Mornings on the Mall 06.27.16

Historian Andrew Roberts, Joe diGenova and Courtland Milloy joined WMAL on Monday!

Mornings on the Mall

Monday, June 27, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C   Brewer vs. O’Malley: Every Time You Disagree with Clinton, Obama You Are Called Racist. O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who ran in the Democratic primary and is now backing Hillary Clinton, said: “Donald Trump is a bigot. Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals.” Former Arizona governor Jan Brewer called this “offensive.” “Dang it, I get fed up that we hear over and over and over again from the president of the United States that every time somebody wants to support the Constitution and the rule of law that we are out there because we are racists and bigots,” she said.

5am – D         HILLARY NEWS:

• Clinton Calendar: Has Clinton come clean about ANYTHING she did at the State Department? Now it turns out she had scores of secret meetings – including with donors and Wall Street bosses. The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page calendar with separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of each day’s events. The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show. No known federal laws were violated and some omissions could be blamed on Clinton’s highly fluid schedule, which sometimes forced late cancellations. But only seven meetings in Clinton’s planning schedules were replaced by substitute events on her official calendar. More than 60 other events listed in Clinton’s planners were omitted entirely in her calendar, tersely noted or described only as ‘private meetings’ — all without naming those who met with her.
• Top IT official: Disabling security for Clinton server laid out ‘welcome mat’ for hackers A 2010 decision temporarily disabling State Department security features to accommodate Hillary Clinton’s private server effectively laid out a “welcome mat” for hackers and foreign intelligence services, a leading IT official who oversaw computer security at the Defense Intelligence Agency told Fox News. “You’re putting not just the Clinton server at risk but the entire Department of State emails at risk,” said Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer (CTO) for the DIA. “When you turn off your defensive mechanisms and you’re connected to the Internet, you’re almost laying out the welcome mat for anyone to intrude and attack and steal your secrets.” He was referring to revelations from new court-released documents in a lawsuit by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch. They show the State Department temporarily turned off security features in 2010 so that emails from then-Secretary of State Clinton’s personal server would stop going to the department’s spam folders.
• Hillary Clinton: Immigration needs reform, not Trump’s bigotry (by Hillary Clinton) When Josie Mata was 7 years old, she learned that her mother was undocumented. From that moment on, Josie went to school every day afraid that she might return home to find her mom gone forever. The Matas live, work and pay taxes in Tucson. Josie now attends the University of Arizona. Yet like so many other mixed-status families, the threat that their lives could be torn apart is never far from mind.

5am – E     Supreme Court Rulings

• McDonnell Supreme Court ruling expected Monday. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is set to close out its current term with opinions Monday in three remaining cases after a flurry of decisions last week. It’s expected to be the justices’ final meeting before they disperse on their summer breaks. The last three cases concern regulation of Texas abortion clinics, the public corruption conviction of former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and a federal law that seeks to keep guns out of the hands of people convicted of domestic violence.
• Supreme Court set to issue major abortion ruling Monday WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is due on Monday to issue its first major abortion ruling since 2007 against a backdrop of unremitting divisions among Americans on the issue and a decades-long decline in the rate at which women terminate pregnancies. The court’s decision on whether a Republican-backed 2013 Texas law placed an undue burden on women exercising their constitutional right to abortion is one of three remaining cases for the court to decide on Monday, the last day of its term. The last time the justices decided a major abortion case was nine years ago when they ruled 5-4 to uphold a federal law banning a late-term abortion procedure.

 

6am – A  INTERVIEW — ANDREW ROBERTS — British historian and author of the NEW BOOK “Napoleon: A Life”

• Roberts wrote in The Telegraph: “Brexit is a more impressive achievement than the French Revolution”
• Scotland’s Parliament may attempt to stop Britain from leaving the E.U.  Scotland’s Parliament could attempt to block Britain from leaving the European Union, the country’s leader said Sunday amid continuing turmoil following the UK’s historic referendum to leave the European Union. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has made clear her desire for her country to remain in the EU, said she would likely advise the Scottish Parliament not to give “legislative consent” to the UK’s exit from the international bloc. Withholding Scotland’s consent might block the UK’s plans to move forward with the exit, Sturgeon told the BBC. “I find it hard to believe that there wouldn’t be that requirement,” Sturgeon said of the need for Scotland’s approval. “I suspect that the UK government will take a very different view on that and we’ll have to see where that discussion ends up.”

6am – B         Kaine: ‘Nobody Should Ever Say They’re Ready’ to Be President (NBC) –Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., widely considered to be a top contender for Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential pick, said on “Meet the Press” that “nobody should ever say they’re ready” for the responsibility of being commander-in-chief.”Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t have said yes to that question,” he said. “Harry Truman wouldn’t have said yes to that question. Those are my two favorite presidents.” Kaine’s cautious response marks a stark contrast to fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who, when asked a similar question by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, said she does believe she is qualified to be president. Warren is also reportedly on Clinton’s VP shortlist.

6am –C          Sanders press secretary leaves campaign (The Hill). Symone Sanders said she had finished her work with the campaign as of Sunday, Fusion reported. She said leaving the campaign was her decision. “I just believe my time with the campaign has come to an end,” she told CNN. “I’m very proud of the work we have done and am now looking forward to helping elect down-ballot Democrats and do all I can to ensure a Democrat is the 45th president of the United States.” The campaign’s staff has continued to shrink since Hillary Clinton clinched the nomination. Earlier this month, Sanders announced a large round of layoffs.

6am – D         TRUMP NEWS:

• Trump won’t invite Cruz or Kasich to speak at convention without endorsements (The Hill) Donald Trump won’t invite former rivals Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio to speak at the Republican National Convention without endorsements from both, he told The New York Times. “If there’s no endorsement, then I would not invite them to speak,” Trump said. Trump’s comments come as his campaign and the Republican National Committee work to ensure next month’s convention goes as smoothly as possible. There have been rumblings that displeased delegates will stage a revolt to try to oust the presumptive Republican nominee, but RNC leaders are threatening to withhold speaking slots and warning that attempting to undermine Trump violates party rules, The Times reported. Trump told the Times his opponents will fail in derailing his nomination. “You mean to tell me we’re going to get the largest vote in his history of the Republican primaries and now the same people that either didn’t run or get beaten in a landslide are going to try and back-end?” Trump said. “My supporters are tremendously loyal to me. They would not stand for it.”
• Hillary Clinton Ad Uses ‘Brexit’ to Slam ‘Volatile’ Trump (NBC) : Hillary Clinton’s campaign is out with a new ad slamming Donald Trump’s response to Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union. “Every president is tested by world events, but Donald Trump thinks about how his golf resort can profit from them,” intones the 30-second ad released Sunday while showing coverage of Friday’s vote and the reaction in world markets. “In a volatile world, the last thing we need is a volatile president.” The ad entitled “Tested” fits into a narrative the Clinton campaign is pushing on how Trump is a craven businessman in politics only for himself.
• Trump: George Will ‘lost his way’ a long time ago (Washington Examiner) George Will’s announcement Friday that he is leaving the Republican Party did not come as a surprise to Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insulted the conservative commentator during campaign rallies and interviews. Trump said Sunday morning that the “overrated” Fox News pundit had “lost his way long ago.” Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump George Will, one of the most overrated political pundits (who lost his way long ago), has left the Republican Party.He’s made many bad calls 7:24 AM – 26 Jun 2016 “This is not my party,” Will reportedly told the Federalist Society during a speech last week. The Pulitzer-prize winning writer said after his speech that he had changed his Maryland voter registration to “unaffiliated.”
• WSJ/NBC Poll: Clinton up by 5, but Trump takes independents (Washington Examiner) Hillary Clinton carries a 5-point lead over presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Forty-six percent of registered U.S. voters currently support the former secretary of state, while Trump garners 41 percent support. A separate Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday found Clinton leading the Manhattan billionaire by 12 percentage points. Clinton maintains a significant lead over Trump among women (52 percent-percent), millennial voters ages 18-34 (53-30) and Latinos (69-22). The former first lady, who dominated Bernie Sanders among black voters in the Democratic primary, has an 82-point lead over Trump among African-Americans.Trump leads Clinton, although by slimmer margins, among white voters (49-37), independents (40-30) and men (48-38). Both candidates enjoy a majority of support from their respective parties. Eighty-five percent of Democrats back Clinton, while 79 percent of Republicans back Trump. The NBC News/WSJ survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted June 19-23. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

6am – E         CRITTER NEWS:

• Some geese in Montgomery County will soon be going from the park to the dinner plate. (FOX NEWS) Some geese in Montgomery County will soon be going from the park to the dinner plate. The county says there are so many of the birds, it’s posing a health hazard in Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rock Creek regional parks. The plan is to round up about 300 geese, euthanize them and donate the processed meat to the Maryland food bank. Montgomery County Parks explains on its website that this is a last resort after other options have been unsucessful, including harassment, habitat manipulation, fencing, egg-oiling and repelling devices. Goose droppings in the park are the major concern with officials reporting that “substances derived from goose droppings can contain coliform bacteria as well as high levels of nitrogen. This contributes to impaired and potentially hazardous water quality.”
• 1-year-old Va. boy bitten by copperhead snake (FOX NEWS) STAFFORD, Va. – A Virginia toddler is recovering after a copperhead snake bit him in the backyard of his grandparent’s home in Stafford County. One week later, the little boy is doing okay, but the anti-venom needed to save his life could lead to some major financial issues for his family. “I didn’t know if we had minutes or hours, so it was sheer panic,” said the child’s grandmother, Heidi Mantzoros. She was inside her Stafford home when her daughter carried in her grandson crying and bleeding from his foot. At first, they thought it was just a scratch. But within minutes, there was a lot of swelling. “We were like that looks like a snake bite, so we just grabbed him, went to the emergency room and called 911 on the way,” said Mantzoros. Doctors confirmed by a blood test that 16-month-old Auden was bitten by a copperhead. His mother, Kayleigh Kemp, said he was hospitalized for several days.

7am – A/B     INTERVIEW — JOE DIGENOVA — legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

• McDonnell Supreme Court ruling expected Monday. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is set to close out its current term with opinions Monday in three remaining cases after a flurry of decisions last week. It’s expected to be the justices’ final meeting before they disperse on their summer breaks. The last three cases concern regulation of Texas abortion clinics, the public corruption conviction of former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and a federal law that seeks to keep guns out of the hands of people convicted of domestic violence.
• Supreme Court set to issue major abortion ruling Monday. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is due on Monday to issue its first major abortion ruling since 2007 against a backdrop of unremitting divisions among Americans on the issue and a decades-long decline in the rate at which women terminate pregnancies. The court’s decision on whether a Republican-backed 2013 Texas law placed an undue burden on women exercising their constitutional right to abortion is one of three remaining cases for the court to decide on Monday, the last day of its term. The last time the justices decided a major abortion case was nine years ago when they ruled 5-4 to uphold a federal law banning a late-term abortion procedure.
• Public corruption: The justices seemed likely to side with McDonnell, who is challenging his conviction for accepting gifts and loans from a wealthy businessman in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement. A ruling for McDonnell could make it harder to prosecute public officials.
• Guns: Two men from Maine are challenging their convictions for possessing guns under a federal law that is intended to keep guns out of the hands of people who have previously been convicted of domestic violence.
• Has Clinton come clean about ANYTHING she did at the State Department? Now it turns out she had scores of secret meetings – including with donors and Wall Street bosses.  Associated Press has revealed that Clinton’s official calendar omitted 75 meetings, some with donors to her or her family foundation.  AP compared her calendar with planning documents it had to go to court to find and which State Department wouldn’t even admit existed. Clinton’s calendar listed meetings with 124 business leaders and political donors and loyalists, but not with 114 others identified by AP review. The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page calendar with separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of each day’s events.  The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show. In one key omission, Clinton’s State Department calendar dropped the identities of a dozen major Wall Street and business leaders who met with her during a private breakfast discussion at the New York Stock Exchange in September 2009. The meeting occurred minutes before Clinton appeared in public at the exchange to ring the market’s ceremonial opening bell. Despite the omission, Clinton’s State Department planning schedules from the same day listed the names of all Clinton’s breakfast guests — most of whose firms had lobbied the government and donated to her family’s global charity. After noticing discrepancies between Clinton’s calendar and some schedules, the AP pressed in court for all of Clinton’s planning material.  The U.S. has released about one-third of those planners to the AP, so far.
• Top IT official: Disabling security for Clinton server laid out ‘welcome mat’ for hackers. A 2010 decision temporarily disabling State Department security features to accommodate Hillary Clinton’s private server effectively laid out a “welcome mat” for hackers and foreign intelligence services, a leading IT official who oversaw computer security at the Defense Intelligence Agency told Fox News. “You’re putting not just the Clinton server at risk but the entire Department of State emails at risk,” said Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer (CTO) for the DIA. “When you turn off your defensive mechanisms and you’re connected to the Internet, you’re almost laying out the welcome mat for anyone to intrude and attack and steal your secrets.” He was referring to revelations from new court-released documents in a lawsuit by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch. They show the State Department temporarily turned off security features in 2010 so that emails from then-Secretary of State Clinton’s personal server would stop going to the department’s spam folders.

7am – C         25 Dead as Crews Search for Missing After West Virginia Floods. (AP) —The sun finally made an appearance Sunday in rain-weary West Virginia, where floods have killed at least 25 people and destroyed dozens of homes. The break in rain and receding floodwaters allowed for search and rescue teams to go door-to-door, finally, to search for people who hadn’t been heard from since the downpours began Thursday. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s administration believed people were still missing in Greenbrier County, where 17 people were killed. Residents in the Greenbrier town of White Sulphur Springs, even those who lost everything, were trying to stay positive. “It’s actually good to see the community pull together in something like this because this town has never faced anything like this. This is the worst disaster ever, that I know of,” resident Nick Glover told NBC station WVVA. President Barack Obama on Saturday signed a federal disaster declaration for the state and called Tomblin to promise recovery resources.

7am – D/E     East Coast states want to tax drivers’ travel, not their gas. (Washington Post) — A group of East Coast states wants to help overhaul the way America pays for its decaying roads, and it’s starting with Monopoly money. Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Hampshire are proposing pilots to figure out how they might charge motorists a fee for the miles they travel — rather than taxing their gas, as state and federal officials do today. The I-95 Corridor Coalition, which represents transportation officials from 16 states and the District of Columbia, applied for a federal grant last month to test the idea. Officials would stitch together the policies and technologies needed to count the miles driven by 50 recruits from each of the four states, including state legislators, transportation officials or other willing guinea pigs. They would send out “faux invoices” monthly. And they would collect the data that legislatures — and the driving public — would require to decide if the change makes sense.

8am – A         INTERVIEW — ANDREW ROBERTS — British historian and author of the NEW BOOK “Napoleon: A Life”

• BIO: Roberts, who has written 11 books since 1991, including “Napoleon: A Life,” “Masters and Commander,” and “A History of the English Speaking People Since 1900,” is highly respected for his scholarly research and meticulous accounting of history. Former Vice President Dick Cheney called him “one of the greatest historians of my time.”
• Roberts wrote in The Telegraph: “Brexit is a more impressive achievement than the French Revolution”
• Scotland’s Parliament may attempt to stop Britain from leaving the E.U.         

8am – B         BET Awards 2016: Winners: Beyonce, Jesse Williams, Samuel L Jackson, Drake, Rihanna and more. Jackson won the Lifetime Achievement Award while Williams picked up the Humanitarian Award. Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson and Dave Chapelle were among those to pay tribute to the icon, who sent shockwaves through the music industry when he died in April.  This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to Samuel L Jackson, while late boxer Muhammad Ali received a special tribute featuring his daughter Laila and Oscar winner Jamie Foxx.  Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williams took home the Humanitarian Award and hit headlines with his hard-hitting speech on racism, with Jackson praising him as “the closest thing he’s heard to a 1960s activist”.  Elsewhere, Rihanna won Best Female R&B Pop Artist, Drake won Best Male Hip-Hop Artist and Beyonce won Video of the Year for “Formation”. Beyonce opened the ceremony at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles with a surprise performance of her Lemonade song “Freedom”, joined by rapper Kendrick Lamar.

8am – C         Trump: George Will ‘lost his way’ a long time ago. George Will’s announcement Friday that he is leaving the Republican Party did not come as a surprise to Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insulted the conservative commentator during campaign rallies and interviews. Trump said Sunday morning that the “overrated” Fox News pundit had “lost his way long ago.”

8am – D         INTERVIEW — COURTLAND MILLOY – Columnist for The Washington Post

• What does it mean when five D.C. kids are shot and there’s no outcry? (By Courtland Milloy Columnist June 21/ Washington Post) — The wealthier the District becomes, the uglier it gets for those in the poorest neighborhoods of the city. Nothing illustrates that more than the city’s pathologically high tolerance for children being shot. In February, a 2-year-old boy was with his mother at a beauty salon in Northwest Washington when a stray bullet shattered the front window and grazed his neck. In March, a 6-year-old girl was walking with another person behind some apartment buildings when she was struck in the wrist by a stray bullet. On April 6, a 6-year-old boy was shot twice in the arm when two people forced open the front door of his apartment in Northeast and began firing. Two days later, a 7-year-old girl was struck in the abdomen by a stray bullet as she walked with her parents near their home in Southeast. Then just last month, an 8-year-old boy was struck in the back when someone got out of a car and began firing in his direction. Was there an uproar from elected officials? What about the city’s residents? Put it like this: In the new, gentrified Washington, the arrival of a celebrity chef gets more attention than a kid with a gunshot wound to the gut.

8am – E         The #GameofThrones finale confirmed some major theories and got the ultimate revenge. Game of Thrones will not suffer from Brexit, HBO says. Fears that a Brexit would spell the end of Game of Thrones have been calmed by HBO. The US network released a statement after Britain voted to leave the European Union reassuring fans of the fantasy TV show that the result will have no “material effect” on production. Concerns were raised by speculation that Daenerys and her dragons would suffer from a loss of EU funding. However, HBO has confirmed that while the series received financial support from the EU’s European Regional Development Fund when it first began, there has been no contribution to its massive $10 million per episode budget in recent years.