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Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Smith

5am – A/B/C  Obama’s ISIS Strategy: Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas and more attractive and more compelling vision.

5am – D         2016 News:

• Media criticizes Clinton campaign roping off reporters at New Hampshire parade.
• HILLARY: CNN Reporter Who Scored First Hillary Interview Attended Clinton Aide’s Wedding Two Weeks Ago. Hillary Clinton to do first national TV interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, airing Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” at 5 p.m. EDT.
• BERNIE SANDERS Once Blamed Cervical Cancer on a Lack of Orgasms.

5am – E         Metro News:

• Hogan’s Purple Line trims would eliminate some station elevators, art. (Washington Post) — The Purple Line can do with a few less station elevators, shorter platform lengths and no environmentally friendly plant material for track beds at all, according to a list of $210 million in cost reductions identified by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R). The list of potential cuts — 43 items in all — was sent to Montgomery and Prince George’s county officials last week and released by Hogan’s office late Monday. It includes one reduction already mentioned by the state: cutting service frequency from six to 7.5 minutes. It also provides more specifics behind the governor’s announcement that the 16-mile light rail project linking Bethesda and New Carrollton would go forward — but only with significant cuts to the projected $2.4 billion price tag. Hogan’s conditions for greenlighting the project also include a deep reduction in the state’s financial commitment, from $700 million to $168 million.
• Fox 5 DC: Metro employees and union claim new train operators not properly trained. WASHINGTON – Veteran Metro employees and their union are speaking out by making startling allegations about the lack of safety on trains because of training. “I believe with training, they have problems and issues,” said Dion Baker, an experienced train operator who has been with Metro for ten years. “They don’t feel they’re getting the proper training they need to go out there and handle the trains,” said Marlene Flemmings-McCann, an assistant business agent with the union representing train operators. The union, Local 689, claims the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), better known as Metro, doesn’t have qualified training instructors.

6am – A         INTERVIEW – DANIEL HANNAN – journalist and author, who is a Member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party

• DANIEL HANNAN: Yes, chaos may loom. But if little Greece can stand up to the bullies in Brussels, so can we! (Daily Mail) — This was a brave, almost heroic, vote. Greeks cast their ballots in the face of extraordinary pressure from the European elites. One after another, EU leaders had lined up to threaten them with disaster in the event of a ‘No’ vote. The President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, went so far as to tell Greek voters that ‘salaries won’t be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down’.

6am – B         The Invention of Indoors: “The great outdoors? If you ask me, it’s overrated.” By John Kelly (Washington Post) — As our wet, hot American summer kicks into high gear, I’ve come to an important realization: I hate the great outdoors. I spent much of the holiday weekend there and have decided it’s just not for me. There are beach people and mountain people, lake people and ocean people. I’m a hotel room person. If I were a belly button, I’d be an innie, as in “I’m not going out.” The outdoors is full of things humans have been trying to get away from since the day we started walking upright: the sun, the rain, the ticks . . .

6am – C         Kenyans to Obama: ‘Spare us the gay talk’ (BBC) — President Obama is likely to have a packed agenda when he visits east Africa later this month, but Kenyans are already using Twitter to advise him on what he should – or shouldn’t – be discussing. #KenyansMessageToObama is trending in the country, with nearly 3,000 tweets in just a few hours Monday morning. One prominent topic of conversation is gay rights. “Spare us the gay talk,” one user comments, while another tweets: “That gay vibe should remain in America.” Last month the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is legal across the country, a decision that was hailed by Obama – although he had expressed opposition to gay marriage in the past. More broadly, Obama has used previous trips to Africa to urge governments to decriminalise homosexuality. Gay sex is illegal in Kenya, and punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

6am – D/E     Mexico Backlash: Was Trump Right About The Illegals?

• FLASHBACK: TRUMP – Mexico is not sending its finest… they’re bringing their problems and rapists.
• Rudy Giuliani defends Donald Trump over immigration remarks.
• White House Blames Republicans for Immigration Failure that Led to Murder of SF Woman.
• Fmr. Bush Press Secy Ari Fleischer: He’s not a credible candidate.
• Donald Trump: The Silent Majority Is Back.
• For some workers at Trump’s D.C. hotel, route to U.S. wasn’t always legal. For weeks, dozens of construction workers from Latin America have streamed onto the site of the Old Post Office Pavilion in downtown Washington and taken pride in their work building one of the city’s newest luxury hotels. But that job site is now laden with tension after the man behind the project — billionaire developer Donald Trump — put himself at the center of the nation’s debate over illegal immigration. Trump garnered headlines — and prompted several business associates to sever relations with him — when he launched his bid for the Republican presidential nomination last month with a controversial description of drug dealers and “rapists” crossing the border each day into the United States from Mexico.

7am – A         INTERVIEW — JIM CARAFANO- leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies and Director of Heritage’s Institute for International Studies

• Iran Deadline Today-ish?
• Thoughts on the false alarms of gunshots at Walter Reed yesterday and Navy Yard last week
• Obama’s ISIS Strategy: Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas and more attractive and more compelling vision.

7am – B         Food News:

• Skinny Oreos are a Double Stuf lover’s worst nightmare. Oreos get thin, going for ‘sophisticated’ air. NEW YORK (AP) — Oreos are getting a skinny new look, and its maker says the new cookie is a “sophisticated” snack for grown-ups that isn’t meant to be twisted or dunked. Mondelez International Inc. says it will add “Oreo Thins” to its permanent lineup in the U.S. starting next week. The cookies look like regular Oreos and have a similar cookie-to-filling ratio, except that they’re slimmer. That means four of the cookies contain 140 calories, compared with 160 calories for three regular Oreos. And since they’re for adults, Oreo says they weren’t designed to be twisted open or dunked. That’s even though about half of customers pull apart regular Oreos before eating them, according to the company.
• Starbucks: Prices for some drinks to go up by 5 to 20 cents. NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks is raising prices again starting Tuesday, with the increases ranging from 5 to 20 cents for most affected drinks, the company said. The Seattle-based company also raised prices nationally about a year ago. A small and large brewed coffee will each go up by 10 cents in most areas of the country, Starbucks says. That would bring the price of a large coffee to $2.45 in most U.S. stores.
• Cheap: 57-cent short stacks of pancakes at participating @IHOP 7am-7pm Tuesday http://www.ihop.com/#57anniversary IHOP pancakes only 57 cents on July 7! IHOP is celebrating their 57th anniversary by offering a short stack of pancakes for only 57 cents on Tuesday, July 7th! The offer is valid from 7 am – 7 pm for dine-in only at participating restaurants. The short stack includes 3 buttermilk pancakes and there is a limit of 1 per person. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

7am – C         Women’s World Cup Sets U.S. Television Ratings Record for Soccer. The USA’s triumph in the Women’s World Cup Sunday night drew the best initial rating ever for a U.S. soccer broadcast on a single network, according to Fox. The match surpassed the mark set by the Women’s World Cup final between the USA and China in 1999 on ABC, according to a press release from Fox Sports. Viewership of Sunday’s match peaked near the end of the game, according to the network. The game began with more than 16 million viewers, but the audience grew as goals were scored, and nearly 23 million people watched the winning goal, according to preliminary data from TV Media Insights, an online publication about TV ratings.

7am – D         Lawyers: Cosby’s drugs-sex admission could help women’s suit. Cosby admitted he got Quaaludes with intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. Bill Cosby Admits to Drugging Women for Sex. Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he purchased Quaaludes to give to women with the intent of having sex with them, according to new court documents obtained by the Associated Press. He admitted to giving the drug to at least one woman and “other people.” The 77 year-old comedian was testifying under oath in a 2005 lawsuit filed by a former Temple University employee. He admitted to giving the woman three tablets of Benadryl. The case was ultimately settled outside of court. Cosby also said at one point that he had seven prescriptions for Quaaludes and that he had given the drugs to “other people,” according to testimony given in response to a plaintiff’s motion concerning the conduct of Cosby and his lawyer. He also said “yes” in response to the question: “When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” Cosby also admitted that he had sex with a woman who was 19 at the time and under the influence of drugs

7am – E         The outspoken conservative riling the Fairfax County School Board. (Washington Post/T. Rees Shapiro) — Members of the crowd filling the school board meeting were on their feet, shouting at the politicians sitting on the dais. The voices had tinges of outrage. For what are normally staid proceedings — with Fairfax County School Board members handing out certificates to long-tenured teachers and honoring Boy Scouts — the hearing last month turned contentious as the board considered expanding the school system’s sex-education curriculum to include lessons on gender identity and transgender issues. Casting her no vote, Springfield district representative Elizabeth Schultz rose to her feet as the vast majority of those in attendance gave her a rousing ovation. Never mind that the measure passed in a 10-to-2 vote. Even in the lopsided defeat, a woman’s voice called out above the din: “Thank you, Elizabeth!” Schultz is used to being on the losing end of votes as the mostly liberal board’s brash and loquacious conservative, but she reveled in the rare public appreciation as hundreds of parents in the audience applauded her stance. The mother of three current Fairfax County public school students, Schultz said she voted on behalf of parents and their right to opt their children out of sex-ed ­classes that cover sensitive material. “Everywhere I go, parents tell me they feel disenfranchised,” Schultz said. “They feel lost in the system because they don’t know who to turn to. They feel like everything is a battle. It shouldn’t be. . . . It’s as if common sense and pragmatism have been sold out for political ideology.”

8am – A         INTERVIEW — JENNIFER GRIFFIN – National Security Correspondent for Fox News Channel – recapped President Obama’s ISIS strategy.

8am – B/C     OBAMA’s ISIS STRATEGY: Obama on ISIS: “Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas”

8am – D         INTERVIEW: LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm

• Foreign investors can’t ignore China’s crazy stock market.
• Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expected to present new proposals to European leaders, global markets mixed.
• 2016 News: Was Trump Right? FLASHBACK: TRUMP – Mexico is not sending its finest… they’re bringing their problems and rapists. Rudy Giuliani defends Donald Trump over immigration remarks.

TOMORROW: KT McFarland