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Mornings on the Mall
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese
5am – A/B/C Trump’s Presidency Is Forcing Us To Take On Big Cultural Issues. Is This A Good Thing Or Causing Us To Be More Divisive?
5am – D LATEST ON GRAHAM-CASSIDY:
- Collins comes out against ObamaCare repeal bill, effectively killing it
- Orrin Hatch Says It Is ‘Virtually Impossible’ To Pass Graham-Cassidy.
- 181 people were arrested outside a hearing room where senators were discussing the GOP health care bill.
5am – E NORTH KOREA NEWS:
- North Korea accuses Trump of declaring war
- Notion U.S. has declared war on North Korea is ‘absurd,’ White House says. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The North Korean foreign minister’s statement that the United States has declared war on Pyongyang is “absurd,” the White House said on Monday. “We’ve not declared war on North Korea. Frankly, the suggestion of that is absurd,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters.
- North Korea says Trump declared war via tweet. The White House says it didn’t
- North Korea Says It Has the Right to Shoot Down U.S. Warplanes
- NK Foreign Minister: US has declared war.. White House: ‘Absurd’ North Korea is threatening to shoot down U.S. bombers flying in the vicinity of the Korean Pensinsula in response to President Trump’s denunciation of the regime last week. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho justified the threat on Monday by summarizing Trump’s comments at the United Nations, and his ensuing tweet that leaders who threaten the United States “won’t be around much longer” as a “declaration of war.” And Ri called on the U.N. to recognize North Korea’s right to self-defense.
- US disclosed path of B-1B bomber because North Korea didn’t seem to know!
6am – A/B/C Mother in Coma Heard Everything, Including How Doctors Shut Off Her Life Support and Said She’d Die. (Life News) — Three little words changed an Arizona family’s entire outlook as they stood at their mother’s deathbed. Doctors thought Lyndee Brown Pellettiere-Swapp, 47, was dying and would never wake from her coma. But soon after she was removed from life support, Pellettiere-Swapp said three words out loud: “I’m a fighter.” The Daily Mail reports Pellettiere-Swapp was not brain dead but locked-in, a condition where she could hear things around her but was unable to respond or move. Her family found her unconscious one day back in 2015 and rushed her to the hospital. She suffered several seizures, and after 12 days in the hospital, doctors said her organs were failing. They said the best option would be to turn off her life support, according to the report. Doctors told her husband and children that she would never come out of her coma, and there was nothing more to be done. So, on Oct. 29, 2015, doctors turned off her life support. Meanwhile, she said her husband was by her side whispering, “I need you to fight.” Pellettiere-Swapp told CBS 5 that she heard everything that people around her were saying, including the plans to remove her life support. She said she remembered her niece coming into her hospital room and reading to her. She said she remembered doctors examining her and talking to her family about removing her life support.
6am – D STEELER VETERAN IS GETTING SHAMED BY COACH AND TEAMMATES OVER STANDING FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
- Steelers player Alejandro Villanueva says he ‘made a mistake’ standing for national anthem without his team: I made my teammates look bad
- Steelers quarterback says he regrets decision to stay off the field during national anthem. Ben Roethlisberger: I wish my team hadn’t stayed off the field during national anthem
- Alejandro Villanueva is NFL’s top-selling jersey since standing for anthem.
6am – E ALABAMA SENATE PRIMARY:
- Alabama Senate: Bannon Comes Out Fighting for Roy Moore in Rare Speech
- Judge Roy Moore Raises Gun During Rally, Vows to Defend Second Amendment
- Alabama Poll: No ‘Trump Bump’ for Luther Strange; Roy Moore Opens Up 16-Point Lead Voters in Alabama were not impacted by President Donald Trump’s endorsement and campaign for Luther Strange and remain likely to nominate conservative candidate Judge Roy Moore, according to polling data obtained by the Wall Street Journal. The poll, conducted by Georgia-based The Trafalgar Group, found that 57 percent of likely Republican voters plan to support Judge Roy Moore, while just 41 percent intend to vote for the establishment-backed candidate, Luther Strange. This 16-point lead is far higher than Moore’s current RealClearPolitics average lead of 8.8 percent, suggesting he might be experiencing a late surge in popularity.
- Donald Trump: I’ll Be ‘Campaigning Like Hell’ for Roy Moore If He Beats Luther Strange President Donald Trump repeated his promise to campaign in Alabama for Roy Moore if he beat appointed Senator Luther Strange in the Republican Senate primary. “I told Luther, and I have to say this, if his opponent wins, I’m going to be here campaigning like hell for him,” Trump said in an interview on the “Rick and Bubba” radio show on Monday morning. But Trump stood by his endorsement of Strange, saying that the McConnell backed candidate was being “unfairly labeled” as “best friends of Mitch McConnell.” “He doesn’t even know Mitch, I mean he met him a few months ago when he came to Washington, he got to know him a little bit, but he virtually doesn’t even know him,” Trump said. “You know politics is a dirty business, you guys might have figured that out by now.”
6am – F ROGER STONE
- Testifies before House intel committee at 9 AM…
- Congress braces for Roger Stone show. The flamboyant Trump adviser promises ‘epic’ testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. After months of taunting congressional Russia investigators from afar, Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, will meet them face-to-face on Capitol Hill Tuesday in what he promises will be “epic” testimony debunking charges of collusion between the Kremlin and Trump associates. The Republican operative will testify behind closed doors as part of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. But officials are braced for his unique brand of theatrics before, during, and after the session, not least because Stone says he will bring a reporter and cameraman to Capitol Hill with him.
- TWEET: Preparing (with book called “The Russians”)… Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr: Preparing for my testimony before the House Intelligence Committee tomorrow 9 am (picture of Stone with a book titled “The Russians)
7am – A INTERVIEW — LT COL TONY SHAFFER – a CIA trained former senior intelligence officer and the New York Times bestselling author of ” Operation Dark Heart.”
- North Korea accuses Trump of declaring war
- Notion U.S. has declared war on North Korea is ‘absurd,’ White House says. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The North Korean foreign minister’s statement that the United States has declared war on Pyongyang is “absurd,” the White House said on Monday. “We’ve not declared war on North Korea. Frankly, the suggestion of that is absurd,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters.
- North Korea says Trump declared war via tweet. The White House says it didn’t
- North Korea Says It Has the Right to Shoot Down U.S. Warplanes
- NK Foreign Minister: US has declared war.. White House: ‘Absurd’ North Korea is threatening to shoot down U.S. bombers flying in the vicinity of the Korean Pensinsula in response to President Trump’s denunciation of the regime last week. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho justified the threat on Monday by summarizing Trump’s comments at the United Nations, and his ensuing tweet that leaders who threaten the United States “won’t be around much longer” as a “declaration of war.” And Ri called on the U.N. to recognize North Korea’s right to self-defense.
7am – B Sheila Jackson Lee and Maxine Waters Go Cray Cray:
- Black lawmaker kneels on House floor in solidarity with athletes. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) kneeled on the House floor Monday night to show solidarity with NFL players defying President Trump to protest police brutality. Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, blasted Trump for attacking NFL players who kneel during the national anthem at games to draw attention to the treatment of African Americans by law enforcement. Then she took a knee herself. “I kneel in honor of them. I kneel in front of the flag and on this floor,” Jackson Lee declared. “I kneel in honor of the First Amendment. I kneel because the flag is a symbol for freedom. I kneel because I’m going to stand against racism. I kneel because I will stand with those young men and I’ll stand with our soldiers. And I’ll stand with America, because I kneel.”
- MAD MAXINE: Impeach Trump over NFL kneelers! Come hell or high water, Maxine Waters is going to try to impeach President Trump. During a weekend appearance on MSNBC, the California congresswoman told host Joy Reid that Trump “is the most deplorable person I have ever met, seen or witnessed,” and that he should be impeached in part due to his response to the NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. “It is absolutely outrageous and dangerous what he’s doing,” Waters declared, referring to the president’s call for a boycott of the league. “He started dog-whistling to that constituency during the campaign and started his division,” she said, bringing up former White House advisor Steve Bannon. “They frighten people. They play into racism. They do what every other president either has attempted not to do, or at least showed some signs of, uh, you know, trying to bring people together, or not divide,” she said.
7am – C ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast Takes a Knee After Show’s Premiere. The cast members of Star Trek Discovery were slammed by social media users Sunday after a photo of the CBS show’s stars taking a knee went viral online. The photo, posted on Discovery star Sonequa Martin-Green’s Instagram account, was an apparent show of unity with NFL players protesting the national anthem. The post, captioned with the hashtag #StarTrekDiscovery and #takeaknee, appeared online just hours after the show’s world premiere. While many social media users praised the actors for making their political statement, other users called the gesture “ridiculous” and “shameful.” “Ridiculous, lost a follower! It’s disrespectful to those that died for our flag no matter how you look at it #shameful,” one Instagram user wrote in response to the photo.
7am – D INTERVIEW — AB STODDARD – Associate Editor and columnist at RealClearPolitics – latest in Congress on healthcare and tax reform.
- Collins comes out against ObamaCare repeal bill, effectively killing it
- Orrin Hatch Says It Is ‘Virtually Impossible’ To Pass Graham-Cassidy.
7am – E NFL ANTHEM FALLOUT:
- Sanders: If players want to protest cops, protest the ones on the field (VIDEO)
- COWBOYS LOCK ARMS… WITH JERRY JONES…
8am – A INTERVIEW — MATT SCHLAPP – chairman of the American Conservative Union – discussed Matt’s dinner with President Trump and Congress tackling healthcare and tax reform
8am – B/C INTERVIEW — DR. SEBASTIAN GORKA – former Deputy Assistant to President Trump – discuss his stumping for Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama primary election and the latest on North Korea.
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” – discussed the latest in Congress on healthcare and tax reform.
8am – E MEDIA NEWS:
- Bill O’Reilly Returns to Fox News Tuesday as Guest on ‘Hannity’ (Variety) – Bill O’Reilly is poised to return to Fox News on Tuesday for the first time since he was abruptly fired in April. The longtime Fox News anchor has been booked as a guest on Sean Hannity’s 9 p.m. program. Fox News confirmed late Monday the lineup of “Hannity” guests for the rest of the week. The list includes House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday and radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday. On Monday night, Hannity’s guest was former Trump special advisor Steve Bannon.
- Megyn Kelly gets thumbs down from critics
- The New, Politics-Hating, Hug-Loving Megyn Kelly Debuts on NBC—But Will Viewers Buy It?
