Trevor Matich, VA Del. Tim Hugo, Rep. Tom Davis, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore and Bret Baier joined WMAL on Friday!

Mornings on the Mall

Friday, October 21, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

WMAL Diner Tour: Silver Diner Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia

 

5am – A/B/C  Women tend to have worse road rage than men, study finds. HOUSTON (KTRK) – Women tend to have worse road rage, according to a study from car manufacturer Hyundai. Researchers put sensors on the hands of 1,000 drivers and used webcams in the United Kingdom. They found that on average women were 12 percent angrier than men when driving. Researchers say it could be because driving sparks an ancient defense instinct in women. Many previous studies show that 96.6 percent of people with road rage are men. Want to see how your driving compares? Hyundai has the Driving Emotion Test they used in the study on their website. Answer questions about your habits behind the wheel and they’ll let you know your emotional intelligence. Click here to take the test.

5am – D         Trump, Clinton Trade Biting Jokes at Al Smith Dinner After Fiery Debate. NEW YORK — Well, that got awkward quickly. What began as the expected ribbing of presidential candidates at the white-tie Al Smith Dinner Thursday turned to boos as Donald Trump described Hillary Clinton as “corrupt” at the event, which is a major fundraiser for the Catholic charities connected to the Archdiocese of New York. Trump’s biggest laugh of night came as he referred to his wife’s partly plagiarized convention speech, in a joke that began with his complaint that the media is biased.

5am – E         Foreign Affairs News:

• Filipino president says he prefers “character of an Oriental” after meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. President Rodrigo Duterte has declared the Philippines’ “separation” from long-standing ally the United States during a visit in Beijing as he rebalances his country’s diplomacy towards China. Duterte’s comments came after he met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square on Thursday. The two also pledged to enhance trust and friendship and played down a maritime dispute in the South China Sea. “I announce my separation from the United States, both in military but economics also,” Duterte announced at a meeting of Filipino and Chinese businessmen in Beijing. “America has lost it,” Duterte was quoted as saying in a transcript of his speech by the Philippine Presidential Communications Office on Friday morning. Duterte is in China on a four-day trip seen as confirming his tilt away from Washington and towards Beijing’s sphere of influence – and its deep pockets. Xi called the two countries “neighbours across the sea” with “no reason for hostility or confrontation”, the official Xinhua news agency said.
• Washington Post: $400 million in cash ‘may have whetted’ Iran’s appetite for more American prisoners. A Washington Post editorial published Wednesday suggested a transfer of $400 million in cash earlier this year, which the administration later admitted was linked to the release of U.S. prisoners, may have whetted Iran’s appetite for jailing more Americans.    PRESIDENT OBAMA’S foreign-policy legacy will include significant, if temporary, curbs on Iran’s nuclear program — but not the broader detente with the Islamic republic that he hoped for. More and bitter evidence of that came Tuesday, when Tehran announced that two American citizens and a permanent U.S. resident had been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of “cooperating with the hostile U.S. government.”… The long sentences handed to the Namazis are grim but unsurprising. The Revolutionary Guard wishes to head off Western investments that might infringe on its own business interests; and it may hope that its prisoners can eventually be exchanged for lucre. Though it was officially part of a separate claims settlement, the Obama administration’s delivery of $400 million in cash to the Iranian regime at the time of the release of Mr. Rezaian and other prisoners may have whetted the appetites of Tehran’s jailers.

6am – A         INTERVIEW — TREVOR MATICH — Redskins elite long snapper, WMAL’s Redskins analyst and Comcast SportsNet co-host

• PREVIEW: Washington Redskins vs Detroit Lions / Sunday, October 23, 1:00 PM on FOX / Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan / The Washington Redskins will look to extend their win streak to five games as they go on the road to face the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on Sunday. With a win, Washington would improve to 3-0 on the road for the first time since 1999. The Lions (3-3) are one-point favorites and are coming off of a 31-28 win over the Los Angeles Rams, which followed a home win against Philadelphia on Oct. 9.

6am – B         Miley Cyrus to Knock on Doors in Virginia for Hillary Clinton Campaign. Pop star Miley Cyrus will go door-to-door in Virginia this weekend to persuade voters to cast their ballots for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in November. The 23-year-old “Wrecking Ball” singer will knock on doors at George Mason University in Northern Virginia on Saturday in a get-out-the-vote effort aimed at millennials, the Clinton campaign announced Thursday. While there, Cyrus will outline for young voters Clinton’s “vision for an America that is stronger together,” and will urge George Mason students to visit iwillvote.com, a pro-Clinton voter information website. The young singer — voted the worst celebrity role model for children by parents in a UK-based company survey last year —  has not shied away from expressing her political opinions in this election cycle. In March, the Voice co-host vowed to move out of the United States if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the presidency. “Donald Trump is a f*cking nightmare,” Cyrus wrote on Instagram then, adding that the billionaire real estate mogul makes her “vom.” The singer has also become a vocal surrogate for the Clinton campaign in recent weeks though she described herself in a recent interview as “a really big Bernie supporter” when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was still vying for the Democratic nomination earlier this year. In an interview with Variety this week, Cyrus said that Sanders supporters who would not vote for Clinton over Trump — those in the so-called “NeverHillary” camp — are “f*cking crazy.”

Miley Cyrus to Campaign for Hillary Clinton in Virginia Saturday. Cyrus is scheduled to campaign for Clinton and her Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine at George Mason University, speaking to students “about the high stakes in this election for millennial voters,” according to a Clinton campaign press release. Miley Cyrus will be in the D.C. area this Saturday, knocking on doors in Northern Virginia to campaign for Hillary Clinton. Cyrus is scheduled to campaign for Clinton and her vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine at George Mason University. Cyrus will speak to students “about the high stakes in this election for millennial voters,” according to a press release from the Clinton campaign. The singer and actress has previously spoken out about LGBT rights, gender equality and environmental issues.

6am – C         Trump Leads Clinton By 1 Point Going Into Debate — IBD/TIPP Poll. After more than a week of blistering attacks from Democrats, celebrities and the press, Donald Trump has managed to pull ahead of Hillary Clinton by a 1.3 percentage point margin — 41.3% to 40% — in a four-way matchup, according to the new IBD/TIPP poll released today. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson got 7.6% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein got 5.5%. The results are the first in the IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll. Daily updates start Thursday and will continue until the election. The IBD/TIPP poll previously was monitoring support for the candidates in the 2016 election on a monthly basis. The new results are Trump’s best showing in months. The poll also found that in a two-way matchup, Clinton is up by 3 points — 43.6% to 40.6% — which represents a slight gain from September, when Clinton was ahead 44% to 43%.

6am – D         INTERVIEW – VA DEL TIM HUGO — representing the 40th district, which includes the municipalities of Catharpin, Clifton, and Fairfax Station and is the Majority Caucus Chairman for the Virginia House Republican Caucus

• Hugo is the Majority Caucus Chairman for the House Republican Caucus. He is the Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee and also serves on the Commerce and Labor, Transportation, and Privileges and Election Committees. Delegate Hugo represents Centreville, Clifton, Fairfax, and Fairfax Station in Fairfax County as well as Catharpin, Gainesville, Haymarket, and Manassas in Prince William County.
• Voting concerns in VA / State of Ground Game in VA:
• 3 weeks before election, Trump ramps up efforts in Virginia
• GOP leader Hugo: Fire Virginia’s elections chief
• House leadership statement on federal court ruling extending voter registration

6am –E          Huma on Hillary’s $12M Morocco fiasco: ‘She created this mess and she knows it’ (NY Post) – Hillary Clinton solicited a $12 million donation from a government that her State Department considered corrupt, then realized the “mess” it would cause in her presidential run, a newly leaked ­email reveals. King Mohammed VI of Morocco agreed to give the money to the Clinton Foundation, provided that it held a convention in his country in May 2015 with Clinton as the keynote speaker. But Clinton realized that the conference, slated for a month after she announced her run for president, would hurt her candidacy. “No matter what happens, she will be in Morocco hosting CGI [Clinton Global Initiative] on May 5-7, 2015. Her presence was a condition for the Moroccans to proceed so there is no going back on this,” top Clinton aide Huma Abedin wrote to campaign manager Robby Mook in a November 2014 email revealed by Wiki­Leaks. In another email, Abedin warned that if Clinton didn’t attend, the $12 million would be off the table. “Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter,” Abedin wrote in a January 2015 ­email to Mook and campaign manager John ­Podesta.

7am – A         INTERVIEW: REP. TOM DAVIS  – former VA congressman and former co-chair of the Fairfax County Meals Tax Task Force. He was the former chairman of the Board of Supervisors during the 1992 meals-tax battle – discussed the Fairfax Meal Tax, state of the election in Virginia and metro.

7am – B/C     Trump, Clinton Trade Biting Jokes at Al Smith Dinner After Fiery Debate. NEW YORK — Well, that got awkward quickly. What began as the expected ribbing of presidential candidates at the white-tie Al Smith Dinner Thursday turned to boos as Donald Trump described Hillary Clinton as “corrupt” at the event, which is a major fundraiser for the Catholic charities connected to the Archdiocese of New York. Trump’s biggest laugh of night came as he referred to his wife’s partly plagiarized convention speech, in a joke that began with his complaint that the media is biased.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – GOV. JIM GILMORE – Former Virginia Governor and head of Trump’s Get Out The Vote Effort in Virginia

7am – E         Hillary Reveals America’s Nuclear Response Time During The Debate. During the final presidential debate, the candidates got into a heated exchange about the use of nuclear weapons, in which Hillary Clinton trotted out her talking point that Donald Trump is unfit to have his finger on the button because of his lack of self-control. What made the internet go nuts, however, was when she added one specific detail to her argument that some are saying is a violation of operational security, a routine she knows well.  In the clip, after calling out Trump for being “casual about the use of nuclear weapons,” Hillary then casually pops off the exact response time our government would have during an attack.  “Here’s the deal,” Hillary tells Chris Wallace and the entire planet watching live, “The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order it must be followed. There’s about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so.”

8am – A         Roving Microphone with Audience at the Diner

8am – B         Beloved panda Bao Bao to go bye-bye. WASHINGTON – The panda population in the United States is dropping by three. Atlanta’s zoo announced Thursday that its 3-year-old giant panda twins will leave the zoo Nov. 3. And the National Zoo in Washington said it will be saying bye-bye to panda cub Bao Bao in 2017. The zoo didn’t give a date but said the cub will move to China within the first few months of the new year. Both zoos said it is better for pandas to travel in the winter months when it is cool. A total of four U.S. zoos have pandas that are on loan from China. As part of the loan agreement, pandas born in the United States return to China, generally around age 4. All three pandas leaving for China are females and expected to eventually become part of a breeding program there. When they leave, there will be a dozen pandas remaining in the United States: four in Atlanta, three in Washington, three in San Diego and two in Memphis. Atlanta’s departing panda twins, Mei Lun and Mei Huan, were born July 15, 2013, and were the first surviving panda twins born in the United States. The zoo’s head veterinarian said that when the two were young, Mei Lun was a little bit of a complainer while Mei Huan was more “go with the flow,” though those differences have smoothed out as they aged. They have since been joined by a second pair of twins born at Zoo Atlanta on Sept. 3. In Washington, Bao Bao delighted the zoo and panda fans when she was born Aug. 23, 2013 . Her mother, Mei Xiang, gave birth to her first cub, Tai Shan, in 2005, but failed to get pregnant for years. Then, a cub born in 2012 didn’t survive. Mei Xiang has since had a third surviving cub, Bei Bei, who was born on Aug. 22, 2015. Older brother Tai Shan left the zoo for China in 2010. Both zoos say they’re preparing for the pandas’ departure. In Washington, a travel crate will soon be placed in Bao Bao’s habitat so she can get used to it. In Atlanta, a crate is already part of the pandas’ enclosure.

8am – C         DC’s Mayor Won’t Attend the Trump Hotel’s Official Grand Opening. The Trump International Hotel in the Old Post Office building will finally get its grand opening next week, but when members of the Trump family cut the ceremonial ribbon, don’t expect to see DC Mayor Muriel Bowser standing aside them. The mayor, who stood alongside Donald Trump and his three oldest children when the Trump organization began renovations in 2014, plans to skip the ribbon-cutting, a spokeswoman says. The rationale for Bowser wanting to avoid the Trumps now is obvious: Trump, now the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, is a widely reviled figure in DC after his crude, revanchist, and borderline anti-democratic campaign for the White House, while Bowser is a lifelong Democrat who has stumped for Hillary Clinton in Northern Virginia. But the optics are certainly awkward. Mayors are expected to be at grand openings, ribbon cuttings, and any other events that promote their cities, and Bowser has been no exception. In nearly two years since taking office, she’s presided over the openings of stores like Shinola and Lowe’s, real-estate developments like the Arris apartment building in Navy Yard, restaurants like Smoked and Stacked, and even other hotels, like the Homewood Suites in Shaw. When Michelin announced it was publishing one of its vaunted restaurant guides, Bowser was there, posing with the Michelin Man. The official welcome for a luxury hotel in a landmark building on Pennsylvania Avenue, therefore, would seem like a no-brainer. Bowser has also been the recipient of campaign contributions from the Trumps. Eric and Ivanka Trump—who has been more of a public face for the hotel than her father or siblings—each gave Bowser’s 2014 mayoral campaign a maximum contribution of $2,000, while Donald himself cut a check to Bowser’s inauguration committee for $5,000, according to DC campaign-finance records. And even though Bowser’s been a Clinton loyalist since endorsing the former secretary of state last December, until recently, she stayed relatively silent about Trump. It wasn’t until October 10, when Trump included DC in his routine about crime-plagued “inner cities” at the second presidential debate, that Bowser fired back on Twitter. Still, boosterism for new establishments is one of the primary functions of any mayor. Instead, Bowser will be off fulfilling some other mayoral duty when the Trumps fly in next week. The Trump Organization did not say if it had invited Bowser or any other city or federal officials, but not having any government types present at the launch of a hotel in a structure the company won in a Government Services Administration bidding war is going to be peculiar. To be sure, the election gives Bowser an easy out.

8am – D         INTERVIEW – BRET BAIER – Anchor of Special Report weekdays at 6 pm and on Sundays at 8 pm on Fox News Channel – discussed his thoughts on debate and Chris Wallace moderation.

8am – E         Entertainment News:

• Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show: Grade Laverne Cox & Co.’s Performances. Fox kicked off Halloween early on Thursday with a jump to left, a step to the right, and — oh, you know the rest. After more than a year of antici…pation, the network finally lifted the curtain on its highly-anticipated live production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a beloved cult musical about a mad scientist, his sexy new creation, and a pair of pitch-perfect WASPs unfortunate enough to stumble into their weird little world. Teeming with small-screen talent, Fox’s two-hour production took most — if not all — of its cues from the 1975 Tim Curry film version, though it should be noted that Rocky Horror originated as a stage musical two years prior. REI opening DC store where Beatles made history. WASHINGTON — The D.C. arena where the Beatles played their first concert in America reopens Friday as a massive retail store that nods to the past. The big building with the curved roof on 3rd Street NE was built in 1945, and used to be called the Washington Coliseum and Uline Arena. More recently it was used as a parking garage. Now, it houses a 51,000-square-foot REI flagship store with 124 full and part-time employees known as “inspired guides.” “Flagships are really stores that are a beacon of the brand,” said General Manager Becky Smith, who gave WTOP a pre-opening tour. “It’s more than just a core store; it’s an experience. There’s curated assortments, there’s brands you don’t find anywhere else.”