Mornings on the Mall

Friday, October 11, 2019

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

Washington Free Beacon’s Stephen Gutowski, Newt Gingrich, Larry Michael, Ying Ma and Bret Baier joined WMAL on Friday!

5am – A/B/C Joe Biden worked with whistleblower when he was vice president, officials reveal. (Washington Examiner/by Rob Crilly, Steven Nelson, & David M. Drucker) — The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a “professional” tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only “in the executive branch.” The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he “was detailed to the National Security Council at one point.” Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a “professional tie” to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower’s complaint was credible, he had shown “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.”

5am – D/E     TRUMP RALLY HIGHLIGHTS:

• Trump attacks impeachment inquiry, uses graphic language to belittle Bidens at Minnesota rally; protests get violent. President Trump unloaded on Joe and Hunter Biden over their Ukrainian business dealings in Minneapolis on Thursday evening — at one point bringing the crowd to its feet by charging that Biden’s only useful trait as vice president was his preternatural ability to “kiss Barack Obama’s a–.” Trump cited a new report in the Washington Examiner that the whistleblower at the center of Democrats’ impeachment push had worked with Biden.
  • President Trump lashes out at Democrats and the impeachment inquiry and defends his phone call with the president of Ukraine at a campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Trump goes after Ilhan Omar in her own district. “She’s a disgrace to our country, and she is one of the big reasons that I am going to win,” Trump said, and the crowd goes wild.
  • TRUMP REENACTS STRZOK AND PAGE TEXTS: TRUMP: “Peter Strzok & his lover Lisa Page What a GROUP!  I love you Peter. I love you too, Lisa. Lisa, I love you. If she (Hillary) doesn’t win, we got an insurance policy. We will get that of a son of a B out.  (bleeped)
  • President Trump: Joe Biden “was only a good Vice President because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass.”
• Outside the Target Center, the site of Trump’s rally, was a chaotic scene. Scores of Trump supporters, as well as pro-impeachment demonstrators, lined up hours before the event. At least one protester was photographed pouring milk on his face to counter the effects of pepper spray, as the chaos unfolded — with pro-Trump hats being lit on fire, as some demonstrators harassed police and assaulted Trump supporters, chanting “Lock him up!”
  • Minneapolis PD on horses and bikes tangle with protesters outside Trump rally at downtown Target Center. A cop lost control of his horse and got separated for a bit. Protesters giving police the middle finger.
  • Protesters burn Trump hats and flags outside Trump rally in Minnesota
  • A man in a blue jacket seemed to be leaving the Trump rally by himself when he was spotted by a protester who yelled: “There’s a Nazi over here!” A group of protesters then attacked the man, slapping and pushing him. He finally ran away.

6am – A/B/C HIGHLIGHTS OF CNN’S EQUALITY TOWN HALL:

• 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates attended a town hall in Los Angeles with a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues involving nine of the contenders.
• Joe Biden: “When I came out — came out — when when I publicly stated–” Anderson Cooper: “Well, that would be news.” Joe Biden: “I’ve got something to you.” Anderson Cooper: “I kind of figured it out a while ago.
• Joe Biden says 15 years ago in San Francisco “it was all about gay bathhouses & ’round the clock sex…. ‘cmon on man!”
• Kamala Harris: “My pronouns are she, her, and hers.'” Chris Cuomo: “Mine too.” Kamala Harris: “…alright.”
• Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo: PLEASE READ: When Sen. Harris said her pronouns were she her and her’s, I said mine too. I should not have. I apologize. I am an ally of the LGBTQ community, and I am sorry because I am committed to helping us achieve equality. Thank you for watching our townhall. 10:15 PM · Oct 10, 2019
• With a tee-up from CNN’s Don Lemon, Beto O’Rourke says to cheers and applause that he will target churches and any organization that doesn’t fully accept the LGBTQ agenda receives “reward, no benefit, no tax break,” and loses their tax-exempt
• CRAZY meltdown at the CNN #EqualityTownHall about black transwomen by someone named “Blossom C. Brown.” She stole the mic from a mother and her trans elementary-age kid and then went overboard, so much so that Don Lemon repeatedly took the mic away. NO ONE BLACK TRANS WOMAN HAS TAKEN THE MIC TONIGHT! NOT ONE BLACK TRANS MAN HAS TAKEN THE MIC TONIGHT!  … DON LEMON: But I gave you the mic… we’re proud and happy you’re here. BLOSSOM: this is how anti-blackness works
• Pete Buttigieg is interrupted by trans activists at CNN’s Equality Town Hall. Protesters: Trans people are dying! Anderson Cooper: you guys chill out.  Protesters: trans lives matter. Anderson Cooper: let me just point out there is a long history of protest in the gay and transgender community – they are right to be upset.
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asked a question by Jacob, a 9-year-old transgender student (dressed as boy) from Massachusetts, at the Equality Town Hall. Warren: I want to have a secretary of education who believes in the value of all of our kids…
• WARREN Mocks People Who Believe Marriage Should Be Between A Man & A Woman
• Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says Americans should have their hard-earned tax dollars go to pay for prison inmates to go through transgender surgery. Warren says the locked-up criminals are “entitled” to it
• A black trans woman said it’s “violence” to misgender or alter a trans person’s name after Nia Malika Henderson mispronounced her name at the town hall: It’s violence to misgender a transgender person.
• Cory Booker hits on town hall attendee and makes them blush: “You are a beautiful man”

6am – D         INTERVIEW – STEPHEN GUTOWSKI – staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon @StephenGutowski

• Virginia Dems Turn Down Money to Combat Gun Crime to Stick It to ICE. (Washington Free Beacon/By Stephen Gutowski) — Virginia turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal money used to combat gun crime in 2018, rather than comply with federal immigration authorities, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. A series of Department of Justice memos show that two anti-gun-crime grants were transferred from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), which had previously administered the program, in Dec. 2018. The memos say the transfer was necessary after state officials refused to certify that Virginia would comply with federal requirements to share immigration information with federal law enforcement. “DCJS will not be able to comply with the requirements and the agency has formally declined the awards,” a DOJ official said in one memo. “The grants were awarded to the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) to serve as the fiscal agent for the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) awards for the Eastern and Western Districts of the state of Virginia.” Democratic governor Ralph Northam, a supporter of gun control reforms, and his administration lost out on $665,673 in grant funding that is specifically aimed at reducing gun crimes. The grants are now administered through the non-profit Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police. A Northam spokeswoman declined to comment on the transfer but said the governor supports the program and how the non-profit has handled it. “These federal dollars continue to flow to communities to help local law enforcement, prevention, and reentry,” spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky said in an email. “This ongoing program is one way we work to reduce violent crime—the governor has made it clear he supports commonsense gun safety measures to fully address the emergency of gun violence in the Commonwealth.” House of Delegates Republican majority leader Todd Gilbert said the administration’s decision to refuse the grant undermines the ability of the state to combat gun crime. Gilbert said the move shows that Northam—who vetoed a bill banning sanctuary cities in March—is more committed to protecting illegal immigrants than he is to curbing gun crime.

6am – E/F      CHINA / HONG KONG;

• U.S.-China trade talks kicked off on a positive note on Thursday as President Trump said he would meet with a top envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday.  The two sides could announce a limited trade agreement this week that would prevent Trump’s planned tariff increase from going into effect this month.
• Trump to meet with top Chinese official as trade talks reach critical stage. The market bump came after Trump tweeted, “Big day of negotiations with China. They want to make a deal, but do I? I meet with the Vice Premier tomorrow at The White House.”
• CNN Journalist gets quickly shut down when she asked James Harden, Russell Westbrook if they would refrain from speaking out on politics/social justice after China debate
• KERR PRESS CONFERENCE MAKES IT WORSE… Steve Kerr on if he’s ever been asked about human rights during his previous trips to China: “No. Nor has (America’s) record of human rights abuses come up either… People in China didn’t ask me about, you know, people owning AR-15s and mowing each other down in a mall.”
• Houston Rockets Nike merchandise disappears from China stores. BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Houston Rockets sneakers and other merchandise were pulled from several Nike (NKE.N) stores in major Chinese cities amid the furor surrounding a tweet from the team’s general manager in support of anti-government protests in Hong Kong.

7am – A         INTERVIEW – NEWT GINGRICH – Former Speaker of the House, host of “Newt’s World” podcast and author of upcoming book “Trump Vs. China: Facing America’s Greatest Threat” (comes out October 22nd)  — discussed the impeachment push and China trade talks in DC this week.

• Newt Gingrich: The resistance against Trump began the day he was elected — This is not an impeachment process. (Fox News) – By Newt Gingrich // The fake impeachment movement taking place is part of an ongoing effort to drive President Trump from office. It is part of a determination on the left that Trump must be expelled from the White House. This coup attempt – which is exactly what it is – has nothing to do with evidence or any single accusation. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said when asked what she would do if the whistleblower accusation involving Ukraine collapsed, “We have many other, shall we say, candidates for impeachable offense in terms of the Constitution of the United States, but this one is the most understandable by the public.” In other words, no matter the evidence and no matter how many times President Trump and his team knock down the attack, there will always be another effort designed to drive him from office.
• CHINA TRADE TALKS TODAY: Trump to meet with top Chinese official as trade talks reach critical stage. The market bump came after Trump tweeted, “Big day of negotiations with China. They want to make a deal, but do I? I meet with the Vice Premier tomorrow at The White House.”
• BOOK: Trump vs. China: Facing America’s Greatest Threat Hardcover – October 22, 2019: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that China poses the biggest threat to the United States. Every American needs to understand the threat to America’s safety and prosperity posed by China’s reemergence as a world power. Unlike our other economic and military rivals, China is the only country big enough and with enough human resources to compete with us everywhere in the world. From the point of view of Beijing, China has a long history of dominating the world, and the past century of Western dominance is only a temporary blip.

7am – B         Joe Biden worked with whistleblower when he was vice president, officials reveal. (Washington Examiner/by Rob Crilly, Steven Nelson, & David M. Drucker) — The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a “professional” tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only “in the executive branch.” The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left.

7am – C         SPORTS NEWS: MYSTICS WIN AND NATS TONIGHT

• Mystics top Sun for first WNBA championship in team history. The Mystics are champions for the first time in franchise history after topping the Sun, 89-78, in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
• TONIGHT: Washington Nationals at St. Louis Cardinals – Today at 8:08 PM  – Leadership Championship Series – Game 1

7am – D         INTERVIEW – LARRY MICHAEL – Voice of the Redskins – previewed Washington Redskins @ Miami Dolphins – Sunday 10/13 at 1 PM.

• Redskins interim head coach Bill Callahan is still deciding which quarterback will get the start against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. (via Redskins.com)
• Ian Rapoport @RapSheet: Sources: The #Redskins are expecting to start QB Case Keenum this week, assuming his foot injury allows him. So Colt McCoy back to the bench.
• Redskins, Dolphins battle it out in Week 6 Winless Bowl.  (ESPN) – The 0-4 Miami Dolphins host the 0-5 Washington Redskins in a Sunday battle at 1 p.m. ET (Fox) that pits the NFL’s two worst teams according to point differential (Dolphins at -137 and Redskins at -78). Welcome to the 2019 Winless Bowl. And this week, the zero must go to one team — barring a tie. Miami, which has lost each of its first four games by 20-plus points, is finally having a quiet October after jettisoning many of its best players the past two months as part of an extreme rebuild. Washington, which has shuffled between quarterbacks Case Keenum, Colt McCoy and Dwayne Haskins over its first five games, fired coach Jay Gruden on Monday. ESPN NFL reporters Cameron Wolfe (Dolphins) and John Keim (Redskins) break down the Winless Bowl, including the impact it will have on the 2020 NFL draft, plus a glimpse into each team’s long-term direction

7am – E         TRUMP RALLY: Trump attacks impeachment inquiry, uses graphic language to belittle Bidens at Minnesota rally; protests get violent. President Trump unloaded on Joe and Hunter Biden over their Ukrainian business dealings in Minneapolis on Thursday evening — at one point bringing the crowd to its feet by charging that Biden’s only useful trait as vice president was his preternatural ability to “kiss Barack Obama’s a–.” Trump cited a new report in the Washington Examiner that the whistleblower at the center of Democrats’ impeachment push had worked with Biden. 

8am – A/B/C  INTERVIEW – YING MA – a legal immigrant from China, author of “Chinese Girl in the Ghetto”, lawyer, And former deputy director of a pro-Trump super PAC; former deputy policy director and deputy communications director for the Ben Carson 2016 presidential campaign.  (IN STUDIO)

• Ying Ma discussed her book, how American companies (NBA, NIKE and others) are caving to China over Hong Kong protests and there are important trade talks in D.C. today at the White House.

8am – D        INTERVIEW – BRET BAIER – Anchor of Special Report, weekdays at 6 PM on Fox News Channel and author of upcoming book “Three Days at the Brink” (to be published on Oct. 22^nd) – discussed the Dem impeachment push, the latest whistleblower news and

• Washington Examiner: Joe Biden worked with whistleblower when he was vice president, officials reveal
• Trump to meet with top Chinese official as trade talks reach critical stage. The market bump came after Trump tweeted, “Big day of negotiations with China. They want to make a deal, but do I? I meet with the Vice Premier tomorrow at The White House.”

8am – E         RECAP HIGHLIGHTS: CNN’S EQUALITY TOWN HALL: 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates attended a town hall in Los Angeles with a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues involving nine of the contenders.