Mark Krikorian, Amb. John Bolton, DC Transportation Director Leif Domsjo and Joe Concha joined WMAL on Thursday!
Mornings on the Mall
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor
Executive Producer: Heather Hunter
5am – A/B/C Presidential Debate: Was Trump Right To Say He Would Not commit To Accepting The Election Result?
5am – D/E Hillary Clinton’s 84 proposed campaign slogans, ranked. (Washington Post / Philip Bump) – Buried in the emails stolen from the account of John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, is a list of 84 proposed “principles/slogans.” (The FreeBeacon’s Lachlan Markay, who dug it up, graciously counted the total as 85 because it includes “It’s your time” twice.) The list is very Hillary-Clinton-y: exhaustive, often corny and subject to group debate. There are a few broad categories, including “Fighter,” “Future/Forward,” “Fairness/Families” and “Basic Bargain/Making America Work.” The slogans are often riffs on those categories, and they are often very bad. (Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is also very Trump-y. He settled on it right after Mitt Romney lost in 2012 and then quickly trademarked it.) As a public service, I wasted a few minutes ranking the proposals from most to least terrible. The actual choice, “Stronger Together,” ended up at 11th on my list, which really isn’t that shabby.
6am – A INTERVIEW — MARK KRIKORIAN – Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
- 2016 Final Presidential Debate: Immigration. In the third and final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump discussed their positions on immigration. Clinton said she will deliver a plan for comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship within her first 100 days of presidency. Trump supports stronger border protections and says that thousands of illegal immigrants are crossing the border, bringing drugs with them.
6am – B/C Debate Highlights / Calls
6am – D INTERVIEW – AMB JOHN BOLTON – Former UN AMBASSADOR — discussed the presidential debate’s handling of foreign affairs including Iran, Mosul and Russia.
6am – E The WMAL Diner Tour is back! WMAL’s bringing Mornings on the Mall with Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor to your neighborhood… just in time for Election Day. Larry and Brian are taking the pulse of area voters (that means you!) in Maryland and Virginia with a series of live broadcasts leading up to the election. Stop by to join the conversation live with Mornings on the Mall and WMAL! DINER LOCATIONS: Friday, October 21st / Silver Diner Tysons Corner, 8101 Fletcher St, McLean, VA 22102 / 5am to 9am
7am – A INTERVIEW — LEIF DORMSJO– (LAY-FF) – Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT)
- On Thursday, WMATA is holding a hearing to eliminate late night service, which creates a hardship for residents and businesses around the city.
- D.C. Mayor Bowser to Metro: ‘No articulation of a need’ for late-night service cuts. Thursday’s blockbuster public hearing on Metro’s plan to end late-night train service is bound to be filled with fireworks, but D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has already delivered an opening shot. In a letter to Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld sent Wednesday, Bowser said the transit agency has failed to demonstrate the need for extra track time in the middle of the night and called Wiedefeld’s proposal an “outsized” idea. “There has been no articulation of a need, a plan, or how the plan is designed to solve the problem,” Bowser wrote in her letter. “Why close the entire system when you can only work on discrete segments at any one time? Why would the service cuts be permanent?” Bowser drew comparisons with SafeTrack, arguing that the thought and strategy that occurred in advance of Metro’s year-long period of intense, round-the-clock maintenance work has not been apparent in the plan to add eight extra hours of maintenance time late at night or early in the morning. “The region supported the ongoing SafeTrack maintenance plan because you clearly demonstrated a need and set a firm end date,” Bowser wrote in her letter. “That plan also took a phased approach to maintenance, which left much of the Metro system open for business. That is not the case with the late-night service cuts.”
7am – B/C/D Debate Highlights / Calls
- ON HILLARY PLANE: Clinton Responds To O’Keefe Videos: I Know Nothing About This, “Can’t Deal With Every One Of His Conspiracy Theories”
7am – E The WMAL Diner Tour is back! WMAL’s bringing Mornings on the Mall with Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor to your neighborhood… just in time for Election Day. Larry and Brian are taking the pulse of area voters (that means you!) in Maryland and Virginia with a series of live broadcasts leading up to the election. Stop by to join the conversation live with Mornings on the Mall and WMAL! DINER LOCATIONS: Friday, October 21st / Silver Diner Tysons Corner, 8101 Fletcher St, McLean, VA 22102 / 5am to 9am
8am – A INTERVIEW — JOE CONCHA – Media Reporter, The Hill – shared his thoughts on the moderator Chris Wallace’s performance and the media reaction to the debate.
8am – B/C/D Debate Highlights / Calls
8am – E The WMAL Diner Tour is back! WMAL’s bringing Mornings on the Mall with Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor to your neighborhood… just in time for Election Day. Larry and Brian are taking the pulse of area voters (that means you!) in Maryland and Virginia with a series of live broadcasts leading up to the election. Stop by to join the conversation live with Mornings on the Mall and WMAL! DINER LOCATIONS: Friday, October 21st / Silver Diner Tysons Corner, 8101 Fletcher St, McLean, VA 22102 / 5am to 9am
