Mornings on the Mall

Monday, March 2, 2020

Hosts: Vince Coglianese and guest co-host Amber Athey of Spectator USA

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

Joe diGenova, Matt Schlapp, Joe Concha and Amber Athey joined WMAL on Monday!

5am – A/B/C BIDEN WINS SOUTH CAROLINA, BUTTIGIEG, STEYER DROP OUT AHEAD OF SUPER TUESDAY. Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana is ending his presidential campaign after a disappointing showing in Saturday’s South Carolina primary.   President Trump responded to the exit from the 2020 race saying it was a sign that the Democratic establishment is coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden in an attempt to stop Senator Bernie Sanders..  On Saturday, South Carolina primary voters handed Biden a decisive victory. The withdrawal comes just days before 14 states are set to head to the polls on Super Tuesday.  Billionaire activist Tom Steyer also suspended his campaign after coming in third in the Palmetto State.

5am – D/E     CHRIS MATTHEWS MIA AT MSNBC:

• MSNBC’s Chris Matthews absent from primary coverage amid sexual harassment allegations
• Yikes! MSNBC’s Chris Matthews confuses SC Dem Senate candidate Jaime Harrison with current SC GOP Senator Tim Scott.

6am – A/B/C MEDIA PUSHES ‘HOAX’ NARRATIVE ABOUT CORONAVIRUS:

• Trump clarifies for mainstream media that he says he used the word hoax to describe what the democrats are saying about Administration response to virus.
• NBC LIES: Claims Trump Called Virus a ‘Hoax,’ Took a Death to Stop Him. During NBC’s Sunday Today, host Willie Geist continued to push the long-debunked accusation that President Trump called the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) a “hoax” at a Friday campaign rally in South Carolina.
• Michael Bloomberg repeated the false claim that President Trump referred to the coronavirus as a “hoax.” CBS News’ Scott Pelley pointed out that President Trump actually said the media & Democrat hysteria about the government coronavirus response was a hoax, NOT the virus.

6am – D/E/F  CPAC HIGHLIGHTS:

• TRUMP MOCKS BIDEN:
  • FLASHBACK:  Joe Biden claims approximately half the population of the United States has been killed by gun violence since 2007.
  • AT CPAC: Trump mocks Joe Biden’s fake stats on gun violence during the last democratic debate.
• TRUMP MOCKS BLOOMBERG: Trump mocks Mike Bloomberg’s height at CPAC by shrinking behind the podium.
• TRUMP HUGS AMERICAN FLAG AGAIN: Trump hug and kiss the American flag at CPAC 2020
• RATCLIFFE SPOKE AT CPAC WITH VINCE: Here is Rep. Ratcliffe talking about how the Dems’ push for socialism is an opportunity for conservatives

7am – A         INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

• Trump nominates John Ratcliffe for top intelligence post. President Trump on Friday said he is nominating Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), months after the Republican congressman abruptly withdrew his name for the post. “I am pleased to announce the nomination of @RepRatcliffe (Congressman John Ratcliffe) to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI),” the president tweeted. “Would have completed process earlier, but John wanted to wait until after IG Report was finished. John is an outstanding man of great talent!”
• Former White House counsel Donald McGahn can defy congressional subpoena, federal appeals court rules. The ruling, if it stands, means President Trump’s former lawyer cannot be compelled to appear on Capitol Hill, and comes after Democrats lost their bid to call additional witnesses during Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. The White House had claimed top advisers such as McGahn are “absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony.”
• LAST WEEK: Trump, in India, Demands 2 Liberal Justices Recuse Themselves From His Cases. The president ratcheted up a fight with a judicial system he sees as biased against him. NEW DELHI — President Trump lashed out at two liberal Supreme Court justices on Tuesday, escalating his battle with the judicial system to new heights despite entreaties by his attorney general to refrain from attacks that complicate the administration’s legal fights

7am – B/C     BIDEN WINS SOUTH CAROLINA, BUTTIGIEG, STEYER DROP OUT AHEAD OF SUPER TUESDAY. Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana is ending his presidential campaign after a disappointing showing in Saturday’s South Carolina primary.   President Trump responded to the exit from the 2020 race saying it was a sign that the Democratic establishment is coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden in an attempt to stop Senator Bernie Sanders..  On Saturday, South Carolina primary voters handed Biden a decisive victory. The withdrawal comes just days before 14 states are set to head to the polls on Super Tuesday.  Billionaire activist Tom Steyer also suspended his campaign after coming in third in the Palmetto State.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – MATT SCHLAPP – chairman of the American Conservative Union – recapped the highlights of CPAC.

7am – E         Flavor Flav fired from Public Enemy over Bernie Sanders flap. (NY Post) — Hip-hop legend Flavor Flav was fired from Public Enemy on Sunday night after he slapped Bernie Sanders with a cease-and-desist letter for claiming the group would perform at a rally in Los Angeles. “Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the group said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well.” Flav’s legal maneuver came just as Chuck D and Public Enemy Radio were set to perform at Sanders’ rally — excluding Flavor Flav. “Sanders has promised to ‘Fight the Power’ with hip hop icons Public Enemy — but this Rap Icon will not be performing at the Sanders Rally,” read the letter sent through Flav’s lawyer, Matthew H. Friedman, and obtained by Spin. The 60-year-old Flav said that he had no problem with Chuck D — the group’s co-founder — voicing his own political opinions, but said that it’s not his place to speak for all of Public Enemy.

 

8am – A         INTERVIEW – JOE CONCHA – Media reporter for The Hill – discussed Chris Matthews missing from key MSNBC coverage and his thoughts on the media coverage coronavirus.

8am – B/C     Latest on Coronavirus

8am – D         INTERVIEW – PETER DOOCY – Fox News correspondent  — discussed Biden winning South Carolina, Mayor Peter & Steyer dropping out and looked ahead to Super Tuesday.

• Doocy is in Virginia ahead of FNC’s town hall with Mayor Mike Bloomberg taking place on Monday. Mike Bloomberg to appear at Fox News town hall in Manassas on Monday. Fox News Channel is hosting a town hall Monday with Democratic presidential Mike Bloomberg at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas.
• Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana is ending his presidential campaign after a disappointing showing in Saturday’s South Carolina primary.   President Trump responded to the exit from the 2020 race saying it was a sign that the Democratic establishment is coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden in an attempt to stop Senator Bernie Sanders..  On Saturday, South Carolina primary voters handed Biden a decisive victory. The withdrawal comes just days before 14 states are set to head to the polls on Super Tuesday.  Billionaire activist Tom Steyer also suspended his campaign after coming in third in the Palmetto State.

8am – E         Hunter Biden takes up painting after being ‘addicted to crack for four years’ (Washington Examiner) –  Fresh off years of drug addiction, a presidential impeachment saga that involved his work in Ukraine, and agreeing to pay child support to an Arkansas stripper he impregnated, Hunter Biden is pursuing a career in painting. In a pool house-turned-art studio behind his 2,000-square-foot Hollywood Hills home, Biden, dressed in work boots and a pearl snap button-down shirt, is painting psychedelic florals in ink. The New York Times featured the son of former Vice President Joe Biden in a lengthy profile in which Hunter Biden said painting is “literally keeping me sane.” “For years, I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now, I feel comfortable saying it,” Biden said. “You have to be really focused in order to be able to alter it to your own imagination.” Biden, who has struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, has recently been involved in a paternity case. Biden has attempted to hide his financial records and delay the child support deposition until after key primary states in his father’s run for the presidency are decided. Biden’s name was highlighted throughout President Trump’s impeachment investigation after the president asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Joe and Hunter Biden’s dealings in the country. Biden said his new wife, 33-year-old Melissa Cohen, hates when he gets painting supplies on his clothes. “I always get my pants dirty,” Biden said. “I don’t even notice it, but Melissa hates it.” He got a tattoo of the word “shalom” on his left bicep the day after meeting Cohen, who lived in Israel for seven years. “I was addicted to crack for four years,” he said. “I went through a really long period of addiction, and I was at a point where I didn’t read, write, think. I don’t do things halfway. That can be a problem.” Biden, 50, is expecting a fifth child, this one with Cohen. Biden has no formal training as a painter and has yet to land gallery representation, but he plans on exhibiting his work in the future. Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, a former board member of the Whitney Museum in New York City, said she believes Biden can have a successful career in the art world due to his prominent last name.