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Mornings on the Mall

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C   WOMAN ARRESTED FOR TYING HER SON TO THE MINIVAN ROOF TO HOLD DOWN A PLASTIC POOL. A Wisconsin woman is facing charges after her 9-year-old son was tied to the roof of their minivan to help hold down a plastic pool.  She said she didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, since those were the types of things her dad did. 

• TALKER: What did your parents do with you that you would never get away with your kids today?

5am – D         PAPA JOHN’S BLAMING THE NFL FOR LOW PIZZA SALES. Papa John’s International Inc. founder John Schnatter is going after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, saying weak handling of the league’s national-anthem controversy has hammered sales of his pizza. “The NFL has hurt us by not resolving the current debacle to the players’ and owners’ satisfaction,” Schnatter, who serves as the pizza chain’s chairman and chief executive officer, said on a conference call. “NFL leadership has hurt Papa John’s shareholders.” The remarks follow a controversy over NFL football players protesting during the national anthem, a movement that started last season. The demonstrations have sparked calls for a boycott and raised concerns among league sponsors. But Schnatter’s comments mark the highest-profile example of an NFL partner publicly blaming the outcry for hurting business.

5am –  E        The WMAL Diner Tour is back! WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall is heading to Virginia tomorrow morning and will broadcast from the METRO 29 DINER in ARLINGTON. ** We’ll have SPECIAL GUESTS there! We’ll be talking to CAL THOMAS, ED GILLESPIE, DEL. TIM HUGO, JILL VOGEL, GOVERNOR GEORGE ALLEN and more! COME STOP BY!  We’ll also be handing out coffee travel mugs!

• WAPO EDITORIAL BASHES NORTHAM AD: An ad that had no place in Va.’s governor’s race. (Washington Post Editorial Board October 31 at 7:44 PM) — “FEAR-MONGERING.” That is the title of an ad being aired by Virginia Democrat Ralph Northam that takes aim at ads by Ed Gillespie, his Republican opponent for governor, trying to tie Mr. Northam to MS-13 gang violence and to a child pornographer. Mr. Northam is correct in his assessment of the poisonous ads and correct that it is “despicable” to imply he would tolerate anyone hurting a child. But just as despicable is an anti-Gillespie ad created by an independent group that supports Mr. Northam. It behooves Mr. Northam, while he is offering criticism, to make clear that even though the anti-Gillespie spot was not a product of his campaign, his campaign wants no part of it… “Ralph Northam would not have run this ad and believes Virginians deserve civility, not escalation,” a spokesman for Mr. Northam emailed us. That was before the Latino Victory Fund announced Tuesday night that it was pulling the ad, issuing a statement that cited “recent events.” Maybe that was a reference to Tuesday night’s truck attack in Manhattan. It is sad that it took such a tragedy for the group to realize how out of bounds its ad was. It’s also sad that someone who promises to be a governor for all Virginians didn’t call them out right away.
• Northam says he’d ban sanctuary cities if one ever appears in Virginia. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam said Wednesday that he would sign a bill to ban so-called sanctuary cities if a Virginia locality tries to become one in the future. Republican nominee Ed Gillespie has pushed the issue of sanctuary cities to the forefront of the governor’s race. The term is loosely defined but generally understood as a locality that will not cooperate with federal immigration authorities. No Virginia city or county has tried to adopt policies to impede such cooperation. Northam, Virginia’s sitting lieutenant governor, has insisted he opposes sanctuary cities while also accusing Gillespie of fabricating the issue for political advantage.  But in an interview Wednesday with the Norfolk TV station WAVY, Northam said for the first time that, under certain circumstances, he would sign a bill similar to the one he voted against this year, a vote that spawned a wave of ominous ads from the Gillespie campaign linking Northam to the Latino gang MS-13. “If that bill comes to by desk … I sure will. I’ve always been opposed to sanctuary cities. He knows that,” Northam said of Gillespie, whose MS-13-themed ads have been blasted by critics as racially tinged.

6am – A/B     DIVERSITY VISA — WHAT CRITERIA DO YOU IDEALLY WANT FOR IMMIGRANTS COMING INTO OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM?

• Trump demands Congress terminate diversity immigration lottery. Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, during a White House Cabinet meeting Wednesday, said he wants to terminate the Diversity Visa Lottery, a program that distributes around 50,000 visas to countries where there is a low rate of immigration to the US. “I am, today, starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program,” Trump said, seated next to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. “I am going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program, diversity lottery, diversity lottery. Sounds nice, it is not nice, it is not good. It hasn’t been good and we have been against it.” He added: “We’re going to quickly as possible get rid of chain migration and move to a merit-based system.” Trump added that based on preliminary information, the attacker in New York “was the point of contact, the primary point of contact for, and this is preliminarily, 23 people, that came in or potentially came in with him and that is not acceptable.”  The comments follow Trump’s tweets on Wednesday morning that blamed Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, for the program. “The terrorist came into our country through what is called the ‘Diversity Visa Lottery Program,’ a Chuck Schumer beauty,” Trump tweeted. “I want merit based.” Schumer was a key shaper of the 1990 legislation that created the program, but also played a lead part in the 2013 Gang of Eight bill that that passed the Senate on a bipartisan basis and included removing the diversity lottery program. The bill would have moved those visas elsewhere in the system and introduced a merit system that took into account multiple factors like family and work skills. The diversity visa has been a point of contention for years. The 50,000 visas, distributed by random selection among countries where there is a low rate of immigration to the US, were originally designed to diversify the pool of immigrants to the US. The visas offer immigrants green cards, permanent legal residence and a path to citizenship.
• Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump 21h21 hours ago: The terrorist came into our country through what is called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program,” a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.

6am – C         Trump Suggests Guantánamo Prison for Truck Attack Suspect, an Unprecedented Step. President Trump said on Wednesday that he was considering sending the terrorism suspect in the truck attack in New York to the wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an unprecedented step that would raise novel legal questions and likely set off a protest by veteran national security law enforcement officials. Mr. Trump made his comments at the start of a cabinet meeting a day after an immigrant from Uzbekistan, Sayfullo Saipov, plowed a pickup truck along a crowded Manhattan bicycle path, prosecutors say, killing eight people. Mr. Saipov had expressed support for the Islamic State, the authorities said. Asked by reporters whether he would send the suspect to Guantánamo, Mr. Trump said, “I would certainly consider that.” He added: “Send him to Gitmo — I would certainly consider that, yes.”

6am – D/E     Humans love dogs more than other people: study. (NY Post) — Humans love dogs more than their fellow man. Two major studies showed that mankind has more empathy for pooches in dire circumstances than suffering people, according to a report in the Times of London. A UK medical research charity staged two phony donation campaigns — one for a dog and the other featuring a man. Of course, the pooch drew more contributions. “Would you give 5 pounds to save Harrison from a slow, painful death?” the separate ads said, featuring a canine and human “Harrison.” Then a Northeastern University study showed that only a baby human could compete with man’s best friend. Students were shown fake newspaper clippings about a baseball-bat attack on a puppy, an adult dog, a year-old infant and a 30-year-old adult. They were asked questions to gauge their empathy and the adult finished last in sympathy. “Respondents were significantly less distressed when adult humans were victimized, in comparison with human babies, puppies and adult dogs,” according to Northeastern researchers. “Only relative to the infant victim did the adult dog receive lower scores of empathy.”

6am – F         The WMAL Diner Tour is back! WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall is heading to Virginia tomorrow morning and will broadcast from the METRO 29 DINER in ARLINGTON. ** We’ll have SPECIAL GUESTS there! We’ll be talking to CAL THOMAS, ED GILLESPIE, DEL. TIM HUGO, JILL VOGEL, GOVERNOR GEORGE ALLEN and more! COME STOP BY!  We’ll also be handing out coffee travel mugs!

7am – A         Michelle Obama: We raise men to feel ‘entitled’ (The Hill) — Michelle Obama is questioning whether men may feel “entitled” and “self-righteous” because of mothers’ inclination to protect them. “It’s like the problem in the world today is we love our boys and we raise our girls,” the former first lady told poet Elizabeth Alexander Wednesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. “We raise them to be strong, and sometimes we take care not to hurt men. And I think we pay for that a little bit,” Obama, 53, said. The mom to daughters Malia, 19, and Sasha, 16, continued, “And that’s a ‘we’ thing because we’re raising them.” “It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?” asked Obama. “Does it mean respect? Does it mean responsibility? Does it mean compassion? Or are we protecting our men too much so that they feel a little entitled and a little, you know, self-righteous sometimes?”

7am – B/C     INTERVIEW – MARK KRIKORIAN –  a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues, has served as Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) – discussed diversity visas.

7am – D         INTERVIEW — REP. JIM JORDAN – R-Ohio – discussed tax reform.

• Republicans push tax bill unveiling to Thursday as negotiations continue
• POLITICO: Boehner on Jim Jordan: “Jordan was a terrorist as a legislator going back to his days in the Ohio House and Senate”

7am – E         Twitter Buried #DNCLeak, #PodestaEmails Tweets In Last Two Months Of Campaign. (Daily Caller) — Twitter buried significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in the last two months of the 2016 presidential campaign. Twitter’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in his written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. “Approximately one quarter (25%) of [#PodestaEmails tweets] received internal tags from our automation detection systems that hid them from searches,” Edgett said.

8am – A/B/C WOMAN ARRESTED FOR TYING HER SON TO THE MINIVAN ROOF TO HOLD DOWN A PLASTIC POOL. A Wisconsin woman is facing charges after her 9-year-old son was tied to the roof of their minivan to help hold down a plastic pool.  She said she didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, since those were the types of things her dad did. 

• TALKER: What did your parents do with you that you would never get away with your kids today?

8am – D         INTERVIEW – ANDREW MCCARTHY – senior fellow at National Review Institute and former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York – discussed diversity visas.

• ANDREW MCCARTHY: After the West Side Highway Jihad: What Does ‘Extreme Vetting’ Mean? “I wrote about the Diversity Visa Program in The Grand Jihad, my book about the sharia supremacist strategy for infiltrating and “destroying the West” (to quote the Muslim Brotherhood).”
• Trump wants to “immediately” terminate the US diversity visa lottery program
• Schumer: I Saw Benefits Of Diversity Visa Program While Riding ‘My Bike’

8am – E         The WMAL Diner Tour is back! WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall is heading to Virginia tomorrow morning and will broadcast from the METRO 29 DINER in ARLINGTON. ** We’ll have SPECIAL GUESTS there! We’ll be talking to CAL THOMAS, ED GILLESPIE, DEL. TIM HUGO, JILL VOGEL, GOVERNOR GEORGE ALLEN and more! COME STOP BY!  We’ll also be handing out coffee travel mugs!