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Mornings on the Mall

Monday, September 4. 2017

Host: Dan Mandis

5am – A/B/C MSNBC Hosts Bristle Over Deporting Illegals Arrested for Gang Activity (NewsBusters) On Friday’s MSNBC Live, hosts Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi had a contentious debate with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach over the issue of the Obama administration’s DACA program that protects from deportation illegal immigrants who entered the country as children. Ruhle bristled at one point when her Republican guest recommended that illegal immigrants arrested for gang activity should be deported even if police departments decline to charge them. Ruhle showed hostility as she jumped in: “I’m sorry, sir, no. I’m sorry.  I’m sorry, sir. If you — there are many, many people — you’re presumed innocent until proven guilty in the United States of America.” Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay (Politico) President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill one of the president’s core campaign promises.

5am – D/E  Trump ‘speaks in ways that I wouldn’t’ on North Korea, but US must show ‘strength’: Ted Cruz (ABC News) Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said President Donald Trump “speaks in ways that I wouldn’t” on North Korea but that it helps to “have a president who is strong.” The Republican senator told ABC News “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that if North Korea’s claim that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb Sunday is true, it is “a serious escalation in their ability to commit mass acts of murder” that will spur calls for “further serious steps to prevent North Korea from using those weapons.” “North Korea right now, it’s the most dangerous place on the face of the planet,” Cruz said on “This Week” Sunday. “Kim Jong Un, who’s the dictator there, he is radical, he is unpredictable, he is extreme, and he’s getting more and more dangerous weapons.” Raddatz asked Cruz about Trump’s prior warning that the United States would respond with “fire and fury” to any further provocations from North Korea. “Do you think [the president’s threat] hurt or helped?” she asked. “The president speaks in ways that I wouldn’t speak, but that is his prerogative,” the Texas senator said. “I do think it helps for North Korea and for China to understand that we have a president who is strong.”

6am – A  Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay (Politico) President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill one of the president’s core campaign promises. DACA: Trump expected to end ‘Dreamers’ immigration program (Fox News) President Donald Trump is expected to announce the end of an Obama-era program that allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children stay and contribute to the country, sources told Fox News late Sunday.

An official announcement to the end of the program will be on Tuesday, the sources said. After the announcement, Congress will have a six-month window to act. The program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was established in 2012. DACA, as it is usually referred to, protected young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children without legal status. About 800,000 people have signed up to be part of the program. Many people have protested the end of the program and discussed fear of deportation.

 6am –B/C ‘Cheap sex’ is making men give up on marriage (New York Post) The share of Americans ages 25-34 who are married dropped 13 percentage points from 2000 to 2014. A new book by sociologist Mark Regnerus blames this declining rate on how easy it is for men to get off. Regnerus calls it “cheap sex,” an economic term meant to describe sex that has very little cost in terms of time or emotional investment, giving it little value.

Regnerus bases his ideas, in part, on the work of British social theorist Anthony Giddens, who argued that the pill isolated sex from marriage and children. Add online pornography and dating sites to the mix and you don’t even need relationships.

6am – D INTERVIEW – PETER BROOKES – Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs, Heritage Foundation

TOPIC: North Korea Is Said to Be Readying Ballistic Missile Test

• US military options on North Korea ‘very ugly’ (CNN) Despite new threats from the Trump administration, the US still has no real, practical military option on North Korea, analysts say. After Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon Sunday, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said the US has “many military options” on North Korea and threatened Pyongyang with “a massive military response” if a US territory or US allies are targeted. But any US military action puts millions of civilians in the South Korean capital of Seoul at risk, analysts say, and is therefore very unlikely to happen. For years, the problem with any US military action against North Korea’s nuclear program has been the mass of conventional artillery Pyongyang keeps in range of Seoul, a metropolitan area of 25 million people. Experts say North Korea could kill tens of thousands of those civilians, if not exponentially more, using that artillery in retaliation for a US strike on the North.Pyongyang’s test Sunday of what is thought to be its most powerful nuclear weapon doesn’t change that fact, experts say. But some also say the test doesn’t mean North Korea is any more of an immediate threat to the US or its allies.

6am – E Fox Sports introduces 6-second TV ad spots to NFL programming as attention spans get shorter (CNBC) Viewers are used to seeing short ad spots on YouTube but rarely on TV, where 15, 30 and even 60-second formats are more popular with advertisers. But now Fox Sports is offering brands six-second spots, saying that they could get more attention than longer commercials. The network’s President Eric Shanks told the New York Times this week: “When the six-second ads are placed in unique positions, it has the potential to gain even more attention than a traditional unit.” The shorter ads are being sold as part of a package, and Times sources suggested the individual spots would cost as much as $200,000. The new spots will run during the NFL’s opening weekend, starting on September 10.

6am- F The Internet Lost It on a Woman Who Belittled “Small” Engagement Rings (Good Housekeeping) The Internet didn’t take too kindly to Twitter user @Daymjina‘s recent tweet on “small” engagement rings — on August 19, the young woman reportedly uploaded a photo of a simple (but stunning!) diamond ring, with the caption, “Imagine finally being proposed to and this is the ring you’re given.” She added a string of sob-face emojis for emphasis (yep). Twitter’s general consensus? It’s about the size, magnitude and depth of the love — not about the number of carats.

7am – A FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks (Politico) Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO. Since well before the Aug. 12 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly, DHS has been issuing warnings about the growing likelihood of lethal violence between the left-wing anarchists and right-wing white supremacist and nationalist groups. Previously unreported documents disclose that by April 2016, authorities believed that “anarchist extremists” were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of “the capitalist system,” racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI.

 7am B/C China is angry, but what can it do about North Korea? (The Guardian) Experts say Kim Jong-un’s latest provocation – which some believe was deliberately timed to upstage the start of the annual Brics summit in China – exposes not only the scale of the North Korean challenge now facing China’s president but also his dearth of options. North Korea nuclear test: South Korea says it expects further missile launches – as it happened Seoul is poised to give green light to install four more batteries of controversial Thaad system amid tensions with Pyongyang “The Chinese are pissed off, quite frankly,” says Steve Tsang, the head of the Soas China Institute. “But there is nothing much they will actually do about it. Words? UN statements and all that? Yes. But what can the Chinese actually do?” Zhao Tong, a North Korea expert from the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing, believes there are a number of possible answers.  The first is to further tighten sanctions on Kim’s regime by targeting its exports of textiles and clothing.

7am – D /E ‘Cheap sex’ is making men give up on marriage (New York Post) The share of Americans ages 25-34 who are married dropped 13 percentage points from 2000 to 2014. A new book by sociologist Mark Regnerus blames this declining rate on how easy it is for men to get off. Regnerus calls it “cheap sex,” an economic term meant to describe sex that has very little cost in terms of time or emotional investment, giving it little value. Regnerus bases his ideas, in part, on the work of British social theorist Anthony Giddens, who argued that the pill isolated sex from marriage and children. Add online pornography and dating sites to the mix and you don’t even need relationships.

8am – A INTERVIEW – HANS VON SPAKOVSKY –   Senior Legal Fellow. Heritage Foundation

TOPIC: Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay

• The program to protect undocumented migrants who came to the United States as children from deportation was introduced in 2012. The White House says it will announce a decision on the program Tuesday.
• To be eligible, an applicant must have arrived in the US before age 16 and lived there since June 15, 2007. They cannot have been older than 30 when the Department of Homeland Security enacted the policy in 2012.
• Under the DACA program, Dreamers can apply to defer deportation and legally reside in the US for two years. After that people can apply for renewal. By March 31, 240,700 people had applied for renewal in the 2017 fiscal year and 884,661 people have had their approval renewed over the life of the program.

 8am – B/C  Fox Sports introduces 6-second TV ad spots to NFL programming as attention spans get shorter (CNBC) Viewers are used to seeing short ad spots on YouTube but rarely on TV, where 15, 30 and even 60-second formats are more popular with advertisers. But now Fox Sports is offering brands six-second spots, saying that they could get more attention than longer commercials. The network’s President Eric Shanks told the New York Times this week: “When the six-second ads are placed in unique positions, it has the potential to gain even more attention than a traditional unit.” The shorter ads are being sold as part of a package, and Times sources suggested the individual spots would cost as much as $200,000. The new spots will run during the NFL’s opening weekend, starting on September 10.

 8am – D (REPLAY) INTERVIEW – PETER BROOKES – Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs, Heritage Foundation

TOPIC: North Korea Is Said to Be Readying Ballistic Missile Test

• US military options on North Korea ‘very ugly’ (CNN) Despite new threats from the Trump administration, the US still has no real, practical military option on North Korea, analysts say. After Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon Sunday, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said the US has “many military options” on North Korea and threatened Pyongyang with “a massive military response” if a US territory or US allies are targeted. But any US military action puts millions of civilians in the South Korean capital of Seoul at risk, analysts say, and is therefore very unlikely to happen. For years, the problem with any US military action against North Korea’s nuclear program has been the mass of conventional artillery Pyongyang keeps in range of Seoul, a metropolitan area of 25 million people. Experts say North Korea could kill tens of thousands of those civilians, if not exponentially more, using that artillery in retaliation for a US strike on the North.Pyongyang’s test Sunday of what is thought to be its most powerful nuclear weapon doesn’t change that fact, experts say. But some also say the test doesn’t mean North Korea is any more of an immediate threat to the US or its allies.