Montgomery County YR’s Dan McHugh, Dan Bongino, Ken Cuccinelli, Rockville Councilmember Julie Carr and Larry Kudlow joined WMAL on Tuesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, March 7, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Mary Walter

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C Kelly: DHS is considering separating undocumented children from their parents at the border. Washington (CNN)Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly confirmed that the department is considering separating children from their parents at the border. “We have tremendous experience of dealing with unaccompanied minors,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.” “We turn them over to (Health and Human Services) and they do a very, very good job of putting them in foster care or linking them up with parents or family members in the United States.” He continued: “Yes I’m considering (that), in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network. I am considering exactly that. They will be well cared for as we deal with their parents. … It’s more important to me, Wolf, to try to keep people off of this awful network.” A senior DHS official had previously told CNN that the department was considering a proposal to separate children from adults when they are trying to enter the country illegally at the southern border. The official told CNN the proposal is meant to deter the exploitation of children. Currently, when adults enter the country accompanied by children, they are generally released into the US and able to stay in the country, pending disposition of their cases, the official said. The proposal would allow US immigration officials to separate children from the adults they came here with. The adults could be kept in detention, and the children could be moved elsewhere under protected status, possibly with family members already in the country or to state protective custody such as child protective services.

5am – D         White House News:

• President Trump Signs New Immigration Executive Order. The Trump administration on Monday rolled out the second edition of a controversial immigration executive order, which suspends immigration into the United States from now only six predominantly Muslim countries. Citizens from the affected countries — Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya — will be subjected to a 90-day ban on travel to the United States. Iraq was previously listed among those nations, but it was removed from this latest iteration after reassurances from the Iraqi government of increased information sharing with the United States, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told reporters on Monday.
• House Republicans Unveil Plan to Replace Health Law. WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled on Monday their long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, scrapping the mandate for most Americans to have health insurance in favor of a new system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. The bill sets the stage for a bitter debate over the possible dismantling of the most significant health care law in a half-century. In its place would be a health law that would be far more oriented to the free market and would make far-reaching changes to a vast part of the American economy. The House Republican bill would roll back the expansion of Medicaid that has provided coverage to more than 10 million people in 31 states, reducing federal payments for many new beneficiaries. It also would effectively scrap the unpopular requirement that people have insurance and eliminate tax penalties for those who go without. The requirement for larger employers to offer coverage to their full-time employees would also be eliminated.

5am – E         TSA Rolls Out New Pat-Downs, Some Travelers Say They’re Invasive. The Transportation Security Administration has rolled out changes to pat-downs at airports, which some travelers said resulted in more invasive screenings at airports. The pat-downs don”t involve any additional areas of the body, and will still be performed by agents of the same gender as passengers, the agency said.   Previously, agents used several different types of pat downs to choose from after travelers set off the metal detector or were otherwise flagged for security concerns, but the new rules establish one standardized pat-down procedure that is more comprehensive.

 

6am – A/B/C DAY WITHOUT WOMEN:

• Public schools in Alexandria, Virginia, will be closed for students on Wednesday, March 8 because more than 300 staff members requested leave when the “Day Without a Woman” boycott is set to be held.
• DC Schools are expected to be in class Wednesday despite #DayWithoutAWoman boycott
• No closure of Fairfax County, Virginia, schools is planned, a district representative said. District officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are monitoring the situation, a representative said. A representative for Prince George’s County, Maryland, schools said there was no information to share.

6am – D/E/F  Tips for Teaching a Teenager to Drive

7am – A/B     INTERVIEW — DAN MCHUGH — Montgomery County Young Republicans

• Rockville considers new immigration enforcement rules. ROCKVILLE, MD (WUSA9) – A new ordinance in Rockville looks to define the way the city enforces federal immigration laws. The proposal would, in most cases, prohibit police officers from asking people about their immigration status. It would prohibit any city worker from discriminating against any person based on their citizenship or immigration status.  Councilmember Julie Palakovich Carr introduced the ordinance. She said Rockville police do not currently ask anyone for their immigration status, but she added there is currently no such rule on the books regarding the practice. Palakovich Carr told WUSA9 it was important to make the city’s stance clear.

7am – C         HAPPY EASTER: OREO BROUGHT YOU A SPECIAL TYPE OF OREO THIS SEASON! PINK PEEPS POOP: Oreo has released a limited edition “Peeps” flavor with a vanilla shell and pink colored… In mid-February, Oreo released a limited edition “Peeps” flavor with a vanilla shell and pink colored filling.  Consumers soon started reviewing the product, claiming the bright pink filling appears to turn your mouth, tongue, and even your feces bright pink. Many have taken to social media to post images of their stained tongues and mouths. Oreo has yet to comment, but USA Today reports that consuming foods with high amounts of food dyes can produce a “greater spectrum in your rectal rainbow.”

7am – D         INTERVIEW – DAN BONGINO – former Secret Service agent and author of new book “The Fight: A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine”

• Ex-Secret Service agent: Media missing 1 huge wiretap point.‘The FBI’s not going to tell the Secret Service if they’re monitoring the president-elect.’ President Trump has caught plenty of flak from the establishment media and members of Congress for his weekend statement that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had Trump Tower wiretapped while Trump was still a candidate. Some believe Trump is lying, while others think he may have pressured the FBI to tell him about an investigation against him. But Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, says there’s a third possibility no one is considering. He shared his thoughts in a video posted to his Facebook page over the weekend. “The Secret Service does ECM sweeps, electronic counter-measures, where they go in frequently and look for listening devices, radio frequencies, all kinds of things to make sure the president or president-elect is not being, in fact, wiretapped or listened in on on specific phone lines,” Bongino revealed. Bongino, who wrote about his time in the Secret Service in his book “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away From It All,” said if Trump were being wiretapped or surveilled, it’s highly unlikely that he walked into the FBI and demanded to know.

7am – E         FEMINIST NEWS:

• Emma Watson: My Boobs Are Empowering, Not Beyoncé’s. (Daily Wire) — As we’ve all come to know and laugh at, third-wave feminism is rife with glaring inconsistencies and double standards. One of the many tricky questions still tripping up feminists today is if showing your boobs is empowering or demeaning.  According to feminist darling Emma Watson, not all breasts are equal. Her breasts are empowering, whereas Beyoncé’s are demeaning and play into the sexualized male gaze.  Let me explain.  Watson pushed back on the idea that exposing the bottom half of her breasts in a recent Vanity Fair cover shoot is somehow contradictory or harmful to feminism (image below). The Beauty and the Beast star explained that exposing her breasts was empowering because it was her “choice” to show off the girls.  “It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is of what feminism is,” said Watson, refuting the attacks on her photo shoot. “Feminism is about giving women choice,” she continued. “Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality.” This take that feminism is all about “choice” is fine, or at least coherent. But then comes the consistent inconsistency of feminism: Watson has previously smacked Beyoncé for showing off her own goodies and owning her sexuality.  As noted by The Telegraph, Watson felt “conflicted” with Queen Beyoncé’s take on feminism back in 2013, particularly her choice to be what the left calls sex-positive.  “I felt very conflicted,” said Watson, “I felt [Beyoncé’s] message felt very conflicted in the sense that on the one hand she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, but then the camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her.”
• Brawny is temporarily replacing its signature male lumberjack with a woman: The Brawny man is now, temporarily, a woman. (CBS News) — Brawny, the paper towel maker, is temporarily replacing its well-known lumberjack with a woman on some eight-packs of paper towels.  The special paper towels, sold only at Walmart, are part of Georgia Pacific’s “Strength Has No Gender” campaign, which highlights four women who have been successful in their fields.  The company launched the campaign March 1 to coincide with Women’s History Month. And, proving that no marketing deed goes unpunished, people on social media immediately made their opinions known.
• DAY WITHOUT WOMEN:
  • Public schools in Alexandria, Virginia, will be closed for students on Wednesday, March 8 because more than 300 staff members requested leave when the “Day Without a Woman” boycott is set to be held.
  • DC Schools are expected to be in class Wednesday despite #DayWithoutAWoman boycott
  • No closure of Fairfax County, Virginia, schools is planned, a district representative said. District officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are monitoring the situation, a representative said. A representative for Prince George’s County, Maryland, schools said there was no information to share.

 

8am – A         INTERVIEW – KEN CUCCINELLI – president of Senate Conservatives Fund and the former Attorney General of Virginia

• President Trump Signs New Immigration Executive Order. The Trump administration on Monday rolled out the second edition of a controversial immigration executive order, which suspends immigration into the United States from now only six predominantly Muslim countries. Citizens from the affected countries — Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya — will be subjected to a 90-day ban on travel to the United States. Iraq was previously listed among those nations, but it was removed from this latest iteration after reassurances from the Iraqi government of increased information sharing with the United States, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told reporters on Monday.
• Supreme Court returns case on transgender bathroom access to lower court.  The Supreme Court on Monday sent a dispute over a Virginia transgender student’s bathroom access back to a lower court, without reaching a decision.  The court vacated the current dispute after the Trump administration withdrew support for an Obama administration order supporting transgender students. In returning the case, the justices opted not to decide whether a federal  anti-discrimination law gives high school senior Gavin Grimm the right to use the boys’ bathroom in his school. The case had been scheduled for argument in late March. Instead, the lower court in Virginia must now evaluate the federal law known as Title IX and the extent to which it applies to transgender students. The law bars sex discrimination in schools.  The case came from a federal appeals court and was brought by Virginia’s Gloucester County school board, which wanted to prevent a Grimm from using the boys’ bathrooms.
• House Republicans Unveil Plan to Replace Health Law. WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled on Monday their long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, scrapping the mandate for most Americans to have health insurance in favor of a new system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. The bill sets the stage for a bitter debate over the possible dismantling of the most significant health care law in a half-century. In its place would be a health law that would be far more oriented to the free market and would make far-reaching changes to a vast part of the American economy. The House Republican bill would roll back the expansion of Medicaid that has provided coverage to more than 10 million people in 31 states, reducing federal payments for many new beneficiaries. It also would effectively scrap the unpopular requirement that people have insurance and eliminate tax penalties for those who go without. The requirement for larger employers to offer coverage to their full-time employees would also be eliminated.

8am – B/C  INTERVIEW — ROCKVILLE COUNCILMEMBER JULIE PALAKOVICH CARR 

• Rockville considers new immigration enforcement rules. Councilmember Julie Palakovich Carr introduced the ordinance. She said Rockville police do not currently ask anyone for their immigration status, but she added there is currently no such rule on the books regarding the practice. Palakovich Carr told WUSA9 it was important to make the city’s stance clear. “In light of President Trump’s executive order back in January, I think it’s important that the city reevaluate where we’re at and ask the question, ‘What’s our current practices and what’s in writing?’,” Palakovich Carr said.

8am – D         INTERVIEW —  LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm and author of “JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity”

• House Republicans Unveil Plan to Replace Health Law. WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled on Monday their long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, scrapping the mandate for most Americans to have health insurance in favor of a new system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. The bill sets the stage for a bitter debate over the possible dismantling of the most significant health care law in a half-century. In its place would be a health law that would be far more oriented to the free market and would make far-reaching changes to a vast part of the American economy. The House Republican bill would roll back the expansion of Medicaid that has provided coverage to more than 10 million people in 31 states, reducing federal payments for many new beneficiaries. It also would effectively scrap the unpopular requirement that people have insurance and eliminate tax penalties for those who go without. The requirement for larger employers to offer coverage to their full-time employees would also be eliminated.

8am – E         WIRETAP NEWS:

• Spicer: Trump May Not Accept Wiretap Investigation Results. President Trump called for a congressional investigation into whether Trump Tower was wiretapped but his press secretary on Monday would not say whether Trump would accept the result. President Trump requested an investigation into the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower on Sunday. On Monday, his spokesman refused to say he’d accept its findings. “I think we will definitely have a lot of respect for what they say and what they look into, but I think to blanketly accept, to say that we’re going to accept everything they do might be a little premature,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at an off-camera press gaggle on Monday.
• Conservative radio host Levin pens scathing open letter to CNN’s Stelter. (HILL) – Radio host Mark Levin slammed CNN’s Brian Stelter in an open letter to the media reporter Monday, declaring his “ad hominem attacks” and “conspiracy theory” allegations were “incredible.” The letter comes after Levin, a former chief of staff to President Reagan’s attorney general Ed Meese, alleged Thursday that the Obama administration was responsible for wiretapping Trump Tower before the 2016 election. Levin reiterated Sunday in an appearance on Fox News that “the evidence is overwhelming” against Obama.   “The evidence is overwhelming. This is not about President Trump’s tweeting. This is about the Obama administration spying, and the question is not whether it spied,” the constitutional scholar said on “Fox & Friends.”  “The question is who they did spy on and the extent of the spying that is the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, Trump surrogates.” For almost 10 minutes, Levin cited various news reports including from the New York Times, Washington Post and Daily Mail (U.K.) as evidence of his claims.  “This is spying,” Levin concluded. Stelter, the 31-year-old host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” argued on the air over the weekend that Levin was responsible for starting a conspiracy theory that worked its way up to the president, whom Stelter called the “Conspiracy Theorist-in-Chief” after Trump tweeted out his allegation against his predecessor.  Levin responded Monday with an open letter on the online Conservative Review, where he serves as editor-in-chief. “Your ad hominem attacks about ‘right wing’ radio host and conspiracy theory stuff … incredible,” wrote Levin, 59.