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Mornings on the Mall

Thursday July 6, 2017

Hosts: Mary Walter and Tom Fitton

5am – A/B/C What should be done about North Korea?

5am – D As Robert Mueller builds Russia special-counsel team, his picks are under scrutiny (The Washington Post)

At least seven of the 15 lawyers Mueller has brought on to the special counsel team have donated to Democratic political candidates, five of them to Hillary Clinton — a fact that President Trump and his allies have eagerly highlighted. These critics also point to some of the lawyers’ history working with clients connected to the Clintons and Mueller’s long history with former FBI director James B. Comey as they question whether those assigned to the investigation can be impartial.

5am- E ‘Morning Joe’ appearing on Colbert; Scarborough to perform songs (The Daily Caller)

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are planning on appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on July 11. Scarborough recently released a music video for his new EP, “Mystified,” wherein Scarborough sings about not “going down without a fight” as Trump is shown being sworn into office.

Chelsea Handler and Tomi Lahren to face off in live debate (The Daily Beast)

Comedian and TV host Chelsea Handler will take on controversial conservative pundit Tomi Lahren in a live conversation later this month at Politicon.

6am – A/B/C Did CNN threaten Reddit user?

6am – D Canada paying millions to former Gitmo prisoner, terrorist (Fox News)

The Canadian government will apologize and give millions to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15, an official said Tuesday.

An official familiar with the matter told the Associated Press that Omar Khadr will receive $8 million. The deal was negotiated with Khadr’s lawyers and the Canadian government last month.

6am – E Lindsay Lohan defends President Trump, asks people to stop ‘bullying him’ (Fox News)

Lindsay Lohan pledged her allegiance to President Donald Trump on Independence Day. The “Mean Girls” star urged social media users to stop being mean to POTUS.

The 31-year-old shared an image of President Trump offering to help a sick infant, Charlie Gard, in the UK. She responded to the picture with the caption, “THIS IS our president. Stop #bullying him & start trusting him. Thank you personally for supporting #THEUSA.”

Woman receives hateful tweets for cleaning President Trump’s Hollywood star (Fox News)

The 20-year-old said she used a makeup wipe to clean expletives in sharpie marker off the star on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

6am – F Update on Rep. Steve Scalise (The Washington Examiner)

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., has been readmitted to the intensive care unit at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and is listed in “serious” condition after concerns emerged about possible infection as he continues recovery from a gunshot during practice for the Congressional Baseball Game on June 14.

7am – A INTERVIEW – PAUL CHABOT – President of Conservative Move

Topic: Conservatives fleeing left-wing areas

• In May he launched Conservative Move – slogan: Helping Families Move Right – a company to help fellow sufferers flee their liberal hellscapes and find asylum in the warm, red glow of suburban north Texas.
• According to a Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) analysis of American Community Survey data, 502,978 people older than 25 moved from California to Texas between 2005 and 2015. Some 290,214 people went the other way. Texas was the top destination for Californians, and vice-versa.

 7am – B/C Would you move?

7am – D INTERVIEW – DR. JOHN HUBER – Chairman of Mainstream Mental Health

Topic: Millennials

• Currently experiencing “growing pains” as a society with regard to generational differences, declining quality of parenting.
• Parents today want to be their kids’ best friends, not their mother/father, and millennials are the worse for it; there are exceptions, but many in this generation have never been given the opportunity to fail and then recover from that failure.

7am – E Illegal paintball battles take place on the streets of D.C. (Fox 5 D.C.)

Paintball wars in the District – that is trending online right now as videos show dozens of people shooting at each other with paintball guns on the streets in Southeast D.C.

8am – A/B/C INTERVIEW – TIM GRAHAM – Director of Media Analysis for the Media Research Center

Topic: CNN vs. Reddit

• Press generally operates on principle that they are above the law; presume they will not lose because they are the press
• If CNN wants to be seen as a nonpartisan news organization, they’ve completed ruined that in the last few months; nobody is buying that CNN is not clearly partisan, anti-Trump

8am – D What is going on with the Obama Administration holdovers? (Breitbart Texas)

The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump Administration is the same bureaucrat responsible for overseeing the release of violent criminal illegal aliens into U.S. communities under the Obama Administration. The acting director, Thomas Homan, previously headed Obama’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), a position where Homan helped direct the release of criminal illegal aliens. Homan received an award from President Obama for his work on immigration matters.

8am – E Trump’s donated salary is helping fund the restoration of historic American battlefield sites (CBS)

Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke announced new efforts to help restore historic American battlefields on Wednesday, a venture that is being funded in part by President Trump’s donated salary.

Zinke made the announcement at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland, a National Park Service protected area that commemorates the civil war-era Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. Antietam was the site of the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history, with about 23,000 casualties.

The donation of Mr. Trump’s salary was coupled with private matching funds as well as $7 million in grants for other historic battlefields in several states.