Joe diGenova, Newt Gingrich, Trevor Matich & Steve Emerson joined WMAL on Monday.

Mornings on the Mall

Monday, December 7, 2015

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

 

5am – A/B/C  Obama’s Speech and The Discrimination of Muslims:

5am – D/E     Media Descended Upon the San Bernardino Terrorist Home. Were They In The Wrong?

6am – A/B/C Obama’s Speech: Should People On No Fly List Get Their Guns Taken Away?

6am – D/E     The Great Debate Continues For Another Year: Which Is Better? Real Christmas Trees Or Artificial Christmas Trees? The debate over the use of a real evergreen tree versus an artificial Christmas tree has been going on for years, and it continues this year.

7am – A         INTERVIEW _ JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst

• FBI: Probe so far into Calif. shooters shows signs of radicalization, but not that they were part of terror cell.
• FBI calls California massacre an act of terror
• Joe’s thoughts on the Media Rush Into Shooting Suspects’ Home, Rifle Through Belongings
• Joe thoughts on Obama’s speech last night
• FREDDIE GRAY TRIAL: Officer on trial: ‘It was always a big scene when you tried to arrest Freddie Gray’

7am – B        Entertainment News:

• ‘Hunger Games’ finale keeps hold of box office crown. LOS ANGELES – The “Hunger Games” finale spoiled an early Christmas for the holiday horror comedy “Krampus” to maintain its top spot at the North American box office for the third week running. The Jennifer Lawrence-led film took in an estimated $18.6 million in the U.S. and Canada, bringing its domestic total to $227 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. The anti-Santa Claus thriller from Universal, the only film to debut in the top 10 this week, brought in $16 million.
• George Lucas, 4 others receive Kennedy Center Honors. Feel the Force: R2-D2 helps honor Lucas at Kennedy Center. WASHINGTON (AP) — The technology that George Lucas brought to moviemaking came back to haunt him at the Kennedy Center Honors. As the tribute to Lucas began at Sunday night’s gala honoring him and four others for contributing to American culture through the arts, the crowd was asked to welcome Carrie Fisher. But the star of the original “Star Wars” trilogy and the upcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” didn’t appear in person. Instead, one of Lucas’ beloved creations, the feisty droid R2-D2, rolled onstage and projected her image.

• Actor Morgan Freeman in plane scare. Morgan Freeman: “We landed safely without a scratch… I cannot say the same about my plane” A private plane carrying Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was forced to make an emergency landing, but the star and his pilot were unhurt. The plane blew a tyre on take-off from Clarksdale, Mississippi, on Saturday. The SJ30 jet made a forced landing in Tunica, about 40 miles (65km) away, where it went off the runway. In a statement, the Shawshank Redemption star said: “Sometimes things don’t go as planned and a tyre blew on take-off, which caused other problems.”

7am – C        FISHER HOUSE TOTAL: total: 316,035

7am – D         INTERVIEW — NEWT GINGRICH — former Speaker of the House, former presidential candidate and author of new fiction book, a DC thriller, titled “Duplicity” – reacted to President Obama’s speech last night.

7am – E         For women’s emotional health, living together is as good as marriage. Studies have shown that marriage significantly increases lifetime happiness. But new research indicates that even people who opt to live together rather than make their union more official can see such benefits. A recent study by researchers from Ohio State University, published in the Journal of Family Psychology found that, for women, moving in with a romantic partner for the first time creates a similar decline in emotional distress to getting married for the first time. Men, on the other hand, only have a significant increase in emotional health when they marry for the first time. And both genders become even happier if they’re living together and then take the step of getting married. When it comes to second relationships after a first significant one ended, both men and women have similar boosts in emotional health when they move in together or get married. Men, on the other hand, only have a significant increase in emotional health when they marry for the first time. And both genders become even happier if they’re living together and then take the step of getting married.

8am – A         INTERVIEW – TREVOR MATICH — Redskins elite long snapper and WMAL’s Redskins analyst

• Monday NFL preview: Cowboys-Redskins matchup is meaningful to NFC East race

8am – B/C     Highlights of Obama’s Speech on Terrorism

8am – D         INTERVIEW – STEVE EMERSON – executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (www.investigativeproject.org), a non profit group that investigates the threat of radical Islam, author of 6 book on terrorism and national security and executive producer of the award winning 2013 documentary “Jihad in America: The Grand Deception” (www.granddeception.com)

• STEVE EMERSON: San Bernardino Murders Expose Failure to Address Radical Islam
• Emerson’s thoughts on Obama’s televised speech Sunday night

8am – E         FISHER HOUSE TOTAL: total: 316,035