Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Jeffrey Lord and Fox’s Kevin Corke joined WMAL on Thursday!

Mornings on the Mall

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C   Boy Scouts of America will now admit girls.

• The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will now allow girls to join their well known cub scout program which will enable them to advance to the highest rank of Eagle Scout, according to a statement released Wednesday. The organization’s board of directors voted unanimously to make the historic change to the group that has been for boys since its founding over 100 years ago. “Today, the Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors unanimously approved to welcome girls into its iconic Cub Scout program and to deliver a Scouting program for older girls that will enable them to advance and earn the highest rank of Eagle Scout,” the group said in a statement Wednesday. Starting next year, girls can become cub scouts and have path to Eagle Scout.
• Don, Jr: I thought that’s what the girl scouts was for?
• Girl Scouts blast decision as due to BSA’s declining membership. A feud between the two largest scouting organizations broke into the open Tuesday when the president of Girl Scouts of the USA called the Boy Scouts’ “covert campaign” to recruit girls “reckless” and “unsettling” in a letter obtained by BuzzFeed News. A Girl Scouts spokesman confirmed the letter in an email to The Washington Post.“We were disappointed in the lack of transparency as we learned that you are surreptitiously testing the appeal of a girls’ offering to millennial parents,” Girl Scouts President Kathy Hopinkah Hannan wrote in her letter to Boy Scouts President Randall Stephenson. “Furthermore, it is inherently dishonest to claim to be a single gender organization while simultaneously endeavoring upon a co-ed model.”

5am – D         Ed Asner asks Chris Jansing for kisses during Weinstein interview.

5am – E         Vegas Update:

• AUTOPSY OF PADDOCK’S BRAIN SHOWS NO ABNORMALITIES: The Las Vegas sheriff leading the investigation into America’s worst mass shooting has said ‘we may never know’ what motivated Stephen Paddock to kill 58 people. Joe Lombardo said and exam of Paddock’s brain has revealed ‘no abnormalities’ while girlfriend Marilou Danley had ‘no concerns’ over his mental health.

• Las Vegas police defend shifting timeline of shooting, warn it could change again. Since the Las Vegas gunman opened fire from his 32nd-floor hotel suite, killing 58 people at a country music festival last week and injuring hundreds more before shooting himself, questions have swirled around the attack. The revelation from Joseph Lombardo, the Las Vegas sheriff, gave way to a new round of questions, including when information about this shooting was relayed to hotel security and when — or if — that detail was then given to the local police. So far, neither the police or the hotel have offered any answers, and both sides have in fact suggested there could be future revisions to the timeline. “Nobody’s trying to be nefarious, nobody’s trying to hide anything, and what we want to do is draw the most accurate picture we can,” Lombardo said in a television interview Wednesday. “I’m telling you right now, today, that that timeline might change again.”

6am – A         Trump’s Rally On Taxes Last Night:

• “It’s time to take care of our country” — Trump pitches tax code overhaul in Pennsylvania
• Rips ‘obstructionist’ Dems
• Americans will get a $4000 raise, says Trump
• We make the zero bracket bigger.
• Brackets: 0, 12, 25, 35
• Double standard deduction
• Cut corporate rate from 35 to 20
• “Remember, you will do your tax on a single piece of paper…H&R Block will not like Donald Trump very much, that’s one company I will tell you. They will not like me at all.”
• “When it comes to the business tax we are now dead last among developed nations.”
• Trump said Patriots owner Bob Kraft told him while at the White House to give tax cuts “to the middle class, don’t give it to us.”

6am – B/C     WEINSTEIN:

• Harvey Weinstein leaves LA for rehab in Arizona
• Hillary Clinton on Weinstein campaign donations: I give money to charity every year and “this will be part of that”
• Ben Affleck Apologizes for Acting ‘Inappropriately’ w/ Hilarie Burton
• TMZ: Harvey Weinstein ‘I’m Not Doing Okay, Gotta Get Help!’ And Screw Those Celebs

6am – D         Bad Day For NBC:

• Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump 11h11 hours ago: Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!
• “That was just fake news by NBC”: Trump denies he wanted tenfold increase in U.S. nuclear arsenal
• Jim Mattis slams NBC nuclear arsenal report, calls it “absolutely false”
• NBC: We didn’t sit on Weinstein story. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim told staffers at a town hall meeting Wednesday that “the notion that we would try to cover for a powerful person is deeply offensive to all of us.” An NBC source told POLITICO on Tuesday that what Farrow had early on at NBC “was nowhere close” to what appeared in the magazine or The Times. Grove reported that scripts were being “prepared and vetted” at NBC and that Farrow’s reporting was undergoing fact-checking and legal vetting. And Farrow told Maddow on Tuesday night that he had “an explosively reportable piece” while still at NBC and that The New Yorker realized that immediately.

6am – F         Utah toddler left overnight at corn maze wasn’t reported missing until morning. (KSL) — WEST JORDAN — A family did not notice they had left their 3-year-old boy at a corn maze in West Jordan until the next morning, police say. West Jordan Police Sgt. Joe Monson said someone noticed a little boy alone in the maze Monday night and brought the boy to the attention of the Crazy Corn Maze staff. “They had staff out with bullhorns announcing they had a found child, they waited at the gate, but no one showed up for the child,” Monson said. One of the corn maze owners, Kendall Schmidt, said they did everything they could, including going car to car. He said the boy was scared and crying, and couldn’t tell them much except his age and the name of his brother and his cat.

Mother leaves behind toddler in corn maze. (ABC) — A Utah mother left behind her 3-year-old son in a corn maze on Monday, prompting local authorities to ask some questions before allowing the child to return to his mother, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.  Monday at 7:32 p.m., the child was spotted near the Crazy Corn Maze in West Jordan, Utah by a woman. The woman contacted authorities, and when the boy could not be identified, he spent the night with child protective services.  It wasn’t until Tuesday morning that the mother realized that her child went missing.  “At 7:42 a.m. today, the mother woke up and noticed he was missing. She realized she may have left him at the corn maze and called us,” West Jordan police Sgt. Joe Monson told the Salt Lake Tribune.

6am – E         VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION STUMPING:

• Biden to hit the trail for Northam in Virginia. Former Vice President Joe Biden will campaign on Saturday with Ralph Northam, the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia. The Northam campaign said Biden will host a “workforce development roundtable” Saturday morning in Reston. The event is at a tech incubator and will not be open to the general public, the campaign said.
• PENCE FOR GILLESPIE: That same day, Vice President Mike Pence will be appearing with Republican nominee Ed Gillespie at a campaign event in Abingdon, in Southwest Virginia.
• Obama Sets Date To Campaign For Northam In Virginia. Former President Barack Obama will return to campaigning next week in his first public foray into electoral politics since leaving office in January. Obama will stump for Ralph Northam, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, at an Oct. 19 rally in Richmond, Va., Northam’s campaign announced Wednesday.

7am – A/B/C             The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will now allow girls to join their well known cub scout program which will enable them to advance to the highest rank of Eagle Scout, according to a statement released Wednesday. The organization’s board of directors voted unanimously to make the historic change to the group that has been for boys since its founding over 100 years ago. “Today, the Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors unanimously approved to welcome girls into its iconic Cub Scout program and to deliver a Scouting program for older girls that will enable them to advance and earn the highest rank of Eagle Scout,” the group said in a statement Wednesday. Starting next year, girls can become cub scouts and have path to Eagle Scout.

7am – D         Trump tells Pa. truckers his tax plan would give Americans $4,000 raise. HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Trump drove home a message promoting his proposed tax plan to a crowd of about 1,000, including hundreds of truckers, on Wednesday evening in an Air National Guard hangar in Harrisburg.  “When your trucks are moving, America is growing,” Trump said. “America First means putting American truckers first.” The crowd included workers organized by the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Association, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce and other business groups. Wednesday’s speech included a new claim about the president’s tax plan: That the typical American household could see wages go up by $4,000 from a provision encouraging major U.S. companies to bring back — or repatriate — profits now stored overseas.

7am – E         SPORTS NEWS:

• Stephen Strasburg shines in surprise start as Nats force Game 5 with Cubs. (Washington Post) – CHICAGO — Three October heartbreaks, three demoralizing first-round exits and promise left unfulfilled have the Washington Nationals conditioned not to expect much in the way of good luck when the postseason comes around. But baseball’s higher powers, coupled with modern medicine, created a flurry of favorable circumstances Wednesday at Wrigley Field, and the Nationals did not squander the good fortune. Rain and a last-gasp antibiotic switch gifted Stephen Strasburg the time and vigor to take the ball and dominate the Chicago Cubs in a 5-0 win in Game 4 of the National League Division Series. A bad hop on a routine groundball produced their first run instead of their third out of the third inning. And fierce winds prevented the hardest-hit ball the Cubs managed against Strasburg from going over the left field wall. In the eighth, those Wrigley breezes could not keep Michael A. Taylor’s grand slam from exiting the yard, by barely a foot, in right field. All those events combined, in stunning fashion, to extend the Nationals’ season and give them a chance to advance to the National League Championship Series for the first time in club history. A decisive Game 5 is scheduled for Thursday night at Nationals Park.
• Metro closes before game ends tonight. (Yahoo Sports) — Only in Washington D.C., can baseball fans witness their team win a do-or-die Game 4 on the road and go to sleep angry. Only the Washington Nationals owners would ensure that’s the case. Yet again Washington fans will arrive in droves at Nationals Park for Game 5 against the Chicago Cubs on Thursday night mentally prepared to leave early during the biggest game of the season to date. That’s because, again, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will be shutting off service to train lines before the game is likely over. Yep. The last train leaving Nationals Park will depart at 11:48p.m. for a game that starts at 8:08p.m. So far every game in this National League Division Series has gone over the three-hour mark. With a decisive Game 5, and both teams ready to pull out all the stops necessary to advance, you can bet Thursday’s action will blow well past that. And most infuriating of all is that this was avoidable. WMATA’s schedule is permanent, but special event organizers — such as the Nationals — can pay extra to keep lines running for the benefit of their attendees. The Nationals have decided not to do so. Instead of paying the $100,000 per hour necessary to keep all stations operational after normal hours, the team is asking fans to use “alternate forms of travel,” like biking … at about midnight. Surely this won’t create any issues for fans who want to bring children to the game. Other options include paying for a cab, dealing with surge pricing on apps like Uber or paying parking fees.
• Capitals-Penguins redux ends with another Washington loss. (Washington Post) — As Christian Djoos’s stat line flashed across the Capital One Arena videoboard and low cheers of his name echoed through the stands, the 23-year-old rookie looked up and gave a slight shake of his head as if still in disbelief. Beside him, Capitals defenseman John Carlson gave him a nudge of encouragement. The Capitals lost Wednesday night, 3-2, to the Pittsburgh Penguins, sinking themselves by taking six penalties and then allowing three power-play goals. But at least one good thing may have come out of the loss: an answer for the team’s struggling third defense pairing. In his NHL debut, Djoos scored a goal and recorded an assist, shining brighter as the game went on and potentially carving out a role for himself in the lineup.
• Trump Voters Hate The NFL More Than Clinton Voters Hate Fox News. (Daily Caller) — A New York Times analysis Wednesday of daily polling shows that Donald Trump voters view the National Football League more unfavorably than Hillary Clinton voters feel about Fox News. The NFL has a negative 24 percent net favorability among Trump voters, while Fox News has a negative 14 percent net favorability among Clinton voters, according to the Times report. The report comes as President Donald Trump wages battle against NFL players who kneel during the national anthem in protest. “Sports fans should never condone players that do not stand proud for their National Anthem or their Country,” Trump tweeted. “NFL should change policy!”

8am – A/B/C INTERVIEW – DR. SEBASTIAN GORKA

• IRAN: Trump will ‘decertify’ Iran deal, White House tells Republican leaders
• WMAL FREE SPEECH FORUM: Dr. Gorka will appear at the WMAL Free Speech Forum this weekend https://www.wmal.com/freespeechforum/
• NORTH KOREA: North Korea: Trump has “lit the wick of war”: report Share to Facebook. North Korea’s foreign minister said in an interview with a Russian state-run news outlet published Wednesday that President Trump has “lit the wick of war” with his aggressive rhetoric in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month. “With his bellicose and insane statement at the United Nations, Trump, you can say, has lit the wick of a war against us,” Ri Yong Ho was quoted as telling Russia’s TASS news agency, according to Reuters.
• ARSENAL FAKE NEWS:
  • Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump 11h11 hours ago: Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!
  • “That was just fake news by NBC”: Trump denies he wanted tenfold increase in U.S. nuclear arsenal
• Wall Street Journal journalist sentenced in Turkey. The US-based newspaper the Wall Street Journal has denounced a jail sentence handed to one of its reporters by a Turkish court. A Turkish court sentenced Ayla Albayrak on Thursday to a prison term of two years and one month over a 2015 story about ongoing clashes between Turkish security forces and fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeast of the country, according to a report by the newspaper. The court ruled that she had shown support for the outlawed PKK group in the article, accusing her of “terrorist” propaganda.

8am – D         INTERVIEW — JEFFREY LORD —  former CNN commentator, currently a contributing editor to The American Spectator and a former aide to Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan – discussed President Trump’s tax plan rally

• Trump: Jeffrey Lord was ‘one of my few sources of truth’ on CNN

8am – E         INTERVIEW — KEVIN CORKE – Fox News White House Correspondent – discussed what’s on President Trump’s agenda today.