Hans Von Spakovsky, John Trout, Saagar Enjeti and RNC’s Kayleigh McEnany joined WMAL on Thursday! 


Mornings on the Mall

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C VINCE RECAPPED HIS INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP:

• Saagar Enjeti ‏@esaagar 11h11 hours ago: STANDBY: @TheDCVince and I just interviewed @POTUS in Oval. Topics: Las Vegas shooting, Roger Stone raid, Mueller, Wall negotiations, national emergency, SCOTUS/Ginsburg, SOTU Guests, 2020 candidates, China talks, religious bigotry, Northam Abortion comments, and the Super Bowl
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP SAYS DEMOCRATS ‘WON’T GET AWAY’ WITH RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP RIPS VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS’ ABORTION COMMENTS
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP SAYS HE WILL LEAVE MUELLER REPORT DECISION TO DOJ
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP CONSIDERS REVIEWING FBI POLICIES AFTER STONE RAID
• EXCLUSIVE: Trump Praises Brady, Kraft, Belichick And Goodell Ahead Of Super Bowl
• POLITICO, EARLIER WEDNESDAY: Conservatives fear Trump will surrender on key judicial nominees

5am – D         DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES AHEAD OF 2020: In a major shift that appears to help Democrats and liberals, one-third of the eligible voters in the upcoming 2020 presidential election will be non-white, the first time ever, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census data.

5am – E         NELLIE OHR INVESTIGATED TRUMP’S KIDS: Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told Congress in October that she investigated President Donald Trump’s children on behalf of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the Steele dossier. Ohr also testified that during a meeting in July 2016, Christopher Steele passed her husband materials from his infamous dossier.

 

6am – A/B/C PUSHBACK AGAINST ‘INFANTICIDE’ ALLEGATIONS – Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is pushing back against Republican accusations that he supports infanticide following backlash over his comments on a controversial new state abortion bill … “Republicans in Virginia and across the country are trying to play politics with women’s health, and that is exactly why these decisions belong between a woman and her physician — not legislators, most of whom are men,” Northam spokeswoman Ofirah Yheskel said in a statement. Northam appeared on a Washington radio station to discuss the Repeal Act, which seeks to repeal restrictions on third-trimester abortions. Virginia Democratic Del. Kathy Tran, one of the sponsors, sparked outrage from conservatives when she confirmed at a hearing that a woman about to give birth could still request an abortion under the new bill. When asked about Tran’s comments, Northam, a former pediatric neurologist, said that third-trimester abortions are done in extreme cases where a fetus may be severely deformed or “not viable’ with the consent of the mother and often multiple physicians. “So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,” he said. “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

The intent of Northam’s comments was not clear. But some conservative commentators and lawmakers believed he was discussing the possibility of letting a newborn die and was possibly endorsing “infanticide.”

The proposed legislation in Virginia follows New York passing a bill last week loosening restrictions on abortion. New Mexico, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington state also have passed new laws expanding abortion access or moved to strip old laws from the books that limit abortions.

• Trump Rips Virginia Democrats’ Abortion Comments. POTUS slams Northam/Tran comments on VA abortion bill “I thought it was terrible…Do you remember when I said Hillary Clinton was willing to rip the baby out of the womb? That’s what it is, that’s what they’re doing, it’s terrible”
• In an interview this morning, VA Democratic Governor Ralph Northam couldn’t answer whether he supported abortion until birth. Virginia Governor Asked Whether He Supports Abortion While Woman Is Giving Birth. His Response Is Bizarre: Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam couldn’t precisely answer whether he supports abortion until birth and suggested an infant could be born and then the mother and doctor could discuss what should happen next, in a Wednesday morning interview. “If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,” Northam said in a WTOP interview. Aborting a baby after it has been born is illegal.

6am – D/E/F HOWARD SCHULTZ:

• Howard Schultz: Elizabeth Warren’s Programs “Will Lead To Socialism In America”
• HOWARD SCHULTZ: “I’ve also been criticized for being a billionaire,” Schultz said Wednesday. “Let’s talk about that. I’m self-made. I grew up in the project in Brooklyn, New York. I thought that was the American dream, the aspiration of America. You’re going to criticize me for — for being successful when in my company over the last 30 years, the only company in America that gave comprehensive health insurance, equity in the form of stock options, and free college tuition? And Elizabeth Warren wants to criticize me for being successful?”
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‏@AOC: Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that they need to “work their way up” or that “maybe they should start with city council first”?
• Ryan Saavedra ‏@RealSaavedra  15h15 hours ago: More Ryan Saavedra Retweeted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s story: 1. Came from a poor family, 2. Worked low-level jobs, was a *bartender*, 3. Xerox salesman, 4. Hammarplast: ascended ranks to VP, 5. Starbucks: ascended from retail director to self-made billionaire… In other words, he “worked his way up”
• MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace to Schultz Advisor Steve Schmidt: ‘People Are Terrified’ You’re Going to Help Trump
• Howard Schultz says he once turned down Elizabeth Warren’s request for a  campaign contribution. His reason: Her policies would lead to ‘socialism.
• Daily Beast reporter @bubbaprog actually analyzed the race of musicians featured on the Starbucks music store since 1995. Because the majority were “painfully white,” he concludes ex-CEO & presidential hopeful @HowardSchultz was racist. / DAILY BEAST HEADLINE: The Starbucks Music Store Under Howard Schultz Was Painfully White. The one ‘hip-hop’ album sold featured songs by U2 and The Dave Matthews Band.

 

7am – A         INTERVIEW — HANS VON SPAKOVSKY —  former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department, former commissioner for the Federal Election Commission from 2006 to 2007 and senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation

• Pennsylvania admits to 11,000 non-citizens registered to vote
• State Reveals More Than 11,000 Illegal Registered Voters; Lawmaker Says There Are Likely Even More. There are more than 11,000 foreign noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State. That information was demanded through legal action by Butler County lawmaker Daryl Metcalfe. But in a statement Tuesday, Metcalfe- who is a state representative overseeing the 12th district- said he expects the real number of ineligible voters to be even higher than 11,000. “Approximately 11,198 illegally registered to vote foreign nationals were confirmed when the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Wolf administration finally decided to withdraw its obstructive appeal against disclosing this information in December 2018,” Metcalfe said in a statement released Tuesday.  “However, since Pennsylvania’s most progressive and least transparent governor lacks the desire to take any substantive action to get non-citizens off our voting rolls, even a figure as significant as 11,198 is far from full disclosure.”

7am – B         INTERVIEW — JOHN TROUT – Meteorologist

• With record low temperatures shattering across the Eastern half of the country. *The cold weather system that put much of the Midwest into a historic deep freeze is expected to ease today following record lows in some places. Disruptions caused by the cold will persist including power outages and canceled flights and trains. More people are expected to return to work in Chicago, which resembled a ghost town yesterday after most offices told employees to stay home.

7am – C         TRUMP TWEETS:

• Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump So great to watch & listen to all these people who write books & talk about my presidential campaign and so many others things related to winning, and how I should be doing “IT.” As I take it all in, I then sit back, look around, & say “gee, I’m in the White House, & they’re not!
• Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Large sections of WALL have already been built with much more either under construction or ready to go. Renovation of existing WALLS is also a very big part of the plan to finally, after many decades, properly Secure Our Border. The Wall is getting done one way or the other!
• Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Lets just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games! A WALL is a WALL!

7am – D         RELIGION NEWS:

• Sarah Sanders: God “wanted Donald Trump to become president”
• CBN News interview with WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. “I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president.“
• OMAR: ‘I ALMOST CHUCKLE’ WHEN ISRAEL IS CALLED ‘A DEMOCRACY’ / Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said she “almost chuckle[s]” when Israel is labeled a “democracy” during an interview with Yahoo! News’s Zainab Salbi posted on social media Tuesday. “How can America work to a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians in your opinion?” Salbi asked. Omar responded, “By having an equal approach to dealing with both. Most of the things that have been aggravating to me is that we have had a policy that makes one superior to the other. And we mask it with a conversation about justice and a two-state solution. When you have policies that clearly prioritize one over the other.” Salbi asked for a specific example. “I mean just our relationship with the Israeli government and the Israeli state. And so when I see Israel institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it,” the congresswoman answered. She continued, “And we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that any other society we would criticize it, call it out. We do that to Iran, we do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion. And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia and so I am aggravated, truly, in those contradictions.”

7am – E PELOSI TO GRAMMYS AMID BORDER NEGOTIATIONS

• Ronna McDaniel Slams Pelosi for Hobnobbing at Grammys Instead of Protecting Americans from Illegal Aliens. Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for trekking out to Hollywood for the Grammys rather than staying in Washington to do her job as speaker of the House and negotiating an immigration deal that funds President Donald Trump’s planned wall along the S. border with Mexico. “Nancy Pelosi couldn’t care less about the security and humanitarian crisis at the border,” McDaniel said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “One American life lost at the hands of the criminals and lethal drugs that have poured across our border is one too many. If she cared half as much about their lives as she does about celebrities in Beverly Hills, she’d do her job and negotiate a way to secure our border like she promised.” Page Six of the New York Post reported that Pelosi is among the guests expected at the annual Clive Davis pre-Grammys gala at the Beverly Hilton.

8am – A/B/C 8:05 AM — INTERVIEW – SAAGAR ENJETI – White House Correspondent, The Daily Caller — recapped Vince and Saagar’s interview with President Trump

• Saagar Enjeti ‏@esaagar 11h11 hours ago: STANDBY: @TheDCVince and I just interviewed @POTUS in Oval. Topics: Las Vegas shooting, Roger Stone raid, Mueller, Wall negotiations, national emergency, SCOTUS/Ginsburg, SOTU Guests, 2020 candidates, China talks, religious bigotry, Northam Abortion comments, and the Super Bowl
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP SAYS DEMOCRATS ‘WON’T GET AWAY’ WITH RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP RIPS VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS’ ABORTION COMMENTS
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP SAYS HE WILL LEAVE MUELLER REPORT DECISION TO DOJ
• EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP CONSIDERS REVIEWING FBI POLICIES AFTER STONE RAID
• EXCLUSIVE: Trump Praises Brady, Kraft, Belichick And Goodell Ahead Of Super Bowl
• POLITICO, EARLIER WEDNESDAY: Conservatives fear Trump will surrender on key judicial nominees

8am – D         INTERVIEW — KAYLEIGH MCENANY –  national Spokesperson for the Republican National Committee @kayleighmcenany @GOP

• Ronna McDaniel Slams Pelosi for Hobnobbing at Grammys Instead of Protecting Americans from Illegal Aliens
• The disturbing push by Dems in various states to have abortion legalized up to mins before birth: Rhode Island, New Mexico, Vermont, New York and Virginia
• Virginia Gov Ralph Northam Defends Infanticide: “Infant Would be Resuscitated If That’s What the Mother Desired”

8am – E         KY SENATORS:

• Mitch McConnell mocks Democrats’ idea to make Election Day a paid holiday: “This is the Democrat plan to restore democracy? A brand new week of paid vacation for every federal employee who’d like to hover around while you cast your ballot?”
• Rand Paul awarded $580,000 in damages after attack by neighbor. Rand Paul awarded $580,000 in damages in lawsuit against his neighbor, who assaulted the senator and broke several of his ribs in Nov. 2017, the AP reports. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday was awarded more than $500,000 in damages stemming from an attack by his neighbor, The Associated Press reports. Paul’s neighbor Rene Boucher attacked the senator in 2017, breaking several of his ribs. The conflict started when Paul was doing yard work. Boucher said he was angered by the senator repeatedly putting debris near his house. As a result of the injury, Paul later had to have surgery on a hernia. The jury awarded $375,000 in punitive damages, $200,000 for pain and suffering and $7,834 for medical expenses, according to the AP. Boucher’s lawyer, Matt Baker, says they will appeal, per AP. After the hearing, Paul tweeted that the result of the hearing was about sending “a clear message that violence is not the answer.”