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Mornings on the Mall

Monday, May 9, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C  Should There Be A Third Party Candidate?

• Romney warns of ‘demagogues’ in commencement speech. Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney on Saturday took a thinly veiled shot at Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, warning against “demagogues” in a commencement address.

• Lindsey Graham won’t vote for Trump. Washington (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, says he will not vote for either Trump or Hillary Clinton for president this year. Saying he thinks the Republican Party has been “conned,” Graham told CNN Friday that he and Trump don’t share the same beliefs.

5am – D         Hillary news:

• Hillary Clinton Says She Is Available for F.B.I. Interviews Over Emails. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the F.B.I. had not asked to interview her as part of its inquiry into her use of a personal email server as secretary of state. But Mrs. Clinton reiterated on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that she would make herself available to law enforcement officials as necessary.
• Benghazi panel goes to war with Pentagon. Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi accused the Pentagon on Friday of wading into politics by making false claims about its work and undermining the integrity of the military. In a blistering letter on Friday, Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) accused the Defense Department of “wast[ing] taxpayer dollars” by coordinating with Democrats to write “partisan, factually deficient” complaints to his committee. “This approach to independent congressional oversight and the inaccurate characterization of the committee’s work … are unbefitting of the Department of Defense,” Gowdy told Defense Secretary Ash Carter. “I, too, would have liked this investigation completed months ago,” he added. “Yet, constant obstacles and barriers created by the executive branch — including the Department of Defense — have made that impossible.”

5am – E         Space News:

• Mercury crosses sun on Monday. WASHINGTON — With all of these clouds and rain we haven’t seen too much of the sky lately, and Monday’s forecast predicts more of the same. As seen from earth,  Mercury (the planet closest to the sun) will appear to move across the face of the sun in an event that astronomers call a “transit.” Mercury transits the sun 13 or 14 times each century. The last time this occurred was Nov. 8, 2006, and the next transit will be on Nov. 11, 2019. Hopefully, you were able to view Mercury last month. For the D.C.-metro region, the transit starts at 7:12 a.m. EDT and lasts until 2:42 p.m. EDT, with the midpoint being at 10:57 a.m. EDT.
• Perlan 2 takes to the skies! Airbus glider completes its first test flight as daredevils plan to fly it 90,000ft to the edge of SPACE.  The Perlan 2 glider hopes to create aviation history by soaring to 90,000 feet higher than any plane has gone before. Existing record of 85,000ft is held by an American spy plane, the Lockheed SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ – achieved in 1976. Glider, which has an 85ft wingspan and weighs less than one ton, will aim to get there by soaring on air currents. (Daily Mail) —  A daring plan to fly a glider to the edge of space is a step closer after a successful test flight on Sunday. The Perlan 2 glider hopes to create aviation history by soaring to 90,000 feet – 17 miles up – higher than any plane has gone before. The existing record of 85,000ft is held by an American spy plane, the Lockheed SR-71 ‘Blackbird’.

6am – A/B/C Trump says no need for Republican unity. Washington (AFP) – There may be much Republican hand-wringing over Donald Trump’s presumptive nomination to face the Democratic candidate for the White House, but the boastful billionaire says he doesn’t care, and it doesn’t matter. A growing chorus of senior Republican leaders have joined the “anyone but Trump movement,” including 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the last two Republican presidents, George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. “Does it have to be unified?” Trump asked about the Republican Party. “I’m very different than everybody else, perhaps, that’s ever run for office. I actually don’t think so,” he told ABC’s “This Week” in excerpts provided ahead of Sunday’s broadcast. “I think it would be better if it were unified, I think it would be — there would be something good about it. But I don’t think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense.”

6am – D         INTERVIEW – ROD WHEELER – Law Enforcement Expert and Former Washington DC Homicide Detective

• Suspect in custody in shootings at mall, grocery store, high school. Montgomery Co. police describe ‘heroes’ who tried to stop suspected killer. (Washington Post) — A frantic 22 hours of mayhem at a school, a mall and a grocery store jolted two counties as it left three dead and three wounded before a suspect was captured Friday afternoon in a Maryland parking lot near the scene of the final killing. The arrest of Eulalio “Leo” Tordil, a 62-year-old federal law enforcement officer, followed a manhunt that forced Montgomery County schools, government buildings and retail establishments to lock down. Just before 3 p.m., police cruisers rammed Tordil’s silver Hyundai Elantra as it sat parked outside a strip mall. Officers drew their guns and shouted for him to surrender — just one day after he had allegedly gunned down his wife within view of her daughter.

6am – E         John Kerry Advises Fancypants College Grads To Expect ‘BORDERLESS WORLD,’ Hammers Trump. At Northeastern University commencement ceremonies on Friday morning, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry advised newly-minted graduates that the world is on its way to becoming “borderless” and that the critical issues of our time are terrorism, poverty and, of course, climate change. “I am honored this morning to address a university family that thankfully is one very utterly unafraid to look beyond our borders and into the future,” Kerry told a Boston Garden crowd of about 25,000, reports The Boston Globe. Kerry advised graduates that a border wall would not deny entry to terrorists. “Many of you were in elementary school when you learned the toughest lesson of all on 9/11,” he said, according to The Washington Examiner. “There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others.”

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

• Hillary Clinton Says She Is Available for F.B.I. Interviews Over Emails

• Benghazi panel goes to war with Pentagon.

7am – B         2016 News: 

• Trump: ‘Taxes for the rich will go up somewhat’
• Trump says no need for Republican unity.
• Romney warns of ‘demagogues’ in commencement speech.
• Lindsey Graham won’t vote for Trump.
• Palin will work to defeat Ryan in primary for Trump stance.

7am – C         Sports News:

• Cubs walk Harper 6 times, Baez homers in 13th to beat Nats. CHICAGO (AP) — Javier Baez got the pitch he wanted and propelled the Cubs to yet another victory on a day when it looked like Jake Arrieta might finally pick up a loss. Baez homered in the 13th inning after Chicago walked Washington star Bryce Harper a record-tying six times, giving the Cubs a 4-3 victory over the Nationals and four-game sweep on Sunday.

• Capitals get playoff payoff from Williams against Penguins.

7am – D         YouTube says its primetime audience is bigger than the top 10 TV shows combined. Its annual advertising gala was a display of data-driven confidence. At the fourth annual Brandcast, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki cut to the chase. “Today, I’m happy to announce that on mobile alone YouTube now reaches more 18–49-year-olds than any network — broadcast or cable. In fact, we reach more 18–49-year-olds during primetime than the top 10 TV shows combined,” she said, citing data from a Nielsen study  of US viewers commissioned by Google. “At a time when TV networks are losing audiences, YouTube is growing in every region and across every screen.” “YouTube is taking big bucks from television.”

7am – E         Entertainment News:

• Box office: ‘Captain America: Civil War’ triumphs with superheroic $181.8M. (USA Today) – Captain America: Civil War easily won the weekend with an enormous $181.8 million, according to studio estimates from comScore. That gives Marvel’s starry superhero face-off the fifth-biggest opening ever, falling just behind Avengers: Age of Ultron ($191.3 million), The Avengers ($207.4 million), Jurassic World ($208.8 million) and Disney’s all-time champ, Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($248 million). Of those five, three are Marvel movies.
• It’s over: Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne split after more than 33 years of marriage. Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne Split After More Than 33 Years of Marriage. The 67-year-old heavy metal rocker and the 63-year-old co-host of The Talk have broken up after more than 33 years of marriage, E! News has learned. A source tells E! News that the couple mutually agreed that Ozzy would move out of the house temporarily. In addition, the split has nothing to do with Ozzy’s sobriety. Our insider shared that the rocker has been sober for three and a quarter years and has not touched drugs or alcohol in that time.

8am – A         INTERVIEW — TUCKER CARLSON — Editor of The Daily Caller and co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend

• Trump says no need for Republican unity.
• Romney warns of ‘demagogues’ in commencement speech.
• Lindsey Graham won’t vote for Trump.

8am – B         Charleston Church Distributes $1.5 Million to Families of Victims. (AP) — CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Charleston church where nine African-Americans were shot in what the police say were racially motivated killings has given $1.5 million in donations to family members of the victims. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church said it kept about $1.8 million in donations for building maintenance, an endowment and a scholarship fund. The money was donated to the church in the months after the shootings last June. Church leaders say that only $280,000 worth of donations were specified for the victims’ families, but that the church decided to add more than $1 million to those gifts. An additional $78,000 specified for the city of Charleston’s Hope Fund will be sent there to be distributed, said Wilbur Johnson, the church’s lawyer. Some family members are upset that the church kept more than it gave to them.

8am – C         Radiohead’s New Album Is Coming in Two Days. Its new album will be available on digital music services on Sunday and in physical formats on June 17.  For Radiohead, untraditional album releases are nothing new, but the band can still surprise: On Friday morning, after teasing fans with online clues for months but having never announced an official release date, the British group said that its ninth album would be out on Sunday. The album — its title has still not been confirmed — will be available on digital music services at 2 p.m. Sunday and in physical formats on June 17. The announcement also came with a new song, “Daydreaming,” and its video, a collaboration with the director Paul Thomas Anderson, that is streaming on Radiohead’s website.

8am – D         DC Metro:

• Metro will shut down sections of lines for year-long subway repair work. Metro’s plan to overhaul the system, explained. (Washington Post) — After decades of maintenance neglect, Metro next month will begin a huge subway rebuilding effort that will inconvenience nearly everyone who uses the system, with stretches of some rail lines closed for days, a reduction in late-night weekend service and a slowdown of trains throughout the year-long project, officials said Friday. The transit disruptions will have ripple effects across the region as local governments and employers will be asked to make adjustments — whether it be changing HOV-lane restrictions to ease the anticipated increase in road traffic or allowing employees to work from home or modify their schedules.

8am – E         Dana Carvey returns to ‘SNL’ as ‘Church Lady’ for politics-heavy show.  “Saturday Night Live” veteran Dana Carvey resurrected his “Church Lady” character in a surprise appearance last night following Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee this week. “It’s interesting times in America, and now we’ve landed on the exciting presidential matchup between a Godless liberal Democrat and Hillary Clinton,” Carvey said, eliciting laughs. Carvey, who was a cast member on the show during the late 1980s and early 1990s, brought back the famous character for a round of callbacks and familiar guests. “My first guest is someone I’ve talked about quite a bit here on Church Chat, but we’ve never actually met face-to-face. Please welcome, Satan.”