Tucker Carlson, KT McFarland and Mark Levin joined WMAL on Wednesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Smith Hunter

5am – A/B/C Debate Preview: Will Trump Go After Carson or Vice Versa?     

5am – D         Ashton Carter: U.S. to Begin ‘Direct Action on the Ground’ in Iraq, Syria. (NBC News) — Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin “direct action on the ground” against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to intensify pressure on the militants as progress against them remains elusive. “We won’t hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL, or conducting such missions directly whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground,” Carter said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services committee, using an alternative name for the militant group. Carter pointed to last week’s rescue operation with Kurdish forces in northern Iraq to free hostages held by ISIS.

5am – E         Budget Deal Stirs Anger on the Right. Two-year plan reduces risk of a government shutdown. WASHINGTON—Congressional leaders worked Tuesday to marshal support for a sweeping budget and debt deal that offered an end to fiscal fights with President Barack Obama but opened up top Republicans to criticism from conservatives, including GOP presidential hopefuls. The House is expected to pass the legislation as soon as Wednesday, eliminating the risk that the government might default on its debt until after the next presidential election and increasing government spending for the next two years. The bill is likely to then pass the Senate only days before Nov. 3, after which the Treasury Department has said it wouldn’t be able to pay all its bills unless Congress acted to raise or extend the federal debt limit.

6am – A/B/C Spring Valley High School officer suspended after violent classroom arrest. (CNN) A student slammed to the ground by a South Carolina school resource officer “bears some responsibility,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. The student’s violent arrest was captured in videos that went viral and sparked widespread outrage. “If she had not disrupted the school and disrupted that class, we would not be standing here today. So it started with her and it ended with my officer. What I’m going to deal with is what my deputy did,” Lott said. The videos show the officer standing over a student, seated at her desk. He puts his arm near her neck, then yanks her backward. The desk tips over and the student crashes onto the floor. The uniformed officer doesn’t let go, sharply tugging the student toward the front of the classroom. She flies out of her desk and slides several feet across the floor.

6am – D/E     Family Says Dog Stayed Behind in Burning Home to Save Man. A family’s 4-year-old dog is being hailed a hero after it stayed behind in a burning house and alerted first responders to the location where a man had collapsed inside the home. Bambi, a Labrador mix, was with her three owners inside a home that caught fire last Tuesday morning in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood. Fire officials said the fire started around 1:45 a.m. in a two-story home in the 5100 block of West Grace Street. Bambi was let out of the home by her owner, Sara Domaradzki, who left the apartment. But when Domaradzki came back down, she had no idea that Bambi stayed behind to stay by her father’s bedside.

7am – A         INTERVIEW – TUCKER CARLSON – Editor of The Daily Caller and co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend – previewed tonight’s GOP debate.

7am – B         DC police investigating rough arrest caught on video. WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia police say they are investigating the use of force by officers who were captured on video apparently beating a man who was on the ground and handcuffed. The arrest in the 5100 block of Cloud Place in Northeast occurred on Monday, and police say bystanders shot multiple videos. Police released one video on Tuesday. In the video, the unidentified man is seen apparently damaging a car. An officer is seen taking out a nightstick and hitting the man in the leg. The man lunges at two officers, who then wrestle the man to the ground. The officers are seen throwing several punches. Later, after the man is on the ground in handcuffs, an officer is seen kicking him.

7am – C         Royals defeat Mets 5-4 in 14 innings to win Game 1 of the World Series. Mets let World Series Game 1 slip away in 14-inning epic. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jeurys Familia’s air of invincibility dissipated Tuesday night before the Mets pulled a disappearing act in extra innings. In a big whiff, after the Royals appeared to hand over the keys to the kingdom, the Mets watched Eric Hosmer deliver a sacrifice fly in the 14th inning against Bartolo Colon, sending the NL champions to a 5-4 loss in Game 1 of the World Series at Kauffman Stadium.

Telecast for Game 1 of World Series interrupted by power outage. An ill-timed outage interrupted Fox’s telecast of Game 1 of the World Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets. Fox explained the outage, which occurred in the middle of the fourth inning, by saying its broadcast truck in Kansas City lost power. The Kansas City Royals opened with an inside-the-park home run and won on a walk-off sacrifice fly in the 14th, ending one of the longest games in World Series history. “Before the start of the bottom of the fourth inning of tonight’s World Series Game 1, a rare electronics failure caused both the primary and backup generators inside the Fox Sports production compound to lose power,” Fox said in a statement. “The issue was immediately addressed, although it resulted in the audience missing one at-bat during the time needed to switch to carriage of Major League Baseball’s international feed, powered by a different generator on site. “The on-field delay was due to replay capability being lost in both teams’ clubhouses. We apologize for the interruption in tonight’s coverage and are working to ensure that the remainder of the World Series is broadcast without incident.” Google Fiber also issued an apology via Twitter, although it might have been unrelated to the issues behind Fox’s outage.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – KT MCFARLAND – Fox News National Analyst @KTMCFARLAND

• Ashton Carter: U.S. to Begin ‘Direct Action on the Ground’ in Iraq, Syria
• Iran to attend Syria talks in Vienna
• TRUMP: World would be a better place with Saddam, Gaddafi still in power
• China shadows U.S. warship near man-made islands

7am – E         Texting News:

• Police in Md. use homeless man disguise to catch drivers texting. BETHESDA — The man standing hunched on the median of River Road in Bethesda holding a hand-lettered cardboard sign and white plastic cup draws little attention from unsuspecting commuters. His sign reads “I am not homeless. I am a Montgomery County police officer looking for cell phone texting violations.” Dozens of commuters Tuesday morning traveling eastbound on River Road learned an expensive safety lesson as they approached Goldsboro Road. The undercover officer, equipped with a police radio and wearing a body camera, tipped off other officers to the offending car’s description, when he witnessed someone illegally using a smartphone behind the wheel. “You cannot text while driving, you cannot have your phone in your hand while you’re driving, you cannot have the phone to your ear while you’re driving,” says Montgomery County police Sgt. Phillip Chapin.
• Prince George’s Co. Changes Discipline for Texting While Driving School Buses. School bus drivers in a Maryland county could be fired for texting while driving students after cellphone video surfaced of one driver. That driver, who was recorded by students, still has a job because of a loophole in county policy, but the next driver who gets caught might not be as fortunate. After News4’s story last week, Prince George’s County Public Schools is adding an amendment to its transportation discipline handbook. Under misuse of a cellphone on a bus, a letter F will be added for texting while driving students. If caught, a driver could be recommended for suspension, demotion or termination. The handbooks are being reprinted and should be distributed in January. In the meantime, the new language has been distributed to bus drivers so they all are aware of it.

8am – A         INTERVIEW – MARK LEVIN – The Great One – radio host on WMAL weekdays from 6 – 9 PM and author of new book “Plunder and Deceit” — previewed the GOP debate.

8am – B         House Republicans introduce measure to impeach IRS Commissioner Koskinen. (Fox News)- Republicans on Tuesday introduced a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, accusing him of making “false statements” under oath and failing to comply with a subpoena for evidence. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and 18 other committee members introduced the resolution to begin impeachment proceedings. In doing so, they followed through on a threat first made over the summer, when Republicans accused the IRS leader of making inaccurate statements to Congress regarding the Tea Party targeting scandal and its aftermath. “Commissioner Koskinen violated the public trust,” Chaffetz said in a statement Tuesday. “He failed to comply with a congressionally issued subpoena, documents were destroyed on his watch, and the public was consistently misled. “Impeachment is the appropriate tool to restore public confidence in the IRS and to protect the institutional interests of Congress.”

8am – C         Real-Life ‘Tractor Beam’ Can Levitate Objects Using Sound Waves. Researchers recently created an acoustic hologram, or a 3D sound field projected onto a 2D space, which can be used as acoustic tweezers, cages and twisters that manipulate objects as they levitate in air. It may seem straight out of “Star Trek,” but it’s real: Scientists have created a sonic “tractor beam” that can pull, push and pirouette objects that levitate in thin air. The sonic tractor beam relies on a precisely timed sequence of sound waves that create a region of low pressure that traps tiny objects that can then be manipulated solely by sound waves, the scientists said in a new study.

8am – D/E     Spring Valley High School officer suspended after violent classroom arrest. (CNN) A student slammed to the ground by a South Carolina school resource officer “bears some responsibility,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. The student’s violent arrest was captured in videos that went viral and sparked widespread outrage. “If she had not disrupted the school and disrupted that class, we would not be standing here today. So it started with her and it ended with my officer. What I’m going to deal with is what my deputy did,” Lott said.

Lawyer says teen suffered several injuries in arrest by officer at high school in Columbia. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The attorney for a teen who was flipped backward out of her desk and tossed across a classroom says his client did suffer several injuries during her arrest. Columbia attorney Todd Rutherford told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Wednesday that Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields should have been fired as soon as Sheriff Leon Lott saw the video recorded by several students at Spring Valley High School in Columbia. “She now has a cast on her arm, she has neck and back injuries. She has a Band-Aid on her forehead where she suffered rug burn on her forehead,” Rutherford told the network.

TOMORROW: Susan Ferrechio, Amanda Carpenter, VA GOP Chairman John Whitbeck and Scottie Hughes