Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, Redskins Analyst Trevor Matich, ACU’s Matt Schlapp, Montgomery County School Board President Michael Durso, Col. Angie Holbrook and CNN’s Jake Tapper joined WMAL on Thursday!

Mornings on the Mall

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

 

5am – A/B/C   Was the Mexico Trip A Win For Trump?

5am – D         INTERVIEW – MARYLAND COMPTROLLER PETER FRANCHOT – discusses being happy about Governor Hogan’s executive order on moving school starting after Labor Day in Maryland.

5am – E         Dog swims over 6 miles, walks 12 more to find family. BEULAH, Mich. (AP) — A dog swam more than 6 miles and walked a dozen more to find its family after falling overboard into Lake Michigan during the weekend. Edward Casas was boating on the lake Sunday with his wife, Kristin, and the family dog, a 10-month old Belgian Malinois (MAL’-ehn-wah) named Rylee. Casas tells ABC News Rylee went overboard while he was in the engine room trying to figure out a mechanical problem with the boat and his wife was steering. Casas says he sent out a mayday call on the radio and was connected to a volunteer group that searches for lost dogs. The next morning someone spotted Rylee going into a nearby campground. Edward Casas says there was a lot of sobbing and hugging when the family was reunited with him.

 

6am – A/B/C Trump’s Immigration Speech: Did You Like What You Heard?

6am – D         INTERVIEW — TREVOR MATICH — Redskins elite long snapper, WMAL’s Redskins analyst and Comcast SportsNet co-host

• Redskins Win Preseason Finale Over Bucs, 20-13
• Redskins-Bucs game night: Mack Brown and Robert Kelley run wild in 20-13 win. fourth quarter — Bernard Reedy catches a touchdown pass, the Buccaneers’ first of the game, and Tampa Bay makes it 20-13. It’s 10:54 p.m., so the game might end in less than three hours, especially given the unsuccessful onside kick attempt. When Washington kneels this out, they’ll improve to 3-1 in the preseason. Mack Brown finishes with 149 yards rushing and Robert Kelley 99, each on a carry count in the high teens. Both averaged more than six yards per carry.
• NEXT GAME: Washington Redskins vs Steelers – Mon, Sep 12 7:10 PM

6am – E         Entertainment News:

• The Friends Fest Craze: The one where a Friends-obsessed couple got engaged in Monica and Chandler’s apartment at FriendsFest. (London) – A Friends fanatic got the proposal of her dreams when her boyfriend got down on bended knee in Monica and Chandler’s actual apartment. True Friends fans will know that the hit US comedy ended 12 years ago and the Friends set sadly no longer exists in La La land. But the caring folks at Comedy Central have brought the world of Friends to life by recreating famous scenes for a six-week touring FriendsFest. So Krunal Desai did the next best thing and took his girlfriend Radha Patel to Comedy Central’s FriendsFest in London to get down on bended knee in the recreated apartment. Talk about boyfriend points!
• Courteney Cox ‘Regrets’ Plastic Surgery Procedures. The former ‘Friends’ actress says she got caught up trying to maintain a youthful appearance and wasn’t happy with the end result.  Courteney Cox expressed regret over choices she’s made about her physical appearance while dealing with the pressures of aging in Hollywood during her recent appearance on “Running Wild with Bear Grylls.” “Getting older is not the easiest. But I have learned lessons. I think I was trying to keep up with being older,” Cox said. “I have done things that I regret, and luckily they’re things that dissolve and go away, so that’s good, because that’s not always been my best look.” Cox, 52, rose to fame as a star on NBC’s “Friends” from 1994 to 2004, and later headlined the show “Cougar Town” from 2009 to 2015.

 

7am – A/B/C   INTERVIEW — MATT SCHLAPP – chairman of the American Conservative Union – shared his thoughts on Trump’s trip to Mexico and his immigration speech.

7am – D/E     INTERVIEW — MICHAEL DURSO – President and District 5 School Board Member for the Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education

• BIO: Michael A. Durso – President-District 5 // Mr. Michael A. Durso was elected to his second four-year term on November 4, 2014, after being appointed by the Board on June 26, 2009. He currently serves as the Board’s president and as a member of the Board’s Fiscal Management Committee.  Mr. Durso was appointed in 2013 to serve on the Maryland Center for School Safety Governing Board and currently serves as an adjunct professor at McDaniel College. Mr. Durso has a 44-year education career, including 13 years with Montgomery County Public Schools as principal of Springbrook High School (1996 to 2009). He also served as the principal at Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia, and as principal at Woodrow Wilson High School and Lincoln Junior High School in Washington, D.C. He began his career as a Social Studies teacher.
• Hogan issues executive order mandating Md. schools start after Labor Day
• Montgomery County School Board Opposes Hogan’s Order to Start School after Labor Day. Board president Michael Durso says decision should be left to county. The Montgomery County Board of Education announced Wednesday it strongly opposes Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to require public schools to open after Labor Day and close by June 15 beginning in the 2017-2018 school year. Calling the executive order signed Wednesday afternoon by Hogan an attempt “to usurp local decision-making around school calendars,” board President Michael Durso said in a statement that “prohibiting schools from starting before Labor Day ignores critical issues faced by schools and the potential negative instructional impact on students. Determining the school calendar is complicated and requires balancing educational requirements, operational issues, and unique community needs all in the interest of students.”

 

8am – A         INTERVIEW — COLONEL ANGELIA HOLBROOK – the Garrison Commander of Fort Belvoir

• WMAL Charity Golf Tournament at Fort Belvoir Golf Club September 15th.
• Fort Belvoir welcomes new commander, command sergeant major. Holbrook, who most recently served as the deputy executive officer for the 39th Chief of Staff of the Army, said coming to Belvoir is the fulfillment of a long-time dream for her

8am – B/C     Ronda Rousey on how fighting is good for society’s health. (USA Today) — Here’s something Ronda Rousey believes: More Mixed Martial Arts would mean less violence in the world. The model, movie star and ex-bantamweight champion explains her point in an exclusive clip from the documentary The Hurt Business: A Deeper Look at MMA. “MMA “really is the most responsible outlet for (aggression),” she says. “It’s a human instinct to fight. If you try to suppress it entirely, and put everyone in a bubble-wrapped society, that’s when people start going nuts and shooting movie theaters. If any of those people that had all of that aggression built up in them had some sort of outlet, I think that we’d have a lot more societal health because of it.”

8am – D         INTERVIEW — JAKE TAPPER – host of “The Lead” and “State of the Union” on CNN

• Jake’s thoughts on how the trip to Mexico went for Trump
• His thoughts on Hillary’s response to Trump going to Mexico
• His thoughts on Trump’s immigration speech

8am – E         SafeTrack forces Metro and Marine Corps Marathon into another transportation plan. (Washington Post) — Organizers of the Marine Corps Marathon on Wednesday announced changes to this year’s event as a result of Metro’s year-long SafeTrack program, which has eliminated extended closings or early openings for special events. The 41st Marine Corps Marathon is scheduled to start at 7:55 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30.  Metro has traditionally opened earlier than normal on race day to accommodate runners and spectators, including last year, when service began at 5 a.m. Due to SafeTrack, Metro will not begin service until 7 a.m. this year. The MCM will maintain its 7:55 a.m. start time, but will keep the start line open until 8:55 a.m., a change from previous years. Changes to the course will reduce the time runners spend on Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. The start time for the Marine Corps 10K has been changed to 9:15 a.m. and the start line for the 10K will be relocated to the Pentagon North parking lot.