Fmr VA Gov. Jim Gilmore, Andrew McCarthy, KT McFarland and Chris Stirewalt joined WMAL on Wednesday.

Mornings on the Mall

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C VP Debate Recap: Winner and Loser?

5am – D         The Annoying Debate Moderator Highlights 

5am – E         Obama DOJ drops charges against alleged broker of Libyan weapons.

Arms dealer had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton’s talks about arming anti-Qadhafi rebels. The Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had accused of selling weapons that were destined for Libyan rebels. Lawyers for the Justice Department on Monday filed a motion in federal court in Phoenix to drop the case against the arms dealer, an American named Marc Turi, whose lawyers also signed the motion. The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton’s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi. Government lawyers were facing a Wednesday deadline to produce documents to Turi’s legal team, and the trial was officially set to begin on Election Day, although it likely would have been delayed by protracted disputes about classified information in the case.

6am – A         INTERVIEW — GOV. JIM GILMORE – FORMER VIRGINIA GOVERNOR AND HEAD OF THE VIRGINIA GET-OUT-THE-VOTE FOR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN – shared his thoughts on the VP debate.

6am – B/C/D Calls on the VP debate    

6am – E         Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence – sources. (Reuters) — Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events. Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to an intelligence agency’s request by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.

 

7am – A         INTERVIEW — ANDREW MCCARTHY –  is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor at National Review.

• He is a former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and led the terrorism prosecution against the “Blind Sheikh” (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists for conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included the World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks.
• Please Tell Me These FBI/DOJ ‘Side Deals’ with Clinton E-Mail Suspects Didn’t Happen

7am – B/C     The Annoying Debate Moderator Highlights 

7am – D         INTERVIEW — KT MCFARLAND — Fox News National Security Analyst @KTMCFARLAND

• KT’s Thoughts on VP debate
• US: Russia ships new anti-missile system into Syria.
• Syria peace efforts must continue despite break with Russia: Kerry
• Kerry in leaked audio: ‘I lost the argument’ for use of force in Syria.
• Obama DOJ drops charges against alleged broker of Libyan weapons Arms dealer had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton’s talks about arming anti-Qadhafi rebels.

7am – E         Are Americans Tuning Out the NFL Over Protests? Nearly one-third of Americans boycotting NFL because of Black Lives Matter protests: poll. (Washington Times) — Nearly one-third of American adults say they are less likely to watch a National Football League game because of the growing number of Black Lives Matter protests that are happening by players on the field, a Rasmussen poll found. Thirty-two percent polled online and by telephone said they’re willing to skip NFL games this year because of player protests over racial issues, the pollster said on Tuesday.  Only 13 percent said they were more likely to watch the games because of the protests, and 52 percent said the protests had no impact on their viewing decisions.

 

8am – A/B/C/D INTERVIEW — CHRIS STIREWALT – Digital Politics Editor for Fox News Channel; co-host of ‘Perino & Stirewalt: I’ll Tell You What’ at 5 pm ET Sundays on FNC and author of “Fox News Halftime Report” – discussed his thoughts on the VP debate last night.