Mornings on the Mall

Friday, December 27, 2019

Hosts: Mary Walter and Brian Darling

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C INTERVIEW: Brian Darling –  the president and founder of the firm Liberty Government Affairs. He was Senior Communications Director and Counsel for Senator Rand Paul and a former senior fellow in government studies at The Heritage Foundation

5am – D/E IMPEACHMENT NEWS:

• GOP predicts bipartisan acquittal at Trump impeachment trial
• Trump calls Dems ‘Liars!’ for deeming him security threat – and then pausing impeachment
• Late Senator John McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Christopher Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, the Justice Department’s recent Inspector General report revealed.
• Andrew McCabe, the ousted deputy director of the FBI, says the Trump administration is withholding evidence related to his lawsuit. McCabe sued the FBI and the Department of Justice after he was fired in March 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions just two days before he was set to retire. 

6am – A/B/C Donald Trump Jr. Tells Story of Woman Yelling at Him in NYC Restaurant (Breitbart) Donald Trump Jr. spoke at Turning Point USA’s annual Student Action Summit on Sunday in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he told the young conservative attendees a story of a woman who approached him in a New York City restaurant and began yelling. But what happened next was not at all what Trump Jr. had been expecting. “I’m at this restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,” explained Trump Jr., “and I’m sitting there for 90 minutes being like, ‘Okay, who’s it going to be?’ Meaning, which jerk is going to go for their Instagram moment to try to do something ridiculous or insulting — and so, being a fighter, you sort of anticipate it.”Bottom of Form“This old lady gets up, right in my face,” said Trump Jr. “The whole restaurant is now looking, and I’m thinking, ‘Great, now I just gotta take it.’” Trump Jr. went on to tell what the woman said next: “You guys have the biggest — she used the English version — cajones in the world! And I love it! You guys don’t take any crap from these guys. You guys give it back. I see the results, and I’ve been a life-long New Yorker and Democrat for my entire life!”

6am – D/E INTERVIEW: James Wallner – Resident Senior Fellow  from R Street        

Topic: A breakdown of the impeachment process

6am – F Canadian Broadcast Company removes Donald Trump’s scene from ‘Home Alone 2’ broadcast

7am – A INTERVIEW: Jason Pye – Vice President of legislative affairs for FreedomWorks

TOPIC: National debt disappears as 2020 campaign issue – but it keeps growing

7am – B/C Embattled union honchos’ lavish spending exposed: Villas, four-figure dinners, $60,000 cigar bill

7am – D Democratic insiders: Bernie could win the nomination (Politico) For months, the Vermont senator was written off by Democratic Party insiders as a candidate with a committed but narrow base who was too far left to win the primary. Elizabeth Warren had skyrocketed in the polls and seemed to be leaving him behind in the race to be progressive voters’ standard-bearer in 2020. But in the past few weeks, something has changed. In private conversations and on social media, Democratic officials, political operatives and pundits are reconsidering Sanders’ chances. “It may have been inevitable that eventually you would have two candidates representing each side of the ideological divide in the party. A lot of smart people I’ve talked to lately think there’s a very good chance those two end up being Biden and Sanders,” said David Brock, a longtime Hillary Clinton ally who founded a pro-Clinton super PAC in the 2016 campaign. “They’ve both proven to be very resilient.”

7am – E INTERVIEW: Larry Michael –  Voice of the Washington Redskins

TOPIC: Washington Redskins vs Dallas Cowboys in Dallas Sunday 4:25pm 

8am – A INTERVIEW: Luke Rosiak – Investigative reporter for the Daily Caller 

TOPIC: Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment

8am – B/C Skiing star Lindsey Vonn proposes to fiancé PK Subban: ‘Men should get engagement rings too’ (The Hill) Former skiing star Lindsey Vonn announced on Christmas that she had proposed to her fiancé, New Jersey Devils defenseman P.K. Subban, in a “non traditional” move so that each of them could have an engagement ring. Subban proposed in August with an emerald ring because it is his birthstone and her favorite color, according to an interview with Vogue. But the Olympic gold medalist on Wednesday wrote that “women aren’t the only ones who should get engagement rings!”

8am – D 21 State Attorneys General Ask SCOTUS To Strike Down MD Concealed Carry Law (Bearing Arms) While many people lament the requirement for concealed carry permits in many states, and rightly so, perhaps the most egregious infringement on our Second Amendment rights are those states which require people to show cause to be granted a permit. These are even worse than simple “may issue” requirements, though the two go hand in hand. Now, it seems the Supreme Court may be considering a case about the constitutionality of these measures. In fact, 21 state attorneys general have written to the court asking it to strike down such an unconstitutional law.

8am – E  Michigan woman’s Secret Santa is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (Fox  Business) Gates sent Shelby an enormous box full of gifts, but most generous of all was a donation to the American Heart Association in the name of Shelby’s mother, who passed away 10 days before her wedding.