Robin Ficker, Susan Ferrechio, Matt Schlapp and Ann Coulter joined WMAL on Thursday!

Mornings on the Mall

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C Here’s what the left doesn’t get about America. (By Harry J. Kazianis | Fox News) — I was once a proud member of the Democratic party. Better yet, I was a proud supporter of both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Growing up in the 1990s, I gave President Clinton much of the credit for a period in our history that ushered in balanced budgets, relative peace and security at home, technological wonders like the internet and a nation that seemed on the rise, with limitless opportunity for all.Around 2011, however, I finally reached the point where I could no longer swallow the radicalized rhetoric coming from the left. The reasons were complex, but there was one thing above all else that planted me firmly in the Republican camp: the left’s need to constantly trash or see America in a negative light…”

5am – D         Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from winning conviction on all counts. (Fox News) — NORTHERN VIRGINIA –  Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team was one holdout juror away from winning a conviction against Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday. “It was one person who kept the verdict from being guilty on all 18 counts,” Duncan, 52, said. She added that Mueller’s team of prosecutors often seemed bored, apparently catnapping during parts of the trial.

5am – D         AFFLECK NEWS:

• Jennifer Garner Is ‘Not Pleased’ Ben Affleck Is Dating a ‘Playboy’ Model, But She’s Also ‘Not Surprised’
• Ben Affleck Checks Into Rehab After Intervention With Jennifer Garner and Sober Coach

6am – A/B/C LATEST ON MICHAEL COHEN:

• LANNY DAVIS: MICHAEL COHEN NEVER WENT TO PRAGUE AS STEELE DOSSIER CLAIMS
• BRET BAIER: This is interesting. @LannyDavis on @FoxNews earlier today said they set up a @GoFundMe page for Michael Cohen at http://www.MichaelCohenTruth.com. Well-if you click on that, guess where it sends you?! http://www.donaldjtrump.com   I think he mentioned it BEFORE they had locked up the domain
• Michael Cohen dines at fancy eatery just hours after guilty plea
• ‘Megyn Kelly’ Crowd Boos When Lanny Davis Announces GoFundMe

6am – D         INTERVIEW — ROBIN FICKER – Republican candidate for Montgomery County Executive  — discussed the MoCo Executive race: Floreen now qualifies to run and his thoughts on Ben Jealous

• Nancy Floreen qualifies to run in Montgomery County executive race. MoCo’s Democratic nominees typically sail through the November election, but with Nancy Floreen running as an independent and Republican Robin Ficker taking public campaign financing, this year will be interesting if nothing else.
• Ben Jealous Wants Free Community College For Illegal Immigrants

6am – E         Steven Tyler asks Trump to stop playing Aerosmith at rallies. (The Hill) — Rock legend Steven Tyler has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the White House demanding that President Trump stop playing Aerosmith songs at his rallies. Tyler’s attorney, Dina LaPolt, sent the letter after Trump’s Tuesday night rally in West Virginia, as first reported by Variety. The band’s “Livin’ on the Edge” played as Trump supporters entered the Charleston Civic Center. LaPolt’s letter, a copy of which was obtained by Variety, notes that Trump was previously asked to stop using Aerosmith songs twice during his campaign. “Mr. Trump is creating the false impression that our client has given his consent for the use of his music, and even that he endorses the presidency of Mr. Trump,” the letter reads. LaPolt writes that Aerosmith fans have mistakenly believed that Tyler endorses Trump’s presidency and expressed as much on social media, and says that Trump’s use of the song is a violation of the Lanham Act.

6am – F         New research suggests evolution might favor ‘survival of the laziest.’ If you’ve got an unemployed, 30-year-old adult child still living in the basement, fear not. A new large-data study of fossil and extant bivalves and gastropods in the Atlantic Ocean suggests laziness might be a fruitful strategy for survival of individuals, species and even communities of species. The results have just been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by a research team based at the University of Kansas. Looking at a period of roughly 5 million years from the mid-Pliocene to the present, the researchers analyzed 299 species’ metabolic rates—or, the amount of energy the organisms need to live their daily lives—and found higher metabolic rates were a reliable predictor of extinction likelihood. “Maybe in the long term the best evolutionary strategy for animals is to be lassitudinous and sluggish—the lower the metabolic rate, the more likely the species you belong to will survive,” Lieberman said. “Instead of ‘survival of the fittest,’ maybe a better metaphor for the history of life is ‘survival of the laziest’ or at least ‘survival of the sluggish.'”

7am – A         MOLLIE TIBBETTS UPDATE:

• Yarrabee Farms Co-Owner Dane Lang, Said On Wed That The Farm Did NOT Use E-Verify to Vet Mollie Tibbetts’ Murderer, Cristhian Rivera. They Checked Social Sec Data Since Rivera Gave Them A State-Issued Photo ID & a Social Sec Card. Knew Him by Another Name.
• Mollie Tibbetts investigation: Chevy Malibu seen in surveillance video not registered to suspect Rivera, source says. BROOKLYN, Iowa –  The Chevy Malibu that investigators linked to Cristhian Rivera, the illegal immigrant suspected of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, was not registered in Rivera’s name, a law enforcement source revealed to Fox News on Wednesday.
• Elizabeth Warren tells slain Mollie Tibbets’ family that we need to focus on ‘real problems’ like reuniting immigrant families

7am – B/C     INTERVIEW — SUSAN FERRECHIO – chief congressional correspondent for the Washington Examiner. @susanferrechio – discussed the Dems pushing to postpone Kavanaugh hearings, Impeachment talk and Duncan Hunter’s indictment impact Republican House majority

• Senate Democrats are trying to use Cohen’s guilty plea to delay SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process
• The White House is rejecting calls from Democrats to delay confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. White House spokesman Raj Shah says the Democrats look “increasingly desperate.” He says the confirmation hearings will begin on Sept. 4 as scheduled and Kavanaugh “will be there.”
• Duncan Hunter’s Indictment Is a Threat to the Republican House Majority

7am – D         INTERVIEW – MATT SCHLAPP – chairman of the American Conservative Union @mschlapp – shared his thoughts on the impact of Trump’s legal drama on midterms.

7am – E         Jimmy Kimmel Doesn’t Want to ‘Appeal’ to Trump Fans: ‘I Don’t Think That World Exists Anymore’ (Daily Beast) — In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Beast, the Emmy-nominated late-night host weighs in on Trump, Omarosa, Kanye, Hannity, Matt Damon, the Oscars, and a lot more.

 

8am – A/B/C/D/E     INTERVIEW — ANN COULTER — bestselling author of “Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind”  — joined WMAL in studio to discuss her new book and the news of the day.