Tucker Barnes, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer and Dan Bongino joined WMAL on Friday!

Mornings on the Mall

Friday, March 4, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Brian and Larry at CPAC!

 

5am – A/B/C GOP Debate Highlights

5am – D         INTERVIEW – RAY STAGICH – Weather Channel meteorologist – gave the latest snow forecast.       

5am – E         The latest Clinton email update

6am – A/B/C Mitt Romney Lays Out Scathing Critique of Donald Trump. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered a scorching indictment of Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a phony, a fraud, a misogynist and a bully who threatens America’s future. Trump responded to Romney’s scathing critique at a campaign rally a few hours later, spending the better part of his campaign speech defending himself and criticizing Romney. “I believe with all my heart and soul that we face another time for choosing, one that will have profound consequences for the Republican Party and more importantly, for the country,” Romney said in Utah at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum. “His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.” Romney then went on an epic take down of the Republican frontrunner, point-by-point, issue-by-issue, critiquing his business acumen, the amount he’s worth, his ability to understand foreign policy and his temperament and his honesty.

6am – D/E     GOP Debate Highlights

7am – A         INTERVIEW — DAN BONGINO – former Secret Service agent, former Maryland candidate for congress and AUTHOR OF NEW BOOK: “THE FIGHT: A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine” — discussed his new book, his thoughts on the Secret Service-reporter confrontation and 2016 election.

7am – B         Entertainment News:

• HOUSE OF CARDS IS BACK TODAY! New season to binge watch this weekend! Before you say goodbye forever on Sunday to PBS’s Downton Abbey, you can say hello again Friday to Netflix’s House of Cards. And since this is Netflix and the whole season lands at once, you can say goodbye to Cards as well, assuming you have 13 hours this weekend to devote to the entire fourth season.
• Caitlyn Jenner Wants to Be Ted Cruz’s Trans Ambassador. Caitlyn Jenner says she wants to help Ted Cruz’s relationship with the transgender community. Caitlyn Jenner says she wants to help Ted Cruz’s relationship with the transgender community. In a wide-ranging interview with The Advocate on Wednesday, the prominent transgender reality TV star and former Olympian said she wants to be Republican presidential candidate’s “trans ambassador.”

7am – C         After a year in space, Scott Kelly returns 2 inches taller. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned to the U.S. on Thursday after spending nearly a year in space. Now that Kelly is home, his journey is just beginning. Scott Kelly’s year in space was part of a NASA twin study involving his brother, Mark Kelly. While Scott was in space, Mark remained earthbound, which will allow scientists to study the effects of space travel on the human body in preparation for a crewed mission to Mars. Specifically, researchers are looking at the effects of space radiation, as well as the effect of visual impairment associated with long-duration space flight, according to Graham Scott, chief scientist at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute and deputy project scientist for the NASA and NSBRI Twin Study. So, what can a year in space do to the human body? One of the primary things researchers will be focusing on is the effect that being in space for almost a year had on Kelly’s vision, according to Scott. “We will be looking at the eyes to see how much visual acuity has been lost,” he said during a phone interview Thursday. Scott said the majority of astronauts who return from time in space have mild vision loss, but researchers still aren’t completely sure why vision is affected while in space. “The majority of astronauts have to change their eye glasses while in space,” he said. “They bring eye glasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission.”

7am – D         INTERVIEW — LT. COL TONY SHAFFER – a CIA trained former senior intelligence officer and the New York Times bestselling author of ” Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft an Special Operations on the Frontlines of Afghanistan – And The Path to Victory.”   He discussed the latest on the Hillary emails situation and the latest on Delta Force in Iraq.

• US unleashes Delta Force in Iraq to target ISIS operatives. The US has deployed its elite counter-terrorism unit Delta Force for covert operations in Iraq to capture or kill high-ranking ISIS operatives and gather intelligence, according to a media report. Army’s elite Delta Force operations to target, capture or kill top ISIS operatives have begun in Iraq, after several weeks of covert preparation, an official with direct knowledge of the force’s activities was quoted as saying by CNN.

7am – E         INTERVIEW – TUCKER BARNES – Fox 5 in DC – discussed the latest on the snow forecast in the DC area.

8am – A/B/C Mitt Romney Lays Out Scathing Critique of Donald Trump. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered a scorching indictment of Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a phony, a fraud, a misogynist and a bully who threatens America’s future. Trump responded to Romney’s scathing critique at a campaign rally a few hours later, spending the better part of his campaign speech defending himself and criticizing Romney. “I believe with all my heart and soul that we face another time for choosing, one that will have profound consequences for the Republican Party and more importantly, for the country,” Romney said in Utah at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum. “His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.” Romney then went on an epic take down of the Republican frontrunner, point-by-point, issue-by-issue, critiquing his business acumen, the amount he’s worth, his ability to understand foreign policy and his temperament and his honesty.

8am – D/E     GOP Debate Highlights