Larry O’Connor’s Daily Radar Report 01.12.18

Curious about today’s topics on The Larry O’Connor Show? Below are a few stories on the radar. Be sure to listen to The Larry O’Connor Show Monday – Friday 3pm – 6pm on WMAL.

Megyn Kelly: Some women want to be fat-shamed (NY Post)

Megyn Kelly’s secret to staying skinny during law school? Asking her stepfather to fat-shame her.

On Thursday, Kelly, 47, revealed on her eponymous “Today” show that, while studying at Albany Law School in the 1990s, she asked her stepfather, Peter Kirwan, to fat-shame her whenever she wanted to eat.

“Some of us want to be shamed!” Kelly said. “When I was in law school, I was gaining weight, I said to my stepfather, ‘If you see me going into that kitchen one more time, you say, ‘Where you going, fat ass?’ And it works!” [Read More]

Teens eat laundry detergent in new social media ‘challenge’ (KSAT)

A new social media trend is causing health concerns: attention-starved teens are scarfing down laundry detergent pods.

Online “memes” feature photos depicting the laundry pods as a pizza topping or breakfast cereal. Videos appear to show people biting into the detergent pacs and spitting them out.

Online users joke about how “tasty” the pods look… in some cases, even calling them the “forbidden fruit.” [Read More]

Trump Accuses FBI Agent of ‘Treason’ [WSJ]

President Donald Trump said Thursday that an FBI agent once involved in the special counsel’s Russia probe committed “treason,” and he called for Republican investigators in Congress to conclude their probes swiftly.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump, unprompted, labeled as “treason” a text message written by Peter Strzok, an agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who was removed in July as a top investigator on the special counsel’s team investigating whether Russia colluded with associates… [Read More]

Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain Trump FISA warrant? [SaraACarter.com]

The unverified dossier alleging connections between President Trump’s campaign and the Russians was used as evidence by the FBI to gain approval from a secret court to monitor members of Trump’s team, this reporter has learned.

A large portion of the evidence presented in the salacious 35-page dossier put together by former British spy Christopher Steele, has either been proven wrong or remains unsubstantiated. However, the FBI gained approval nevertheless to surveil members of Trump’s campaign and “it’s outrageous and clearly should be thoroughly investigated,” said a senior law enforcement source, with knowledge of the process.

Multiple sources told this reporter that the dossier was used along with other evidence to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as FISC. The sources also stressed that there will be more information in the coming week regarding systemic “FISA abuse.” [Read More]

MCAULIFFE SAYS HE’D SLUG TRUMP: ‘YOU WOULD HAVE TO PICK HIM UP OFF THE FLOOR’ [Grabien]

Outgoing Virginia governor and possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Terry McAuliffe said he would beat up President Trump if he ever invaded his space during a debate.

McAuliffe, responding to a question about how he would handle Trump’s “Godzilla like” invasion of Hillary Clinton’s space during a debate, said he would “deck him.”

“You would have to pick him up off the floor,” McAuliffe said in an interview on MSNBC Thursday night. If “this guy got in my space, you want to get in my space, I’ve always said, Chris, you punch me, I’m going to punch you back twice as hard. And it wouldn’t be hard to do it. This guy thinks he can intimidate everybody. It’s disgraceful and embarrassing.”

“Hardball” host Chris Matthews predicted his warning to Trump would “go viral.” [Read More]

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