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Mornings on the Mall

Monday June 19, 2017

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

5am – A/B/C Are you ok with conservatives adopting tactics of the left? Pro-Trump Protesters Interrupt ‘Shakespeare in the Park’ Performance of ‘Julius Caesar’ (TIME) Two protesters disrupted a production of Julius Caesar during New York City’s “Shakespeare in the Park” Friday, with one storming the stage during the play’s climactic assassination scene. The stage-crasher, who identified herself as Laura Loomer — and describes herself as a journalist in her Twitter bio — burst onto the platform yelling, “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right! This is unacceptable!” before being removed by security. Moments later, a second protester identified as Jack Posobiec stood up in the crowd and gestured, screaming: “You are all Goebbels! You are all Nazis like Joseph Goebbels… you are inciting terrorists,” likening the audience to the Nazi propaganda minister who aided Adolf Hitler. “The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands,” Posobiec added, seemingly blaming the crowd for the shooting of the Congressman in Alexandria, Va., earlier this week.

5am – D  VA Shooting Update

• Steve Scalise Upgraded From Critical To Serious Condition
• GOP Rep. Rodney Davis: ‘Best Father’s Day I’ve Ever Had’ After Experiencing Shooting 
• MSNBC Host Blames Republicans For Divisive Rhetoric

5am– E    Scores of dairy farm workers, activists march to Ben & Jerry’s factory to push for better pay and living conditions (ABC) Scores of dairy farm workers and activists marched Saturday to a Ben & Jerry’s factory to push for better pay and living conditions on farms that provide milk for the ice cream maker that takes pride in its social activism. Protesters said Ben & Jerry’s agreed two years ago to participate in the so-called Milk with Dignity program, but the company and worker representatives have yet to reach an agreement. “We can’t wait any more. We are going to pressure them and see what happens,” said Victor Diaz, a Mexican immigrant now working on a farm in Vergennes.

6am – A/B/C Are we watching a soft coup?  Hannity on the Media: ‘What We’re Seeing Now Is This Unelected Fourth Branch of Gov’t Looking for Retribution’The unelected fourth branch of government, the deep state, is trying to overturn the results of November’s election and throw this president out of office! So how did a bunch of unelected bureaucrats get so much power, feel so emboldened that think they can undermine a duly elected president of the United States and just take over?Judge Jeanine goes off on GOP for being complicit.  Pirro accused the establishment Republicans leaders of watching the Democrats “railroad their president, and then urged them to prove their loyalty by convincing everyone that they are not in on the “effort to take down” President Donald Trump. “The Republican establishment not fighting for the commander-in-chief as day after day they watch him being savaged, forcing him to defend himself and run the country. Think about it. If he’s knocked out, the succession is clear and things go back to the way they were,” Pirro said.

6am – D WORLD NEWS: Navy divers found “a number of” bodies in the USS Fitzgerald.  In a period of seconds, a 29,000 ton cargo ship loaded with containers plowed into its right side, crushing a large section of the destroyer’s main structure, including the captain’s cabin and sleeping quarters for 116 sailors below the waterline. Seawater flooded in through a large gash. As the crew scrambled to save themselves and the ship, seven sailors didn’t make it out of the berthing area. Their bodies were recovered by divers after the ship crawled to the port of Yokosuka. Van strikes crowd near London mosques in ‘terrorist attack’ A van plowed into a group of Muslim worshipers leaving prayers at a pair of north London mosques early Monday, leaving one person dead and injuring 10 others in what is being called a “terrorist attack.” Witnesses said the driver of the vehicle was heard shouting that he wanted to kill Muslims. “This is being treated as a terrorist attack,” said Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu told reporters. He added that the driver of the van was arrested on suspicion of murder.

6am – E Trump Attorney: The President Is Not Under Investigation

 An attorney for President Donald Trump was adamant on Sunday that the president is not under investigation, despite the president’s tweets this week referring to one as a “witch hunt.” “Let me be clear here,” said Jay Sekulow, a member of the president’s legal team, on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “The president is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction.”

6am – F  Dog Fight: US Shoots Down Syrian Government Fighter Jet In ‘Show Of Force’ A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian regime aircraft after it attacked U.S.-backed forces in Syria on Sunday, according to the U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve coalition.An F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down the Syrian SU-22 in what the coalition said was a “show of force” after the Syrian fighter dropped several bombs near Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters south of Taqbah. The coalition acted “in accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defense of Coalition partnered forces,” according to the task force’s statement. The engagement represents the first time a U.S. aircraft has shot down an aircraft belonging to the Bashar al-Assad regime.

7am – A  JOE DIGENOVA -Legal Analyst & Fmr. U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

Topic: Russia Investigation

• Schiff: We Have ‘Evidence,’ But That Doesn’t Mean We Have ‘Proof’ Of Collusion 
• Trump attorney: There’s no investigation of the president, period

7am – B Schiff: We Have ‘Evidence,’ But That Doesn’t Mean We Have ‘Proof’ Of Collusion “We are far closer to the beginning of the investigation than we are to the end,” Schiff, who is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week.” Schiff also cited Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s testimony to the Senate last week, where he confirmed that the president asked him to leave the room before a conversation with former FBI Director James Comey. Comey separately testified that during the conversation, the president asked him to drop the FBI probe into ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn.

7- C Democrats plan to hold the Senate floor Monday to protest GOP healthcare bill (Washington Examiner) Democrats are planning a day of speeches in the Senate haranguing the Republican Party for their attempt to craft a healthcare bill behind closed doors. Politico reported Sunday that Demcorats will hold the floor Monday until at least midnight Tuesday in order to protest the GOP’s attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Democrats have been incensed by the process Republicans have used to repeal President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, calling for a more open and public process.

7am – D INTERVIEW – SHANNON WALKER – President of Northwest Battle Buddies

Topic : PTSD 

• June is PTSD Awareness month 
• Army to study if neck injection is key to defeating PTSD. Members of the special operations forces community have convinced the U.S. Army to study a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder that involves a single injection to the neck. America’s elite warfighters and the small cadre of doctors who have treated them in recent years say injections called stellate ganglion blocks may be the key to defeating PTSD. Their praise for the treatment, which alters the brain’s “fight or flight” response using ropivacaine, has convinced the army to commission a $2 million study.

7am – E   Poll: Trump’s approval higher than Congress, Schumer, Pelosi, Ryan, McConnell  President Trump has a higher approval rating than virtually every other leader in Washington, a little reported fact that emerged in a new survey of the nation’s political officials. According to a Zogby Analytics poll, the president’s approval rating is higher than for Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

8am – A INTERVIEW – DAVID DRUCKER – senior political correspondent for the Washington Examiner.

Topic: Trump tweeting

• Klobuchar: Trump tweets squander ‘moment of governorship’
• Trump Retweets Diamond & Silk

8am – B Chris Wallace and Trump Attorney Face Off Over Whether the President Is Under Investigation Fox News host Chris Wallace and Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump’s legal team, went head to head Sunday over whether the president is under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.  At first Sekulow denied Trump is under investigation, as the Washington Post reported last week for possible obstruction of justice. Later in the interview, however, he seemed to reverse that claim when he said Trump is “being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general and deputy attorney general recommending him to take.”  “You’ve now said that he is being investigated,” Wallace fired back. “You just said, sir, you just said that he’s being investigated.”

8am – C Fatherhood Tops List Of Most Important Duties For Males, Per New Poll In a world full of uncertainty, there is consensus that fatherhood is the most important duty in a mans life. According to the latest Rasmussen Poll, 70 percent of American adults deem fatherhood the ultimate task a man must accomplish during his lifetime. A meagre 17 percent of those polled disagree with this sentiment. This scanty hoard of counterculturists believes the preeminent role in a mans life is something other than being a caring father.

8am – D UPDATE ON DOUBLE HOMICIDE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY Montgomery County Police say they have three men under arrest for the murders of Shadi Najjar and Artem Ziberov, two Northwest High School students killed the day before they were set to graduate. Police say Najjar was likely killed in retaliation for a drug robbery a friend said he committed some months prior. Ziberov, police said, may have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. “An interview with a friend of Najjar revealed that he had committed a drug-related robbery in December of 2016 or January of 2017,” Police Chief Tom Manger said. “It is rumored that he stole drugs from a girl during a drug deal.” That girl turned out to be the wife of one of the alleged shooters, police said. Those arrested are 25-year-old Jose Canales-Yanez, 24-year-old Edgar Garcia-Gaona, and his brother, 19-year-old Roger Garcia. All are charged with two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Roger Garcia, police said, may have lured Najjar to Montgomery Village that night under the ruse of Najjar selling Garcia a ticket to the commencement ceremony the next day. The robbery Najjar allegedly committed, police said, was violent. Canales-Yanez’s wife reported to police she was dragged about 50 feet by a blue Honda Civic and her iPad was stolen. Najjar was known to drive a blue Honda Civic. Ziberov had no known connection to the botched drug deal or any of the suspects, police said.

8am – E BEYONCE GIVES BIRTH/ STEPHEN FURST Flounder from ‘Animal House’ DEAD AT 63