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Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

 

5am – A/B/C             Who Should Be The Time Person of the Year?

• Bernie Sanders wins readers’ poll for TIME Person of the Year. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has won the online readers’ poll for TIME Person of the Year, topping some of the world’s best-known politicians, activists and cultural figures as the most influential person of 2015 among those who voted. The Vermont Senator won with a little more than 10% of the vote when the poll closed Sunday at midnight. That’s well ahead of Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was in second place at 5.2%, and Pope Francis, TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year, who finished third with 3.7%.

5am – D         Fox suspends Ralph Peters, Stacey Dash for profanity on air. (USA TODAY) — Fox News has suspended two contributors for using profanity to describe President Obama’s strategy for dealing with terrorism, CNN reported Monday. Ralph Peters, a Fox News analyst, called President Obama “a total p___” while appearing Sunday on Fox Business Network to comment on the president’s Sunday night speech from the Oval Office. Stacey Dash, a Fox contributor, said the president didn’t “give a s___” about terrorism. “Earlier today, Fox contributors Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash made comments on different programs that were completely inappropriate and unacceptable for our air,” Fox senior executive vice president Bill Shine was quoted as saying by CNN. “Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel do not condone the use of such language, and have suspended both Peters and Dash for two weeks.”

5am – E         Oklahoma City bombing secret: DNA extracted from unknown leg. Revives possibility of 169th victim or Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols accomplice.

The Oklahoma City Medical Examiner has partial DNA from an unmatched left leg collected from the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, reviving the possibility of a 169th unidentified victim from the 1995 terror attack as well as defense lawyers’ long-held belief that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had an additional accomplice. An Oklahoma state forensics expert told The Washington Times the DNA tests were conducted by a private lab about two years after the attack, and no known person who was in the vicinity of the building the day of the bombing is presently unaccounted for.

6am – A/B/C Trump calls for ‘complete shutdown’ on Muslims entering US. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump called Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” an idea swiftly condemned by his rival GOP candidates for president and other Republicans. The proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a sweeping prohibition affecting all adherents of Islam who want to come to the U.S. The idea faced an immediate challenge to its legality and feasibility from experts who could point to no formal exclusion of immigrants based on religion in America’s history.

6am – D         INTERVIEW – TREVOR MATICH — Redskins elite long snapper and WMAL’s Redskins analyst

• Cowboys top Redskins 19-16 on Bailey’s 54-yard field goal

6am – E         Farook News:

• Bank records show $28,500 deposit to Syed Farook’s account two weeks before the shooting, source says. EXCLUSIVE – A $28,500 deposit was made to Syed Farook’s bank account from WebBank.com on or about Nov.18, some two weeks before he and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino massacre, a source close to the investigation told Fox News Monday. Investigators are exploring whether the transaction was a loan taken out by Farook, who with his wife killed 14 and wounded 21 when they opened fire at a holiday lunch. He earned $53,000 a year with the county as an environmental health inspector. On its website, the Utah-headquartered WebBank.com describes itself as “a leading provider of national consumer and commercial private-label and bank card financing programs” on a nationwide basis.
• FBI: Killers had been radicalized ‘for quite some time’ SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The San Bernardino killers had been radicalized “for quite some time” and had taken target practice at area gun ranges, in one instance just days before the attack that left 14 people dead, the FBI said Monday. In a chilling twist, authorities also disclosed that a year before the rampage, Syed Farook’s co-workers at the county health department underwent “active shooter” training in the same conference room where he and his wife opened fire on them last week. It was not immediately clear whether Farook attended the late-2014 session on what to do when a gunman invades the workplace, San Bernardino County spokeswoman Felisa Cardona said.

7am – A         INTERVIEW — ELI LAKE – Bloomberg View Columnist

• Iran tests 2nd ballistic missile in 2 months, breaking UN resolutions: intell sources tell Fox.
• Donald Trump calls for ‘complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering the U.S.
• Rep. McCaul: Intelligence Has Evidence ISIS Targeting Refugee Program

7am – B        Entertainment News:

• Kanye and Kim: Our son is named Saint West. (CNN) World, meet Saint West. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband, Kanye West, have named their infant son, who was born Saturday — several weeks before Kim’s due date. Kim announced the name Monday afternoon in a tweet that said only, “SAINT WEST,” along with emojis representing all four members of the growing Kimye clan. Saint weighed in at 8 pounds, 1 ounce and joins older sister North, born June 15, 2013, in one of the world’s most scrutinized celebrity families. Even by the eccentric standards of celebrity child names, Saint West was already raising virtual eyebrows on Twitter for its uniqueness and virtuous connotations. While some hailed the name, other jokesters were wondering aloud whether the famous couple are prematurely canonizing their child. kim coon @kimmiecoon Saint West, because Jesus West may have been just a little too self-important. 3:53 PM – 7 Dec 2015
• Eagles of Death Metal Return to Paris, Join U2. Nearly a month after their sold-out show at the Bataclan concert hall was stormed by terrorists and became a scene of carnage, the Eagles of Death Metal returned to Paris, joining U2 for a show at the city’s AccorHotels Arena. Video posted on U2’s website showed Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes dressed in a white suit, bounding around stage during a cover of Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power.” Fans were ecstatic.
• ‘Charlie Brown’ actor gets prison time for making threat. SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former child actor who was the voice of Charlie Brown in beloved “Peanuts” TV specials was sentenced to nearly five years in prison Monday for making criminal threats. Peter Robbins, 59, pleaded guilty last month to sending threatening letters to a manager at a mobile home park in suburban Oceanside, where he lived. He also sent letters to members of the media in which he offered to pay money to have San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore killed. Prosecutors said he also threatened a San Diego judge, but that charge was not part of a plea agreement.
• Twitter’s Top Hashtags, Tweets and Users for 2015. Year-end Twitter data released on Monday offered a glimpse of 2015 defined by global unrest, social justice and, of course, many “face-with-tears-of-joy” emojis. Since 2010, Twitter has logged popular hashtags, tweets and users, but this year, the service explored influential discussion topics. Hashtags created months apart after separate terror attacks in Paris, #JeSuisCharlie and #PrayforParis, gave people around the world a chance to collectively express their sorrow. (And gave others an opportunity to market memorabilia.)

7am – C Oil under $40 barrel on OPEC production, could hit $20s in 2016. (NBC) — As crude oil prices continue their dramatic decline after a refusal by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut production, the key question now is, how much lower can oil go? U.S. WTI crude oil futures traded under $40 a barrel on Monday, while Brent oil future are hovered around $42 a barrel, having tanked more than 4 percent since OPEC’s decision on Friday to keep its production ceiling at about 30 million barrels a day. Oil has now lost more than 50 percent over the past 18 months.

7am – D/E     U.Md. President Wallace Loh asks Board of Regents to change Byrd Stadium to Maryland Stadium. WASHINGTON — University of Maryland’s president is recommending a new name for the school’s stadium after its namesake has been accused of being racist. On Monday, University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh issued a statement recommending “Byrd Stadium” be changed to “Maryland Stadium.” The Board of Regents will consider the request at its Dec. 11 meeting. If approved, the university will memorialize Harry Clifton “Curley” Byrd in one of the main libraries, Loh says. Also, he says the university will institute a five-year moratorium on changing honorific building names. “The issue is that ‘Curley’ Byrd was president of this university at a time when segregation was the law of this country,” Brian Ullmann, the university’s assistant vice president of marketing, said in September. “There are some students who have expressed that, because of that history, ‘Curley’ Byrd’s name should come off the football stadium.”

8am – A/B     INTERVIEW: MARK STEYN – author of book “The [Un]documented Mark Steyn” , musician and attendee to today’s climate hearing

• Steyn will be appearing at a congressional hearing on climate change today. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, will convene a hearing titled “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate” on Tuesday, December 8 at 3 p.m. The hearing will focus on the ongoing debate over climate science.
• MARK STEYN came out with his new album: Feline Groovy: Songs for Swingin’ Cats / Released: November 30, 2015
• Donald Trump calls for ‘complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering the U.S.

8am – C         Diocese’s posting of nun’s trophy deer draws backlash. ST. MARYS, Pa. (AP) — A Roman Catholic diocese has taken down the Facebook photo of a nun with a 10-point buck she bagged after the posting drew criticism, some of it vulgar, by anti-hunting and animal rights activists, the diocese said. Sister John Paul Bauer killed the deer on Nov. 30, the first day of hunting season. The photo posted on the Erie Diocese’s Facebook page showed her, in her nun’s habit, at the back of a pickup holding her trophy deer by the antlers. Initial comments were largely positive, Anne-Marie Welsh, spokeswoman for the Erie Diocese, in northwestern Pennsylvania, said Monday. But as the page neared 1.5 million views, animal rights activists began taking offense, she said.

8am – D         INTERVIEW – LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm

• Oil under $40 barrel on OPEC production, could hit $20s in 2016
• Donald Trump calls for ‘complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering the U.S.
• KUDLOW op-ed: Why Janet Yellen is wrong about interest rates

8am – E         IRS proposes churches, other nonprofits get Social Security numbers from donors. (Fox News) – An Obama administration proposal to have some nonprofit charities report the Social Security numbers of donors giving at least $250 in one year is raising concerns about security, government overreach and another episode of IRS targeting. “There’s a big caution here. There’s a big yellow light that should be flashing for a couple of reasons,” Illinois Republican Rep. Peter Roskam tells Fox News. “Number one, the IRS has not demonstrated its capacity to hold this type of information from confidentiality and a security point of view.” The change would impact organizations that fall into the 501 (c)(3) category, which includes churches and other religious or charitable groups. The Internal Revenue Service states the proposed change would be optional. But skeptics question whether it will eventually become the only option.