Joe DiGenova , Trevor Matich, and Sebastian Gorka joined WMAL on Monday!
Mornings on the Mall
Monday, October 15, 2018
Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese
Executive Producer: Heather Hunter
5am – A/B/C Steve Carell: ‘The Office’ Would Be Too Offensive Today. If So, What’s Left? (The Federalist) What TV Show or Movie would be too offensive today? Steve Carell just made the best argument for loosening the vice grip of political correctness. In an Esquire profile published Thursday, Carell contemplated carefully whether viewers would accept “The Office” if a remake were to come about today.
5am – D Patriot Prayer rally in Portland turns bloody; American flag saved from flames (Fox News) Members of opposing groups violently clashed in downtown Portland, Ore., on Saturday night during an event that was billed as a march for “law and order.” Participants with the conservative Patriot Prayer group and counter-demonstrators with Antifa got into a bloody melee outside a popular bar where members on both sides used bear spray, fists and batons to beat each other, the Oregonian reported.
5am – E Hillary Clinton says husband’s affair was not an abuse of power (Fox News) Hillary Clinton vehemently denied in an interview Sunday that her husband’s extramarital affair with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky was an abuse of power and added that former President Bill Clinton was right not to resign amid a scandal that led to his impeachment on perjury and obstruction charges. “Absolutely not,” the former first lady said during the CBS “Sunday Morning” interview when asked if Bill Clinton should have stepped down. “It wasn’t an abuse of power?” CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil asked. Clinton responded: “No. No.”
6am – A IMMIGRATION NEWS
- Honduran migrant group treks north as S. calls for tighter borders
- Trump administration weighs new family-separation effort at border
6am – B Ike Leggett endorses Jealous, but says he won’t campaign against Hogan (Washington Post) Leggett said he decided to endorse after numerous discussions with Jealous and his running mate, Susie Turnbull, about the candidate’s stances on the issues of school funding, bringing Amazon’s next headquarters to Montgomery County and taxes. He said that although Jealous is “still evaluating on the tax things,” the candidate has softened his position on school-funding formulas and has indicated he will honor any deal the state negotiates to land Amazon
6am – C Man has eaten pizza every day for over 30 years (North Jersey.com) Mike Roman has only eaten pizza for dinner since he was 4 years old. He’s now 41. The Hackensack-native went on Tom La Vecchia’s podcast “New Theory” to discuss this strange food addiction. La Vecchia said he met Roman 10 years ago in a pizza shop, where they got to talking about how Roman had only eaten pizza for dinner since adolescence. On the podcast, Roman said that his mother gave in to his picky eating, allowing him to eat only pizza for dinner. In his grade school days, Roman mixed that up with a peanut butter sandwich every day for lunch. But when he entered the work force he started dining out for lunch — at pizza joints.Now, he’s back to peanut butter and bread for lunch.
6am – D/E Highlights from Trump on “60 Minutes”
6am – F World’s oldest woman, 129, who says her long life is a punishment from God remembers the one happy day in her life – when she returned home after surviving a Stalin purge in World War Two (Daily Mail)
7am – A INTERVIEW – Joe Digenova – Legal Analyst & Fmr. U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia
Topic: Rep. John Ratcliffe said Sunday that the FBI failed to provide a federal surveillance court with evidence that “directly” contracted the bureau’s rationale for opening the Trump-Russia investigation
7am – B/C Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping (Washington Examiner) The Trump administration’s often overlooked list of achievements has surpassed those of former President Ronald Reagan at this time and more than doubled since the last tally of accomplishments after his first year in office, giving President Trump a solid platform to run for re-election on. As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country, during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. They include 173 major wins, such as adding more than 4 million jobs, and another 116 smaller victories, some with outsize importance, such as the 83 percent one-year increase in arrests of MS-13 gang members.
7am-D INTERVIEW – Trevor Matich – WMAL’s Redskins analyst
Topic: Recap of Redskin’s win against Carolina Panthers
7am – E Saudis reject US threats over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, warn oil could skyrocket (USA Today) Saudi Arabia denied any involvement in the disappearance of Washington Post contributing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned Sunday that any sanctions against the oil-rich kingdom would be met with “greater action” and possibly exploding oil prices. “The kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether by threatening to impose economic sanctions, using political pressures or repeating false accusations,” the government said in a statement released to Saudi media. “The Kingdom also affirms that if it receives any action, it will respond with greater action.”
8am – A/B/C/D/E INTERVIEW – Dr. Sebastion Gorka
Topic: his new book “Why We Fight: Defeating American’s enemies—with No Apologies”
