Terrorism analyst Patrick Poole, Washington Post’s Laura Vozzella, Tucker Carlson and Larry Kudlow joined WMAL on Tuesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C D.C. Council to vote on nation’s most generous family leave law: 11 weeks off, up to 90 percent pay. (Washington Post) — The District may soon require employers to provide 11 weeks of paid family leave for parents to bond with newborn or adopted children and eight weeks to care for an ailing parent or grandparent — among the most generous paid-leave laws in the nation. The proposal, released Monday by D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), is expected to draw support from a majority of the council, which has been discussing paid leave for more than a year. Under the plan, full-time and part-time employees would be able to draw from a government account to receive up to 90 percent of their pay. The benefit would be limited to $1,000 a week. It would be funded by an increase in payroll taxes on businesses of every size, an idea opposed by the city’s largest private employers. The legislation would not allow employees to take paid leave to deal with their health problems, except in cases related to childbirth. Advocates say paid family leave fills a crucial need in a country where 59 percent of mothers with infants are in the workforce and just 12 percent of workers in the private sector get paid leave through their employers. Studies show that when a parent can care for a child after birth or adoption, it results in improved health for both.

5am – D TRUMP TRANSITION:

• Donald Trump selects Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead Department of Health and Human Services. Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia, has been named by President-elect Donald Trump as the Health and Human Services secretary, CBS News’ Major Garrett confirms, citing a senior transition source. The decision is expected to be announced Tuesday morning.
• Trump and Romney to hold private dinner Tuesday. President-elect Donald Trump will have a private dinner with Mitt Romney on Tuesday, according to two sources briefed on the matter. The huddle comes as Trump’s deliberation over whom to tap as his secretary of state plays out with an unusual level of public drama. Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, is among those being considered for the post.
• David Petraeus, Secretary of State Candidate, Meets With Trump. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump met on Monday with David H. Petraeus, the highly decorated but scandal-scarred former military commander, who has emerged as a new contender for secretary of state after days of bitter internal feuding over who will get the coveted post. Mr. Petraeus, a retired general and former C.I.A. director, spent an hour with Mr. Trump at his offices in Trump Tower in Manhattan and told reporters afterward that the president-elect had given him a tutorial on world affairs.
• Trump team courts Fox News analyst for White House job. Fox News analyst Monica Crowley has been approached about a position in President-elect Donald Trump’s communications team. On Friday it was reported that Crowley, a columnist for the Washington Times and an early supporter of Trump, had been approached to serve as White House press secretary. Kellyanne Conway, the most likely candidate, and conservative radio host Laura Ingraham have also been mentioned for the prominent post. Sources say Crowley was approached about a position on Trump’s communications team, but not specifically press secretary.

5am – E Pooping in deep space has NASA stumped. The ‘Space Poop Challenge’ is your way to help. (Washington Post) — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants to boldly go beyond the adult diaper. The agency is seeking a system to manage fecal, menstrual and urine waste for six days — “a continuous duration of up to 144 hours,” as NASA wrote on its website. The technology, integrated into a spacesuit, would be needed for extended tasks in space as well as “contingency scenarios.” Even during space emergencies, after all, you’ve still gotta go. How NASA solves this problem in part depends upon you. The agency tapped crowdfunding platform HeroX to source a system that can collect up to 75 grams of fecal matter and 1 liter of urine per day, for six days. It must be hands-free, operate in microgravity and prevent leaking precious oxygen. The reward is up to a $30,000 bounty, plus the knowledge that the fruits of your mind may one day gird an astronaut’s loins.

6am – A/B/C World’s oldest person Emma Morano celebrates 117th birthday. (BBC) — When Emma Morano was born, Umberto I was still reigning over Italy, Fiat had only just been established and Milan Football Club was still a few weeks off creation. On Tuesday, this otherwise unassuming woman marks her 117th birthday, looking back on a life which has not only spanned three centuries, but also survived an abusive marriage which started with blackmail, the loss of her only son and a diet which most would describe as anything but balanced. Ms Morano, the oldest of eight siblings, all of whom she has outlived, was born on 29 November, 1899, in the Piedmont region of Italy. This year, she officially became the world’s oldest living woman, after American Susannah Mushatt Jones died in May, and the last person still living born in the 1800s. Ms Morano’s longevity, she admits, is partly down to genetics – her mother reached 91, and several sisters reached their centenary – and partly, she claims, down to a rather unusual diet of three eggs – two raw – each day for more than 90 years. It was a regime she took up as a young woman, after the doctor diagnosed her with anaemia shortly after the World War One. These days, she has cut down to just two eggs a day, and a few biscuits. It does defy all accepted advice on healthy living, her doctor of 27 years Carlo Bava admitted to AFP. “Emma has always eaten very few vegetables, very little fruit. When I met her, she ate three eggs per day, two raw in the morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner.” Despite this, he noted, she seems to be “eternal”. There is one other thing Ms Morano credits with her longevity: kicking her husband out in 1938, the year after her baby boy died, aged just six months.

6am – C Fisher House Radiothon Is Back: Once again, WMAL and the Fisher House Foundation are hosting the annual Fisher House Radiothon. This year’s special Radiothon event can be heard on WMAL on Friday, December 2nd and Saturday, December 3rd. You’ll hear inspiring stories from the families who have benefited from your kindness in the past. Please join us and, once again, show your support for those who serve our great nation. Friday, December 2nd, 5am to 6pm / Saturday, December 3rd, 6am to 7pm / Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor and Chris Plante live at Fashion Centre at Pentagon City on Saturday, December 3rd from 4pm to 7pm for the annual WMAL Fisher House Radiothon. We will be broadcasting live at the Dining Pavilion on the Metro level.

6am – D INTERVIEW — PATRICK POOLE – the National Security and Terrorism Correspondent for PJ Media. He is an internationally recognized subject matter expert on domestic terrorism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the global jihadist movement, and he has been actively involved in and served as a consultant to law enforcement on numerous terrorism cases.

• A graduate of The Ohio State University, Mr. Poole splits his time between Ohio and Washington D.C.
• Mosque Near Ohio State Campus Has History Of Attendees With Terror Ties
• OSU Attacker’s Facebook Page Expressed Grievances About Attacks on Muslims
• Police investigating OSU ambush as possible terrorism
• OSU knife slasher actual quote in school paper: “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”

6am – E OSU Attack Highlights Trump’s Focus On Extreme Vetting Of Immigrants From Radical Areas.

7am – A INTERVIEW — LAURA VOZZELLA – Washington Post reporter covering Virginia politics

• Auto dealers sound alarm as Tesla pushes for second Virginia store. (Washington Post / Laura Vozzella) — RICHMOND — Don Hall, president of the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association, was making the hard sell. Staring directly into the camera, using the language of war, he urged car dealers to unite against a force that he said threatened their livelihoods: electric-car-maker Tesla. “For the last 29 years, I have fought as a gladiator to protect the rights of Virginia auto dealers and their franchise system,” he said in a video distributed to dealers this fall. “This system is under attack by the likes of Tesla and many others out there who believe the franchise system is a dinosaur and no longer works. . . . Let’s all strap on whatever it takes to win.” The reason that Hall was sounding the alarm: Tesla, which sells its cars directly to consumers rather than through franchise dealers, is trying to open a second store in Virginia. Car dealers in Virginia and across the country have been fighting Tesla, seeing the company’s direct-to-consumer sales model as a threat to the franchise system that they say protects consumers as well as their own business interests.

7am – B Recount News:

• Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline. Jill Stein has everything she needs to launch a presidential recount. She’s got the cash, the grassroots fervor and the spotlight of an adoring media. But there’s one thing she needs to overturn Trump’s victory: a calendar. Stein missed Pennsylvania’s deadline to file for a voter-initiated recount. That blown deadline is a huge blow for Democrats who have pinned their hopes on recounts in the Keystone State, Michigan and Wisconsin. “According to Wanda Murren, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of State,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday, “the deadline for a voter-initiated recount was Monday, Nov. 21.” To keep their hopes alive, Stein has mounted a legal challenge in an attempt to force a recount. While the chances of litigation are uncertain, the vote tally is clear. Trump beat Clinton in Pennsylvania, a feat not accomplished by a Republican since George H.W. Bush in 1988. While it wasn’t a landslide, it wasn’t close either. Trump carried the state with 70,000 votes, a significant margin that will be hard to overcome.
• Michigan Officially Certifies Election Results As Officials Prepare For Recount. Michigan election officials released the final vote totals Monday afternoon, after the results were officially certified by the Michigan Board of State Canvassers. Donald Trump received 2,279,543 votes, while former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, received 2,268,839 votes. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 172,136 votes, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein hauled in 51,463 votes. Jill Stein, who has been leading a recount effort in three states that were won by Trump has until Wednesday to file a Recount Request with Michigan’s Secretary of State. Stein has already filed for a recount in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and is determined to do the same in Michigan. The recount efforts picked up steam after the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, J. Alex Halderman brought up a concern that hackers may have infiltrated the electronic voting systems in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Trump won Wisconsin by 27,000 votes, Michigan by a little over 10,000 votes and Pennsylvania by 70,000.
• Stein sues after Wisconsin refuses to order hand recounts. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) – Madison — The Wisconsin Elections Commission agreed Monday to begin a recount of the presidential election on Thursday but was sued by Green Party candidate Jill Stein after the agency declined to require county officials to recount the votes by hand. It will be a race to finish the recount in time to meet a daunting federal deadline, and the lawsuit could delay the process. Under state law, the recount must begin this week as long as Stein or another candidate pays the $3.5 million estimated cost of the recount by Tuesday, election officials said. Also Monday, Stein filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania to force a recount there and her supporters began filing recount requests at the precinct level in the Keystone State. Stein — who received just a tiny piece of the national vote — also plans to ask for a recount in Michigan on Wednesday. Unless Stein wins her lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court, officials in each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties would decide on their own whether to do their recounts of the 2.98 million statewide votes by machine or by hand, with dozens of counties expected to hand count the paper ballots.

7am – C Fisher House Radiothon Is Back: Once again, WMAL and the Fisher House Foundation are hosting the annual Fisher House Radiothon. This year’s special Radiothon event can be heard on WMAL on Friday, December 2nd and Saturday, December 3rd. You’ll hear inspiring stories from the families who have benefited from your kindness in the past. Please join us and, once again, show your support for those who serve our great nation. Friday, December 2nd, 5am to 6pm / Saturday, December 3rd, 6am to 7pm / Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor and Chris Plante live at Fashion Centre at Pentagon City on Saturday, December 3rd from 4pm to 7pm for the annual WMAL Fisher House Radiothon. We will be broadcasting live at the Dining Pavilion on the Metro level.

7am – D INTERVIEW – TUCKER CARLSON — host of the new FOX NEWS CHANNEL SHOW “Tucker Carlson Tonight” — discussed the potential Trump cabinet picks and his new show.

7am – E Mandatory Mourning in Cuba: ‘Thousands of Moments of Silence’: Cuba Bans Music, Alcohol, Public Mirth for 9 Days. (Breitbart) — The Cuban communist regime has imposed a nine-day mourning period following the death of dictator Fidel Castro, banning the public sales of alcohol, playing music, or “public spectacles.” “During the National Mourning period, all activities and public spectacles will cease to occur,” the state newspaper Granma decreed. “The flag will fly at half staff on public buildings and militar establishments.” The mandatory mourning period has alarmed dissidents who fear an impending crackdown. The arrests have already begun. On Friday night, following Castro’s announcement of his brother’s death, Danilo Maldonado, a graffiti artist known as “El Sexto,” was arrested after spray-painting the words “he’s gone” on a wall in Havana. For the first time in years, the Ladies in White – the mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives of political prisoners – chose not to march in Havana holding the images of their imprisoned relatives, fearing even more violent repression than the usual weekly beatings and arrests.

8am – A Uber drivers join nationwide strike to demand $15 minimum wage. Uber riders may find available rides in short supply on Tuesday as “hundreds” of drivers in two dozen U.S. cities go on strike. The action is intended to raise awareness of a desire by not only Uber drivers, but fast-food cooks, airport baggage handlers, home care workers, child care teachers, and graduate assistants wanting to receive a fair day’s pay — they’re fighting for the $15 per hour minimum wage. Protests are supposed to be taking places in cities such as Denver, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. As part of the Fight for $15 event, Uber drivers will march in solidarity with others and aim to disrupt service, thereby highlighting to riders the important roles these service people play in daily life. “Workers in the Fight for $15 have created a powerful movement that boldly proclaims everyone who puts in a hard day’s work should receive a fair day’s pay,” said Adam Shahim, a Pittsburg, California Uber driver, in a canned statement. Drivers plan to demonstrate their contempt for the current $7.25 minimum wage by having their cars sit idle in high-profile places. They’ll be non-responsive at San Francisco International Airport, walking alongside airport and fast-food workers with signs saying “Your Uber Driver is Striking.”

8am – B TRUMP TRANSITION:

• Donald Trump selects Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead Department of Health and Human Services.
• Trump and Romney to hold private dinner Tuesday.
• David Petraeus, Secretary of State Candidate, Meets With Trump.
• Trump team courts Fox News analyst Monica Crowley for White House job.

8am – C Fisher House Radiothon Is Back: Once again, WMAL and the Fisher House Foundation are hosting the annual Fisher House Radiothon. This year’s special Radiothon event can be heard on WMAL on Friday, December 2nd and Saturday, December 3rd. You’ll hear inspiring stories from the families who have benefited from your kindness in the past. Please join us and, once again, show your support for those who serve our great nation. Friday, December 2nd, 5am to 6pm / Saturday, December 3rd, 6am to 7pm / Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor and Chris Plante live at Fashion Centre at Pentagon City on Saturday, December 3rd from 4pm to 7pm for the annual WMAL Fisher House Radiothon. We will be broadcasting live at the Dining Pavilion on the Metro level.

8am – D INTERVIEW — LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm, and author of “JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity.”

• Donald Trump selects Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead Department of Health and Human Services. Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia, has been named by President-elect Donald Trump as the Health and Human Services secretary, CBS News’ Major Garrett confirms, citing a senior transition source. The decision is expected to be announced Tuesday morning.

8am – E OHIO STATE TERROR ATTACK

• Police investigating OSU ambush as possible terrorism. An Ohio State University student posted a rant shortly before he plowed a car into a campus crowd and stabbed people with a butcher knife in an ambush that ended when a police officer shot him dead, a law enforcement official said.Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, wrote on what appears to be his Facebook page that he had reached a “boiling point,” made a reference to “lone wolf attacks” and cited radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Law enforcement officials told NBC News that Artan was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident.
• Mosque Near Ohio State Campus Has History Of Attendees With Terror Ties
• OSU Attacker’s Facebook Page Expressed Grievances About Attacks on Muslims
• Police investigating OSU ambush as possible terrorism
• OSU knife slasher actual quote in school paper: “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”
• Tim Kaine And Others Jump The ‘Gun’ On Twitter About OSU Attacker. Former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine found himself backpedaling about the attack that happened at Ohio State University Monday morning. Senator Tim Kaine @timkaine: Updated reports say attacker used a vehicle & knife. Horrifying & senseless. Relieved the scene is secure & praying for victims’ recovery
• Senator Tim Kaine @timkaine: Deeply saddened by the senseless act of gun violence at Ohio State this morning. Praying for the injured and the entire Buckeye community 11:52 AM – 28 Nov 2016