Mornings on the Mall 11.12.19 / Kimberly Klacik, Tucker Barnes, Ken Cuccinelli, Ric Edelman, Ricky Rebel

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, October 12, 2019

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

Kimberly Klacik, Tucker Barnes, Ken Cuccinelli, Ric Edelman and Ricky Rebel joined WMAL on Tuesday!

 

5am – A/B/C COLLEGE CRAZINESS:

  • University of Virginia ending 21-gun salute over potential ‘panic’ by students. The University of Virginia announced it would be eliminating the 21-gun salute from its Veterans Day ceremony because they did not want to cause any trauma to students who might hear the gunshots. “One is that it would be disruptive to classes and two unfortunately with gun violence in the U.S., there was some concern that we would cause a panic if someone heard gunshots on grounds,” Jim Ryan, the college’s president, told NBC29. The decision was made by the provost’s office along with UVA’s ROTC program. The Veterans Day program at UVA has included a 21-gun salute for over a decade.
  • REASON: The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Students for Reporting News That Triggered Them.  THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN’S Bizarre, Snowflakey Editorial: Addressing The Daily’s coverage of Sessions protests.  On Nov. 5, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke on campus at a Northwestern University College Republicans event. The Daily sent a reporter to cover that talk and another to cover the students protesting his invitation to campus, along with a photographer. We recognize that we contributed to the harm students experienced, and we wanted to apologize for and address the mistakes that we made that night — along with how we plan to move forward. One area of our reporting that harmed many students was our photo coverage of the event. Some protesters found photos posted to reporters’ Twitter accounts retraumatizing and invasive. Those photos have since been taken down. On one hand, as the paper of record for Northwestern, we want to ensure students, administrators and alumni understand the gravity of the events that took place Tuesday night. However, we decided to prioritize the trust and safety of students who were photographed. We feel that covering traumatic events requires a different response than many other stories. While our goal is to document history and spread information, nothing is more important than ensuring that our fellow students feel safe — and in situations like this, that they are benefitting from our coverage rather than being actively harmed by it. We failed to do that last week, and we could not be more sorry. Some students also voiced concern about the methods that Daily staffers used to reach out to them. Some of our staff members who were covering the event used Northwestern’s directory to obtain phone numbers for students beforehand and texted them to ask if they’d be willing to be interviewed. We recognize being contacted like this is an invasion of privacy, and we’ve spoken with those reporters — along with our entire staff — about the correct way to reach out to students for stories.

5am – D/E     MSNBC’s Joy Reid dismisses Thanksgiving as ‘problematic’ ‘food holiday,’ mocks Trump supporters. MSNBC’s liberal weekend host Joy Reid diminished Thanksgiving as a “food holiday” with a “problematic” history and also mocked Trump supporters whom her viewers may encounter at the dinner table in the coming weeks. “We are just over two weeks away from one of the most beloved American food holidays. Thanksgiving, where problematic actual history meets delicious cuisine,” Reid started the segment on Saturday morning, “and many will be heading home to spend time with family and friends, eat a little too much and perhaps engage in a dreaded, contentious political debate with your cranky Uncle Roscoe when he starts yelling, ‘read the transcript!’ at the dinner table between bites of turkey and pumpkin pie.” The “AM Joy” host explained to her audience that she would tell them “everything you need to understand about impeachment” so her viewers could “easily explain” the ongoing political firestorm to “Uncle Roscoe and Auntie Carol.”

6am – A/B/C Kamala Harris Talks About How She Explained The 2016 Election To Her Nephew. (Mediaite) – California Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris released footage from the night President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, in which she rallies supporters for the fight ahead. On Friday, Senator Harris posted footage — which her campaign says has never been released before — that shows then-Senator-Elect Kamala Harris speaking with supporters after her victory, but also as the realization was dawning on the world that Trump — despite being handily beaten in the popular vote — would become president. In the video, Harris describes a conversation with her nephew and godson Alexander, who had come to her crying earlier that evening. “I said ‘Come here little man, what’s going on?’” Harris said. “And he looked up at me, I swear to God, and he looked up me and he said ‘I don’t want Trump to win. Did he win?’” “And he’s crying, and so the tears of joy we shed when we elected Barack Obama, and then my little godson’s tears tonight cuz we might have elected Donald Trump, this is some shit,” Harris said. “And so once again, our team, I think, will have to do what we always do, which is be prepared to fight.”

 

6am – D         INTERVIEW – KIMBERLY KLACIK – Baltimore-based Republican strategist running for the late Elijah Cummings’ seat

KimKForCongress.com

  • GOP activist Kimberly Klacik running for Elijah Cummings’ seat after turning Trump on him (NY Post) — The Maryland Republican who set off President Trump’s Twitter tirade against the late Rep. Elijah Cummings over conditions in his Baltimore district is now vying for the Democrat’s seat in Congress. “I’ve seen firsthand what a lot of people are going through,” GOP activist Kimberly Klacik told the Baltimore Sun. “Our violent crime is up 52 percent in Baltimore County and it’s rising in Baltimore City, too. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.” Klacik, 37, posted a series of videos to Twitter in July showing vermin, trash, and abandoned homes in Baltimore. Trump retweeted them over three days — adding pointed digs at Cummings, a sharp Trump critic. “Elijah Cummings has failed badly!” he wrote July 28. “Baltimore, under the leadership of Elijah Cummings, has the worst Crime Statistics in the Nation. 25 years of all talk, no action!” Trump added the next day. And on Aug. 2, he goaded Cummings after a break-in at the congressman’s own home. “Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed,” Trump wrote. “Too bad!”
  • Kimberly Klacik @kimKBaltimore Nov 9: Time for a real squad! Let’s back Trump & find that money missing in Baltimore. http://KimKForCongress.com  
  • FLASHBACK IN JULY: THE FOX SEGMENT THAT INSPIRED TRUMP TWEET: GOP strategist calls Elijah Cummings’ district ‘most dangerous’ in America. GOP strategist Kimberly Klacik accused Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., of hypocrisy over his apparent concern for conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border over those of his own district. Appearing on “Fox & Friends”, Klacik discussed her recent visit to Cummings’ district, which she described as “the most dangerous district in America.”
  • Elijah Cummings’ widow, says she will run for his longtime House seat. (The Hill) –  Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Elijah Cummings’s widow, will run for his House seat. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), announced Monday that she will launch a campaign to replace her husband as the representative of Maryland’s 7th Congressional District.  “I am, of course, devastated at the loss of my spouse, but his spirit is with me. I’m going to run this race and I’m going to run it hard, as if he’s still right here by my side,” Rockeymoore Cummings, 48, told The Baltimore Sun in an interview about a month after her husband’s death.


6am – E         INTERVIEW – TUCKER BARNES – Fox 5 DC meteorologist – discussed the season’s first snow in the D.C. area.

  • Rain and a little wet snow Tuesday with wind chills in the 20s and 30s.   WASHINGTON — An Arctic Blast is on the way to the DMV. Tuesday will be a roller coaster ride with rain changing to a wintry mix and snow. Some light accumulations are possible on grassy, elevated surfaces. Roads will stay just wet. Tuesday: Cloudy, breezy and turning colder. Morning rain changing to a mix and some wet snow. Ending between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. Temps: Falling into the 30s. Tuesday Night: Clear to Partly cloudy, breezy and very cold. Wind Chills in the 10s. Low: 25. Wednesday: Partly Cloudy & very cold. High: 39.
  • Roughly 75% of the nation will experience freezing temperatures this week as Arctic air moves down across two thirds of the country. Over 55 million people are under winter warnings, watches and advisories. By tonight, record-breaking low temperatures are expected, as the cold front moves off the eastern seaboard. It’s expected that hundreds of temperature records will be broken.


 

6am – F         DISNEY+ LAUNCHES TODAY… Netflix Was Only the Start: Disney Streaming Service Shakes an Industry.  (NY Times) – Disney Plus arrives on Tuesday, every trumpet in the Magic Kingdom blowing on its behalf. Streaming has been on the rise for a decade, and last year, for the first time, the number of streaming subscribers around the world (613 million) surpassed the number of cable subscribers (556 million), according to the Motion Picture Association of America. But the debut of Disney Plus, with its treasure trove of franchises and $7 monthly fee, is the industry’s equivalent of Thor’s slamming down his magic hammer: a quake that changes everything. To defend its turf, Netflix is spending billions to produce Disney-style family entertainment. WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T, copied the Disney playbook last month when it staged an elaborate presentation to disclose details about its own online video service, HBO Max, set to arrive in May at $15 a month. Comcast, the owner of NBCUniversal, with 21 million cable customers in the United States, had been hanging back. But five months after Disney unveiled Disney Plus, Comcast announced that next April it would roll out Peacock, a streaming service with 15,000 hours of programming. Stream classics, new releases, Disney+ Originals, and more from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.

 

7am – A         INTERVIEW – KEN CUCCINELLI – acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services

  • The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) case. President Obama’s administration unilaterally and illegally created this program and the Trump administration sought to end it. However, an activist judge has prevented the Trump administration from doing so. Now the case is at the Supreme Court.
  • Showdown over Trump’s bid to end Obama’s ‘Dreamer’ program goes before Supreme Court.  (Fox News) – The long-running battle over the Trump administration’s bid to end the Obama-era program for young undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers” will land before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. With a ruling expected in the midst of a presidential election year, the case puts the high court at the center of one of the most politically charged issues since the start of President Trump’s term. For the administration and Dreamers alike, it all comes down to the Supreme Court, where Trump picks Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch now sit. Federal appeals courts across the country have rejected efforts to phase out the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, but the administration has looked to the high court for support. Legal experts say look closely at Chief Justice John Roberts, who could be the tie-breaker in the case.


 

7am – B/C     GOOGLE AND YOUR HEALTH DATA:

  • WSJ: Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans. Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients’ medical data. Amazon.com Inc., AMZN -0.80% Apple Inc. AAPL 0.79% and MicrosoftCorp. are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope. Google began Project Nightingale in secret last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, a Catholic chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors’ offices and other facilities, with the data sharing accelerating since summer, according to internal documents.  The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth. Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.
  • Fury as it emerges Google is working on a top secret project with access to millions of Americans’ health data including lab tests and diagnoses – but patients and doctors have not been told. Google has teamed up with Ascension, a leading healthcare services company, for Project Nightingale.  (Daily Mail) — Google has been working on a top secret project with a leading healthcare company to gather millions of Americans’ health data without them knowing it.  The Wall Street Journal first reported on Monday that the company has teamed up with Ascension, the second largest healthcare services company in the country, for a project that was being code-named Nightingale.  Within hours of the Journal’s report, the two companies announced the collaboration in a press release where they revealed that Ascension’s data will move onto Google’s Cloud platform.   Google will now have access to patients’ test results, diagnoses and hospitalizations to give them a full digital health history.  Neither doctors nor the patients in the 21 states where it will be used had been told about it.  As many as 150 Google employees have already seen some people’s data, it is reported.

 

7am – D         Sean Spicer eliminated from ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ New York (CNN Business) Maybe Sean Spicer was exactly what ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” needed: A boldface name, beloved by some, detested by others, who stirred interest in the 28th season of the reality TV workhorse. Spicer capitalized on his former role as White House press secretary by doing the tango and the foxtrot for millions of ABC viewers. His former boss President Donald Trump seemed to take the competition seriously, tweeting out support for Spicer and urging the MAGA universe to cast votes for a man who has remained loyal during a perilous time for the president. But every dance party ends eventually. Spicer’s party ended on Monday night when the “Dancing” judges decided to eliminate him from the reality TV competition.

7am – E         BYE BYE, BEI BEI: This week is the last week you’ll get to see Bei Bei at the National Zoo.  On Nov. 19, D.C. will have to say one of its hardest goodbyes, to beloved panda Bei Bei. The four-year-old panda will leave the Smithsonian National Zoo for China as part of the panda diplomacy program between the U.S and China. An agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association requires all cubs born at the zoo to move to China when they turn four years old.

 

8am – A         INTERVIEW – RIC EDELMAN – the host of a weekly personal finance talk radio show called The Ric Edelman Show on WMAL.

  • The Smart Money Retirement Expo ( https://smartmoneyretirementexpo.com/ ) is  the largest personal finance event ever in the Washington, DC, metro area. The event is being sponsored by the non-profit Funding Our Future Coalition, and Edelman Financial Engines, the largest independent financial planning and investment management firm in the region. The event is Saturday, November 23 at the Sheraton Tysons Hotel in Tysons Corner, VA. The $10 admission fee is being donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The Smart Money Retirement Expo features 26 seminars on topics of interest to those approaching and newly in retirement. Experts in retirement planning and public policy will show hardworking Americans how to make smart decisions as they plan for life in retirement. More than 3,000 people are expected to attend, and everyone can choose the morning or afternoon program. Both will feature the same keynote presentations and educational seminars on topics such as Saving for Retirement, Maximizing Social Security, Avoiding the Costs of Long-Term Care, Investment Management, Wills & Trusts and much more. Attendees must pre-register for the sessions they wish to attend. Mr. Edelman’s keynote presentation, based on his best-selling book, “The Truth About Your Future,” will reveal how to plan for retirement when people are living longer than ever before. He is one of the nation’s top financial advisors as recognized by Forbes and Barron’s, and hosts WMAL’s longest-running radio program, The Ric Edelman Show. George Vradenburg, Chairman and Co-Founder of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s and Kim Callinan, CEO of Compassion & Cares, will keynote a panel on “End of Life Planning: the Difficult but Vital Discussion” that Mr. Edelman will moderate. A third keynote session features economist Monique Morrissey of the Economic Policy Institute and Jason Fichtner, Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. They will explore “Funding Our Future: Retirement Security Challenges and Solutions.”


 

8am – B/C     2020 News:

  • BIDEN CNN TOWN HALL LAST NIGHT: Democratic candidate Joe Biden held a town hall in Iowa Monday night where he addressed his son’s position on a Ukrainian natural gas company, which has become a focus of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Biden also made his case for winning the Democratic presidential nomination next summer.
  • Joe Biden is heckled by climate activists at his #CNNTownHall. They’re chanting, “2050 is too late!”
  • Deval Patrick considering entering 2020 Democratic presidential primary

 

8am – D         INTERVIEW – RICKY REBEL – our favorite pro-Trump Billboard Top 40 Recording Artist — discussed his new song “Sheep.”

  • Billboard Top 40 Recording Artist Ricky Rebel, who wore the ‘Keep America Great’ suit to The Grammys, releases new track “Sheep” on the anniversary of President Trump’s Election. “I wrote the song “Sheep” to wake people up to the reality that 90% of the mainstream media are lying to the American People. The lying, fake, criminal mainstream media are truly the enemy of the people. The Sheep are the people that believe those lies and act on them in heinous ways, divorcing their partners, ending relationships with friends and family, rioting and setting fire to colleges like Antifa, and trying to get people fired from their jobs, all because the American people voted for the candidate that they didn’t want them to. Cancel culture is authoritarianism. People who believe the mainstream media lies are Sheep. I wrote the song to un-sheep the sheeple. Only the Sheep need Facebook to tell them what is true or false. People have the power to decide for themselves what is true or not. Zuckerberg is not the gatekeeper for reality. Do you your own research, make up your own mind, and stop trying to destroy people’s lives for disagreeing with you. Oh, and Trump is still your President. Deal with it.”  – Ricky Rebel
  • “Sheep” Features Guitarist Tommy Joe Ratliff, formerly Adam Lambert’s guitarist.


8am – E         DC MAYOR BOWSER’S TRIP TO ETHIOPIA:

  • ANDREW GIAMBRONE: Inbox: there’s now a “Mayor Muriel Bowser Street” & a “Washington DC Square” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bowser’s office says in a release. the mayor is currently on a taxpayer-funded trip to Ethiopia, along with several city employees & dozens of biz. Folks
  • FENIT NIRAPPIL: The mayor is spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to take dozens of people, including those with business before city government, on a trip that includes naming a street in Ethiopia after herself

 

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