Red Maryland’s Greg Kline, Ken Klukowki and Dr. Sebastian Gorka joined WMAL on Tuesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C Rush Limbaugh: GOP can ‘kiss goodbye’ majorities in Congress if Kavanaugh not confirmed before midterm elections. Conservative commentator and radio host Rush Limbaugh said Republicans are certain to lose the majorities in both houses of Congress if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh isn’t confirmed before the November midterm elections. “If the Republicans do not get this vote taken and have Kavanaugh confirmed, you can kiss the midterms goodbye,” Limbaugh said. “You can kiss goodbye holding the House and you can kiss goodbye holding the Senate.”

5am – D ROSENSTEIN UPDATE:

• ROSENSTEIN NOT FIRED (Daily Mail) — Following a flurry of reports Monday that Rod Rosenstein would head to the White House to tender his resignation, the deputy attorney general turned up to attend a routine Cabinet meeting instead. Rosenstein’s head was thought to be on the choppping block following a spate of negative press revolving around alleged plots to secretary record President Trump and use the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as a lever to force him from office.
• Rod Rosenstein to meet Trump Thursday after morning drama at White House (CNN) — Washington (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Donald Trump Thursday amid mounting questions about his future and what a dramatic Justice Department shake up would mean for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Trump, speaking in New York, said Monday he spoke with Rosenstein earlier in the day and anticipated their meeting at the White House once he returned from the United Nations General Assembly. “I’m meeting with Rod Rosenstein on Thursday when I get back from all of these meetings,” Trump said. “And we’ll be meeting at the White House, and we’ll be determining what’s going on. We want to have transparency, we want to have openness and I look forward to meeting with Rod at that time.” Trump’s remarks capped off a tumultuous morning in Washington when it was, at times, unclear if the deputy attorney general still had his job. The confusion began late last week, when Rosenstein and White House chief of staff John Kelly met at the White House in the hours after The New York Times and others reported that he secretly suggested recording the President and discussed recruiting Cabinet members to remove Trump from office.

5am – E         Yale Law Professors Cancel 31 Classes So Students Can Protest Kavanaugh. Professors at Yale Law School, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s alma mater, cancelled class on Monday to allow students to protest Kavanaugh’s confirmation in light of sexual assault allegations made against him. One professor, James Forman, cancelled his Criminal Law class in an email to his students, writing “I just received a request to cancel class on Monday. I understand that some students want to go to D.C. to protest or otherwise engage with the Kavanaugh hearings. Criminal Law is cancelled.”  Not all classes were cancelled though, according to Yale Law spokeswoman Debra Krozer. “Yale Law School did not cancel all classes,” she said. “Many faculty members chose to reschedule or cancel their own classes today. And some held classes as usual.”

6am – A/B/C Hogan, Jealous square off in only scheduled general election debate in Maryland governor’s race

6am – D/E/F  Latest On Kavanaugh Chaos:

• KAVANAUGH INTERVIEW: Brett Kavanaugh: ‘I’m not going anywhere’
• During an interview with Fox News set to air tonight, Brett Kavanaugh says he did not have sexual intercourse throughout high school or “many years thereafter.”
• Brett Kavanaugh on new accusation: “I never did any such thing. The other people alleged to be there don’t recall any such thing. If such a thing had happened, it would have been the talk of campus.”
• Brett Kavanaugh: “I’m a good person. I’ve led a good life. I try to do a lot of good for a lot of people. I am not perfect…but I’ve never, never done anything like this.”
• Kavanaugh’s wife: ‘I know his heart’
• Brett Kavanaugh: “America’s about fairness. I want a fair process where I can defend my integrity and clear my name as quickly as I can, in whatever forum the Senate deems appropriate.”
• FEMALE LAWYERS ; Republicans Consider Using Female Staffers To Question Kavanaugh Accuser, Her Attorneys Push Back
• MCCONNELL / VOTE: McConnell says Kavanaugh will get up-or-down vote; blasts Senate Dems for ‘smear campaign’
• GRASSLEY: Senate Judiciary Committee seeking interview with new Kavanaugh accuser

7am – A         INTERVIEW – GREG KLINE – RED MARYLAND – co-founder of “Red Maryland”, a popular conservative blog about Republican politics in the Free State of Maryland. KLINE is also an attorney in Maryland @RedMaryland @GregoryKline – analyzed the MD Gubernatorial debate.

7am – B/C     Ted Cruz heckled by protesters in DC restaurant. A group of protesters in Washington, D.C., shouted down Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife in a restaurant Monday night, according to video footage that was posted on Twitter. The group appeared to chastise Cruz over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is facing multiple sexual assault allegations.  Two one-minute video clips were posted to the Twitter page of a group called “Smash Racism DC.”

7am – D/E     INTERVIEW – KEN KLUKOWSKI – Senior Legal Editor at Breitbart News Network, Senior Counsel at First Liberty Institute and Attorney at The American Civil Rights Union — discussed the latest update on the Kavanaugh confirmation.

 

8am – A         INTERVIEW – DR. SEBASTIAN GORKA – FOX News National Security Strategist, author of new book “Why We Fight” (to be published October 2018) and Fmr deputy assistant to President Donald Trump @SebGorka – previewed President Trump’s UN speech today.

• What to expect from Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations general assembly… SOVEREIGNTY, DOMESTIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS, IRAN, NORTH KOREA, SYRIA, YEMEN, VENEZUELA
• Trump’s address to the General Assembly comes Tuesday, and on Wednesday he will for the first time chair the Security Council, with the stated topic of non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The subject initially was to have been Iran, but that could have allowed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to attend, creating a potentially awkward situation for the U.S. leader. Aides say the president will also use the session to discuss North Korea and other proliferation issues. While Trump is not seeking a meeting with Rouhani, he is open to talking with the Iranian leader if Rouhani requests one, administration officials said. In meetings with European leaders as well as during the Security Council session, Trump plans to try to make the case that global companies are cutting ties with Iran ahead of the reimposition in five weeks of tough sanctions against Tehran. The penalties are a result of Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

8am – B         Man accused of pistol-whipping longtime friend over Bruno Mars song. (Fox News) — An Indiana man is facing charges after pistol-whipping his lifelong friend during an argument over a Bruno Mars song, police said. Roger D. Washburn, 71, of Greenwood, was taken into custody late Friday by deputies from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office after the victim and another man said they were hanging out at Washburn’s home when they started to fight over a song and who performed it, the Indianapolis Star reports. The victim insisted the track in question was sung by Mars, but Washburn disagreed. That prompted the victim to show Washburn proof that the song was, in fact, part of Mars’ catalog, but instead of defusing the argument, the sound squabble went to another level when Washburn pulled out a .38-caliber revolver, deputies said. The victim then called Washburn “chickens–t,” leading him to swing his gun at the man, striking him in the face and arm. Washburn’s gun went off twice as he struck the victim and took another swing at him, but no one was shot during the feud about the singer, whose hits include “Uptown Funk,” “That’s What I Like” and “Locked Out of Heaven.” The victim told investigators he and his friend — Washburn’s pal of 50 years — were so shocked over what happened that they didn’t end up calling police until hours later. Washburn later admitted to responding officers that he struck his friend in the face with his revolver, according to a police report, which does not indicate which Mars song had been playing at the time.

8am – C         Congress to release 50 monarch butterflies into the air Tuesday. House lawmakers will release 50 butterflies outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday in the evening as part of an effort to alert the public of the decline in the monarch butterfly population. The Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus, comprised of just seven lawmakers, will supply 50 of the black and orange butterflies for the first 50 guests. They will have the pleasure of setting the creatures — who live an average of two to six weeks — free into Washington, D.C. The lawmakers are also giving away milkweed pods — which will grow into plants that these butterflies depend on — for fall planting to guests.

8am – D         Latest on Kavanaugh confirmation