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Mornings on the Mall

Monday, September 26, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C On ABC, Trump’s Campaign Manager Says Debate Moderators Shouldn’t Be “Virtual Fact-Checkers.”

5am – D         HILLARY’S EMAILS: Friday FBI Document Dump:

• FBI releases interviews with Clinton aides.  (The Hill) – The FBI on Friday afternoon released almost 200 pages of summaries of interviews done during its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, including those with top aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan. The interview with Justin Cooper, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, is also included. Cooper registered the original clintonemail.com domain. The documents contain several previously unknown details. In the interview with Abedin, the longtime Clinton aide was surprised to be shown an exchange between President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Abedin was shown an email chain dated June 28, 2012, with the subject “Re: Congratulations!” from a sender she did not recognize, according to the FBI’s notes.
• Top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills granted partial immunity in email investigation. A source says the immunity offer came after the FBI interviewed Mills when investigators asked to go through her computers to see if it still contained classified information. (Politico) — Top Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills received an immunity deal from the Justice Department in the FBI’s investigation into the former secretary of state’s private email server, records shown to Congress revealed Friday, re-injecting the email controversy into the presidential campaign just days before her first debate with Donald Trump. In addition to Mills, Clinton’s former chief of staff at State, grants of partial immunity were also extended to former Clinton aide Heather Samuelson, who worked as State’s White House liaison and later as a private attorney for Clinton and to John Bentel, who was director of the the Information Resources Management section in the secretary of state’s office, lawmakers said. The newly disclosed information brings to five the number of individuals known to have received some form of immunity in connection with the FBI probe, which ended with the bureau recommending that no charges be brought against Clinton or her aides for mishandling classified information.
• Not only was Cheryl Mills granted immunity, but she was allowed to advise Hillary Clinton during her own questioning by the FBI.
• Donald Trump camp on Mills’ immunity: Hillary Clinton ran “a criminal scheme” at State Dept.
• Jason Chaffetz on Cheryl Mills immunity deal: “This is beyond explanation”  
• Obama used a pseudonym when emailing Hillary Clinton while she was at the State Department (Business Insider) — President Barack Obama used a fake name while communicating with Hillary Clinton while she used a private email server during her time as US secretary of state, FBI documents released Friday revealed. The documents offer some details about the agency’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server, a matter that has continually plagued the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign.  According to the documents, Huma Abedin, one of Clinton’s aides, first noticed the former secretary of state’s exchange with an unrecognized sender on June 28, 2012 that was later revealed to be Obama. “Once informed that the sender’s name is believed to be pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed: ‘How is this not classified?'” the report says. The State Department has refused to released the emails between Obama and Clinton, according to Politico.

5am – E         Crime Developments:

• Amid pressure, Charlotte police release videos in shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. (Washington Post) — CHARLOTTE — Police officials here relented amid increasing pressure Saturday and released two videos showing the shooting death of a black man by police five days ago that has sparked several nights of sometimes-violent protests. The videos — one taken from an officer’s body camera and another from the dashboard camera of a police vehicle — show Keith Lamont Scott, 43, exiting his vehicle and falling to the ground. But they do not answer a crucial question about whether Scott was holding a gun as police have said and Scott’s family has denied. The police department also offered fresh insight into how the encounter happened. Plainclothes officers were sitting in an unmarked car at an apartment complex preparing to serve an arrest warrant against someone else when Scott pulled in beside them, the department said. The officers initially noticed that the 43-year-old was rolling a marijuana “blunt” in his car — and then saw him raise a gun, the police said. The combination of the gun and the marijuana created a public safety hazard, the officers concluded. The officers left and returned in vests and equipment that identified them as cops. That is when the encounter began, police say. “There was a crime that he had committed [possessing marijuana] that caused the encounter, and then the gun exacerbated that encounter,” said ­ Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney at a news conference.
• Arcan Cetin: Did Cascade Mall Suspect Support Hillary Clinton & ISIS? (Heavy) – Cetin was arrested on September 24 and is accused in the mass murder of five people in the Macy’s store at Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington. It’s also been revealed that, although Cetin was widely described as Hispanic in the media when he was not yet identified by name, his Facebook page says he is from Turkey. The Seattle Times newspaper says police first misidentified Cetin, a Turkish immigrant, as Hispanic, adding that police said they identified him as Hispanic based on surveillance photos and his dark hair. A Tumblr page in his name contains references to the phrase “Subhan Allah,” which means Glory be to God, as well as comments about serial killers. It links to a page that praises the ISIS leader. Police have not yet determined the shooter’s motive in the mall attack, according to The Seattle Times, and Cetin has a troubled past that includes domestic violence allegations. By one account, he called out a woman’s name while allegedly firing. What’s the evidence that he took a side in the upcoming presidential election, though? @arcancetin: we win. I vote for Hillary Clinton

6am – A/B     Big Presidential Debate Tonight: What Tips Would You Give Hillary and Trump?

6am – C         Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor, Chris Plante and Mark Levin at WMAL’s Free Speech Forum Saturday, October 1st at The Birchmere! Brian, Larry, Chris and Mark live on stage discussing the latest news and politics… they’ll be taking your questions and they won’t be holding anything back! Seating is general admission and is first come, first served.  Food and drink are available for purchase, so please feel free to enjoy dinner before the show.  Doors open: 6pm / Program starts: 7:30pm / Meet & greet after the show starts approximately 9pm / GO TO GET TICKETS: https://www.wmal.com/freespeechforum/

6am – D         Metro board Chairman Jack Evans is so frustrated trying to lead the transit system’s cumbersome, 16-member governing body that he would prefer to scrap it and start fresh. “Have the president of the United States appoint five people to run this, none of whom can live in Maryland, D.C. or Virginia,” Evans suggested.

6am –  E        Come as you are: Nirvana naked baby recreates Nevermind album front cover 25-years later… but this time wears shorts. (Daily Mail) — The now 25-year-old who most people only knew as the naked swimming baby from the cover of Nirvana’s iconic album, Nevermind, has recreated the image for the record’s 25th anniversary.  Spencer Elden initially wanted to honor the band by posing naked, as he did 25 years ago.  But when presented the idea, the photographer responded that ‘he thought that would be weird’ so ‘I wore my swim shorts,’ Elden told the New York Post.  Elden, who is now an artist, said the anniversary ‘means something to me’ although he doesn’t remember it, as he was only four months old at the time. ‘It’s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was four months old and it became this really iconic image,’ he told the Post.

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

• FBI releases interviews with Clinton aides.
• Top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills granted partial immunity in email investigation.
• Not only was Cheryl Mills granted immunity, but she was allowed to advise Hillary Clinton during her own questioning by the FBI
• Donald Trump camp on Mills’ immunity: Hillary Clinton ran “a criminal scheme” at State Dept.
• Jason Chaffetz on Cheryl Mills immunity deal: “This is beyond explanation”
• Obama used a pseudonym when emailing Hillary Clinton while she was at the State Department

7am – B/C     Team Trump: We didn’t invite Gennifer Flowers. (CNN) Donald Trump’s campaign manager and running mate said Sunday the GOP candidate doesn’t want Gennifer Flowers — who had an affair with Bill Clinton in the 1970s — at Monday night’s presidential debate. “We have not invited her formally, and we do not expect her to be there as a guest of the Trump campaign,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump’s vice presidential nominee, told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace that Trump’s suggestion he’d invite Flowers was just “mocking” Clinton’s campaign for distracting from the real issues at stake on Monday night. Their comments come after Trump tweeted that he was considering inviting Flowers to sit in the front row for the first debate.

7am – D         Hillary Gets Super-Sized Podium To Compete With Trump. (Daily Caller) — Before Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton debate each other Monday, Clinton’s podium needed some adjustments. Trump is a towering 6’2″ and Clinton is only 5’4″. To even the height field, Clinton’s podium now has plywood placed in the middle, according to WABC Radio Host Rita Cosby. The WABC journalist gained exclusive access to the podiums, which not only show Clinton’s is now a bit larger than Trump’s, but that there is also a small box Clinton might stand on. Monday evening’s debate is being hosted by Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The debate will air at 9 p.m. EST in the New York college campus. It has hosted 2008 and 2012 presidential debates. Hofstra can claim it is the only university to have ever hosted three presidential debates in a row.

7am – E         Entertainment News:

• Arnold Palmer, Golf’s First Superstar in the Age of Television, Dies at 87. Arnold Palmer lined up a putt during the 1973 Ryder Cup. Swashbuckling on the course and modest off it, he won seven majors, played The Masters for 50 straight years, co-founded the Golf Channel and was IMG’s first client. Arnold Palmer, the gentleman golfer from Latrobe, Pa., whose thrilling, go-for-broke style made him the first television superstar of his sport and earned him generations of devoted fans, died Sunday. He was 87.  The beloved Palmer, who was the first client of Mark McCormack’s legendary sports management firm IMG and later co-founded the Golf Channel — the first cable network devoted to one sport — died at UPMC hospital in Pittsburgh. He was “awaiting cardiac surgery when his condition degraded,” a spokesman for his company said.
• Charles Osgood announces Jane Pauley as his successor. On his final edition of “CBS Sunday Morning,” Charles Osgood introduced his successor, former “Today” show co-host Jane Pauley. The on-air transition will likely be welcomed by fans of the beloved Sunday morning newsmagazine. Pauley has been a popular substitute host of the broadcast since 2014, and she was considered the most likely person to take over for Osgood. Osgood, 83, announced his retirement plan last month, and Sunday was his final program. He will continue to appear on the show occasionally, according to CBS News president David Rhodes. “There’s nobody like him, and there’s no show like this show,” Rhodes said in a phone interview. Pauley’s promotion is — in part — a signal that the show itself isn’t changing. Executive producer Rand Morrison is staying in place. And Pauley, 65, is well known to “CBS Sunday Morning” viewers.

8am – A         INTERVIEW – REP. RANDY FORBES —  U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district, serving since 2001. Forbes is a member of the HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE. Forbes is a Trump surrogate. He discussed the debate tonight.

8am – B/C     Calls on The Debate Tonight

8am – D         INTERVIEW — TREVOR MATICH — Redskins elite long snapper, WMAL’s Redskins analyst and Comcast SportsNet co-host – recapped Washington Redskins 29 vs New York Giants 27.

8am – E         Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor, Chris Plante and Mark Levin at WMAL’s Free Speech Forum Saturday, October 1st at The Birchmere! Brian, Larry, Chris and Mark live on stage discussing the latest news and politics… they’ll be taking your questions and they won’t be holding anything back! Seating is general admission and is first come, first served.  Food and drink are available for purchase, so please feel free to enjoy dinner before the show.  Doors open: 6pm / Program starts: 7:30pm / Meet & greet after the show starts approximately 9pm  / GO TO GET TICKETS: https://www.wmal.com/freespeechforum/