Legal analyst Joe diGenova, Heritage Foundation economist Steve Moore, and host of “Full Measure” and best-selling author Sharyl Attkisson joined WMAL on Monday!
Mornings on the Mall
Monday, July 30, 2018
Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese
Executive Producer: Heather Hunter
5am – A/B/C Census Bureau: Couples lie about their income when the woman makes more than the man (PJ Media) – The U.S. Census Bureau has released new research that claims to demonstrate “the importance of understanding societal norms.” When a wife earns more than her husband, researchers found, she will report that she earns less than she actually does. Additionally, the man in this situation will report that he earns more than he actually does. Marta Murray-Close, who co-authored the study, called this a “critical finding,” saying that this research “adds to the understanding of gender norms and the quality of income statistics.”
5am – D Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, facing sexual abuse reports, resigns from the College of Cardinals (Washington Post) – The former archbishop of Washington, accused of sexually abusing adults and minors for decades, resigned from the College of Cardinals on Saturday, becoming the first cardinal in history to step down due to sexual abuse allegations and magnifying the abuse crisis that Pope Francis is grappling with around the globe. News of the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a longtime globe-trotting diplomat for the Catholic Church and a public face for efforts to end clergy sexual abuse, has roiled the local Catholic community and the wider church.
5am – E TSA collecting info on regular travelers through ‘Quiet Skies’ program: Report (Washington Examiner) – The Transportation Security Administration has been conducting surveillance on thousands of unknowningly American fliers through a program dubbed “Quiet Skies.” According to the Boston Globe, the program specifically targets travelers who “are not under investigation by any agency and are not in the Terrorist Screening Data Base.” All American citizens who enter the U.S. are automatically screened for inclusion, the report says.
6am – A/B/C Trump threatens shutdown over wall, immigration (CNN) – President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to push the government into a shutdown ahead of the coming spending deadline in September if Congress does not fund his border wall and change the nation’s immigration laws. “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!” Trump tweeted.
6am – D Churches may have to pay taxes, and members of Congress may pay politically (McClatchy) – Members of Congress should be able to work together to protect houses of worship from having to pay taxes, especially in an election year when both parties want to earn the faith community’s vote. In an era of pervasive partisan politics, however, not even that is a guarantee. Some Republicans do want to tweak a portion of their 2017 tax bill that will now force nonprofits, including churches, to pay a 21 percent tax on the value of certain employee benefits. But most others downplay the problem or deny it needs to be addressed.
6am – E New Hampshire, 94 Percent White asks: How do you diversify a whole state? (New York Times) – Catalina Celentano used to hold training sessions for hospital workers in Lynn, Mass., to familiarize them with the cultures of patients from Cambodia, Russia and the Dominican Republic. When she moved to New Hampshire, she suddenly found herself in an ethnic vacuum. “I went from being able to speak Spanish every day to not speaking Spanish at all because there wasn’t anybody to speak Spanish to,” said Mrs. Celentano, who was born in Colombia to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father. “The only person I spoke Spanish with was a cleaning lady and she moved back to Colombia.”
6am – F Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I’ve got ‘at least five more years’ (New York Post) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said on Sunday that she hopes to stay on the bench for another 5 years. Ginsburg was speaking in Manhattan following the performance of a play about the late Justice Antonin Scalia when she made the estimate. “I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.”
7am – A INTERVIEW – Joe diGenova – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia – discussed Trump potentially sitting down with Robert Mueller
7am – B How an Ex-Cop rigged McDonald’s Monopoly game and stole millions (The Daily Beast) – Inside Hoover’s home, Amy Murray, a loyal McDonald’s spokesperson, encouraged him to tell the camera about the luckiest moment of his life. Nervously clutching his massive check, Hoover said he’d fallen asleep on the beach. When he bent over to wash off the sand, his People magazine fell into the sea. He bought another copy from a grocery store, he said, and inside was an advertising insert with the “Instant Win” game piece. The camera crew listened patiently to his rambling story, silently recognizing the inconsequential details found in stories told by liars. They suspected that Hoover was not a lucky winner, but part of a major criminal conspiracy to defraud the fast food chain of millions of dollars. The two men behind the camera were not from McDonald’s. They were undercover agents from the FBI.
7am – C Yes, Hellmann’s has froze over. Mayonnaise ice cream is here (Washington Post) – No one is “meh” on mayonnaise, the most contentious condiment. You either want it glopped all over your potato salad, spread on your sandwich bread, put in your coleslaw and lobster rolls and deviled eggs and everything else, or you want to invent a time machine so you can go back to 1756 to thwart the chef of the Duke de Richelieu, who was said to have invented the sauce in his boss’s honor that year. If you fall into the former camp: Good news! There is mayonnaise-flavored ice cream now. If you fall into the latter camp: I wish you the best of luck carrying on with your life knowing that you live in a world where there is mayo-flavored ice cream.
7am – D Jilted husband awarded $8.8M after suing wife’s lover (Fox News) – They say that if you want to play, you have to pay. This week a Superior Court judge in North Carolina ordered a Texas man to pay $8.8 million to the jilted husband of a North Carolina woman with whom the Texas man had been having an affair. The award represented $2.2 million in compensatory damages and three times that in punitive damages, the Herald Sun of Durham reported.
7am – E Scoop: Trump’s obsession with the “terrible” FBI building (Axios) – Trump is obsessed with the FBI building. For months now, in meetings with White House officials and Senate appropriators intended to discuss big-picture spending priorities, the president rants about the graceless J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington, D.C. Behind the scenes: In the midst of one rant about the FBI, he lit into the building. “Even the building is terrible,” he observed to an Axios source. “It’s one of the brutalist-type buildings, you know, brutalist architecture. Honestly, I think it’s one of the ugliest buildings in the city.”
8am – A INTERVIEW – Steve Moore – Heritage Foundation economist – discussed Trump’s GDP announcement and the state of the economy
8am – B Midterms News:
- Trump will campaign ‘6 or 7’ days a week for GOP candidates (New York Post) – President Trump said Friday that he will campaign “six or seven” days a week for Republicans in tight Congressional races as the midterm elections near — vowing to “bring them over the line” to preserve the GOP’s majorities in the House and Senate.
- Midterms: Billionaiere Koch brothers threaten to support Democrats pushing open borders, free trade (Breitbart) – Pro-mass immigration GOP mega-donor billionaire Koch brothers are threatening to support Democrats who push for open borders and multinational free trade in the upcoming midterm elections. During a conference with millionaire and billionaire donors, officials with the Kochs’ network of organizations said that they would gladly put funding in the pockets of Democrats so long as they support aspects of their agenda, which include promoting mass immigration and job-killing free trade deals.
- Bannon slams Kochs: ‘What they have to do is shut up and get with the program’ (The Hill) – Former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon on Sunday slammed the Koch network for comments made by its top officials over the weekend criticizing President Trump’s financial policies. “What they have to do is shut up and get with the program,” Bannon said in an interview with Politico. “And here’s the program: Ground game to support Trump’s presidency and program, [and] victory on Nov. 6.”
8am – C Porn star Mia Khalifa will need surgery after a hockey puck ruptured her breast implant (News.com.au) – Porn star turned sports presenter Mia Khalifa is undergoing surgery after her left boob was left “deflated” after being struck by a hockey puck. The 25-year-old was watching an ice hockey match when the six-ounce disk smashed into her chest at around 130km/h.
8am – D/E INTERVIEW – Sharyl Attkisson — host of Sinclair’s Sunday TV news program Full Measure and author of NY Times bestseller “The Smear” – discussed government surveillance of reporters
