Newt Gingrich, Ron Hosko and Joe diGenova  joined WMAL on Friday!

Mornings on the Mall

Friday, June 15, 2018

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C/D/E     IG REPORT:

• Justice Dept finds no evidence of political bias by Strzok, Page: report
• Inspector general blasts Comey and also says others at FBI showed ‘willingness to take official action’ to hurt Trump
• Comey Cited as ‘Insubordinate,’ but Report Finds No Bias in F.B.I. Decision to Clear Clinton
• DOJ Inspector General: James Comey used personal email to conduct FBI business
• FBI employee working on Hillary probe blasted Trump supporters as ‘lazy POS’ after election
• The report also details anti-Trump instant messages between other employees assigned to the Clinton case. In one case, a male agent and a female agent who are now married exchanged messages in which the female agent called Trump’s Ohio supporters “retarded” and later messaged, “f— Trump.”
• A Justice Department report revealed that FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was working on the special counsel’s Russia probe, text messaged to someone “we’ll stop” then-presidential candidate Donald Trump from being elected. STRZOCK & PAGE TEXTS: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok. “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.
• On August 26, 2016, Strzok told Page he went to a Walmart in southern Virginia and he could “SMELL the Trump support.…
• ‘Vive la Resistance!’ FBI attorney reportedly sent anti-Trump messages to a colleague
• Hillary Clinton tweets three words after revelation that Comey used private email for FBI business
• James Comey: This Report Says I Was Wrong. But That’s Good for the F.B.I.
• Comey also used a personal email for official government business in violation of DOJ policy, Horowitz’s report found.
• FBI riddled with leaks, FBI employees receive benefits from journalists. “We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters,” the report noted.

 

6am – A         INTERVIEW — NEWT GINGRICH – former Speaker of the House and author of new book “Trump’s America” – discussed his thoughts on the IG report and his upcoming book event.

• Newt has a book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Ashburn, VA at 7 pm on Monday, June 18th for his new book Trump’s America.

6am – B         NORTH KOREA NEWS:

• White House: Trump’s salute of North Korean official was just “common courtesy” (The Hill) — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday defended President Trump’s decision to salute a North Korean military officer, calling it “common courtesy.”
• Trump’s North Korea Summit Is One Of The Most Popular Things He’s Done As President. The public broadly approves of President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to a HuffPost/YouGov survey released Thursday, easily ranking the meeting among Trump’s most popular actions since being in office. Americans say, 61 percent to 21 percent, that they approve of Trump having met with Kim. (A Monmouth University poll, also released Thursday, similarly found that 71 percent of Americans considered the meeting a good idea.)
• ‘Why can’t we just do it?’: Trump nearly upended summit with abrupt changes. (Washington Post) — Some of the most intense drama surrounding President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came not across the negotiating table, but in the days and hours leading up to Tuesday’s historic meeting — a behind-the-scenes flurry of commotion prompted by Trump himself. After arriving in Singapore on Sunday, an antsy and bored Trump urged his aides to demand that the meeting with Kim be pushed up by a day — to Monday — and had to be talked out of altering the long-planned and carefully negotiated summit date on the fly, according to two people familiar with preparations for the event.  “We’re here now,” the president said, according to the people. “Why can’t we just do it?” Trump’s impatience, coupled with a tense staff-level meeting between the two sides on Sunday, left some aides fearful that the entire summit might be in peril.

6am – C         Churchgoers Live Six Years Longer on Average. Those who attend Church are likely to live longer than those who do not, a study has found, in results which may be linked to healthy lifestyle choices made by regular churchgoers. British newspaper The Times reports: “The fruit of the righteous,” it says in the book of Proverbs, “is a tree of life.” That is not too far from the empirical truth, according to a study that suggests religiously observant people tend to live up to six years longer than atheists or agnostics. Academics argue that the faithful not only smoke less, drink less and generally behave more sensibly, but also find it easier to maintain a healthy social network, especially in old age. The findings, based on analysis of just over 1,600 American local newspaper obituaries, is the latest piece of evidence that religion may bring its consolations in this world as well as the next.

6am – D/E/F  Latest on the IG Report

7am – A         INTERVIEW – RON HOSKO – former assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division and currently the ‎President at Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund – shared his thoughts on the IG report, particularly the FBI and Comey.

7am – B/C     DON JR NEWS:

• New York Attorney General Sues Trump Foundation After 2-Year Investigation. New York files civil suit against President Trump, alleging his charity engaged in ‘illegal conduct.’ New York’s attorney general filed suit against President Trump and his three eldest children Thursday, alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the president’s personal charity and saying that Trump had repeatedly misused the nonprofit organization to pay off his businesses’ creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at 2016 campaign events. In the suit, Attorney General Barbara Underwood asked a state judge to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation. She asked that its remaining $1 million in assets be distributed to other charities and that Trump be forced to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution and penalties.
• Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump: The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!…
• Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump: ….Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.

7am – D         Sarah Huckabee Sanders shuts down reporter scolding her about child separation policy

7am – E         2018 Congressional Baseball Game. The Democrats won the game, 21-5. Leadoff batter in Congressional baseball game hits a sharp grounder on the first pitch right at Steve Scalise He fields it cleanly and throws out CA Democratic Rep Ruiz at first.”

8am – A/B/C INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia – shared his thoughts on the IG report.

8am – D/E     Trump Does Surprise TV Interview on Fox & Friends:

• @realdonaldtrump: Wow, the highest rated (by far) morning show, @foxandfriends, is on the Front Lawn of the White House. Maybe I’ll have to take an unannounced trip down to see them?