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Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Hosts: Larry O’Connor and guest host Lisa Boothe

 5am – A    INTERVIEW—ROD WHEELER—Former DC homicide detective  

•         DailyCaller — The Justice Department released a statement Monday that it will continue its review of the shooting of 12-year-old Cleveland boy Tamir Rice. The announcement comes on the heels of the county prosecutor’s announcement that a grand jury chose not to bring charges against two law enforcement officers involved in the shooting of Rice, who had a pellet gun outside a Cleveland recreation center last November.

5am – B/C Is officer safety factoring into voters’ decisions within the presidential race? Issues of law and order, and stabilizing volatile cities are an issue for candidates.

5am – D  A Gallup poll finds Hillary  Clinton and Barack Obama are the most admired man and woman in 2015. WMAL takes your calls.

•          Gallup – Although Clinton and Obama each led this year’s poll by significant margins, the percentage mentioning each as most admired is slightly lower than the percentages they have received in the past. Across the eight times Obama has been most admired man, an average 23% of Americans have named him, while in the 20 times Clinton has been most admired woman, an average 16% have named her. 

5am –E An investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation finds IRS employees have donated to Democratic politicians and causes double the amount they’ve supported Republican politicians and causes.

•         DailyCaller —  Donors listing the IRS as their employer have donated roughly $453,800 to Democratic candidates and causes and $221,400 to Republican candidates and causes since 1990. About one in four of the dollars for Democrats, or roughly $117,500, went to President Barack Obama. 

 6am – A  A new CNN/ORC poll shows that most Americans are unhappy with the country’s progress in the war on terror.

•          Washington (CNN)Americans are more likely to say that terrorists are winning the war against the United States than they have been at any point since the September 11 attacks, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.The public is broadly unhappy with the nation’s progress, with nearly three-quarters of Americans saying they are not satisfied with how the war on terror is proceeding. That figure, following terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, this fall, is well above the previous high of 61% who said they were dissatisfied in August 2007.

6am – B/C WMAL takes your calls on how you think the next president should tackle ISIS.

•          Fortune — Republican representative Peter King is calling for the U.S. to perform surveillance on mosques. King, who is a member of the House Homeland Security and Select Intelligence committees, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the threat of terrorism. The interviewer read a statement, quoting King, in which the congressman said 24/7 surveillance is the “only way” to uncover a potential threat. He said it was done in Italian-American communities to expose the mafia and it was done in Irish communities to expose the Westies, adding: “You look where the terror threat is going to come from and right now it is going to come from the Muslim community.”

6am – D/E   Jeb Bush challenges Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate. WMAL takes your calls.

7am – A/B/C   WMAL wants to know about your Christmas presents. What did you get? How do you feel about asking for something and then not getting it?
7am – D       INTERVIEW – KT MCFARLAND – Fox News National Security Analyst

•         DailyCaller — A Kansas City mosque owned by an Islamic umbrella organization with deep ties to the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the past several years, according to a federal spending database.

7am – E Pop culture updates.

• CNN anchor Poppy Harlow passes out while on the air.
• Samuel L Jackson “really wanted” the San Bernadino terrorists to be white.
• David Spade says Obama is on reality shows too often and Michelle Obama is on Ellen Degeneres more than he is. He says it’s undermining the role of the presidency.

8am – A/B/C      Virginia Gov. Terry McAulifee brushed off calls for his guards be disarmed after the governor backed Attorney General Mark Herring’s decision to no longer recognize concealed carry permits from half of the states in the country. WMAL takes your calls.

•          Richmond Times Dispatch — Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced the decision, saying the states in question had looser rules on who can obtain a concealed carry permit. Herring called the move a “common-sense step” that will make Virginia residents and law enforcement officers safer. McAuliffe, who backs Herring’s decision, previously issued an executive order to ban guns in most state buildings, and has pushed unsuccessfully for other gun-control measures such as universal background checks. 

8am – D       INTERVIEW – LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor

•         Political and economic news of the day

8am – E       Trey Gowdy’s endorsement of Marco Rubio is causing an upset. WMAL takes your calls.

•         Newsmax — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump assailed a leading committee chairman in Congress on Sunday for backing Marco Rubio, Trump’s rival for the party’s nomination.Trump, the front-runner in the Republican race, needled Trey Gowdy for his role as chairman of the House of Representatives select committee investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed. In October, Hillary Clinton, 68, front-runner for the Democratic nomination, calmly deflected committee criticism of her handling of the attack while she was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state. “In total (the committee) was not good for Republicans and the country. I mean beyond Republicans, it was bad for the country. I hope he does a whole lot better for Marco,” Trump, 69, said of Gowdy on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”