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Mornings on the Mall

Friday, September 23, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A    DRIVE AT FIVE INTERVIEW — ROD WHEELER – Former DC Homicide Detective and law enforcement expert

• Charlotte police chief: Shooting video won’t be made public. (CNN) — After violent protests raged for the second night in Charlotte over the police shooting of a black man, the city’s police chief told reporters Thursday he has no intention of releasing dashcam video of Keith Lamont Scott’s shooting “to the masses.” Asked whether there was a time at which the public could expect to see it, Chief Kerr Putney said there should be no such expectation. “Transparency’s in the eye of the beholder,” he said. “If you think we should display a victim’s worst day for public consumption, that is not the transparency I’m speaking of.” Scott’s family has asked to see police-recorded video, and Putney said he hopes to accommodate that request. He warned, however, that video will not provide “definitive visual evidence” that Scott pointed a gun at police officers. But other evidence and witness accounts support the police narrative that officers opened fire only after Scott refused to drop his weapon, he said.
• Tulsa police officer charged with manslaughter.Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby has been charged with felony manslaughter in the first degree, Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler told reporters Thursday. Shelby fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher after his SUV broke down last week.

5am – B         Calls: Should The Video Be Released?

5am – 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/

5am – D/E     Cruz supporters alarmed by possible Trump endorsement. (Washington Examiner) — Ted Cruz supporters were alarmed Wednesday at suggestions that he was on the verge of endorsing Donald Trump. They worry that the Texas senator could squander his brand as a fighter — and goodwill earned among many through his stubborn refusal to back his party’s nominee — if he caves with nothing to show for it. Cruz has held out on the grounds that Trump is insufficiently conservative, and because Trump attacked his wife and father down the stretch of their heated battle for the Republican nomination. The senator even took the extraordinary step of declining to endorse Trump during a televised, prime time speech delivered from the stage of the New York businessman’s own nominating convention.

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

• PREVIEW: REDSKINS VS GIANTS / Sunday, September 25, 1:00 PM on FOX @ MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey / Washington Redskins vs New York Giants

6am – B         Clown Scares Affecting Maryland Businesses. MARYLAND — (WMAL) Creepy clown sightings have been reported across the country recently, including one case in Annapolis that involved the police. Even though many of these cases have been dismissed as hoaxes, some clown businesses in Maryland are feeling the effect of the hysteria. Sylvia Lett, CEO of A Clown 4 U, a clown and entertainment business based in Temple Hills, MD, said that since the clown scares, she has gotten requests for her entertainment services without clown makeup. “I had.. two calls today just wanting face painting and balloons without a clown and since these sightings have been going on I do notice there have been more people requesting that,” Lett said. “I’m going to change my business,  I’m going to not wear clown as much.”  And Lett said she’s not alone.  “I really think it’s going to effect our business,” Lett said. “My colleagues that I’ve spoken with are going to stop dressing up in clown, the full clown.”  While they may dress up and entertain at children’s parties, Lett said they discussed not applying clown makeup.   Lett said no longer feels comfortable walking around dressed as a clown.

6am – C         Complaints lead to drug raid at The Great Frederick Fair. Officials say the vendor’s candy tested positive for marijuana. FREDERICK, Md. — The Great Frederick Fair, an event where families and the community get together to educate the youth about the agriculture industry, is the last place one would expect a drug raid, but officials started receiving complaints from customers that one vendor’s candy was laced with drugs. “We initiated an investigation. We did an investigation where we were able to obtain two packages of that product from the vendor. We then took it back and did a preliminary field test, and it tested positive for marijuana,” said Sgt. Jason Deater, Frederick County Sheriff’s Office. A search warrant was issued and roughly 50 packages of candy-like products such as gummy bears, rice crispy treats and lollipops were confiscated from the vendors.

6am – D         Awkward Interview: Zack Galifianakis Interviews Hillary Clinton ‘Between Two Ferns’ To Appeal to Millennials.

6am – E         US Attorney Investigating Weiner #Sexting Allegations: NEW YORK — (CNN) Prosecutors in the office of US Attorney Preet Bharara have issued a subpoena for Anthony Weiner’s cell phone and other records, according to law enforcement officials. The FBI and the New York Police Department have opened preliminary investigations of allegations that the former New York Democratic congressman exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a purportedly underage girl.

7am – A         INTERVIEW — RICHARD PARSONS — Transportation policy advocate and Vice chairman of the Suburban Maryland Transportation Alliance

• New coalition wants a better ride for I-270 commuters
• Richard Parsons, vice chairman of the Suburban Maryland Transportation Alliance, a business and civic advocacy group with parallel interests, said the new coalition welcomes the plan presented by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to award $100 million for innovative congestion management programs on I-270. The coalition’s theme is that I-270, the main stem of the suburban technology corridor as well as the key route for thousands of commuters headed to and from the region’s core, needs much more help than that.

7am – B         Immigration News:

• Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens ‘due to election.’ (Fox News) – An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker charged Thursday. The email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office chief and part of a chain of correspondence within the agency, urges the unnamed recipient to swear in as many citizens as possible “due to the election year.” “The Field Office due to the election year needs to process as many of their N-400 cases as possible between now and FY 2016,” reads the email, which was disclosed to FoxNews.com by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “If you have cases in this category or other pending, you are encouraged to take advantage of the OT if you can,” the email continues. “This will be an opportunity to move your pending naturalization cases. If you have not volunteered for OT, please consider and let me know if you are interested.”
• Super surge: 2016 set to top 2014 record of 100,000 illegals. (Washington Examiner) — A new surge of illegal immigrants poured across the southwest U.S. border last month, adding 6,000 unaccompanied children and more than 9,000 families to the thousands who already arrived during the three year crisis that appears to be peaking again. The wave of illegals, which typically evaporates in the hot summer, has become so high that the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee late Wednesday demanded answers from Homeland Security.
• Mass immigration costs government $296 billion a year, depresses wages. (Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times) — Immigration drains the government, sapping as much as $296 billion a year from federal, state and local taxpayers while depressing wages, at least in the short run, according to an authoritative study released Wednesday by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. The 500-page academic tome is supposed to be the final word about the fiscal and economic effects of mass immigration, and its findings challenge some long-held assumptions of Washington policymakers that immigration is an unqualified benefit. The data show that immigrants take more in benefits than they pay in taxes. Although immigrants do boost the size of the economy, the gains are heavily skewed toward the immigrants themselves and to wealthy investors — not to native-born workers who end up competing with the new arrivals. “It reminds us, the big beneficiaries of immigrants are the immigrants themselves, and American business. The losers tend to be the poor,” said Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, who was one of the report’s official reviewers but was not part of the formal panel that wrote it.

7am – 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/

7am – D         INTERVIEW – MARK LEVIN – The GREAT ONE — WMAL host, weekdays 6 pm – 9 pm

• WMAL FREE SPEECH FORUM / Join Brian Wilson, Larry O’Connor, Chris Plante and Mark Levin at WMAL’s Free Speech Forum Saturday, October 1st at The Birchmere!
• Predictions for the upcoming presidential debate
• Last night, GOV. MIKE PENCE was on MARK’S SHOW talking about conservatives, Supreme Court, trade and Ted Cruz.
• Cruz supporters alarmed by possible Trump endorsement

7am – E         Yahoo Says 500 Million Accounts Stolen: Yahoo hack steals personal info from at least 500 million accounts. SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA — (CNN) Yahoo confirmed on Thursday data “associated with at least 500 million user accounts” have been stolen in what may be one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever. The company said it believes a “state-sponsored actor” was behind the data breach, meaning an individual acting on behalf of a government. The breach is said to have occurred in late 2014. “The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers,” Yahoo said in a statement. Yahoo urges users to change their password and security questions and to review their accounts for suspicious activity.

8am – A         INTERVIEW — PEGGY MCGLONE – Local Arts Reporter, The Washington Post

• PREVIEW: OPENING OF NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM THIS WEEKEND
• Peggy McGlone is on to discuss the top must-see items at the African American museum. McGlone is the DC area arts reporter for the Washington Post – covering (and uncovering) cultural news in the nation’s capital.
• This weekend the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on Sept. 24.
• PEGGY MCGLONE’s Washington Post piece:  The top 36 must-see items at the African American museum

8am – B         2016 News:

• Two new polls in Virginia show the gap between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is narrowing. Clinton leads in both a new Roanoke College poll .. and the latest Quinnipiac University survey. But Trump is no longer trailing by double digits — Clinton’s lead is six-to-seven points. Libertarian Gary Johnson garnered eight percent support in both polls, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein stood at one percent in each. The polls suggest that Clinton maintains an advantage in winning Virginia’s 13 electoral votes despite Trump’s recent rising support in the commonwealth and across the country. In August, a Roanoke poll found Clinton up 16 points; Quinnipiac found her leading by 11. The latest surveys find a clearer edge for Clinton than a University of Mary Washington survey released last week, where she led by three percentage points.
• Absentee voting begins in Virginia for presidential election. WASHINGTON — It is still September, but for some voters in Virginia it is already Election Day. Absentee voting in the state begins at 8 a.m. Friday, which means those who apply and are approved to vote absentee can cast a ballot in-person or through the mail at their local elections office for the Nov. 8 election. Virginians can vote absentee only if they have a reason for not being able to make it to the polls on Election Day. Some of the approved excuses include being away at college, going on a vacation or business trip, being an active-duty member of the military or having a religious obligation.
• Donald Trump stops at Geno’s Steaks in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The road to the White House is bringing the candidates through our area. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a rally Thursday at Sun Center Studios in Chester Township, Delaware County. On his way to Delco, Mr. Trump made a stop at Geno’s Steaks in Passyunk. In video, posted by Steakprincess on Instagram, Trump says he was going to order a cheesesteak and was going to share it. “I’ll tell you what I’ll do, I’ll give you a piece,” Trump said. “Who wants one? You want one? Anyone want?” Earlier in the day, Trump spoke at an energy conference in Pittsburgh.
• Cruz supporters alarmed by possible Trump endorsement. (Washington Examiner) — Ted Cruz supporters were alarmed Wednesday at suggestions that he was on the verge of endorsing Donald Trump. They worry that the Texas senator could squander his brand as a fighter — and goodwill earned among many through his stubborn refusal to back his party’s nominee — if he caves with nothing to show for it. Cruz has held out on the grounds that Trump is insufficiently conservative, and because Trump attacked his wife and father down the stretch of their heated battle for the Republican nomination. The senator even took the extraordinary step of declining to endorse Trump during a televised, prime time speech delivered from the stage of the New York businessman’s own nominating convention.

8am – 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/

8am – D         INTERVIEW — BRET BAIER – Anchor of Special Report, weekdays at 6 pm AND Special Report on Sundays at 8 PM

• Predictions for the upcoming presidential debate
• Cruz supporters alarmed by possible Trump endorsement
• Thoughts on polls tightening
• Thoughts on this week’s congressional hearings

8am – E         Smoking as a hobby? CareerBuilder releases list of worst resume mistakes. WASHINGTON — CareerBuilder is out with its annual list of the most outrageous resume blunders job applicants make, based on a survey of human resource managers. Once again, they’re doozies. Another applicant’s resume stated he had great attention to detail, but the word “attention” was misspelled. Those kinds of mistakes might get your resume noticed, but not for the right reasons. CareerBuilder says 43 percent of human resource managers spend less than a minute looking at a resume, and 24 percent spend less than 30 seconds, so making a resume stand out is important. Here are some of the other blunders cited by HR managers in this year’s CareerBuilder survey:

• Applicant claimed he worked at a federal prison. A background check determined he was actually a prisoner.
• Applicant stated he had been a prince in another life.
• Applicant listed “taking long walks” as a skill.
• Applicant used direct quotes from “Star Wars” in the resume.
• Applicant claimed he would work harder if paid more.
• Application wrote the following at the end of the application: “I didn’t really fill this out, someone did it for me.”
• Applicant used a resume template with cats in the corners.
• Applicant listed “smoking” under hobbies.