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Mornings on the Mall

Monday, September 18, 2017

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A   Trump retweets GIF of him hitting Clinton with golf ball. (CNN) President Donald Trump retweeted an edited video Sunday morning that showed him swinging a golf club and appearing to hit his former presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton with a golf ball. The animated GIF image Trump retweeted spliced together footage of Trump taking a swing on a golf course with footage of Clinton tripping and falling as she boarded a plane in 2011 as secretary of state. The footage is edited to make it appear as though Clinton is hit in the back with a golf ball before her fall. The tweet revealed a President still reverting to his old social media habits, namely, those likely to earn him quick criticism, less than two months after retired Gen. John Kelly took over as White House chief of staff. While Kelly has not sought to stop Trump from tweeting, he has encouraged the President to allow him to vet the tweets before posting them — a request Trump has sometimes acquiesced to. The White House did not respond to a request for comment Sunday about the President’s tweet and whether Kelly was aware of it.

5am – B         WEEK AHEAD: Trump Takes On U.N.:

    Previewing the week, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the president’s national security adviser, said Mr. Trump would stress “sovereignty and accountability.”

    MONDAY: Trump attends meeting on United Nations reform. He will meet with the leaders of France and Israel and host a dinner with Latin American leaders.

    TUESDAY: He will deliver his centerpiece speech to the General Assembly, have lunch with António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, and meet with Miroslav Lajcak, the president of the General Assembly. He will also meet with the emir of Qatar and host a diplomatic reception.

Ms. Haley said Mr. Trump would use his speech to lay down markers. “I personally think he slaps the right people, he hugs the right people, and he comes out with the U.S. being very strong in the end,” she said. (AUDIO)

    WEDNESDAY: Mr. Trump will meet individually with the leaders of Britain, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority and host a luncheon with African leaders.

    THURSDAY: He will meet with the leaders of Turkey, Afghanistan and Ukraine and host a lunch with the leaders of South Korea and Japan.

5am – C         4 U.S. Women Hit by Acid Attack in France (NY Times) — PARIS — Four American college students were attacked with acid by a woman on Sunday at a train station in southern France, injuring at least two of them, according to the local police. The assailant, a 41-year-old woman, was quickly arrested in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. The police prefecture said they were not treating the attack on the American women as a terrorist assault. The suspect has “a psychiatric history,” a spokeswoman for the police prefecture in Marseille said. “For now, nothing suggests that this was a terrorist attack.” The four American women, all in their early 20s, were in front of the Saint-Charles train station when a woman threw hydrochloric acid on them shortly before 11 a.m., the police said. Two of the women were burned, and the other two appeared to have escaped injury, but they were in a state of shock, according to police. All four were treated at a hospital on Sunday.

5am – D         This year’s Emmys didn’t even pretend not to be political. (Los Angeles Times) — Subtext became text when issues of race, gender and national politics, long a part of Hollywood awards shows, took center stage at the 69th Emmy Awards telecast Sunday night. “You can’t deny that every show was influenced by Donald Trump in some way,” said host Stephen Colbert in his opening monologue. “All the late night shows, obviously. ‘House of Cards.’ The new season of ‘American Horror Story.’” Pause. “And of course next year’s Latin Grammys, hosted by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.” By tapping Colbert as host, the television academy all but guaranteed that the first Emmy broadcast of the Trump presidency would send a clear message — Colbert’s late-night career was resuscitated by his return to political satire. But it really wasn’t necessary. Sheriff quip aside, Colbert was barely joking. Except, in the most striking collision of entertainment and politics since the former host of “The Apprentice” took office, it wasn’t McCarthy, it was actually Spicer. Colbert asked him how big he estimated the Emmy crowd to be: “This is the largest audience to witness the Emmys, period. Both in person and around the world!” said Spicer, referring to his now infamous news conference defending Trump’s exaggerations about his inauguration crowd. “Melissa McCarthy,” joked Colbert. “Everybody give it up!”

5am – E         President Trump is killing me. Really. (Washington Post/By Dana Milbank Opinion writer) — President Trump is killing me. No, really. He’s killing me. I went for my annual physical last month, and, for the first time in my 49 years, I had to report that I’ve not been feeling well: fatigue, headaches, poor sleep, even some occasional chest pain. My doctor checked my blood pressure, which had always been normal before: alarmingly high! What could this mean? I don’t smoke, I’m not obese and I swim most days. The doctor hooked me up to electrodes and ran an EKG; it was normal. He suggested I try an ultra-low-sodium diet, and I spent a few weeks living on unsalted rice cakes, undressed salads and unappealing entrees; the pressure dropped a few points, but not enough. We could pretty much rule out sleep apnea and other things that can cause a spike in blood pressure. My doctor had me take a calcium CT scan of my heart, which filled me with enough radiation to melt s’mores but turned up nothing terrible. At this point, I arrived at a self-diagnosis: I was suffering from Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder, or THUD. For almost five decades, I had been the picture of health, but eight months into Trump’s presidency, I was suddenly ailing. Trump is the only variable, I told my doctor. “He sure is variable,” my doc replied, endorsing the diagnosis.

6am – A         DC MARCHES AND ST. LOUIS RIOTS:

JUGGALOS MARCH

• NOTHING IS BROKEN: Fans of the much-maligned band Insane Clown Posse took to the National Mall to protest being classified by a gang by the FBI, causing them to lose jobs, custody of their children and be turned away by the military, which they rightly say is discriminatory. After all, plenty of acts have weird fans and none of them are on FBI watch lists.
• Juggalos protest their gang designation during a march in Washington, DC

ST LOUIS

• St. Louis Protesters Jump on Police Car, Smash Windshield. St. Louis Police Shooting Protests Escalate into Violence for 3rd Night; Multiple Arrests Made
• Shop owners and residents were cleaning up broken glass, assessing damage and bracing for more protests Sunday after two nights of violence sparked by the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man. St. Louis County police said they arrested nine people Saturday night and early Sunday in suburban University City, home to Washington University, one day after protests that turned violent led to 33 arrests in two St. Louis neighborhoods.
• U2 cancels St. Louis concert after Friday night riots

6am – B         ‘The First Amendment And Boobs’ Win The Weekend

• HOW IT ALL BEGAN: Fox Sports’ Clay Travis says he only believes in ‘the First Amendment and boobs’
• A CNN spokeswoman said Travis would not be invited back on the network’s air.
• Clay Travis used his ‘First Amendment and boobs’ line long before he shocked CNN
• Clay Travis responds…  “CNN got totally and completely triggered. Seriously, this thing plays out like an SNL skit. The other guy sputters and goes straight into offended pearl clutching mode.”
• Brooke Baldwin pens huge ‘This is not OK!’ essay.  (CNN) “Boobs.” Yep, he said it. It was Friday afternoon, and I was on live TV, in the second hour of my show on CNN. I had just introduced two guests, former ESPN Senior Editor Keith Reed and Fox Sports Radio’s Clay Travis, who had agreed to come on to discuss the White House call for ESPN to dismiss anchor Jemele Hill after she called the President a “white supremacist” on Twitter. I wasn’t prepared for what came next from Clay Travis — a guest we should never have booked in the first place. “I believe in the First Amendment and boobs.” Side note: I’ve been a journalist for 17 years — the past seven spent at CNN hosting a live show. I’ve seen and heard some things. But when I first heard “boobs” from a grown man on national television (in 2017!!!) my initial thought bubble was: “Did I hear that correctly?? There’s no WAY he just came on my show and said what I think he said. … DID HE?” And I let it hang. My executive producer Eric (who has worked with me for years) knows me, read my face and quickly got in my ear from the control room and asked: “Did he say ‘booze’?” Apparently, my producers behind the scenes were all scrambling, trying to figure out the same thing. “What did he just say?” I just couldn’t let this go.

6am – C         College Park vote on noncitizen voting rights was insufficient, city says (Baltimore Sun) — It turns out that the city of College Park did not have enough votes after all to grant voting rights to noncitizens, officials said Saturday. The College Park City Council voted 4-3 with one member abstaining Tuesday night on an amendment to the city’s charter that would allow noncitizens to vote in municipal elections. But charter amendments need six votes of the eight-member council, the city announced Saturday. That rule was changed in June, and the mayor and council members said they neglected to note that they needed six votes. “We each accept our responsibility for not realizing the impact of the June charter amendment on Council procedures and we apologize to our residents,” the mayor and council said in a statement.

6am – D         INTERVIEW – GORDON CHANG – author of “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World” and columnist for Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter @GordonGChang.

• TOPIC: NORTH KOREA
• U.S. Ambassador Haley: U.N. has exhausted options on North Korea
• Nikki Haley: Trump’s fire and fury comment ‘not an empty threat’
• Nikki Haley: If US Defends Itself, ‘North Korea Will Be Destroyed
• AT THE UN THIS WEEK: THURSDAY: President Trump will meet with the leaders of Turkey, Afghanistan and Ukraine and host a lunch with the leaders of South Korea and Japan.

6am – E         Lawn Mowing Boy At The White House Friday:

• Boy Who Mowed WH Lawn: ‘I Knew He Was Very Impressed.’ Virginia boy Frank “FX” Giaccio got a longtime wish fulfilled when his letter asking to mow the White House lawn was granted. President Trump met the 11-year-old and his dad on the lawn as Frank mowed the Rose Garden. “I knew that he was very impressed, and I thought he wanted to be going with me, so I kept mowing,” Frank, who wants to be a Navy SEAL told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday. “Great job, keep going,” Frank remembered the president saying as he walked up.
• NY Times reporter slammed after saying boy mowing White House lawn sends bad signal on child labor. (Fox News) — A former New York Times labor reporter has been slammed on social media for a snarky tweet hitting the White House for letting an 11-year-old boy mow the Rose Garden lawn last week. Steven Greenhouse, who worked for the Times for 31 years and still writes for the paper on occasion, took issue with the feel-good story of the boy, Frank Giaccio, of Falls Church, Va., who showed up at the White House Friday to cut the grass at the invitation of President Trump. “Not sending a great signal on child labor, minimum wage & occupational safety >> Trump White House lets a 10-year-old volunteer mow its lawn,” Greenhouse, who covered unions for much of his time at the newspaper, tweeted. The Daily Wire website slammed Greenhouse’s tweet as the “dumbest” ever posted on Twitter.

6am – F         SPORTS NEWS:

• REDSKINS FINAL: The Washington Redskins defeat the Los Angeles Rams 27-20. Kirk Cousins threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Grant with 1:49 to play to give the Washington Redskins a 27-20 victory Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams and rookie head coach Sean McVay. Cousins capped the winning 70-yard drive by finding Grant in the front left corner of the end zone. The Rams had tied the game at 20 on Greg Zuerlein’s 40-yard field goal with 7:16 to play. It was set up on a trick play, when punter Johnny Hekker completed a 28-yard pass to Josh Reynolds to the Washington 17. But two penalties stalled the drive and the Rams had to settle for the field goal.
• TOM BRADY: I HOPE COLIN KAEPERNICK GETS ANOTHER CHANCE IN NFL. (Fox News) — Tom Brady had kind words for Colin Kaepernick when asked whether the controversial figure should get another shot at playing with the NFL. “I sure hope so,” the Patriots quarterback told CBS “Sunday Morning.” “I’ve always watched him and admired him, the way that he’s played. He was a great young quarterback.” Kaepernick attracted attention last season when he took a knee during the national anthem before games to protest killings of black men by white police officers.

7am – A/B/C             INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia  — discuss latest on Sen. Menendez trial, DWS, College Park and Russia probe.

• TOPICS FOR JOE:
• MENENDEZ TRIAL:
  • First full week of testimony in Menendez trial: Emails, emotion, and a model witness
  • Menendez trial: Prosecutors question timing of flight reimbursements
  • Some juicy testimony in the never-ending case of Senator Menendez
  • New Poll Is Terrible For Disgraced Senator Robert Menendez
• DWS: Report: Former Wasserman Schultz IT Staffer Allegedly Uploaded ‘Terabits of Information to Dropbox.’ A new report claims that former Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT staffer Imran Awan allegedly uploaded terabits of information from DNC servers to a private Dropbox account.
• COLLEGE PARK: College Park vote on noncitizen voting rights was insufficient, city says.
• RUSSIA PROBE:
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign could go on for “a year, a year-and-a-half, if not more.”
  • Mueller Picks Another Clinton/Obama Donor For Russia Probe Team…
  • White House lawyers go head-to-head over Mueller probe
  • Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen is set to appear before the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday http://cnn.it/2jB8Sz7

7am – D/E     RECAP OF THE POLITICALLY CHARGED EMMYS

8am – A         INTERVIEW – TREVOR MATICH – WMAL’s Redskins Analyst and former Redskins’ long snapper

• Recap Redskins-Rams game. Redskins Defeat Rams To Score First Victory Of Season
• Redskins Defeat Rams To Score First Victory Of Season
• REDSKINS FINAL: The Washington Redskins defeat the Los Angeles Rams 27-20

8am – B/c      INTERVIEW – BILL O’REILLY – former Fox News host and author of new book “Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence”

• Bill and Dennis Miller’s show in Baltimore this Friday, 9/22. Bill O’Reilly and comedian Dennis Miller will discuss the current political climate when “The Spin Stops Here” tour visits Royal Farms Arena on Sept. 22. Tickets ($65-$125).
• His new book “Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence”
• Newsmax: Bill O’Reilly’s Accuser Arrested for False Allegation of Crime. 
• TWEET: Bill O’Reilly @billoreilly  27m27 minutes ago: Sorry to have to post this article but it is necessary to expose the evil in play in this country. More to come.

8am – D         INTERVIEW – RONNA ROMNEY MCDANIEL – the current chairwoman of the Republican National Committee and former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party

TOPICS:

• GOP TAX REFORM
• MENENDEZ: – First full week of testimony in Menendez trial: Emails, emotion, and a model witness. the Republican National Committee (RNC) is actively campaigning to ensure that Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez will resign if he is convicted of criminal charges.
• RUSSIA PROBE: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign could go on for “a year, a year-and-a-half, if not more.”
• KID ROCK / MICHIGAN: Since she’s former MI GOP chair, what does she make of Kid Rock’s potential run?  kid Rock announced he is creating a 501(c)(4) nonprofit to register voters “while exploring candidacy for US Senate.

8am – E         Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale. (NY Times) – From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song. But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation… Still, the potential sale of Rolling Stone — on the eve of its 50th anniversary, no less — underscores how inhospitable the media landscape has become as print advertising and circulation have dried up. “There’s a level of ambition that we can’t achieve alone,” Gus Wenner said last week in an interview at the magazine’s headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. “So we are being proactive and want to get ahead of the curve.”