else is going on,” Cornyn said.

5am – E         Trump notches another win as Rubio bids to elbow past Cruz. Not only was it a win in the Silver State, but it was a win with a huge margin. With 30% of the expected vote in at about 3 a.m. ET, Trump was dominating the race with 42.6%. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were in a narrow battle for second with Rubio at 24.4% and Cruz at 23.6%. The results in Nevada, a state where 30 delegates are at stake, demonstrated the power of Trump’s appeal in this anti-establishment year. It also underscored his ability to use his media savvy and enormous popularity to sweep a state with complex caucus rules and where rivals were far more organized. Trump increased his vote share over what he won in other primary states, outpacing second place finisher Marco Rubio by double digits, even though Rubio spent part of his childhood in Nevada.

6am – A         Millennials Literally Too Lazy to Eat Cereal. Thinking about the dishes cereal creates is exhausting! On Tuesday, the New York Times issued a disturbing a report: “Almost 40 percent of the millennials … said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it.”

6am – B         Will Marco Rubio ‘Skip’ CPAC? Campaign Fires Back After Scheduling Ultimatum: ‘This Is Bizarre Behavior.’ The organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference criticized Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign Tuesday for not being “organized” enough to commit to a speaking slot at next week’s conference. “I take them at their word when they tell me that they want to be there, but they simply seem unable to commit to anything that is a week away,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union. “We’d like to have them there, but we think it’s curious that every other campaign is organized enough to set a time — we think they should be too,” Schlapp told TheBlaze. “Four out of five of these presidential campaigns have worked with us to get a time that’s mutually agreeable, we would have loved Marco Rubio to do the same thing.”

6am – C         Arrests Made In DC Assault Of Marine, Hate Crime Charges Not Pursued. Police on Monday arrested two juveniles for their assault on a decorated Marine in a Washington, D.C. McDonald’s, but have yet to charge either with a hate crime. Chris Marquez, a decorated Marine veteran, was followed out of McDonald’s and assaulted by a person brandishing a handgun February 12 following a verbal altercation in which Marquez was called a racist.The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed in a press release the arrests of two 17-year-old black juveniles Monday, one male, one female, for the attack. They were charged with aggravated assault and robbery, respectively. They have not yet been charged with a hate crime, but the investigation is ongoing.

6am – D         INTERVIEW – HANS VON SPAKOVSKY – a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, co-author of book “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk” and “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department”

• A Big Win for Electoral Integrity. by Hans A. von Spakovsky Electoral integrity has scored big — District of Columbia federal district court Judge Richard Leon just issued an order denying the request by the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and the U.S. Justice Department for a temporary restraining order (TRO). Thus, there will be no TRO preventing the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) from instructing residents of Alabama, Georgia, and Kansas that they must comply with state laws requiring proof-of-citizenship when they register to vote.

6am – E         South Carolina Democratic Town Hall kicks off with questions on guns, Guantanamo Bay.

7am – A         INTERVIEW – MATT SCHLAPP – Chairman of the American Conservative Union, the organization that hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) – previewed CPAC and explained the controversy over Marco Rubio’s invite.

7am – B         Trump wins Nevada caucuses.

7am – C         Judge says Clinton aides should testify under oath about emails. A federal judge on Tuesday declared that top aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about their role in her controversial email setup.

The ruling from Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will allow for conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to explore whether Clinton’s unusual arrangement amounted to deliberate thwarting of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on behalf of the State Department. The evidence-gathering process, formally known as discovery, should be “narrowly tailored,” Sullivan warned.

7am – D         INTERVIEW — KT MCFARLAND – Fox News National Security Analyst @KTMcFarland

• Obama: Guantanamo Bay undermines security, must be closed. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s plan to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba slammed into a wall of Republican opposition on Tuesday, stopping cold Obama’s hope for a bipartisan effort to “close a chapter” that began in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

7am – E         INTERVIEW — GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN – a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and author of new book / his memoir, “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror. “

• Ex-NSA chief Hayden backs Apple on iPhone ‘back doors’
• Book signing event at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 pm

8am – A         INTERVIEW – CHRIS MARQUEZ – a decorated Marine veteran who was attacked by a ‘Black Live Matter’ group in DC

• Arrests Made In DC Assault Of Marine, Hate Crime Charges Not Pursued. Police on Monday arrested two juveniles for their assault on a decorated Marine in a Washington, D.C. McDonald’s, but have yet to charge either with a hate crime. Chris Marquez, a decorated Marine veteran, was followed out of McDonald’s and assaulted by a person brandishing a handgun February 12 following a verbal altercation in which Marquez was called a racist. The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed in a press release the arrests of two 17-year-old black juveniles Monday, one male, one female, for the attack. They were charged with aggravated assault and robbery, respectively. They have not yet been charged with a hate crime, but the investigation is ongoing.

8am – B         McConnell refuses to meet with any Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he won’t even meet with President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. McConnell said Republican members of the Judiciary Committee unanimously recommended to him that there should not be confirmation hearings this year to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death.

8am – C         Super Tuesday Preview:

• Loudoun Co. Public Schools to close for presidential primary. ASHINGTON – Loudoun County is joining Fairfax, Stafford and Prince William counties in closing schools for the Virginia primary on March 1. Loudoun County Public Schools made the announcement Tuesday, saying it was “to accommodate an anticipated higher-than-usual turnout for the Presidential Primary Election.”
• President Clinton to Get Out The Vote for Hillary Clinton in Virginia. Richmond, VA – Tomorrow, February 24, President Bill Clinton will attend Hillary for Virginia organizing events in Alexandria and Richmond to campaign for Hillary Clinton ahead of the March 1 primary. At the events, President Clinton will lay out what’s at stake during this election and why Hillary Clinton is the only candidate who can break down barriers that hold Virginians back, deliver results, and protect the progress that we’ve made under President Obama.

8am – D         Obama: Guantanamo Bay undermines security, must be closed. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s plan to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba slammed into a wall of Republican opposition on Tuesday, stopping cold Obama’s hope for a bipartisan effort to “close a chapter” that began in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

8am – E         Trump notches another win as Rubio bids to elbow past Cruz. Not only was it a win in the Silver State, but it was a win with a huge margin. With 30% of the expected vote in at about 3 a.m. ET, Trump was dominating the race with 42.6%. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were in a narrow battle for second with Rubio at 24.4% and Cruz at 23.6%. The results in Nevada, a state where 30 delegates are at stake, demonstrated the power of Trump’s appeal in this anti-establishment year. It also underscored his ability to use his media savvy and enormous popularity to sweep a state with complex caucus rules and where rivals were far more organized. Trump increased his vote share over what he won in other primary states, outpacing second place finisher Marco Rubio by double digits, even though Rubio spent part of his childhood in Nevada.