Mornings on the Mall

Friday, December 6, 2019

Hosts: Vince Coglianese and guest co-host LT COL. TONY SHAFFER – a CIA trained former senior intelligence officer and president of the London Center for Policy Research

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

WMAL’s Annual Fisher House Radiothon

Former Trump NSC official Michael Anton, ‘Voice of The Redskins’ Larry Michael, ‘Trayvon Hoax’ filmmaker Joel Gilbert, guest co-host Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer and various Fisher House Radiothon guests joined WMAL’s morning-drive show on Friday!

5am – A         WMAL’S ANNUAL FISHER HOUSE RADIOTHON: Fisher House Foundation is best known for a network of comfort homes where military and veterans’ families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide, and, in Europe, close to the medical center or hospital it serves.

• WMAL’s Fisher House Radiothon will air all day on Friday, December 6th and Saturday, December 7th.  On Saturday, WMAL hosts Vince Coglianese, Chris Plante and Larry O’Connor will conclude the Fisher House Radiothon with a live broadcast from 5 to 7 PM at Fashion Centre at Pentagon City.  Stop by, say hi and donate!
• CLICK HERE TO DONATE: wmal.com/fisherhouse/

5am – B/C     FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW – Michelle Baldanza — VP, Communications, Fisher House

• Retired Army officer; served Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Kosovo
• Has visited numerous Fisher Houses and families since joining Foundation this year”
• Talked about the impact she has seen since joining the Fisher House team.

5am – D         PELOSI ANNOUNCES CALL FOR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT; SHE SPARS WITH JAMES ROSEN:

• Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced that the House will begin drafting the articles of impeachment, saying the “president leaves us no choice.” Democrats are pushing toward House votes, possibly before Christmas. Approval of articles of impeachment is considered likely in the Democratic-majority House.
• Nancy Pelosi snaps at reporter after question about hating Trump: ‘Don’t mess with me.’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attempted to shut down a reporter on Thursday, telling him not to “mess” with her after he suggested that she might hate the president. “As a Catholic, I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. I don’t hate anyone. I was raised in a way that is a heart full of love and always pray for the president. And I still pray for the president. And I pray for the president all the time, so don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that,” she said. Sinclair reporter James Rosen had asked Pelosi: “Do you hate the president?” “I don’t hate anybody,” she initially shot back. She wagged her finger and pointed at Rosen, telling him not to accuse her of hating someone. Rosen denied doing so. After Pelosi’s presser, President Trump appeared to address the issue on Twitter.
• Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 18h18 hours ago Nancy Pelosi just had a nervous fit. She hates that we will soon have 182 great new judges and sooo much more. Stock Market and employment records. She says she “prays for the President.” I don’t believe her, not even close. Help the homeless in your district Nancy. USMCA?

5am – E         FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW: Dave Coker – President, FHF. Foundation’s first employee, hired by founder Zachary Fisher.

• 25 years working with the DOD and VA leadership to identify new projects and build houses.”

6am – A         Biden lashes out at town hall questioner in heated exchange: ‘You’re a damn liar, man.’ Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden blasted a man at an Iowa town hall as a “damn liar” Thursday — and challenged him to a push-up contest — after he accused the 77-year-old former vice president of being “too old” and took a swipe at son Hunter’s role on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural gas firm. During the heated question-and-answer session at the forum in New Hampton, the questioner in the audience described those two issues as his chief concerns with the presidential candidate. “I’m not a Republican,” the man began. “I’ve got two problems with you. One, is you’re damn near as old as I am. You’re too old. I’m 83 and I know damn well I don’t have the mental faculties I did [inaudible.]” He went on to the topic of Ukraine — specifically the lucrative job Biden’s son Hunter held with natural gas firm Burisma Holdings during the Obama administration. Impeachment proceedings in Washington are focusing on Trump’s effort to pressure Kiev to look into the elder Biden’s role removing a prosecutor who had been looking into that firm. “But on the other hand, you sent your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company where he had no experience. … In order to get access for the president … you’re selling access to the president just like he was,” the questioner said. Biden fired back: “You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true and no one has ever said that.” The claim that Biden “sent” his son to Ukraine for a job at Burisma is not accurate. Someone appeared to attempt to take the microphone away from the man in the audience, but Biden stopped them, saying, “let him go.” “Look, the reason I’m running is because I’ve been around a long time and I know more than most people and I can get things done,” Biden said. “And you want to check my shape? Let’s do push-ups together man, let’s run, let’s do whatever you wanna do.

6am – B/C     FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW: Stacy Thomas – Asst. House Manager at Landstuhl 2005-2007

• Current Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
• Military Spouse”

6am – D         TURLEY UNDER ATTACK:

• Jonathan Turley ‏@JonathanTurley 15h15 hours ago: My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee. Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from GW.
• Legal scholar ‘inundated with threatening messages’ after testimony opposing Trump impeachment. (Fox News) – Jonathan Turley, a witness during the House Judiciary Committee’s first public impeachment hearing Wednesday, said he has been “inundated with threatening messages” since his testimony, which argued that Democrats do not have enough evidence to support articles of impeachment against President Trump. “Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University for arguing that, while a case for impeachment can be made, it has not been made on this record,” Turley wrote in an op-ed for The Hill on Thursday. The law professor appeared alongside three other legal scholars with opposing views Wednesday. He warned that Democrats would be ill-advised to rush to a vote on impeachment articles because they do not have a complete record of witness testimonies and supporting evidence to prove that Trump abused his power to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings there.

6am – E         FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW: Will Reynolds – Fisher House Board Member.

• injured in a blast in 2004 that sprayed shrapnel into his left leg, drastically limiting his range of motion.
• Family stayed at the Walter Reed Fisher House as he began his recovery
• Captain of the U.S. team at the Invictus Games in Orlando.”

6am – F         PELOTON BACKLASH / ACTOR SPEAKS OUT:

• Peloton saw $942 million in market value wiped out in a single day amid backlash to its controversial holiday ad (PTON). (BusinessInsider) – On Tuesday, Peloton tumbled 9% amid backlash to its holiday ad. That fall erased $942 million from Peloton’s market value. It was also the biggest single-day drop for the company since October. Peloton’s stock price had been gaining at a steady clip through November, making up for its disappointing September initial public offering. Shares of Peloton, the buzzy bike startup, fell more than 9% on Tuesday as backlash to a new holiday ad built on social media. That erased nearly $942 million from Peloton’s market value in a single day, bringing the company’s market cap to roughly $9.4 billion. It was also the biggest single-day drop for the company since October. The backlash to Peloton’s holiday ad, which features a young woman filming herself working out over a year after being given a Peloton bike, reached a breaking point this week, as it struck some viewers as confusing, sexist, and classist. The ad was released in mid-November but was published on YouTube on November 21 and is being shown on TV.
• “Peloton Husband” Speaks Out — Actor Sean Hunter offers his view on being involved in a criticized ad: “As my face continues to be screen shot online, I wonder what repercussions will come back to me. I pride myself on being a great teacher and developing actor, and I can only hope that this affects neither. I’m grappling with the negative opinions as none of them have been constructively helpful.”

7am – A         INTERVIEW – MICHAEL ANTON – Lecturer in Politics and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington, D.C. And former National Security Official in the Trump Administration.

• Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced that the House will begin drafting the articles of impeachment, saying the “president leaves us no choice.”

 7am – B/C     FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW: Maureen Crabbe – Mother to a USMC amputee son — stayed at multiple Fisher Houses during son’s initial recovery and rehabilitation”

7am – D         INTERVIEW – LARRY MICHAEL – Voice of The Redskins – preview Washington Redskins @ Green Bay Packers

 7am – E         Fisher House Radiothon

8am – A         PELOSI ANNOUNCES CALL FOR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT; SHE SPARS WITH JAMES ROSEN:

• Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced that the House will begin drafting the articles of impeachment, saying the “president leaves us no choice.” Democrats are pushing toward House votes, possibly before Christmas. Approval of articles of impeachment is considered likely in the Democratic-majority House.
• Nancy Pelosi snaps at reporter after question about hating Trump: ‘Don’t mess with me.’  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attempted to shut down reporter James Rosen on Thursday, telling him not to “mess” with her after he suggested that she might hate the president.
• FLASHBACK: Listen here to our interview with JAMES ROSEN on yesterday’s show.

8am – B/C     FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEWS:

• • FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW – Michael Mount of Leonardo DRS – joined WMAL to share their generous matching donation of $50,000 to Fisher House this morning.

• FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW – Jennifer Koget   – Acting National Director, VA Social Work. She manages all Veterans Affairs Fisher Houses throughout the country.

8am – D         INTERVIEW – JOEL GILBERT – Filmmaker of “The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America”

• George Zimmerman SUES Trayvon Martin’s family and Florida prosecutors for $100MILLION, claiming they engineered false evidence in his homicide trial for shooting dead the unarmed black teen in 2012.
• Filmmaker Joel Gilbert Releases New Film and Book, The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.— Filmmaker Joel Gilbert of Highway 61 Entertainment has released his explosive new film and book release entitled, The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America. In this stunning work of investigative journalism, filmmaker Joel Gilbert claims to uncover the true story of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a case that divided America.  By examining Trayvon’s 750-page cell phone records, Gilbert alleges that the key witness for the prosecution of George Zimmerman, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel, was a fraud.  He asserts that it was a different girl who was on the phone with Trayvon just before he was shot.

8am – E         FISHER HOUSE INTERVIEW – Jessica Allen –Wife and primary caregiver for Chaz Allen, an infantryman and staff sergeant who lost his legs while checking on his men during a raid in 2011.