Cal Thomas, Deplorarable Alexander Davis, Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton and Maryland Senator Clarence Lam joined WMAL on Wednesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C  RULES OF TIPPING: Tipping Hotel Maids

5am – D/E     New bill would allow Maryland food stamp recipients to use them at participating restaurants. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – A new Maryland bill would expand the state’s food stamp program to allow recipients to use the benefits inside restaurants. The proposed bill will change the state’s food stamp program into a new food supplement benefits program. “I think this is really focused on folks who are in need and that’s why we narrowly tailor it to those who are older individuals above age 60, those individuals who have documented disabilities, and those who are homeless to be able to apply these benefits. It’s not for everyone,” said Sen. Clarence Lam (D – MD 12th District) Senate Bill 752, which introduced was introduced by Lam, has already passed the Maryland House and the Senate. The bill will implement a restaurants meals program and allow specific recipients to use their vouchers inside restaurants all around the state. Restaurants will not be forced to implement the program, rather, they’ll have to apply in order to allow these benefits to be used inside their establishments. Once they do that, qualified individuals will be able to walk into a sub shop, or any kind of permitted establishment, for food. Lam says this law is meant for those who do not have the ability to store or prepare food on their own.  It’s an effort several people in the state capital appear to stand behind.

6am – A         AOC NEWS:

• AOC Blames Immigration Crisis On ‘Climate Change’: @AOC: The far-right loves to drum up fear & resistance to immigrants. But have you ever noticed they never talk about what‘s causing people to flee their homes in the first place? Perhaps that’s bc they’d be forced to confront 1 major factor fueling global migration: Climate change.
• AOC says ‘justifying psychopathy’ is very 2019: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., criticized CEOs as narcissistic and dishonest on Monday while retweeting an opinion piece that says data shows 20 percent of business leaders may be psychopaths. “Justifying psychopathy because low empathy, narcissism, dishonesty + lack of deep emotional attachments are traits that have made a tiny handful of people billionaires (yet land many more people in prison while not getting adequate mental healthcare) is very 2019,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter. The article she linked to was by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, who wrote “many wildly celebrated character traits, such as courage and risk-taking, often coexist with psychopathic tendencies.” Chamorro-Premuzic singled out tech giants Steve Jobs and Elon Musk as two examples of people displaying these “disruptive personalities.”

6am – B         Walmart Is Rolling Out the Robots. Retailer to expand use of machines to scan shelves and scrub floors as it seeks to keep labor costs down (WSJ) —

Walmart Inc. WMT -0.54% is expanding its use of robots in stores to help monitor inventory, clean floors and unload trucks, part of the retail giant’s efforts to control labor costs as it spends more to raise wages and offer new services like online grocery delivery. The country’s largest private employer said at least 300 stores this year will add machines that scan shelves for out-of-stock products. Autonomous floor scrubbers will be deployed in 1,500 stores to help speed up cleaning, after a test in hundreds of stores last year. And the number of conveyor belts that automatically scan and sort products as they come off trucks will more than double, to 1,200. The company said the addition of a single machine can cut a few hours a day of work previously done by a human, or allow Walmart to allocate fewer people to complete a task, a large saving when spread around 4,600 U.S. stores. Executives said they are focused on giving workers more time to do other tasks, and on hiring in growing areas like e-commerce. Instead, Walmart is spending to battle Amazon.com Inc. and serve more shoppers buying online. Walmart has hired around 40,000 store workers to pick groceries from shelves to fulfill online orders. The company is also raising wages, adding worker training, and buying e-commerce startups. Store workers spend two to three hours a day driving a floor scrubber through a store using the manual machines, said a company spokesman last year. The automatic conveyor belts cut the number of workers needed to unload trucks by half, from around eight to four workers, said executives at a company presentation last June. “With automation we are able to take away some of the tasks that associates don’t enjoy doing,” said Mark Propes, senior director of central operations for Walmart US. “At the same time we continue to open up new jobs in other things in the store.” An additional 900 stores will also get 16-foot-high towers that let shoppers pick up online orders without interacting with a human.

6am – C         Benjamin Netanyahu poised to remain prime minister of Israel. (Washington Examiner) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the cusp of another term as Israel’s prime minister. Despite early exit polls showing that Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party and Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White coalition were neck-and-neck and it might be a while before a clear winner emerged, Netanyahu was pulling ahead to another term as prime minister, according to reports. Hours after polls closed, all three of Israel’s major TV networks were reporting Netanyahu would remain as prime minister. It will be Netanyahu’s fifth term as the Middle Eastern country’s prime minister and his fourth consecutive term. “It’s a night of tremendous victory,” Netanyahu said at his victory rally. “I was very moved that the nation of Israel once again entrusted me for the fifth time, and with an even greater trust.”

6am – D         INTERVIEW – CAL THOMAS – Syndicated columnist – discussed the border crisis and the college fraud parents.

• BORDER CRISIS / Lib federal judge ruling can’t keep people in Mexico pending asylum hearing.
• CELEB COLLEGE FRAUD PARENTS: Felicity Huffman to plead guilty in college bribery scam. My view: The proctor who inflated her daughter’s SAT score should be forced to pay the money into a legitimate scholarship program for needy young people. And any coaches representing the school the same. And the schools who took any money directly be forced to underwrite tuition for poor students whose grades are good enough for admission.
  • Lori Loughlin could now face up to 40 years in jail after new charges, report says. (Fox News) — Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, two of the 16 parents indicted on fraud and money laundering charges in the college admissions cheating scandal, could face up to 40 years in prison—a maximum of 20 years for each of the charges, a report said. The “Fuller House” star and her husband, along with 14 other parents, are being charged with a “second superseding indictment with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering,” the Department of Justice revealed in a statement to Fox News on Tuesday.
  • Felicity Huffman Could See Less Than a Year in Prison — But Lori Loughlin Could Face Longer. (people) — Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation (“KWF”), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes. Singer then allegedly facilitated cheating on Huffman’s daughter’s SAT test by having a proctor correct the teen’s answers after the fact. As Huffman decided to plead guilty, the United States Attorney calculated her “offense level” at 9, which has a sentencing guideline of 4-10 months, per the Department of Justice chart. According to the plea documents obtained by PEOPLE, Huffman reserves the right to argue that her offense level should be a 7, which would result in 0-6 months in prison. Additionally, Huffman would serve 12 months of probation, and pay a $20,000 fine. The prosecution agrees to argue that Huffman serve on the “low end” of the sentencing guidelines, meaning that there’s a possibility that she could serve just a few months.

6am – E/F      ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR’S HEARING:

• BARR INVESTIGATING THE INVESTIGATORS: Attorney General William Barr has assembled a “team” to investigate the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, Fox News has learned … Republicans repeatedly have called for a thorough investigation of the FBI’s intelligence practices and the basis of the since-discredited Russian collusion narrative following the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Meanwhile, Barr is expected to return to Capitol Hill Wednesday for the second of two days of hearings about the Justice Department’s budget. However, like House lawmakers on Tuesday, members of the subpanel of the Senate Appropriations Committee are expected to focus on Barr’s plan release a redacted version of the Mueller report.  Barr said Tuesday a redacted version of the Mueller report would be made available “within a week.”

• Attorney General William Barr says they are working on the redactions and color coding it and he “will be in a position to release” the Mueller report to the public, with some redactions, “within a week.” “We will provide explanatory notes describing the basis for each redaction,” he adds
• Rep. Nita Lowey tells Attorney General Bill Barr his handling of the Mueller report is “unacceptable.” “All we have is your four-page summary, which seems to cherry-pick from the report, to draw the most favorable conclusion possible for the president”

7am – A         INTERVIEW – Alexander Davis – America’s #1 Deplorable

• Deplorables Tour with Alexander Davis with happen on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 5:00 PM at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
• This Saturday, Alexander will have an event at the Trump hotel for Deplorables.  The event will have pro-Trump music, comedy and skits. www.deplorables4donaldjtrump.com
• HILLARY CLINTON IMPLIES MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO VOTED AGAINST HER ARE WHITE NATIONALISTS
• HILLARY CLINTON ATTACKS TRUMP SUPPORTERS AGAIN: The white nationalists certainly think MAGA is a white nationalist slogan.
• TRUMP WAR ROOM HITS BACK WITH VIDEO OF BILL CLINTON SAYING ‘MAGA’

7am – B/C     CANDACE OWENS HEARING: ‘UNBELIEVABLY DISHONEST’ – “I think it’s pretty apparent that Mr. Lieu believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip…That was unbelievably dishonest…I’m deeply offended by the insinuation of revealing that clip without the question that was asked of me.” – Candace Owens, conservative commentator and communications director for Turning Point USA, at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on online hate speech, accusing Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., of flagrantly distorting her comments on Hitler to smear President Trump and the Republican Party as a whole.

7am – D/E     INTERVIEW – TOM FITTON – President, Judicial Watch – discussed Attorney General Barr’s hearing and Judicial Watch’s latest revelations about Hillary’s cover-up.

• AG BARR HEARING” BARR INVESTIGATING THE INVESTIGATORS: Attorney General William Barr has assembled a “team” to investigate the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, Fox News has learned … Republicans repeatedly have called for a thorough investigation of the FBI’s intelligence practices and the basis of the since-discredited Russian collusion narrative following the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Meanwhile, Barr is expected to return to Capitol Hill Wednesday for the second of two days of hearings about the Justice Department’s budget. However, like House lawmakers on Tuesday, members of the subpanel of the Senate Appropriations Committee are expected to focus on Barr’s plan release a redacted version of the Mueller report.  Barr said Tuesday a redacted version of the Mueller report would be made available “within a week.”
• JUDICIAL WATCH NEWS: Judicial Watch uncovers a “cover up” reference in latest production of Clinton email documents. 
• Hillary Contractor Described ‘Cover-up Operation Work Ticket’ in Newly Uncovered Email. (Epoch Times) — A newly obtained internal message from the Denver-based Platte River Networks firm that serviced the personal email system used by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for official diplomatic business referenced a “Hillary cover-up operation work ticket archive cleanup,” the nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch said on April 8. The email with the cover-up reference is contained in FBI notes on a February 2016 interview of an unidentified Platte River Networks official. Judicial Watch obtained the notes as part of more than 400 previously unreleased FBI documents a federal district court order turned over to the nonprofit as a result of its Freedom of Information Act suit. In the Dec. 11, 2014, email, an unidentified Platte River Network official told another that “I’m kind of freaking about Gresham. Thoughts on what to do with [name redacted].” The official responded: “Its all part of the Hillary coverup operation. I’ll have to tell you about it at the party.” A smiling emoji was inserted by the responder between the two sentences. The “Gresham” reference appears to be to the Chicago-based Gresham Partners LLC. It’s not clear what, if any, connection there is between that firm, which describes itself as “an independent investment and wealth management firm that has been serving select families, family offices and endowments since 1997,” and the “Hillary cover-up operation.” In another of the newly released documents, an unidentified individual working with an inspector from the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General told a Department of State official in a June 27, 2015, email that “I have personally reviewed hundreds of documents in the HRC collection. I can now say, without reservation, that there are literally hundreds of classified emails in this collection; maybe more.” It is not known from the documents how many emails were contained in the reviewed collection in which the classified emails were found by the unidentified individual.

8am – A         INTERVIEW – MD SENATOR CLARENCE LAM (D – MD 12th District) – discussed his bill to allow food stamps for participating restaurants in Maryland.

• New bill would allow Maryland food stamp recipients to use them at participating restaurants. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – A new Maryland bill would expand the state’s food stamp program to allow recipients to use the benefits inside restaurants. The proposed bill will change the state’s food stamp program into a new food supplement benefits program. “I think this is really focused on folks who are in need and that’s why we narrowly tailor it to those who are older individuals above age 60, those individuals who have documented disabilities, and those who are homeless to be able to apply these benefits. It’s not for everyone,” said Sen. Clarence Lam (D – MD 12th District). Senate Bill 752, which introduced was introduced by Lam, has already passed the Maryland House and the Senate. The bill will implement a restaurants meals program and allow specific recipients to use their vouchers inside restaurants all around the state. Restaurants will not be forced to implement the program, rather, they’ll have to apply in order to allow these benefits to be used inside their establishments. Once they do that, qualified individuals will be able to walk into a sub shop, or any kind of permitted establishment, for food.

8am – B/C   MNUCHIN vs MAXINE ON TRUMP’S TAXES:

• As Democrats’ deadline approaches for Trump’s tax returns, Treasury secretary grilled on Capitol Hill.   “I want to acknowledge we have received the request,” Mnuchin said, dancing around any solid commitment but repeating the gist of testimony he provided at another hearing earlier in the day. “As I said before, we will follow the law. We are reviewing it with our internal legal department and I would leave it at that.”
• Treasury Sec. Mnuchin says that the request for President Trump’s tax returns is being reviewed by “our legal department,” and that he has not had any conversations with anyone in the White House on the issue.
• In testy exchange, Rep. Maxine Waters tells Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, “no other secretary has ever told us the day before that they were going to limit their time.” “You’re ordering me to stay here …. that’s not what I want to do,” Mnuchin says
• BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HE WILL RELEASE TAX RETURNS & BERNIE’S A MILLIONAIRE: “April 15 is coming,” Mr. Sanders, whose refusal to release his full past returns has become an issue in the campaign, said in an interview in his office. “We wanted to release 10 years of tax returns. April 15, 2019, will be the 10th year, so I think you will see them.” “I wrote a best-selling book,” he declared. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”

8am – D/E     BORDER CRISIS NEWS:

• Trump says no plan to revive family separations, blames Obama for uproar. (Fox News) — President Trump said Tuesday that the administration has no plans to revive the controversial policy that allowed for family separations at the border, amid renewed speculation about whether the practice could return amid the shakeup at the Homeland Security department. “We’re not looking to do that,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday prior to a closed-door meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He added that “once you don’t have it, many more people are coming, like a picnic. Like Disney Land.” But he said, “We’re not looking to do it.” The president ended the practice under pressure and mounting criticism last year. But the issue of family separations has emerged once again after DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation and other changes in the department. The president also withdrew the nomination of acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Ron Vitellio to become the permanent head of the agency, telling reporters that “Ron’s a good man, but we’re going in a tougher direction, we want to go in a tougher direction.” Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, though, Trump sought to pin the blame on his predecessor for the uproar. “Obama separated the children, just so you understand. President Obama separated the children,” Trump said. “The cages that were shown, very inappropriate, they were built by President Obama and the Obama administration –not by Trump.” “The press knows it, you know it, we all know it,” he said. “I’m the one that stopped it.”
• CANADA TO CHANGE THEIR IMMIGRATION LAWS TO PREVENT IMMIGRANTS FROM US ENTERING CANADA: The law would allow immigration officers at the border to reject refugee claims if the asylum seeker has already made a claim in another country that has an immigration information-sharing agreement with Canada.