Archbishop Council Nedd, Mercedes Schlapp, Matt Taylor, Joe Concha, and Josh Kraushaarjoined Mornings on the Mall on Tuesday

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday October 30, 2018

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C James Cromwell Says ‘There Will Be Blood’ if Dems Lose Midterms (NewsBusters) Upon receiving some accolade for acting or whatever, actor James Cromwell took his opportunity at the podium to promote political civility, and by political civility, we mean threaten that there will be an actual bloodbath should Americans refuse to vote Democrat this November. The actor best known for his roles as the one farmer who believed in Babe the pig, and the merciless warden from that Adam Sandler football movie, warned the public that there will be a bloody revolution if the Trump administration is able to continue its agenda of “nascent fascism.” With Hollywood’s constant lamentation about how divisive Trump’s fear-mongering is, Cromwell’s best move was to alert citizens that “There will be blood in the streets.

5am – D Caravan News:

• The Department of Defense is ready to deploy 5,000 members of the U.S. military to the southern border ahead of the potential arrival of thousands of Central American migrants who reportedly plan to bypass asylum offers in Mexico and head straight for the U.S.
• A group of around 1,500 Hondurans were being held back by police from the international bridge that separates the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman from the Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo. Weight of numbers allowed the Hondurans to break through, but they were then thwarted by a reinforced metal gate blocking them from entering Mexican territory, as Honduran police fired tear gas in an attempt to halt the surge.

5am – E  Porn-Watching Employee Infected Government Networks With Russian Malware, IG Says (NextGov) The agency’s inspector general traced the malicious software to a single unnamed USGS employee, who reportedly used a government-issued computer to visit some 9,000 adult video sites, according to a report published Oct. 17.

6am – A/B/C Should Trump be calling the media the “enemy of the people”?

6am – D INTERVIEW – Archbishop Council Nedd – is a founding member of the Project 21 black leadership network and a Pennsylvania State Constable.

6am – E German chancellor Angela Merkel will not seek re-election in 2021

6am – F Shots fired into Volusia County Republican Party satellite office, police say

7am – A Trump with Laura Ingraham highlights

7am – B/C INTERVIEW –  Mercedes Schlapp – White House Director of Strategic Communications 

7am-D INTERVIEW – Matt Taylor – Director and Producer of The Creepy Line 

7am – E Once wary, black voters have warmed up to Republican Larry Hogan in Maryland

8am – A INTERVIEW – Joe Concha – Media Reporter for The Hill

8am – B Pittsburgh News:

• President Donald Trump will visit Pittsburgh Tuesday, three days after a gunman killed 11 people in a Squirrel Hill synagogue, the White House announced today.
• Trump will travel to “grieve with the Pittsburgh community” with First Lady Melania Trump, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
• Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reportson Monday, Lou Weiss, a congregant of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh that was attacked by a gunman over the weekend, lectured the liberal news anchor on “trying to politicize every aspect” of the tragedy by blaming President Trump for the violence. He told Mitchell that such efforts only lead to a “dead end.”
• CelebrateMercy and MPower Change created the crowdfunding page on LaunchGood, a Muslim-centric version of GoFundMe, shortly after a gunman opened fire Saturday morning, killing 11 people and injuring another six within the place of worship. The site has since been flooded with donations, resulting in the organizations having to adjust their target fundraising goal three times in about 24 hours.

8am – C Avenatti quietly builds 2020 machine

8am – D/E INTERVIEW –  Josh Kraushaar – Political editor for the National Journal