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Mornings on the Mall

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C Latest on the North Carolina protests:

• State of emergency: Charlotte protests continue for second night. (USA Today) — CHARLOTTE — Angry and some violent protesters took to the streets on a second night of unrest as the National Guard arrived in this North Carolina city early Thursday following the police-involved shooting of a black man. One person was shot and four officers were injured Wednesday night as Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency. The non-fatal shooting was “civilian on civilian” and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department did not fire the shot, the City of Charlotte said via Twitter. Authorities initially tweeted the person had died, but later corrected that the person was on life support. Four officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the protests Wednesday night, police said on Twitter. The Bank of America, which is headquartered in Charlotte, urged employees to stay home Thursday due to the ongoing unrest, WBTV reported.

5am – D/E     Hillary Wants Supporters To Provide An Intervention For Trump Supporters.

6am – A         Hillary Clinton: “We Have Two Names To Add To The Long List Of African Americans Killed By Police,” “Unbearable.” Speaking at a campaign event in Orlando on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton called the recent shooting deaths of black men at the hands of police in Tulsa and Charlotte “unbearable.” “There is still much we don’t know about what happened in both incidents, but we do know we have two more names to add to a list of African-Americans killed by police officers in these encounters,” she said. “It’s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable.” “We also saw the targeting of police officers last week in Philadelphia,” she also said. “And last night in Charlotte, 12 officers were injured during demonstrations.”

6am – B         School officials investigating video of kids chanting racist song in Md. ROCKVILLE, MD. (WUSA9) – A Montgomery County parent is outraged after his daughter recorded a video of fellow middle schoolers chanting a racist song on the bus. The video, posted by Brandon Long on Facebook Tuesday, shows students on a school bus from Robert Frost Middle School in Rockville breaking out into a chant that uses the n-word. He posted (warning the original post has graphic language): “So our daughter had to experience racism today on her school bus from Robert Frost Middle School in Montgomery County MD. They are singing 1,2,3,4 how many n***** are in my store. I am outraged and I refuse to let this slide. Please help me make this viral. Repost everywhere!” Long also mentions on his Facebook page that she’s reached out to the school and said, ‘they were nervous and wanted to handle it’. School spokesman Derek Turner told WUSA9’s Bruce Leshan that the school is investigating the incident and that the principal will send out a note to the school community soon. Turner says this type of behavior is “unacceptable.” Others who commented on the post said the

6am – C         WMAL FORUM: Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor, Chris Plante and Mark Levin at WMAL’s Free Speech Forum Saturday, October 1st at The Birchmere! Brian, Larry, Chris and Mark live on stage discussing the latest news and politics… they’ll be taking your questions and they won’t be holding anything back! Seating is general admission and is first come, first served.  Food and drink are available for purchase, so please feel free to enjoy dinner before the show.  Doors open: 6pm / Program starts: 7:30pm / Meet & greet after the show starts approximately 9pm / GO TO GET TICKETS: https://www.wmal.com/freespeechforum/

6am – D/E     Merging into traffic? You’re doing it wrong. (USA Today) —  A construction project has narrowed the number of open lanes, and these motorists have the audacity to shoot to the front of the line and cut into the remaining open lane amid a chorus of honks, yells and gestures. However, they’re the ones who are merging correctly, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The department has been promoting for a decade the “zipper method” of merging when traffic is particularly congested. Officials recommend this late-merge strategy in which drivers use the entire roadway and take turns merging from the closed lane into the open one at the point when the road narrows. In heavy congestion, this strategy reduces delays by as much as 35 percent, according to the department. When people merge early, they create a more severe backup because they leave a lane unused, CDOT spokesman Bob Wilson said. Despite the department’s decade-long education effort, people still merge early, though merging early in low congestion does have less of a negative impact.

7am – A         Latest on the North Carolina protests:

• State of emergency: Charlotte protests continue for second night. (USA Today) — CHARLOTTE — Angry and some violent protesters took to the streets on a second night of unrest as the National Guard arrived in this North Carolina city early Thursday following the police-involved shooting of a black man. One person was shot and four officers were injured Wednesday night as Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency. The non-fatal shooting was “civilian on civilian” and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department did not fire the shot, the City of Charlotte said via Twitter. Authorities initially tweeted the person had died, but later corrected that the person was on life support. Four officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the protests Wednesday night, police said on Twitter. The Bank of America, which is headquartered in Charlotte, urged employees to stay home Thursday due to the ongoing unrest, WBTV reported.

7am – B         INTERVIEW – TOM ROGAN – Foreign policy writer for National Review and Senior Fellow at the Steamboat Institute

• ISIS suspected of mustard attack against US and Iraqi troops. Washington (CNN)ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials. The shell was categorized by officials as either a rocket or artillery shell. After it landed on the base, just south of Mosul, US troops tested it and received an initial reading for a chemical agent they believe is mustard. No US troops were hurt or have displayed symptoms of exposure to mustard agent. One official said the agent had “low purity” and was “poorly weaponized.” A second official called it “ineffective.” A US defense official said troops had gone out to look at the ordnance after it landed. Based on seeing what they thought was a suspect substance, two field tests were conducted. The first test was positive and the second was negative, the official said. The substance is now being sent to a lab for further examination.
• Rogan predicted in National Review ISIS building weapon threats: Why the ISIS WMD Threat Is Massively Underestimated

7am – C         First Day of Fall:

• Thursday, September 22 – The First Day of Autumn (Autumnal Equinox) 2016
• Autumnal equinox, or “First Day of Fall”, is September 22. WASHINGTON — If you are like me, you could use a welcome break from the endless election coverage and the world in general. Fortunately, Mother Nature has just what we need — the arrival of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, fall officially arrives at 10:21 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 22. Astronomically speaking, this is the date and time of the Autumnal Equinox, the precise moment when the sun is seen directly overhead at noon at the Earth’s equator. Both the Northern and Southern hemispheres will have almost equal amounts of daylight and night as the sun rises due east and sets due west everywhere on the planet except for the poles. Seen from space, the Earth is equally illuminated by the sun. All of this is repeated during the Vernal Equinox, which marks the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere around March 21. The Earth’s seasons — fall, winter, spring and summer — are caused by the Earth’s orbit around the sun and the 23 ½-degree tilt of our planet’s axis. This causes the amount of sunlight falling on the Earth’s Northern and Southern hemispheres to constantly change. The two hemispheres are always opposite in their seasons — our fall is their spring while our summer is their winter.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – REP. JIM JORDAN — (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and

• GOP grills IRS chief, but impeachment fate unclear. House Republicans kept up their attacks against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen during an impeachment hearing Wednesday, but the conservative coalition that wants him out of a job still faces real obstacles to impeaching him. The embattled IRS chief admitted he had inadvertently delivered false testimony in 2014, expressing “regret” about his statements for the first time. During a hearing before the House Oversight Committee in March of that year, Koskinen had vowed to hand over all emails belonging to Lois Lerner, former head of the agency’s tax-exempt unit. Congress later learned the emails had already been destroyed at the time of his testimony.
• IRS chief: Officials who deleted Lois Lerner emails were not fired
• Jim Jordan Smacks Down IRS Commissioner at Impeachment Hearing

7am – E         WMAL FORUM: Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor, Chris Plante and Mark Levin at WMAL’s Free Speech Forum Saturday, October 1st at The Birchmere! Brian, Larry, Chris and Mark live on stage discussing the latest news and politics… they’ll be taking your questions and they won’t be holding anything back! Seating is general admission and is first come, first served.  Food and drink are available for purchase, so please feel free to enjoy dinner before the show.  Doors open: 6pm

Program starts: 7:30pm / Meet & greet after the show starts approximately 9pm /

GO TO GET TICKETS: https://www.wmal.com/freespeechforum/

8am – A/B     INTERVIEW — DIAMOND AND SILK — YouTube sensations and Trump supporters / You can find their videos at diamondandsilk.com

• BIO: Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, better known by their stage name Diamond and Silk are an American duo mainly active as video bloggers and YouTube personalities. Hardaway and her co-host Richardson are former Democrats.
• Trump and Clinton courting African American vote
• Their thoughts on the police shootings in North Carolina and Tulsa

8am – C         African American Museum Opening This Weekend:

• People on Craigslist are scalping tickets to the Smithsonian’s African American History Museum for as much as $200.  (Washingtonian) — Into this void step scalpers. A few enterprising Craigslist users are offering their passes to the museum—which they obtained free of charge—for as much as $200 each. That’s how much this poster wants for six passes on Saturday afternoon. If that’s too much, this person is only charging $120 a head. Wait until Sunday at 6 PM, and you can get a real bargain from this poster, who only wants $60 for each pass.

• Bring your appetite! African-American History & Culture museum has delicious food: WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Ten days before its grand opening, members of the press were allowed inside Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture for a “media day preview.” The 400,000 square-foot museum truly has so much to offer, but perhaps one of the sweetest treats inside is the Sweet Home Café. Part of the day-long media preview was actually getting the chance to try the much talked about cuisine, and let me tell you, it does not disappoint. Celebrity Chef Carla Hall, co-host of ABC’s The Chew, serves as the culinary ambassador for the café. Hall explains that she did feel some pressure because of how good the food is at the National Museum of the American Indian. Hall says, “There was a lot of pressure because at the American Indian museum, people were going there [just] to eat. So… no pressure Jerome,” Hall jokes. Jerome Grant was the executive chef at the National Museum of the American Indian, but is now the executive chef at the NMAAHC.

8am – D         INTERVIEW — JAKE TAPPER – Host of THE LEAD and STATE OF THE UNION on CNN

• CNN’S JAKE TAPPER TO HOST TOWN HALL WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA ON ‪SEPT. 28. CNN announced today that the network will host the CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and the Commander in Chief, with President Obama ‪on Wednesday Sept. 28 at 9pmET. CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper will sit down with the President to discuss veterans, national security and foreign policy issues impacting the US military. President Obama will field questions from the audience made up of veterans, active duty service members and the military community.
• Discuss the state of the election and previewed next week’s debate.
• Polls tightening:
• NBC/WSJ Poll: Clinton Leads Trump Ahead of First Debate. In a four-way horserace, Clinton gets support from 43 percent of likely voters and Trump gets 37 percent, while Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is at 9 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein is at 3 percent.   In a head-to-head matchup without those third-party candidates, Clinton’s advantage expands to seven points, 48 percent to 41 percent. This is the NBC/WSJ poll’s first general-election poll of likely voters in the 2016 race. Among the broader electorate of all registered voters, Clinton is ahead of Trump by five points in the four-way contest, 42 percent to 37 percent – down from Clinton’s nine-point lead in August. And in a two-way race, Clinton’s edge among registered voters is seven points, 48 percent to 41 percent – also down from nine points in August.
• FOX NEWS POLL: Trump tops Clinton in battlegrounds Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio. Fox News battleground polls paint different picture than NBC/WSJ national poll: OH: Trump leads 42-37 NC: Trump 45-40 NV: Trump 43-40

8am – E         Beaver comes out of water, bites man’s shoe. Man punches beaver in head. (Washington Post) — A beaver bit a man as he stood at the edge of a lake in Falls Church, Va., and the man punched the animal in the head. Police in Fairfax County said the incident happened Sunday evening when the 52-year-old man was standing near Fairview Lake on Montauk Court and New Providence Drive, just off Lee Highway near defense contractor General Dynamics’ facility. The beaver came out of the water, police said, and bit the man’s shoe. He tried to get the beaver off and punched it in “the head several times.” The beaver’s bite did not break the man’s skin, but he suffered a cut to the hand that he used to punch the beaver, police said.