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Mornings on the Mall

Friday, June 2, 2017

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

5am – A/B/C Time To Put America Before Paris (Daily Caller) President Donald President Donald Trump said a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement is “in America’s economic interest and won’t matter much to the climate.” “The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” Trump said in the Rose Garden Thursday, announcing his pulling out of the Paris agreement, which the Obama administration joined in 2016. “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” Trump said. Trump made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Paris agreement after months of internal struggle within the White House. Trump said Paris puts the U.S. at an economic disadvantage and is being pushed by economic competitors.

5am – D DNC Data Director: Hillary Claims Are ‘F**king Bulls**t’ (Daily Caller) The former director of data science at the Democratic National Committee blasted Hillary Clinton on Twitter after she tried to blame the DNC for her electoral defeat. Clinton claimed Wednesday that the DNC fell far behind the RNC in terms of voter and data analysis, saying the DNC’s data was “mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong.” (VIDEO: Bitter Hillary Clinton Is Now Blaming Inept DNC For Election Loss) “I had to inject money into it,” she said. Andrew Therriault, the former director of data science for the DNC, called those claims “fucking bullshit.”

5am– E   42,000 off food stamp rolls after Alabama implements work requirements

A rule change designed to get able-bodied adults off food stamps has reduced the number of Alabamians receiving assistance by tens of thousands in the last year. On Jan. 1, 2016, there were 49,940 able-bodied adults without dependents utilizing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps. That number dropped to 15,375 people as of May 1, 2016 and down to 7,483 as of May 1, 2017, according to Barry Spear, Public Information Manager of the Alabama Department of Human Resources. The change is due to the expiration of a federal waiver that permitted work requirement exemptions for able-bodied adults who were receiving food stamps. Now, all SNAP recipients ages 18-49 who aren’t disabled or raising minor children are required to work at least part-time to be eligible for benefits.

6am – A/B/C  . Should animal abusers be put on a Registry? States Are Taking Action to Register Animal Abusers Just Like Sex Offenders. As of right now, Tennessee is the only state to have an animal offenders registry, but Suffolk County, New York and Cook County, Illinois have the registry at a local level. How does such a registry work? The Tennessee Registry is monitored by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations and can be accessed at the TBI or any other local country office.

Each animal abuser will have their name, date of birth, offense, conviction date, and expiration date listed. First-time animal abusers will be registered for two years. An additional five years will be added for every subsequent offense after the two years.

6am – D/E: INTERVIEW: JJ JANSON – President of the Patients Rights Action Fund.

TOPIC: Assisted suicide

• He is also a Marine Veteran and a terminal brain cancer survivor. 

6am – F  Maryland sixth grader makes final rounds of National Spelling Bee “Surimi,” a paste made from fish often used in Asian dishes, was Saketh Sundar’s first word at the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals Thursday. Saketh, an 11-year-old from Elkridge, Maryland, managed to spell it correctly, of course. He did the same for the words “definiendum,” “cunette” and “dacryocyst” in the subsequent rounds. And that meant Saketh made it to the National Spelling Bee finals, televised Thursday night on ESPN. Saketh misspelled the word “tules” in the finals. But he managed to impress quite a few viewers. Ananya Vinay of Fresno, California won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after 12 hours of picking her way along a precarious lifeline of consonants and vowels.

7am – A 7:05am: BEVERLY HALBERG (Heritage Fellow) – President an Founder of District Media Group where she conducts media training for members of Congress, CEOs, and politicos. 

TOPIC: Trump as a communicator 

• Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager , calls Trump “the greatest communicator, as a president, we’ve ever had”

7am –B  MILLENIAL NONSENSE: Desperate American man gets his Tinder date ARRESTED after she refuses to leave his house for two days A desperate man rang the police after his Tinder date refused to leave his house for two days – during which time she stole his watch and some of his mail. The serial dater, from the US, went out with a woman called Jennifer last week after they matched on the popular app and later took her back to his house. When she insisted on staying he decided to call the police, who reportedly arrested her after finding expired license plates on her car and items she had swiped from him. High School Senior Accepted to Yale After Writing Essay About Her ‘Love’ of Papa John’s Pizza When high school senior Carolina Williams from Brentwood, Tennessee, had to write a short essay on her college application to Yale University about what she loves to do, she jotted down the first thing that came to mind — ordering Papa John’s Pizza.” As soon as I saw the prompt that said, ‘Write about what you love to do,’ that was the literally the first thing that came to mind because I just love to order pizza so much,” Williams, 18, told AL.com. Lace Shorts Have Arrived for Men Who Want to Wear Them  Lace shorts for men are inexplicably here — and no one seems happy about it. On Monday, an Instagram account titled Sparkie Baby Official uploaded a photo of the pastel pink, blue, and green lace belted shorts, modeled by men wearing white socks and sneakers. “#LaceyShorts for men are here,” wrote ZJ Sparks, the owner of the Instagram account. “Would you wear these gentlemen? Ladies would you like to see your boyfriend or husband rock one of these?”

7am  – C  The pregnant high school senior who was not allowed to walk in her graduation wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post

7am – D INTERVIEW – TONY AVENDORPH – Retired Prince George’s County Police Officer. He was assigned to the Prince George’s County Police Gang Intelligence Unit. 

TOPIC: Rise of gang activity in the DMV

• What caused the increase in gang activity
• What the police are doing to prevent and deal with gang activity

7am–E  Donald Trump, Jr. lashes out at Ken Jennings for targeting Barron Trump 

Donald Trump, Jr. has slammed Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings for poking fun at his little brother Barron Trump. The former game show contestant took to Twitter and responded to reports President Trump’s 11-year-old son thought the fake severed head Kathy Griffin was holding in the horrifying photo was really his father. The 43-year-old wrote on Wednesday: ‘Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad & his little heart is breaking.’ Barron’s older brother Don Jr quickly responded, saying: ‘It takes a real man to pick on an 11 year old. ‘Yet another low from the left, but they will rationalize this away with their usual excuses.’

8am – A  INTERVIEW – CHRIS HORNER – Senior Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute 

TOPIC: Trump’s decision to drop out of Paris Climate Deal

• Trump says Paris Accord Is A Plan To ‘Redistribute Wealth Out Of The US’

8am – B/C/D Time To Put America Before Paris (Daily Caller) President Donald President Donald Trump said a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement is “in America’s economic interest and won’t matter much to the climate.” “The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord,” Trump said in the Rose Garden Thursday, announcing his pulling out of the Paris agreement, which the Obama administration joined in 2016. “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” Trump said. Trump made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Paris agreement after months of internal struggle within the White House. Trump said Paris puts the U.S. at an economic disadvantage and is being pushed by economic competitors.

8am – E  Jim Carrey comes to Kathy Griffin’s defense: ‘Hold up a severed leg as well’ Jim Carrey has come to Kathy Griffin’s defense, speaking out against the backlash generated by her widely derided photoshoot holding a facsimile of president Donald Trump’s severed head. At the premiere of I’m Dying Up Here, a new Showtime comedy he executive produced, Carrey told Griffin to “hold up a severed leg as well”. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, he elaborated, explaining: “It is the job of a comedian to cross the line at all times, because that line is not real.”