Weather Channel’s Ken Boone, Joe diGenova, White House’s Mercedes Schlapp, WMAL’s Redskins analyst Trevor Matich and WMAL meteorologist John Trout joined WMAL on Monday!

Mornings on the Mall

Monday, September 10, 2018

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C OBAMA CALLS REPUBLICANS “PARANOID”, “DIVISIVE” & “RESENTFUL”: Former President Barack Obama suggested on Friday that outrage over the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi — which resulted in the deaths of four Americans — was a result of “wild conspiracy theories.”

5am – D         VP PENCE Reacts To Anonymous NY Times Op-ed On Sunday Show:

• VP Mike Pence on Fox News Sunday: Op-Ed Writer ‘Should Do The Honorable Thing, Step Forward And Resign’
• Pence says he’d take lie detector to prove he didn’t write NYT Op-Ed

5am – E         IMMIGRATION NEWS:

• JORDAN WANTS A BUDGET VOTE THAT INCLUDES THE WALL BEFORE THE MID TERMS: (Breitbart) — “Right now, we should be passing — this month, this week — a spending bill that includes the border wall funding, and make that a fight and get it done before the election,” Jordan told Breitbart News in a September 6 interview.
• REPUBLICANS URGE McCONNELL TO BRING SANCTUARY CITY BILL TO THE FLOOR. Steve King (R-IA) said on Friday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should bring legislation that he and other Republicans introduced last June that would allow victims of criminal illegal aliens and their families in so-called sanctuary cities to sue those jurisdictions for damages. “It sits on Mitch McConnell’s desk,” King said. “Whether they have the votes or whether they don’t I would call on Mitch McConnell — put it on the floor. Let America know where they stand.”
• ARRESTS OF HUMAN SMUGGLERS UP 200%. During Fiscal Year 2018, which began on October 1, 2017, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents stopped 210 human smuggling attempts at Border Patrol Checkpoints located on Highways 111 and 86. This compares to Fiscal Year 2017 busts of 68 alien smuggling loads during the same period, according to information obtained by Breitbart Texas from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. This represents an increase of nearly 209 percent.
• MEXICO BEGINS CRACKDOWN ON SMUGGLERS: The operation began this week along the highway that connects Monterrey and Reynosa, near the town of General Bravo. Agents with Nuevo León’s Fuerza Civil came across a tractor-trailer that was blocking traffic. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by state authorities, when police approached the vehicle they found nearly 120 migrants including pregnant women and children who had been stuffed in a tractor trailer. The group consisted of 81 adults and 38 minors including several unaccompanied children.
• DENMARK BILL WILL REQUIRE IMMIGRANTS TO SHAKE HANDS & ATTEND CEREMONY TO RECEIVE CITIZENSHIP: John Schmidt Andersen, Frederikssund’s far-left mayor, is one of the local politicians who has said he will ignore the law, saying: “It’s symbolism. It’s not very liberal to force people to shake hands if you come from a culture where you are greeted in a different way.” The bill will also make attending the citizenship ceremony, which will be facilitated by at least one or more representatives of the municipality in which they reside, mandatory to become a citizen, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

6am – A/B/C SERENA WILLIAMS CONTROVERSY:

• Serena Williams’ US Open treatment divides tennis world. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Serena Williams’ behavior in Saturday’s U.S. Open final divided the tennis world after she called the chair umpire a “liar” and a “thief” and said he treated her differently than male players during her loss to Naomi Osaka. Williams, who was seeking a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam singles title on Saturday, was handed a warning for a coaching violation before being deducted a point for smashing her racquet. She then had a heated argument with chair umpire Carlos Ramos, which cost her a game. The six-times U.S. Open champion, who has since been fined $17,000 by the United States Tennis Association for the violations, vigorously disputed each during the match. In the wake of Osaka’s first Grand Slam triumph, there were messages of support for Williams as well as those condemning her behavior and agreeing with the umpire’s calls.
• Serena Williams fined $17,000 for violations during the US Open final
• Billie Jean King wrote in Washington Post: Serena is still treated differently than male athletes

 6am – D         INTERVIEW — KEN BOONE — Weather Channel Meteorologist  — discussed how close the hurricane will get near the DC area.

• Virginia and North and South Carolina are under states of emergency after Hurricane Florence strengthened Sunday, and weather forecasters predicted it could become a major storm that batters the southeast U.S. later in the week

• Strengthening Hurricane Florence churns toward East Coast. (WTOP) – Though the threat of a direct hit on the D.C. area decreased over the weekend, a storm is more than a single point on a map. A strike anywhere along the East Coast will likely bring torrential rainfall to Virginia, Maryland, and D.C. from Friday into early next week. “The storm is expected to slow down as it makes landfall and to just sit over the region where it hits,” said Storm Team4 meteorologist Steve Prinzivalli.  “That could cause some very heavy rainfall, some gusty winds, and numerous power outages.” Heavy rain this weekend could only act to make things worse. A separate storm system — including the remains of Tropical Storm Gordon — brought up to three inches of rain to the region.

 6am – E         Woman Mistakes Dynamite Stick For Candle In Power Outage, Suffers ‘Extreme’ Injuries. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CBS) – A Connecticut woman mistakenly lit a stick of dynamite instead of a candle during a power outage and suffered severe injuries Thursday night, police said. Authorities said the “tragic accident” happened to the 30-year-old mother of two on Lindley Street after thunderstorms passed through the Bridgeport area. The family tried to go to Home Depot to buy emergency lighting, but the store was closed. When they got back home, they went to get what they believed were candles left behind in the basement by previous residents. “She attempted to light one of what she thought was the candle and turned out to be a quarter stick of dynamite,” police said. The woman was taken to the hospital with “extreme injuries” to her hands, and she might lose fingers. She also suffered serious facial injuries, police said. The explosion did not injure anyone else. Police and the fire department later searched the home and removed another dynamite device. It’s against the law to have dynamite or fireworks in Connecticut, but police aren’t pressing charges.

6am – F         Booker sends staff to Iowa, signaling possible 2020 run. WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Booker has sent staff to Iowa, further stoking speculation of his 2020 presidential aspirations. The New Jersey Democrat placed four aides on the ground in the influential first caucus state to help elect local Democratic candidates, according to the Guardian. The assist comes as Booker in recent days has sought to raise his national political profile. He made a spectacle Thursday at the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings by releasing previously confidential materials and claiming an “I am Spartacus” moment. Meanwhile, his GOP colleagues fumed that his White House aspirations were no excuse for bucking committee rules. Booker announced Saturday he will be the headline speaker at the annual Iowa Democratic Party’s fall gala. He declined to say whether he’s testing the presidential waters, but said he wants to help Iowa Democrats get elected. “Let’s put it this way: The pathway to getting a check and balance to the president of the United States, it has to go through Iowa,” Booker told the Des Moines Register. “And that’s why I have to go through Iowa.”

7am – A         INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former US Attorney to the District of Columbia

• Former Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to FBI in Mueller probe
• Joe says the Mueller probe is wrapping up.
• Trump expected to declassify Carter Page and Bruce Ohr documents as soon as this week…
• JONATHAN SWAN OF AXIOS: President Trump was bluffing when he tweeted that he knows the successor to White House counsel Don McGahn, and instead he is vacillating about new legal leaders as he girds for open warfare with Democrats and Robert Mueller. The newest name on the president’s mind: Fannie Mae general counsel Brian Brooks, two sources with direct knowledge tell me.

 7am – B         Trump critic Sen. Sasse says he’s considering leaving Republican Party, calls WH a ‘reality show.’ Sen. Ben Sasse reiterated on Sunday that he frequently considers leaving the Republican Party and is tired of the partisan gridlock inside the Washington Beltway. Sasse, R-Neb., a deeply conservative lawmaker who has been a frequent critic of the Trump White House, said that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have “a future for the country” and that both are more focused on stymieing the other than passing actual legislation. “The main thing the Democrats are for is being Anti-Republican and Anti-Trump,” Sasse said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The main thing the Republicans are for is being Anti-Democrat.” When asked about how frequently he considers leaving the Republican Party, Sasse said he thinks “about it every day” and added that the Republican Party today bears little resemblance to the “party of Lincoln and Reagan.” Sasse’s comments come a day after the Nebraska lawmaker responded to a question posed to him on Twitter. The commenter said she believed changing her Democratic affiliation to “no-party” would be “part of the solution” and then asked the first-term senator whether he might follow suit. His response: “yep — regularly consider it (except the ‘from Dem’ part)”

7am – C         CBS CHIEF MOONVES OUT, NEW SEX ALLEGATIONS SURFACE: CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves has resigned after at least 12 women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct in a pair of New Yorker articles authored by Pulitzer Prize winner Ronan Farrow … In a statement released Sunday evening, CBS said that Moonves would depart his position as chairman, president and CEO “effective immediately.” COO Joseph Ianniello was announced as president and acting CEO “while the Board conducts a search for a permanent successor.”   The network also announced that it and Moonves would donate $20 million to organizations that support “that support the #MeToo movement and equality for women in the workplace.” The $20 million would come out of any compensation Moonves is due to receive following the conclusion of an ongoing investigation into the allegations against him. Moonves is expected to depart with a generous exit package, valued perhaps as much as $100 million, according to reports. Moonves’ future at CBS came into question in July, when Farrow published an expose in the New Yorker detailing allegations from six women. Then on Sunday, the New Yorker published claims against Moonves by six more women.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – MERCEDES SCHLAPP – White House Director of Strategic Communications @mercedesschlapp – discussed former President Obama’s speech on Friday and the anonymous NY Times op-ed writer.

• President Trump’s top officials on Sunday said the anonymous senior White House aide who allegedly wrote the infamous New York Times op-ed last week should leave the administration and that an investigation could be needed … “If they are that senior administration official — they’re violating an oath, not to the president, but to the Constitution,” Vice President Mike Pence told “FOX News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace. “Look, it’s un-American.  And I think that’s why you’ve seen Republicans and Democrats condemn this.”President Trump, Pence said, was concerned about the national security implications of the op-ed. “To have someone who literally celebrates coming in every day to frustrate the agenda that the president and I were elected to advance — it really is an assault on our democracy,” he said. Pence added that he would be willing to take a lie-detector test to prove he was not behind the op-ed.

7am – E         Jim Carrey says ‘stop apologizing’ and ‘say yes to socialism.’ Comedian Jim Carrey says Democrats need to stop running from Republican attacks and “say yes to socialism” “We have to say yes to socialism — to the word and everything,” Mr. Carrey said Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “We have to stop apologizing.” His comment came after Mr. Maher complained that Republicans have targeted progressive Democrats who identify themselves as socialist by throwing up the Venezuela example. “But that word — the Democrats need to get a plan to fight this slander of, ‘Socialism, you’re going to be living in Venezuela,’ ” Mr. Maher said. “And I don’t see it yet.”

8am – A         INTERVIEW – TREVOR MATICH – WMAL’s Redskins Analyst – discussed the Redskins victory on Sunday.

• REDSKINS WIN: Starting the season off right. Led by the offensive duo of Alex Smith and Adrian Peterson, the Washington Redskins were able to give Jay Gruden his first season opening victory by succinctly beating the Arizona Cardinals 24-6 in Week 1 on Sunday.

 8am – B/C     INTERVIEW – JOHN TROUT – WMAL’s Meteorologist (IN STUDIO) – discussed how Hurricane Florence get near the DC area.

 8am – D         Nia Imani Franklin, Miss New York, Is the Winner of Miss America 2019. (NY Times) — On Sunday night, Nia Franklin was crowned Miss America 2019. A classically trained opera singer, Ms. Franklin represented New York in the competition, focusing on equal opportunity and education in her interview questions. “I have New York grit,” Ms. Franklin, 25, said during the competition. “As a New Yorker I understand what it means to work hard.” Ms. Franklin is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she studied music composition. She emphasized, during the competition, that “there is a 20 percent higher graduation rate at schools where music is a part of the curriculum.”

• During the Q & A section, MISS NY has an incredible answer about the adversity, she has experienced… regarding SUBLETTING! Judge and boxer Laila Ali asked, “How has being the candidate from New York prepared you for the job of Miss America?” A softball question, but Franklin went with this: “I have New York grit. I have moved over five times because of subletting. In New York, it can be a little difficult because of the pricey rent, but I’ve overcome that.”