Mornings on the Mall 11.12.18

5am – A/B/C What is the top issue that you want Congress to address?

5am – D/E  Florida orders recount for governor and Senate races

6am – A Border arrests surged to highest levels of Trump presidency in October (Washington Post) Border Patrol agents last month arrested 23,121 migrant family members, a 39 percent jump from September and the highest one-month total ever recorded. In total, CBP arrested or deemed inadmissible 60,745 people along the Mexico border in October, far more than any other month since Trump took office.6am – B/C INTERVIEW – John Wordin – Founder of No Vet Alone 6am – D INTERVIEW – Hans Von Spakovsky –  Senior Legal Fellow The Heritage Foundation6am – E The death toll in wildfires sweeping California has risen to 31, with more than 200 people still missing, officials have said. Six more people were confirmed killed in the Camp Fire in the north of the state, taking the toll there to 29. That fire now equals the deadliest on record in California – the 1933 Griffith Park disaster in Los Angeles.

6am – F Taco Bell lover celebrates 106th birthday at fast food restaurant

7am – A INTERVIEW – Joe Digenova – legal analyst and former US Attorney to the District of Columbia 

7am – B/C MEDIA NEWS:

• Dems to probe Trump’s treatment of CNN, Amazon, Washington Post in triple-threaded abuse-of-power inquiries
• Avenatti takes on Tucker Carlson after bar incident involving Fox News host’s children

7am-D INTERVIEW –  Trevor Matich – WMAL’s Redskins analyst

7am – E Maryland’s “Red Flag Law” Claims Its First Victim As Police Kill Gun Owner

8am – A Antifa News

8am – B/C IMMIGRATION – Steve Scalise – the current United States House of Representatives Majority Whip and representative for Louisiana’s 1st congressional district

8am – D/E Trump, speaking at Armistice Day event outside Paris, honors fallen soldiers as Macron, Merkel take shots at him