Scottie Nell Hughes, Roll Call’s Niels Lesniewski, Larry Kudlow and guest host Katie Pavlich joined WMAL on Tuesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Hosts: Larry O’Connor and Katie Pavlich

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C TRUMP CAMPAIGN SHAKEUP: Corey Lewandowski fired. Trump ready to run ‘different kind of campaign,’ may have cabinet picks by GOP convention. (Fox News) — Donald Trump said Monday night he’s ready to run “a different kind of campaign” while explaining his decision to fire campaign manager Corey Lewandowski earlier in the day. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly in an interview on “The O’Reilly Factor” that Lewandowski was “a good man” who helped him run a “small, beautiful, well-unified campaign” during the primary season. “We’re going to go a different route,” Trump said. He added that he plans to ramp up campaign operations heading into the general election phase of the campaign, and that he may even have some cabinet picks in place before the Republican National Convention in July.

5am – D These workplace benefits are slowly fading away. (CNN Money) – Far more employers used to offer subsidized childcare, mortgage assistance and employee stock purchase plans than they do today. Those are just a few of the benefits that have been on the wane over the past 20 years, according to the latest benefits trend survey from the Society of Human Resource Management. The good news is that the share of employers offering “core” benefits such as health insurance, retirement savings plans and employee assistance programs has held steady during that time. And there’s been an increase in various paid leave benefits (e.g., parental leave for men and women) and work flexibility options that are so attractive to employees today.

5am – E Finding Dory set records with $136M bow; here’s how every other #Pixar film has performed. With ‘Finding Dory’ setting records with its $136.2 million bow, THR looks at how other Pixar movies have performed. Finding Dory, the sequel to the beloved 2003 movie Finding Nemo, set records with its June 17 bow. Pixar and Disney’s sequel landed the biggest domestic opening of all time for an animated title with $136.2 million from 4,305 theaters. It’s also the only animated movie to crack the overall list of top 20 openings, ranking No. 18. The movie sees Ellen DeGeneres reprising her role as the forgetful blue tang Dory and Albert Brooks back as Nemo’s dad Marlin.

6am – A/B/C Justice Department Releases Unredacted Omar Mateen Transcript. (WMAL) – WASHINGTON — (WMAL) The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI on Monday released the complete transcript of the phone call conversation between the Orlando, Florida, shooter and 911 police operators in which the gunman pledges allegiance to Islamic State’s leader. An earlier version of the transcript had deleted the word “Islamic State” and the name of ISIS leader “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.” Omar Mateen made the 50-second 911 call in which he claimed responsibility for the assault and pledged allegiance to the terror organization’s chief. He made this call at 2:35 a.m., more than a half hour into the June 12 slaughter at the nightclub Pulse. “I pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of the Islamic State,” Mateen says on the new transcript.

6am – D David Bowie’s hair expected to fetch $4,000-plus at auction. LOS ANGELES (AP) — An auction house is expecting a lock of David Bowie’s hair to fetch more than $4,000 this weekend. Heritage Auctions says Bowie’s hair will go on the block Saturday as part of an auction in Beverly Hills, California. Heritage says the lock comes from a former employee at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. She snipped some of Bowie’s hair in the 1980s to create a wig for a wax figure of the singer. Heritage says she kept it as a souvenir. The rock superstar died in January at 69 after a battle with liver cancer.

6am – E Senate fails to pass new gun control restrictions in wake of Orlando shooting. The US Senate failed to advance new restrictions aimed at curtailing gun violence on Monday, as lawmakers voted down four separate measures just one week after a terrorist attack in Orlando marked the deadliest mass shooting in the nation’s history.

7am – A/B/C INTERVIEW –SCOTTIE NELL HUGHES – Trump surrogate and author of the book “Roar”

• TRUMP CAMPAIGN SHAKEUP: Corey Lewandowski fired. Trump ready to run ‘different kind of campaign,’ may have cabinet picks by GOP convention.
• Trump suggests ‘profiling’ in US to stop domestic terrorism.
• Trump Says He Wants, but Doesn’t Need, GOP: ‘I Can Win One Way or the Other’
• Donald Trump’s May fundraising totals are disastrously bad. Trump’s approach to staffing in states unconventional, risky.

7am – D/E When are Kids Old Enough to Attend Concerts?

8am – A INTERVIEW – NIELS LESNIEWSKI – senior Senate reporter at ROLL CALL

• TOPICS: Senate gun bills, Rubio’s potential senate race and plug Roll Call’s Congressional Baseball game
• Senate Plans Vote on Gun-Control Proposals
• President Obama Hits Airwaves in Florida Senate Race. Radio ad for Patrick Murphy comes ahead of potential Rubio entry
• The Political World Waits on Rubio
• House GOP to Jolly: We’re Not Sure We Want You Back – See more at: Congressional Baseball this week

8am – B Entertainment News:

• Finding Dory sets record for biggest domestic opening for an animated film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Pixar film has so far raked in $136.2 million since its debut last Thursday, shattering the previous record set by Shrek the Third, which took in $121.6 million back in 2007. Right now, it has the 18th highest opening weekend total, and is the first animated feature film to break into the top 20. Pixar and Disney’s sequel landed the biggest domestic opening of all time for an animated title with $136.2 million from 4,305 theaters. It’s also the only animated movie to crack the overall list of top 20 openings, ranking No. 18. The movie sees Ellen DeGeneres reprising her role as the forgetful blue tang Dory and Albert Brooks back as Nemo’s dad Marlin.
• ‘Monopoly: The Musical’ is heading to Broadway. (NY Daily News) — “Monopoly: The Musical” is headed to Broadway, Hasbro announced on Monday. The toy and game giant will team up with Araca, the production company behind “Wicked” and “Rock of Ages,” to bring those tiny Monopoly pieces to life. “Hasbro is dedicated to delivering new and exciting ways for consumers to interact with all of our brands and this stage adaptation will do just that,” Hasbro GM Simon Waters said in a statement. A premiere date was not announced, and the show’s plot and musical style are still being worked out, Variety reports. But the masterminds behind the musical promise they are thinking outside of the box.

8am – C Selma Blair Removed From Plane on Stretcher Following Mid-Flight Outburst While Traveling with 4-Year-Old Son. Selma Blair has been rushed to the hospital after being removed from an international flight Monday. The actress was taken by stretcher off of her return flight from Cancun, Mexico to Los Angeles after allegedly having an outburst on the flight, an official close to the situation confirms to PEOPLE. “She was met by paramedics at LAX as soon as her plane arrived,” the source says. “It looks like she had taken a combination of prescription medication with alcohol. We don’t know what sort of prescription medications.” The source adds that Blair was transported to a local hospital and that her son Arthur Saint, 4, was on the flight. Witnesses who were also on the flight told TMZ that Blair, 43, was seated in first class, enjoying a glass of wine when she started to cry and talk about fears regarding an unnamed male. “He burns my private parts. He won’t let me eat or drink,” she reportedly stated. “He beats me. He’s going to kill me.” Afterwards, two nurses who were on the flight reportedly tended to Blair, checking her bags for pills before the pilot called ahead to report that a passenger on board was mixing medication with alcohol, TMZ reports.

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

• Larry Kudlow ‏@larry_kudlow Jun 18: WSJ: “Only way to curb the appeal of Islamic State is to capture its safe havens in Iraq & Syria & destroy it.”…
• TRUMP CAMPAIGN SHAKEUP: Corey Lewandowski fired.
• Trump suggests ‘profiling’ in US to stop domestic terrorism.
• Trump Says He Wants, but Doesn’t Need, GOP: ‘I Can Win One Way or the Other’

8am – E Metro ridership plummets at stations east of track closure as riders find workarounds. WASHINGTON — Metro riders avoided eastern stations on the Blue, Orange and Silver lines and took another route to work Monday during the first rush hour with a full track and station closure, according to initial ridership figures. About 65 percent fewer riders used the stations east of the track closure, which stretches between Eastern Market and Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road, Monday morning compared to the Monday before Memorial Day, according to Metro data. Metro leaders asked riders to avoid that section of the Blue, Orange and Silver Lines until this work zone ends July 3 in order to reserve limited shuttle bus service around the two closed stations for those who need it and who have no other options. However, Metro said ridership rose 23 to 33 percent at the Greenbelt and College Park stations on the Green Line Monday morning. Overall, Metro said ridership across the system was down about 4.5 percent compared to May 23.