KT McFarland, Tom Bevan and Sally Jenkins joined WMAL on Wednesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B     ‘Dump all those emails’: Latest WikiLeaks tranche reveals Podesta advice. “We are going to have to dump all those emails,” Podesta tells Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in an email dated March 2, 2015, a week before Clinton addressed the email scandal at a press conference, claiming there was no classified material sent via the private server. It’s not clear which emails Podesta is referring to in the thread, but Podesta tells Mills: “better to do so sooner than later”. Mills replies: “Think you just got your new nick name.”

5am – C         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. Stop by to join the conversation live with Mornings on the Mall and WMAL! DINER LOCATION: Friday, November 4^th, Metro 29 Diner, 4711 Lee Highway,    Arlington, VA

5am – D         Sports News:

• Indians-Cubs World Series Game 7: CLEVELAND – This is what we wanted all along, right? This riveting World Series with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians deserves to go the distance, with a heart-stopping, nail-biting, nerve-racking final game of the season between the two teams with the longest combined championship droughts in history at 178 years. The Cubs made it all possible Tuesday night by routing the Indians, 9-3, trying to become the first World Series team since the 1985 Kansas City Royals to overcome a 3-1 deficit.
• Redskins’ Trent Williams suspended four games.    Washington Redskins offensive tackle Trent Williams has been suspended for four games for violating the NFL’s Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse, according to an NFL spokesperson.
• The NFL is becoming more disturbing than appealing, and TV viewers are tuning out. (Washington Post/Sally Jenkins) – The NFL’s firm grip on the psyche is based in the fact that it’s the most real, live event on live television. Every game is a character-driven story and a high-speed chase in which the action and the stakes of a collision are genuine. But lately the NFL has seemed formulaic and lacking in a certain kind of authenticity. It’s no great mystery as to why the NFL’s ratings have been dropping: Viewers don’t especially like the stories they’re watching. The numbers are striking. Through seven weeks, ratings were off for every prime-time incarnation of the NFL: “Sunday Night Football” by 19 percent, “Monday Night Football” by 24 percent and the dreaded Thursday night game by 18 percent. A variety of factors may be contributing to this dive, from the election to so-called “fragmentation” of mass media. But none of the explanations make as much sense as the simplest one: The NFL has put less appealing and more disturbing action on the screen, and viewers are turning it off.

5am – E         FBI surprises again, shares files on Bill Clinton pardon of Marc Rich. The FBI gave the Hillary Clinton campaign another unpleasant surprise Tuesday, this time releasing 129 pages of documents from a 2001 investigation into Bill Clinton’s controversial presidential pardon of fugitive Marc Rich. The bureau initially released the heavily redacted files on Monday, but drew more attention to the documents in a tweet Tuesday. The Clinton team questioned the timing of the release, which comes one week before the election and just days after Director James Comey’s stunning announcement that the FBI was looking into newly discovered emails related to its investigation of Hillary Clinton.

6am – A/B/C Trump encourages early voting Clinton supporters to switch their votes. Eau Claire, Wisconsin (CNN) Donald Trump set his sights on an unlikely demographic as he pitched himself to voters Tuesday night in Wisconsin: those who have already cast their ballots for his rival Hillary Clinton. The Republican nominee issued what he dubbed a “public service announcement” and urged early voters “having a bad case of buyer’s remorse” to switch their votes and support him. And in Wisconsin and a handful of other states, they actually can, legally. “A lot of things have happened over the last few days,” Trump said, after hammering Clinton over her use of a private email server in light of the FBI’s review of newly discovered emails that may be tied to that investigation.

6am – D         Wisconsin School Told Kids That Four of Their Classmates Had Died In a Car Wreck: They Hadn’t – They Were Alive and Well and In On It. A Wisconsin high school told the kids during morning announcements that four of their classmates had died in a car crash, even though they were alive and well and in on the hoax. It was all part of an attempt to teach the students about safe driving — a “shock and awe” tactic that has not gone over well with students or parents. As the Washington Post reports, students at students at Brodhead High School in Brodhead, Wisconsin (about 100 miles southwest of Milwaukee) gathered in their classrooms for morning announcements last Wednesday, like they do every weekday. The first announcement they heard was that four of their classmates had died in a wreck that morning. Student Sam Bolen, who was in algebra class, said he and his classmates were told the kids had died in an accident involving texting and driving.

6am – E         2016 News:

• Mike Pence: “Republicans across the country are coming home.” —Mike Pence touted a new poll where he and Donald Trump are leading Hillary Clinton, saying it shows Republican voters “coming home.” Data shows he may have a point. Speaking at a campaign stop in Valley Forge, Penn., Tuesday, the Republican vice presidential nominee said that “the latest polls have Donald Trump leading nationwide in the race for president of the United States. Democrats and independents are joining this movement. Republicans across the country are coming home.” Pence was likely referring to a new ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll, which showed Trump beating Clinton by 1 point. The only other time Trump has led Clinton in this poll was in May, shortly after he sewed up the Republican nomination.
• Hillary Gets Shrill At Rally While She Takes On A Heckler.
• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continued his stinging criticism of Obamacare. At a rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin Tuesday evening, Trump promised he would stop the planned Obamacare premium increases.

7am – A/B/C Poor kids are being priced out of youth sports. (Washington Post) — As poor children around the country get priced out of expensive youth sports leagues, a volunteer baseball coach in suburban Maryland has devised a novel solution to one of many financial barriers. Waiver requests soared by 1,200 percent. Participation jumped 31 percent; for children who attend high-poverty schools, it shot up almost 80 percent. “Just doing this one small thing had an incredible impact for a lot of families,” said Berk, who published his findings this summer in the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. The fee — $50 today, but $40 during the study period in 2009 — was covered by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, so the change cost the city nothing. Now, having read the results of the study, Gaithersburg officials are considering making the waiver process permanent, which could increase costs for providing youth sports by at least several thousand dollars. There is also a risk of waiver fraud. But city officials say they are weighing those downsides against a growing body of research that says participation in youth sports improves physical and mental health, lowers crime and teen pregnancy rates, and increases college enrollment.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – KT MCFARLAND – Fox News National Security Analyst @KTMcFarland

• WIKILEAKS
  • Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia. Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government.
  • ‘Dump all those emails’: Latest WikiLeaks tranche reveals Podesta advice. “We are going to have to dump all those emails,” Podesta tells Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in an email dated March 2, 2015, a week before Clinton addressed the email scandal at a press conference, claiming there was no classified material sent via the private server. It’s not clear which emails Podesta is referring to in the thread, but Podesta tells Mills: “better to do so sooner than later”. Mills replies: “Think you just got your new nick name.”
• Mosul: Iraqi forces on city’s doorstep. Near Mosul, Iraq (CNN) Iraqi forces remain on the doorstep of ISIS-held Mosul, encountering snipers, landmines and road-blocking boulders as they edged closer to the key city.

7am – E         Ranch dressing is what’s wrong with America. Fancy restaurants need to stop experimenting with this revolting milk-rot. (Washington Post/Ben Adler) – It’s the kind of topping serious chefs correctly disdained for decades as extravagant and trashy. But now, animated by a kind of faddish philistinism, professional food connoisseurs are giving it another look. Today’s hip chefs revel in finding ways to profit from glorified junk food, from cronuts to little $8 jars of artisanal bacon mayonnaise, and the food critics cheer them on, as if this were a worthy endeavor. The current ethos is something like this: The more lowbrow a dish is, the more drenched in fat a dish is, the better. It isn’t. There are three main problems with ranch dressing…

8am – A         INTERVIEW — TOM BEVAN – Co-Founder & Publisher of RealClearPolitics – discussed Trump tightening the polls.

8am – B         Entertainment News:

• 14 Things You Should Know About Cookie Monster On His 47th Birthday. (WFMY) — “C” is for Cookie – Cookie Monster that is! That’s right, Cookie Monster turns 47 on Wednesday, November 2. Here are a few things you should definitely know about Cookie Monster: 1. Cookie Monster is left-handed! Sesame Street says the puppeteers use their right hands for the mouths. 2. Cookie Monster has five fingers on each hand (probably to eat more cookies). All the others only have four.
• Tony Bennett, Muppets set for Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Tony Bennett, Sarah McLachlan, De La Soul and the cast and Muppets of “Sesame Street” will be among the stars celebrating at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
• Universal Orlando to open Jimmy Fallon ride. Coming soon to the Sunshine State? Jimmy Fallon and the Big Apple. Universal Orlando Resort announced Tuesday that it will open its new attraction “Race through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon” in the spring. The race takes guests into Studio 6B Club where they’ll hear from the Ragtime Gals barbershop quartet, according to Universal Orlando’s blog, then they’ll board a flying theater to race alongside Fallon in New York. In true “ride the movies” fashion, Universal Orlando will have hints of The Tonight Show on the set of its new ride, like iconic set pieces, desk props and suits from former hosts, the blog states. Guests will get a taste of Fallon’s popular Lip Sync Battle and his famous thank you notes from the show. Other features of “Race through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon” include a “Jimmy Drive” retro video game, show clips and a little dancing with Hashtag the Panda, the Tonight Show mascot.

8am – C         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. Stop by to join the conversation live with Mornings on the Mall and WMAL! DINER LOCATION: Friday, November 4^th, Metro 29 Diner, 4711 Lee Highway,    Arlington, VA

8am – D         INTERVIEW — SALLY JENKINS – Sports Columnist and writer for Washington Post

• The NFL is becoming more disturbing than appealing, and TV viewers are tuning out. (Washington Post/Sally Jenkins) – The NFL’s firm grip on the psyche is based in the fact that it’s the most real, live event on live television. Every game is a character-driven story and a high-speed chase in which the action and the stakes of a collision are genuine. But lately the NFL has seemed formulaic and lacking in a certain kind of authenticity. It’s no great mystery as to why the NFL’s ratings have been dropping: Viewers don’t especially like the stories they’re watching. The numbers are striking.

8am – E         Obama Calls On Men To Reflect On Sexism Before Voting. (Huffington Post) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on men to “look inside” themselves and think about bias if they have any doubt about voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. “To the guys out there, I want to be honest,” Obama told a crowd in Columbus, Ohio, at a Clinton campaign event. “You know, there’s a reason we haven’t had a woman president before.” He asked male voters to think about their potential biases against Clinton, who would be the first female president in U.S. history. “I want every man out there who’s voting to kinda look inside yourself and ask yourself, if you’re having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we’re just not used to it?” he said. “When a guy is ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well that’s okay. But when a woman suddenly does it, suddenly you’re all like, well, why’s she doing that?”