Joe diGenova, Rod Wheeler, Politico’s FL reporter Marc Caputo and Cincinnati Enquirer’s Chrissie Thompson joined WMAL on Monday!

Mornings on the Mall

Monday, March 14, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C Donald Trump blames Sanders supporters for Chicago unrest. (CNN) Donald Trump on Saturday called for protesters who disrupt his rallies to be arrested, one day after altercations and protests forced him to cancel a campaign rally in Chicago. The comments capped a tumultuous day on the campaign trail in which a demonstrator rushed a stage where Trump was speaking. Trump also accused Bernie Sanders’ supporters of sowing unrest at his events and the GOP front-runner refused to back down from his rhetoric that some have cited as the cause of heightened tension at his rallies.

5am – D         Officer Killed During Shooting at Prince Georges’ County Police Headquarters. PALMER PARK, MD. (WMAL) — A Prince Georges’ County officer has been killed following an unprovoked attack at the Prince Georges’ County police headquarters. Officials are identifying the fallen policeman as 28 year old Officer Jacai Colson. Officer Colson was a four year veteran of the force. He would have turned 29 later this week. Prince Georges’ County police have two suspects in custody following the shooting and subsequent death of officer Colson. One suspect turned himself in at the Popeye’s in Palmer Park, while another suspect has also been apprehended. One suspect was injured but is expected to survive. Police asked for the community’s thoughts and prayers as they continued their investigation.

5am – E         Clinton ‘Misspoke’ About Nancy Reagan & AIDS Advocacy. Clinton said Nancy Reagan started a “national conversation” during her time in the White House.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event in Durham, N.C., Thursday, March 10, 2016. Clinton apologized for comments she made crediting Nancy Reagan for HIV/AIDS advocacy during her time in the White House. Hillary Clinton has apologized, saying she “misspoke” when she said Nancy Reagan used “low-key advocacy” for the HIV/AIDS epidemic during her time in the White House, NBC News reported. Clinton told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Friday that the Reagans started “a national conversation” about the disease and that Nancy Reagan, whose funeral was held Friday in California, helped push the crisis into the public’s consciousness.

6am – A/B/C BEN CARSON in a print interview with THE HILL: “I needed to know that he could listen to other people, that he could change his opinions, and that some of the more outlandish things that he’s said, that he didn’t really believe those things.”

6am – D         Can We Talk About That Awkward Kiss Between Hillary Clinton and Jake Tapper? (Mediaite) – I recoiled in awkward discomfort watching Hillary Clinton‘s entrance onto the stage during tonight’s Democratic Town Hall on CNN. Moments after Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders exited stage left, CNN’s Jake Tapper welcomed the former Secretary of State to the stage at Ohio State University, and in one of those uh-what-just-happened moments, Tapper found himself reaching out for a peck on the cheek from Clinton. Realizing the fact that she had just kissed her Town Hall moderator, Clinton then doubled-down, offering one to the event’s co-moderator Roland Martin as well before settling in for her first question. All’s well here, nothing to see folks.

6am – E         Local News:

• MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews embroiled in scandal. Chris Matthews at center of new NBC scandal as it emerges guests on his show Hardball gave his wife at least $79k to fund her political campaign. Despite saying last June that he would be ‘transparent and fair in our coverage’ when his wife announced she was running as a Democrat for the open seat in Maryland’s 8th District, it seems MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews has gone back on his word. Guests on his long-running cable-news show – mainly current and former prominent politicians – have contributed at least $79,050 to Kathleen Matthews’s campaign – and her husband hasn’t uttered a word about the money.
• Local Trump supporter says she’s facing harassment, vandalism. WASHINGTON — Someone has stolen the Donald Trump signs from her yard, spray-painted her house with messages and a motorcyclist stopped to threaten her life. But a Gainesville, Virginia woman says that while she’s frightened and exhausted by the ordeal, she won’t be intimidated. Judy Beaty, 70, has put up more Trump yard signs. She says she’s been told by Virginia State Police that they will provide additional security measures. “I can’t even tell you how hard it is to deal with something like this. I feel like I’m very violated, at this point, and very threatened,” says Beaty. She awoke Wednesday morning to find the Trump signs gone and her neat, white house spray painted with the words “revolution” and “can you see the new world through the tear gas.”

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

• Grassley defends Supreme Court blockade (POLITICO) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley — under daily fire from Democrats for his refusal to hold confirmation hearings for deceased Justice Antonin Scalia’s yet-to-be-named successor — mounted a lengthy defense Thursday of his controversial decision.
• Trump says he may pay legal fees of supporter who sucker-punched protester at rally. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he is looking into paying the legal fees for the man who allegedly sucker-punched a protester last week during a Trump rally. “I’m going to look at it. I’m going to see, you know, what was behind this, because it was a strange event. But from what I heard, there was a lot of taunting and a certain finger was placed in the air. Not nice,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
• Trump threatens to ‘press charges’ against protesters after latest chaos
• Source: Clinton IT specialist revealing server details to FBI, ‘devastating witness’ (Fox News) — Former Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the email probe who struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department, has told the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up, according to an intelligence source close to the case who called him a “devastating witness.”

7am – B         INTERVIEW – ROD WHEELER – Law Enforcement Expert and Former Washington DC Homicide Detective

• Officer Killed During Shooting at Prince Georges’ County Police Headquarters. PALMER PARK, MD. (WMAL) — A Prince Georges’ County officer has been killed following an unprovoked attack at the Prince Georges’ County police headquarters. Officials are identifying the fallen policeman as 28 year old Officer Jacai Colson. Officer Colson was a four year veteran of the force. He would have turned 29 later this week.

7am – C         RECAP: WMAL’s Free Speech Forum

7am – D         INTERVIEW – MARC CAPUTO is POLITICO’s Florida political reporter – previewed the Florida primary.

• NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Sunday shows Marco Rubio trailing Donald Trump in Florida by 21 points…43 percent to 22
• Tough polls, math for Rubio – 2m Floridians have voted in presidential primary – Strong early vote turnout in Trumpy counties– Gov. and Lt. Gov. split on backing a Trump nominee

7am – E         Entertainment News:

• High School Removes Swastikas From Production Of ‘The Producers’ Following Controversy. RANGETOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A high school version of “The Producers” will be missing something in its performance Friday evening. The swastikas have been cut from the satirical musical about Adolf Hitler. If someone scrawled a swastika on a desk at Tappan Zee High School, it would be treated as a potential hate crime. That helps explain why the stage will be devoid of swastikas when high schoolers present the Mel Brooks’ musical this weekend. “There is no context in a public high school where a swastika is appropriate,” South Orangetown Superintendent Bob Pritchard told CBS2’s Tony Aiello. The controversy erupted on social media after someone posted a picture of swastikas on the stage on their Facebook page.
• Richard Simmons May or May Not Be Currently Held Hostage by His Maid. With his bouncing body, looming grin, and wild hair, Richard Simmons might have terrified me as a child, but it gives me no pleasure to report that the New York Daily News published a story on the fact that his friends are pretty convinced the exercise mogul and TV personality is being held hostage in his own home by his maid. Yes, you read that correctly. This is a story that features a number of colorful characters: Mauro Oliveira, a Brazilian orphan who grew up to be a masseuse and confidante to the rich and powerful Simmons (and who I’m convinced might be the real-life Brazilian version of Pip from Great Expectations), Simmons’ mysterious brother Lenny, who proves to be pretty slap-happy when it comes to restraining orders, and Teresa Reveles, the maid-in-question, and who Oliveira accuses of being an actual witch. And then there’s Simmons himself, who disappeared from the public eye in 2014.

8am – A         INTERVIEW – CHRISSIE THOMPSON – Cincinnati Enquirer reporter

• Preview of the Ohio primary:
• Poll: Trump and Kasich neck-and-neck in Ohio; Trump leads in Florida. In Ohio, Governor John Kasich is tied with Trump 33 percent to 33 percent, in two of the big winner-take-all delegate prizes up on Tuesday.
• John Boehner Endorses Fellow Ohioan John Kasich
• Rubio: It’s OK if my Ohio voters go for Kasich

8am – B         Breitbart Resignations:

• Leaked Internal Messages Show ‘Ashamed’ Writers At Breitbart Revolting Against Weak Leadership. (IJ Review) – Michelle Fields is gone. Ben Shapiro is gone. Breitbart is in turmoil. And it’s all because of Donald Trump. At 12 AM Monday morning, Michelle Fields, the Breitbart reporter who has accused Donald Trump’s campaign manager of assault, and filed police charges regarding the incident, resigned her position at the site. Her resignation was submitted aside the resignation of Breitbart Editor-At-Large Ben Shapiro, who has been a full-throated defender of Fields. The resignations were first reported by BuzzFeed. The chapter is a dark one for the namesake of the late Andrew Breitbart. Shapiro writes in his resignation letter, “Breitbart News, under the chairmanship of Steve Bannon, has put a stake through the heart of Andrew’s legacy.” Shapiro continues ripping into the Breitbart policy of ostensibly abandoning Fields and bowing to Trump’s narrative over that of their own reporter.

8am – C         Sports News:

• Kansas, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia are No. 1 seeds in NCAA tournament
• Virginia, Maryland enter NCAA Tournament trending in opposite directions

8am – D/E     TRUMP VS PROTESTERS: WHOSE FREE SPEECH IS IT?