Mornings on the Mall 10.28.16

Metro Union’s Raymond Jackson, Trevor Matich, Amie Hoeber, Robin Ficker, Dr. Mark Plaster, Kathy Szeliga, Dan Cox and Bret Baier joined WMAL at the Silver Diner In Rockvillee on Friday!

Mornings on the Mall

Friday, October 28, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C   Record Turnout For First Day Of Early Voting In Md.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — There was a record turnout for the first day of early voting in Maryland. As of 8:30 p.m., more than 125,702 Marylanders, including 9,539 in Baltimore, turned out for early voting. The number is expected to grow, according to our media partner, The Baltimore Sun. “This is such a big election. I just need to get out here and vote as soon as possible,” said Mary Smallman, voter. “It really does matter. So here I am in this long line, trying to make a difference,” said Angela Riley, voter. The weight of the election has brought out voters across the spectrum. “If I could go around and rap on doors, I would to pull them out to vote,” said Gloria Johnson, 91-year-old voter. “I took this very seriously because it’s not a joke,” said Yvette Powell, first-time voter. A record 257,000 Marylanders voted early during the primary. “All over the country, early voting is really higher than it has been,” said Armstead Jones, Baltimore City Elections Director. While turnout is expected to be big in Maryland, in several battleground states, it will be crucial.

5am – D         DRIVE AT FIVE INTERVIEW – RAYMOND JACKSON – ATU Local 689 DC metro union spokesperson / Union represents the operators, clerical and maintenance workers of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)

  • Metro union wants management to ‘stop this madness’

5am – E         Clinton headlined fundraiser for campaign group which gave $500,000 to wife of FBI boss who investigated her emails – and it’s closely linked to Hillary’s bid for power. DailyMail.com reveals just how closely linked Clinton is to PAC which gave massive donation to Virginia politician married to FBI deputy director. Common Good VA gave $500,000 to Jill McCabe whose husband Andrew ran probe into Clinton’s secret server which ended with no prosecution. (Daily Mail)  Hillary Clinton headlined a major fundraiser for a political action committee shortly before the group steered nearly $500,000 to the wife of the FBI official who oversaw the Clinton email investigation, DailyMail.com has learned. Clinton’s ties to the Common Good VA – a Virginia state PAC run by Clinton’s long-time friend and advisor Terry McAuliffe, its governor – came under scrutiny this week after the Wall Street Journal reported that the group donated heavily to the state senate campaign of Jill McCabe. Her husband Andrew McCabe led the FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails. Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI, told the Wall Street Journal that he complied with federal ethics rules and was not promoted to lead the Clinton probe until months after his wife’s unsuccessful state senate bid ended.

 

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

  • Redskins-Bengals: Key matchups to follow on Sunday in London

6am – B/C     INTERVIEW – AMIE HOEBER  – Republican candidate for Maryland 6th Congressional District

  • Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army under President Reagan
  • Maryland’s 6th congressional district elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives from the northwest part of the state. Today the district comprises all of Garrett, Allegany, and Washington counties as well as portions of Montgomery and Frederick counties. The seat is currently represented by John Delaney (D).
  • Running against Democrat Congressman JOHN DELANEY

6am – D         INTERVIEW – ROBIN FICKER – Attorney and activist who  collected enough signatures to place a proposal for term limits on the November ballot

6am – E         Clinton eyes Biden for secretary of state. Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton’s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO. This would be the first major Cabinet candidate to go public for a campaign that’s insisted its focus remains on winning the election, and perhaps the most central choice for a potential president who was a secretary of state herself. Neither Clinton, nor her aides have yet told Biden. According to the source, they’re strategizing about how to make the approach to the vice president, who almost ran against her in the Democratic primaries but has since been campaigning for her at a breakneck pace all over the country in these final months. “He’d be great, and they are spending a lot of time figuring out the best way to try to persuade him to do it if she wins,” said the source familiar with the transition planning. The vice president, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before joining the administration, is one of the most experienced and respected Democrats on the world stage. He’s also coming to what would be the close of a 44-year career in Washington, first with six terms in the Senate and then two terms as President Barack Obama’s closest adviser — and the keeper of the portfolio on some of the most difficult international issues, including Iraq and Ukraine.

 

7am – A         Md. Democrats clash over who should battle Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. It was supposed to be a routine meeting of Maryland’s Democratic House caucus. But that all changed when Del. Charles E. Sydnor III (D-Baltimore County) brought up the sky-high approval ratings of Gov. ­Larry Hogan (R). “When I go around my district, it seems Governor Hogan is gaining traction among my people,” Sydnor said, according to several lawmakers who were at the closed-door meeting and spoke on the condition of anonymity “That’s not our job,” replied Del. Dereck E. Davis (D-Prince George’s), chairman of the House Economic Matters Committee, according to multiple delegates who were present. “Our job is to protect the House.” Several lawmakers — who declined to be named because caucus discussions are supposed to be confidential — later described themselves as stunned. “There was almost an audible gasp,” one said. More questions followed, sharper and more accusatory than is typical.

7am – B         Va. school board member asked to resign for supporting Trump. FAIRFAX, VA (WUSA9) – A Fairfax County School Board member is lashing back at the Fairfax Democratic Party after its call for her resignation because of Tweets she made supporting Donald Trump. “I was stunned.  I was completely stunned,” said Elizabeth Schultz describing her reaction after Sue Langley, Fairfax County Democratic Committee Chair called for Schultz’s resignation.  “First of all, that’s my First Amendment right. And the fact that you would have a political party leader look to suppress an individual citizen’s right to vote for whom they chose or support whom  they chose, you know that’s very frightening,” said Schultz. Langley made the call for her resignation on October 10, a few days after the release of the 2005 Access Hollywood video of Donald Trump bragging about groping women. Langley took issue with Schultz’s tweet.

7am – C         Chandra Levy’s Mom Says Gary Condit Is ‘Running Scared’ After He Sits Down on Dr. Phil. Fifteen years after Chandra Levy‘s unsolved murder, Gary Condit — the married politician initially identified and then ruled out as a possible suspect in the Washington, D.C., intern’s death — appeared on Dr. Phil Thursday, breaking his long silence about the case. But it wasn’t his first choice. Condit told host Phil McGraw he “had no interest in writing a book or talking about this story much at all,” but was coaxed into the project by his kids, who encouraged him to set the record straight by telling his version of events. That’s what Condit said he did in his new book, Actual Malice: A True Crime Political Thriller. One thing he declined to discuss in detail Thursday was his relationship with Levy. He reportedly admitted in a 2001 police interview to having an affair with her, but has not spoken publicly it until now. “Dr. Phil, I haven’t answered that question [about possible romantic involvement] publicly for 15 years,” Condit said, “and I’m not going to change my position or my view on that today or probably any time in the future.”

7am – D         INTERVIEW — KATHY SZELIGA — (SH-LEG-GAH) — the minority whip of the House of Delegates and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate

7am – E         INTERVIEW – DR. MARK PLASTER – Maryland Republican candidate for US Congress in the Maryland 3rd District, running against Rep. John Sarbanes

  • Spent most of his career as an Emergency Room Physician
  • Also he has a law degree in Health Law
  • In 2001, at 50 years old, he joined the Navy Reserves and served two deployment in Iraq with Marine Corps. He served while he son joined the military
  • So he’s a lawyer, doctor AND naval officer!
  • Dr. Plaster is running for US Congress in the Maryland 3rd District
  • Maryland’s 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the state of Maryland. It comprises portions of Baltimore, Howard, Montgomery and Anne Arundel counties, as well as a significant part of the independent city of Baltimore.
  • Plaster, Sarbanes debate voter ID laws, Social Security at Severna Park. Plaster also criticized Maryland’s current voting laws. The state requires that those who register in-person to provide a form of identification ranging from a Maryland driver’s license to a utility bill, but does not require that identification when residents show up to vote.

 

8am – A         Roving Microphone at the Diner

8am – B/C     INTERVIEW – DAN COX – Republican candidate for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District

8am – D         INTERVIEW – BRET BAIER – Anchor of Special Report, Fox News Channel

8am – E         Brian Wilson finally eats an egg!

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