Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese, Orbitz’s Marita Hudson Johnson and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan joined WMAL on Tuesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C   Gender Gap In Life Expectancy: Women Tend To Live Longer Than Men – People now live longer and healthier thanks to advances in medicine and public health. Findings of a new study, however, have shown that despite improvements in longevity, gender gap still exists in life expectancy with women likely to live longer than men. Humans And Primates Now Live Longer. In the new research, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov. 21, Duke University biology professor Susan Alberts and colleagues looked at the data of more than 1 million individuals worldwide beginning the 18th century to the present. The researchers also looked at the mortality patterns of monkeys and apes. They found that the last few generations enjoyed the greatest life expectancy increase, and this was observed not just in humans but also in all other primates. Contributors To Improved Life Expectancy: Advances in medicine and public health are among the contributors in gains, as these help increase the likelihood of survival and reduce death toll from illnesses. Over the past two centuries, life expectancy in Sweden increased from mid-30s to more than 80 years. In the United States, life expectancy of those who were born in 1900 was only 47 years. Now, Americans can expect to live until 79 years old.

5am – D/E     Report: Trump meeting with media a ‘f—ing firing squad.’ President-elect Donald Trump raged at anchors and executives from America’s five largest television networks during an off-the-record meeting Monday, according to a new report. Two sources described the hour-long meeting at New York City’s Trump Tower in catastrophic terms to The New York Post. “It was like a f—ing firing squad,” one source said of the meeting. “Trump started with [CNN President] Jeff Zucker and said, ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed.’” “The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down.” The Post’s second source said the meeting included 30 to 40 people, and said Trump also took aim at ABC and NBC. “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room full of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong,'” the source said. “He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. Trump didn’t say [NBC reporter] Katy Tur by name, but talked about a female correspondent who got it wrong. “Then he referred to a horrible network correspondent who cried when [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary [Clinton] lost [and] who hosted a debate — which was [ABC’s] Martha Raddatz, who was also in the room.” A source told Politico that Trump bemoaned NBC’s selection of photos the network uses of him, which he believes are unflattering. The source also said the president-elect was frustrated over complaints that he ditched the press pool last week. Trump went out to eat with his family when reporters were told he was in Trump Tower for the night. But White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who also attended the meeting, told reporters that the press pool will be in good hands. Top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway disputed the New York Post story. “No, that’s not true at all,” she said on Bloomberg Politics’ ‘With All Due Respect.” “I sat right to his left. He did not explode in anger. By the way, it’s an off-the-record meeting so whoever said that and mischaracterized it should think twice.” Monday’s meeting was attended by ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News and CNN, as well as MSNBC, NBC’s cable news arm. The meeting was arranged by Conway, who served as Trump’s campaign manager for the final few months of the White House race. The conversation was deemed off-the-record, meaning the participants agreed not to publicly discuss its contents. Despite that assurance, details of the meeting leaked shortly after it wrapped up.

 

6am – A/B/C U.S. Education Secretary to schools: Stop hitting, paddling students. (USA Today) — U.S. Education Secretary John King is urging school districts nationwide to stop hitting and paddling students, saying corporal punishment is “harmful, ineffective, and often disproportionately applied to students of color and students with disabilities.” In a “dear colleague” letter being issued Tuesday, King asks educators to “eliminate this practice from your schools, and instead promote supportive, effective disciplinary measures. “The use of corporal punishment can hinder the creation of a positive school climate by focusing on punitive measures to address student misbehavior rather than positive behavioral interventions and supports,” King writes. “Corporal punishment also teaches students that physical force is an acceptable means of solving problems, undermining efforts to promote nonviolent techniques for conflict resolution.”

6am – D         DC restaurant apologizes for hosting white nationalist group. WASHINGTON (AP) — A popular Italian restaurant in Washington has apologized for hosting a white nationalist group whose members performed a Nazi salute while dining there. Maggiano’s Little Italy posted an apology on its Facebook page on Monday. “We want to sincerely apologize to the community of Friendship Heights for inadvertently hosting this meeting, which resulted in hateful sentiment. We want you to know that at the suggestion of one of our Guests, we are donating the profits from our restaurant sales on Friday, $10,000, to the DC office of the Anti-Defamation League, which for decades has been working to bring people together in peace and understanding. The restaurant said it did not realize it was hosting a banquet for a group called the National Policy Institute on Friday. The post says the group made the reservation at the last minute and using a different name.” The group was in Washington for a conference where it celebrated the election of Donald Trump. Former reality star Tila Tequila tweeted a photo from inside the restaurant where she and others can be seen making a Nazi salute.

6am – E         Sanders News:

• Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard ‘Under Serious Consideration’ for Trump Cabinet. (ABC News) — Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a high-profile Bernie Sanders supporter during the Democratic primaries, is “under serious consideration” for various Cabinet positions in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, according to a senior official on the transition team. According to the official, the 35-year-old Hawaii congresswoman is being looked as a candidate for secretary of state, secretary of defense or United Nations ambassador. If selected, Gabbard will be the first woman as well as the youngest pick for Trump’s Cabinet. She met with him this morning in his New York City offices at Trump Tower. The Trump transition source said that their sit-down was a “terrific meeting” and that the Trump team sees her as very impressive. Gabbard, a progressive Democrat, has bucked her party in Congress and during the contentious Democratic primaries. In February she left her position as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee to support Sanders. In the House she has broken with Democrats on the Syrian civil war (she supports keeping President Bashar al-Assad in power) and Syrian refugees (she voted for a GOP bill last year to conduct stricter background checks on refugees).
• Sanders: Dems must move beyond identity politics. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that the Democratic Party must move beyond “identity politics” in order to connect with a larger share of the voting public. “It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.’ That is not good enough,” Sanders told a crowd at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, according to  WBUR. “What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industries.” Sanders, who come in second place to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination this year, has repeatedly voiced his concerns with the party’s lack of support in middle America.

 

7am – A         INTERVIEW – VINCE COGLIANESE – (KAH-LIN-NAYS) – Editor In Chief,  The Daily Caller

• The latest on Trump’s transition news and pending cabinet picks
• Trump Transition Show Continues With More Meetings But Little Action.
• Report: Trump meeting with media a ‘f—ing firing squad’
• Trump tweet this morning: Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 39 mins ago – “I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice

7am – B         Gun News:

• DoD Releases Plan to Allow Personnel to Carry Firearms on Base. (Military) — The Pentagon recently released detailed guidance that allows U.S. military personnel to carry privately owned, concealed firearms on base, a move that the Army’s service chief argued against publicly. “Arming and the Use of Force,” a Nov. 18 Department of Defense directive approved by Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, lays out the policy and standards that allow DoD personnel to carry firearms and employ deadly force while performing official duties. But the lengthy document also provides detailed guidance to the services for permitting soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard personnel to carry privately owned firearms on DoD property, according to the document.
• Trump’s pro-Second Amendment platform could end gun sales boom. (Fox News) – President-elect Donald Trump is expected to push to relax gun laws when he takes office, but significant changes in the firearms industry began as soon as he was elected – and some put the law of unintended consequences squarely in the cross hairs.  The weekend following Trump’s election, arms vendors from all over the country set up their exhibits in Oklahoma for the semi-annual Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show, the largest gun and knife show in the world. Show founder Joe Wanenmacher told FoxNews.com sales were steady, but would’ve been through the roof if Clinton had won. “Had Secretary Clinton been elected, it would have been panic sales, because gun shows were in her sights to either be eliminated, or make it so difficult to sell that they wouldn’t be effective,” Wanenmacher said. “When there is complacency, there isn’t the motive to buy guns in anticipation of something bad happening.” One attendee agreed. “I think if Trump hadn’t won, it would have been chaos,” she said. “It was a relaxed atmosphere and everyone was upbeat.”

7am – C         ‘Fart’ comment by Canadian Conservative MP doesn’t blow over well with Green Party leader. Canadian MP Michelle Rempel is criticised by the leader of the Green Party, Elizabeth May, for using the “distinctly un-parliamentary” word ‘fart’ during a speech calling for more to be done to help workers in Alberta. Following Rempel’s claim that the government treats the province of Alberta like “a fart in the room that nobody wants to talk about” May called for her fellow MP to withdraw the word, which she spelled out in order to avoid repeating.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – MARITA HUDSON THOMAS – Travel Expert, Orbitz.com – previewed Thanksgiving travel.

7am – E         Entertainment News:

• Kanye West reportedly hospitalized after abruptly canceling remaining leg of Saint Pablo Tour. Kanye West has been hospitalized after abruptly canceling the last 21 dates of his national tour, according to reports from several media outlets. Citing anonymous law enforcement sources and West representatives, the media outlets reported that the hip-hop superstar was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon because of stress and exhaustion, and he is spending the night there for his own safety.
• Tim Allen: Hollywood “Hypocritical” for Bashing Trump as a “Bully”  “What I find odd in Hollywood is that they didn’t like Trump because he was a bully,” said Allen. “But if you had any kind of inkling that you were for Trump, you got bullied for doing that. And it gets a little bit hypocritical to me.” Tim Allen stopped by Fox News’ The Kelly File on Monday to discuss how Hollywood is reacting to the election of Donald Trump as president.  Allen, star of ABC’s Last Man Standing, spoke with Megyn Kelly about what he sees is “hypocritical” thinking in the Hollywood elite. “I’m not a spokesman for Hollywood, I’m a comedian. So I get to tour around the country and do comedy and I do a show that has a point of view,” he explained.  Allen said that his character is conservative, but the show is “written by liberals,” to which Kelly replied, “That goes without saying — that’s redundant.”

 

8am – A/B/C How Could You? 19 Questions to Ask Loved Ones Who Voted the Other Way. (NY Times) — So we put together a guide for how to do it. We consulted with a professional: Liz Joyner, the executive director of The Village Square, an organization that facilitates these kinds of intimate, difficult conversations.

The questions:

1. Describe your relationship to me.
2. Are we close?
3. Who did I vote for and why?
4. What was the most important issue for me?
5. Why do you feel differently about that issue?
6. How do you think our views came to be so different?
7. Has it been difficult to talk to me about this election? If so, why?
8. Do my views influence your politics at all?
9. What do you think most needs to change about this country?
10. Are you uncomfortable about any aspect of how America is changing?
11. Do you think I’m sexist or racist?
12. Do you feel ignored or misunderstood as a voter? If so, for how long?
13. What is a position my candidate held that you agree with?
14. What is a trait you find positive about my candidate?
15. What is something that you don’t like about the candidate you voted for?
16. Is there anything you are hopeful about in a Trump presidency?
17. Is there a goal Clinton talked about that you could get behind?
18. What do you think we agree on?
19. Do you still like me?

8am – D         INTERVIEW – MARYLAND GOVERNOR LARRY HOGAN

• Reflect on his soon-to-be two year anniversary in office – what has been accomplished and his growing popularity
• DC Metro Board Chair Jack Evans: Gov. Hogan “Doesn’t Really Care about Metro”
• Will Larry ever become the official Crab Cake Czar? Or maybe the Honorary Crab Cake Czar of MD?

8am – E         Ed Gillespie takes next steps toward run for governor. Gillespie announces creation of gubernatorial campaign committee, unveils logo & launches website. RICHMOND, VA – Longtime conservative leader and 2014 United States Senate candidate Ed Gillespie is taking the next steps toward a run for Governor of Virginia in 2017.  Gillespie announced the formation of his official gubernatorial campaign committee, “Ed Gillespie for Governor,” unveiled a logo and launched his campaign website, www.EdForVirginia.com. Gillespie said he will formally kick off his gubernatorial campaign with a statewide tour in January.