The Vince Coglianese Show

INTERVIEW - PHIL KERPEN - president of American Commitment and a leading free-market policy analyst

TOPIC: Virginia Governor Northam is proposing a gas tax increase, banning cell phones while driving and adding speed cameras to interstates and primary roads in Virginia

Va. Gov. Northam proposes gas tax increase as part of major transportation bill. (Washington Post) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) is proposing a 4-cent increase in the state’s gas tax to raise money to jump-start his $3.7-billion landmark rail plan and shore up a fund used to pay for roads, transit and rail projects. Several proposals to raise the gas tax in recent years have failed. In 2013, the state lowered the tax, while raising the sales tax and motor vehicle sales tax. That year, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) proposed eliminating the gas tax altogether. “To my knowledge, the last time the statewide gas tax was raised was 1986,” Deputy Transportation Secretary Nick Donohue said.

Northam wants ‘strict’ ban on holding phones while driving. (Washington Post) - The proposed cellphone ban is likely to be one of the governor’s most heavily debated transportation-related proposals. State law already makes it illegal to text or email on a cellphone while driving. Lawmakers almost passed a law banning the use of handheld personal communication devices last year, but the effort fell apart over a disagreement about whether drivers should still be able to use smartphones for actual phone calls while driving.

Allowing speed cameras would be a significant shift for Virginia, which has been slow to adopt the technology long in use in the District, Maryland and elsewhere.  The bill would also allow stationary speed cameras in certain corridors for the first time in Virginia. Speed cameras would be allowed on interstates and primary roads designated as safety corridors, where Virginia State Police could issue tickets to anyone going at least 10 mph over the speed limit. Unlike tickets issued during traffic stops in those areas, the fines would not be doubled for tickets drivers get in the mail.

INTERVIEW - BOB BARR - Clinton Impeachment Manager, former CIA Analyst, Member of Congress, and US Attorney – analyzed the impeachment trial.

INTERVIEW - INTERVIEW - ADAM KENNEDY - Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of White House Communications

TOPICS:

PRESIDENT TO SIGN USMCA INTO LAW: Note from the White House: While the do nothing Democrats continue to focus on the sham impeachment of President Trump, the President is securing historic wins to improve the lives of American families and workers. On Wednesday, the President will sign USMCA into law. This 21st century agreement fundamentally rebalances our trade relationship with Mexico and Canada and create a more level playing field for American workers, farmers, ranchers and businesses.

Recap President's MidEast Peace Plan: Trump unveils Middle East peace plan with two-state solution, tunnel connecting West Bank and Gaza

INTERVIEW - ERICH PRATT - Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America (GOA)TOPIC: Discuss the push to make Fairfax County a Second Amendment Sanctuary County.  He can recap the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday and discuss how the board reacted to the push for making it a 2A sanctuary

Erich Pratt on Twitter: I will be speaking at the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting tomorrow at 4:30 pm in favor of making the county a 2A Sanctuary County! If you live here, please join me at Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax.

INTERVIEW - CHAD PERGRAM - congressional correspondent for The Fox News Channel

TOPIC: Discuss what's happening next in the impeachment trial process

What to expect in the trial Q&A Wed: Sides will alternate posing questions. Questions will be in writing, submitted to the Chief Justice & read aloud. Sens do not pose the questions themselves. Senators must sign the questions. Questions could come from a group of senators

We are told to expect 10-12 questions per side before a recess. There is no time clock as to how long counsel for both sides has to respond. But Roberts suggested today they should try to limit responses to 5 mins, based on '99 Clinton trial precedent

In the trial Q&A, there can be no challenge of given answers by counsel for either side.

INTERVIEW - CAL THOMAS - Syndicated columnist and author of “America's Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers - and the Future of the United States”

TOPICS: Trump’s Mideast peace plan / impeachment trial/witnesses

President Trump believes the chances that witnesses will be called at his impeachment trial in the Senate have grown, even as advisers believed they might be able to allay concerns from senators after reports about assertions made by his former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, in an unpublished manuscript.

FOX NEWS: GOP develops aggressive 'Plan B' in impeachment trial, as several Dems appear to support acquittal

Trump Middle East Peace Deal: President Mr. Trump’s plan would guarantee that Israel would control a unified Jerusalem as its capital and not require it to uproot any of the settlements in the West Bank that have provoked Palestinian outrage and alienated much of the outside world. He promised to provide $50 billion in international investment to build the new Palestinian entity and open an embassy in its new state.

Mornings on the Mall

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

5am – A/B/C Trump sees witnesses as increasingly likely (NY Times) President Trump believes the chances that witnesses will be called at his impeachment trial in the Senate have grown, even as advisers believed they might be able to allay concerns from senators after reports about assertions made by his former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, in an unpublished manuscript. According to several people who spoke to him, Mr. Trump has sounded resigned to the possibility of witnesses after The New York Times reported Sunday that Mr. Bolton’s manuscript described the president directly tying the release of security aid to Ukraine to the country’s pursuit of investigations he sought into Democrats.

5am – D/E CHINA:

Britain said on Tuesday that it would not ban equipment made by the Chinese technology giant Huawei from being used in its new high-speed 5G wireless network, the starkest sign yet that an American campaign against the telecommunications company is faltering. Despite more than a year of intense lobbying by the Trump administration, which has accused Huawei of having ties to China’s Communist Party that pose a national security threat, the British government announced it would allow the company to provide equipment in some portions of a next-generation network to be built in the coming years.

Charles Lieber, chairman of the chemistry department at Harvard University, is accused of lying to federal authorities about his ties to China and was arrested Tuesday, officials announced. Police confirmed Lieber is a Lexington resident. His case was one of several discussed Tuesday in a press conference in Boston. According to a criminal complaint, Lieber failed to disclose that he was being paid a salary of up to $50,000 per month and up to $158,000 per year in living expenses by China’s Thousand Talents Plan and the Wuhan University of Technology. Federal investigators also determined that Lieber was awarded more than $1.5 million to establish a nanotechnology research lab at WUT.

The Trump administration today stopped short of declaring a public health emergency for the Wuhan coronavirus but extended screening for the virus to 20 S. airports.

On Tuesday, White House officials called major airline executives to inform them that the administration is considering a temporary ban on all China-U.S. flights. Companies such as United Airlines have canceled dozens of flights next month to mainland China, while others, such as Delta and American Airlines, are waiving cancellation fees for travelers to China.

6am – A/B/C 2020 NEWS:

Democratic 2020 candidate Joe Biden snapped at an Iowa voter on Tuesday, telling the man to “go vote for someone else” after he asked the former vice president not to support building new pipelines.The man said that he would support Biden in the general election against President Donald Trump, but that he planned to support billionaire Tom Steyer in the Democratic primary.

Biden Says He ‘Sure Would Like Michelle To Be The Vice President’

Hillary Clinton admits she feels an ‘urge’ to run against Trump again

Bernie Sanders Pledges His First Executive Orders Would Reverse Trump’s Immigration Agenda

 

6am – D INTERVIEW - CAL THOMAS - Syndicated columnist and author of “America's Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers - and the Future of the United States”

 

TOPICS: Trump’s Mideast peace plan / impeachment trial/witnesses

 

President Trump believes the chances that witnesses will be called at his impeachment trial in the Senate have grown, even as advisers believed they might be able to allay concerns from senators after reports about assertions made by his former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, in an unpublished manuscript.

FOX NEWS: GOP develops aggressive 'Plan B' in impeachment trial, as several Dems appear to support acquittal

Trump Middle East Peace Deal: President Mr. Trump’s plan would guarantee that Israel would control a unified Jerusalem as its capital and not require it to uproot any of the settlements in the West Bank that have provoked Palestinian outrage and alienated much of the outside world. He promised to provide $50 billion in international investment to build the new Palestinian entity and open an embassy in its new state.

6am – E/F CNN's Don Lemon explains handling of segment after Trump criticism (The Hill)  CNN anchor Don Lemon on Tuesday night addressed a segment from the weekend that drew criticism from President Trump in which the host laughed after a guest mocked supporters of the president. "Ask anyone who knows me," Lemon said at the end of his show Tuesday while addressing the segment. "They'll tell you: I don't believe in belittling people ... for who they are, for what they believe or where they're from." Lemon said that while he found the "joke" from the guest to be funny at the time, he "didn't catch everything that was said." "I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people," he concluded. During a segment on Saturday, Lemon had a panel discussion with GOP strategist Rick Wilson and New York Times columnist and CNN contributor Wajahat Ali. Both Wilson and Ali have been staunch critics of Trump during his presidency. Lemon laughed after Wilson said, "Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter 'U' and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it." Wilson kept going, calling Trump supporters "the credulous boomer rube demo." The interaction drew the ire of Trump, who retweeted the segment early Tuesday morning, adding, "Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television (with terrible ratings!)."

7am – A INTERVIEW - CHAD PERGRAM - congressional correspondent for The Fox News Channel

TOPIC: Discuss what's happening next in the impeachment trial process

What to expect in the trial Q&A Wed: Sides will alternate posing questions. Questions will be in writing, submitted to the Chief Justice & read aloud. Sens do not pose the questions themselves. Senators must sign the questions. Questions could come from a group of senators

We are told to expect 10-12 questions per side before a recess. There is no time clock as to how long counsel for both sides has to respond. But Roberts suggested today they should try to limit responses to 5 mins, based on '99 Clinton trial precedent

In the trial Q&A, there can be no challenge of given answers by counsel for either side.

7am – B/C WHAT'S IN TRUMP'S MIDDLE EAST PEACE PLAN? (FOX NEWS)

Two-State Solution: Long-billed as the only way for the Palestinians and Israelis to actually come to terms, Trump’s plan calls for a two-state solution – with the creation of a future “state” of Palestine. The plan would require the Palestinians to meet certain benchmarks -- rooting out terrorism, stopping "pay to slay," implementing steps toward free speech and political reforms – to become a state, but Trump promised that they would have S. backing if they did. It also calls for the creation of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem and for more than doubling the amount of territory the Palestinians control.

Land Swaps: There will also be a number of land swaps including one south of the Gaza strip to give the Palestinians more territory and one near the Egyptian border that will remain Israeli territory and will be subject to Israeli security control. The plans also calls for the construction of a tunnel connecting the West Bank and Gaza Israel will also maintain sovereignty of the Jordan Valley east of the West Bank.

Security: A major part of the plan focuses on cutting down terror attacks on Israeli settlements – and Israeli reprisals on the Palestinians – by calling for a demilitarized Palestinian state. In a suggestion sure to ruffle feathers among the Palestinian leadership, the plan also gives Israel power to maintain overall security in the region, though it does create programs for the Palestinians to show the capability to secure their areas with local police forces.

Settlements: The plan calls for Israel to halt the construction of any new settlements in contested areas for four years during which time details of a comprehensive agreement would be negotiated. It is not immediately clear, however, if the freeze could be extended if a final deal is not concluded in the four years. The deal would also require the Palestinians to accept conditions they have been previously unwilling to consider, such as accepting West Bank In the run-up to the March 2 election, Netanyahu has called for annexing parts of the West Bank and imposing Israeli sovereignty on all its settlements there. Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, and the Jordan Valley in particular is considered a vital security asset.

Jerusalem: Continuing the Trump administration stance, the plan recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem – although it does set up a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. The Palestinians see the West Bank as the heartland of a future independent state and east Jerusalem as their capital. Most of the international community supports their position, but Trump has reversed decades of S. foreign policy by siding more blatantly with Israel. The centerpiece of his strategy was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the American embassy there.

7am – D/E GUNS:

Michael Bloomberg has already spent more than $200-million in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, but the former New York mayor and current gun control sugar daddy is also promising to nearly double what the NRA spent in the 2016 election in order to push anti-gun candidates around the country in this election cycle. Everytown for Gun Safety, the Bloomberg-created gun control group, announced Monday that it plans on spending $60-million in the 2020 elections in a bid to do to the United States as a whole what the group did to Virginia in 2019: give Democrats complete control of the executive and legislative branches of government.

WV Gov Joins Push To Annex VA’s 2A Sanctuary Counties. Gov. Justice pointed out that a number of West Virginia lawmakers have recently introduced resolutions inviting Virginia counties to “come on down,” and said he echoes that sentiment. “If you’re not truly happy where you are, we stand with open arms to take you from Virginia or anywhere you may be. We stand strongly for the Second Amendment and we stand strongly for the unborn. There are so many great things about West Virginia, and we’re on the verge of moving in a way that you can’t fathom.”

Were White Nationalists Really Planning To Attack The Virginia Gun Rights Rally? According To Police Records, Not Exactly (The Daily Caller)

8am A – INTERVIEW - ERICH PRATT - Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America (GOA)

TOPIC: Discuss the push to make Fairfax County a Second Amendment Sanctuary County.  He can recap the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday and discuss how the board reacted to the push for making it a 2A sanctuary

Erich Pratt on Twitter: I will be speaking at the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting tomorrow at 4:30 pm in favor of making the county a 2A Sanctuary County! If you live here, please join me at Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax.

8am – B/C     San Francisco official in charge of cleaning up city's filthy streets arrested (Fox News)  San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was arrested Monday alongside Nick Bovis, the owner of a popular sports bar in Fisherman’s Wharf, Lefty O-Doul’s. Sources told NBC Bay Area that Nuru was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes for airport concession contracts. Both Nuru and Bovis were released on bond following their arrest. As the top official in charge of the $312 million city public works budget since 2012, Nuru was tasked with cleaning up San Francisco streets, which critics note remain cluttered with feces, trash and used needles amid a homelessness crisis. In the early 2000s, Nuru was accused by Public Works whistleblowers of misappropriating public funds and replacing city workers with employees from a nonprofit he previously led. Bovis, for his part, has a criminal past. The Chronicle learned he was arrested in 1993 and charged with second degree robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony. He was convicted of second degree robbery in 1996 and sentenced to five years in prison. Shortly after he took over the city’s iconic sports bar.

8am – D  INTERVIEW - INTERVIEW - ADAM KENNEDY - Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of White House Communications

TOPICS:

PRESIDENT TO SIGN USMCA INTO LAW: Note from the White House: While the do nothing Democrats continue to focus on the sham impeachment of President Trump, the President is securing historic wins to improve the lives of American families and workers. On Wednesday, the President will sign USMCA into law. This 21st century agreement fundamentally rebalances our trade relationship with Mexico and Canada and create a more level playing field for American workers, farmers, ranchers and businesses.

Recap President's MidEast Peace Plan: Trump unveils Middle East peace plan with two-state solution, tunnel connecting West Bank and Gaza

8am – E Buttigieg’s Campaign Reportedly Barred White Staffers From Filling Out Internal Survey (Daily Caller) Pete Buttigieg’s struggles with minority voters has sapped morale at his campaign, according to a New York Times report, so much so that a campaign official circulated a survey earlier this month for minority campaign staffers inviting them to air grievances about their white colleagues. According to The Times, Buttigieg campaign national engagement coordinator Raven Hollins circulated the survey on Jan. 1 asking minority campaign staffers to describe negative experiences with white staff members. “Please only fill out this survey if you identify as a Person of color,” the survey reads, according to The Times. The responses, the survey said, “will be used to inform our white colleagues about privilege and microaggression.”

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Hosts: Vince Coglianese and Mary Walter

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

Fred Fleitz, Bob Barr and Phil Kerpen joined WMAL on Tuesday!

 

5am – A/B/CSHOULD THERE BE WITNESSES? IF SO, WHO?

The Senate impeachment trial continues Tuesday amid growing calls to hear testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton.  The calls have been prompted by a report that Bolton’s book manuscript says President Trump directly tied the holdup of military assistance to Ukraine to investigations of Joe Biden and his son.  The President’s lawyers presented the main points of their defense on Monday, undermining the testimony of key witnesses, as well as attacking the impeachment proceedings themselves. 

 

5am – D         SCOTUS/PUBLIC CHARGE:

President Trump’s immigration policies, allowing his administration to implement a rule denying legal permanent residency to certain immigrants deemed likely to require government assistance in the future.

The Supreme Court allows a rule to go into effect that makes it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public assistance to obtain legal status

Supreme Court Allows Trump To Enforce Rule Barring Green Cards For Migrants Using Social Services. The Supreme Court Monday allowed the Trump administration to enforce a new rule that will deny green cards to foreign nationals who use taxpayer-funded social services, lifting lower court injunctions that blocked the change. The 5-4 vote followed familiar ideological lines, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan in dissent. The justices did not give reasons for lifting the injunctions — as is typical of orders of this nature — though Justice Neil Gorsuch released a concurring opinion urging the Supreme Court to curtail the use nationwide injunctions, which Justice Clarence Thomas joined.

 

5am – E         The U.S. Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for one of 'Finally stepping up': Hunter Biden settles child support case. If the deal is approved by the judge, Biden could avoid both the public appearance and the court order to turn over over sensitive financial information during a critical time for his father's campaign.

 

6am – A/B/C IMPEACHMENT TRIAL HIGHLIGHTS OF TRUMP’S DEFENSE:

Ken Starr Accuses House Democrats Of Delivering Impeachment Articles ‘Dripping With Process Violations’

KEN STARR: No crimes have been alleged in the Articles Of Impeachment against Trump

ALAN DERSHOWITZ Highlights Endless List Of Presidents Accused Of 'Abuse Of Power'

Pam Bondi laying out brutal case against Hunter and Joe Biden

 

6am – D         INTERVIEW - FRED FLEITZ - President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy. He served in 2018 as a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff to National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Fred Fleitz: Ambassador Bolton, withdraw your book. (Fox News) It was crushing to read weekend press reports that my friend and former boss John Bolton plans to publish a tell-all book on his time as President Trump’s National Security Adviser.  The book reportedly will be published in March 2020. Given the importance of protecting a president’s confidential discussions with his senior advisers, I strongly disagree with Bolton’s decision to release the book before the November presidential election and call on him to withdraw it from the publisher immediately. I have known John Bolton for 30 years and served as his chief of staff twice, at the State Department from 2001-2005 and at the White House National Security Council in 2018.  He is an exceptional national security expert and a man of great integrity.  President Trump’s choice of Bolton was one of his best personnel decisions and was I very sorry when the courageous and visionary national security adviser left the White House after the relationship broke down.

6am – E         Fox's Chris Wallace, Katie Pavlich spar on impeachment: 'Get your facts straight' (The Hill) -- Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and network contributor Katie Pavlich got into a heated debate on Monday as they debated impeachment, with Wallace telling Pavlich to get her "facts straight" before "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier advised both sides to "tone it down" on Monday.  The back-and-forth came during a discussion over new witnesses in the presidential trial with a vote in the Senate likely looming later this week.  “The Senate is not the House, the House did not come with a complete case, and every impeachment beforehand, the witnesses that were called had been called in the House before being brought to the Senate,” Pavlich argued. “So there are questions here about the process.” “That’s not true. That’s not true," Wallace interjected. “They hadn’t all been called in the House. In the Clinton impeachment, they’d been called by the independent counsel. They had not been called by the House.” After some fencing over the differences between when witnesses were called in the Clinton impeachment, Wallace insisted Pavlich's argument "isn't true." “Katie, what you're saying just isn't true. The fact is that the whistleblower information was given to the inspector general, who gave it to the Justice Department. The Justice Department decided not to investigate, and that is why it went to the House,” Wallace said.  “So to say that in the Clinton investigation that these people were interviewed by the House, one, they weren’t, and to say it wasn’t done by the Justice … it wasn’t done by the Justice Department, because the Justice Department refused to carry out the investigation. Get your facts straight!" Wallace said. “OK, OK, let’s tone it down,” Baier injected.

 

7am – A         INTERVIEW - BOB BARR - Clinton Impeachment Manager, former CIA Analyst, Member of Congress, and US Attorney – analyzed the impeachment trial.

 

7am – B/C     HIGHLIGHTS OF DERSHOWITZ’S ARGUMENTS IN THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL:

ALAN DERSHOWITZ Says Presidents Routinely Consider Their Own Electoral Prospects In Decision Making

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: "Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense."

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: I’m sorry, House managers, you just picked the wrong criteria. You pick the most dangerous possible criteria to serve as a precedent for how we supervise and oversee future presidents. The idea of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are so far from what the framers had in mind that they so clearly violate the Constitution and would place Congress above the law.

 

7am – D         INTERVIEW - PHIL KERPEN - president of American Commitment and a leading free-market policy analyst

TOPIC: Virginia Governor Northam is proposing a gas tax increase, banning cell phones while driving and adding speed cameras to interstates and primary roads in Virginia

Va. Gov. Northam proposes gas tax increase as part of major transportation bill. (Washington Post) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) is proposing a 4-cent increase in the state’s gas tax to raise money to jump-start his $3.7-billion landmark rail plan and shore up a fund used to pay for roads, transit and rail projects. Several proposals to raise the gas tax in recent years have failed. In 2013, the state lowered the tax, while raising the sales tax and motor vehicle sales tax. That year, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) proposed eliminating the gas tax altogether. “To my knowledge, the last time the statewide gas tax was raised was 1986,” Deputy Transportation Secretary Nick Donohue said.

Northam wants ‘strict’ ban on holding phones while driving. (Washington Post) - The proposed cellphone ban is likely to be one of the governor’s most heavily debated transportation-related proposals. State law already makes it illegal to text or email on a cellphone while driving. Lawmakers almost passed a law banning the use of handheld personal communication devices last year, but the effort fell apart over a disagreement about whether drivers should still be able to use smartphones for actual phone calls while driving.

Allowing speed cameras would be a significant shift for Virginia, which has been slow to adopt the technology long in use in the District, Maryland and elsewhere.  The bill would also allow stationary speed cameras in certain corridors for the first time in Virginia. Speed cameras would be allowed on interstates and primary roads designated as safety corridors, where Virginia State Police could issue tickets to anyone going at least 10 mph over the speed limit. Unlike tickets issued during traffic stops in those areas, the fines would not be doubled for tickets drivers get in the mail.

 

7am – E         CNN Don Lemon panel faces intense backlash for mocking Trump supporters as illiterate 'credulous rubes' (Fox News) -- A CNN panel faced intense backlash on Monday night for mocking Trump supporters as "credulous boomer rubes," even sparking fierce condemnation from President Trump and his reelection campaign. The panel, which originally aired on Saturday night during special live coverage of the impeachment trial, featured CNN anchor Don Lemon, New York Times columnist and CNN contributor Wajahat Ali, and ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson discussing the heated exchange Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had with an NPR reporter, in which he allegedly challenged the journalist to point out Ukraine on a blank map. Wilson used the topic to mock President Trump as well as his supporters. "[Pompeo] also knows deep within his heart that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it," Wilson began, causing Lemon to chuckle. "He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world. And so that's partly him playing to the base and playing to their audience. You know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump." As Lemon began crying with tears of laughter, Wilson went on to depict what he thought a typical Trump supporter sounded like. "'Donald Trump's the smart one — any y'all elitists are dumb!'" Wilson said with a heavy southern accent. "'You elitists with your geography and your maps- and your spelling!'" Ali chimed in during the mockery. "'Your math and your reading!'" Wilson added. "'All those lines on the map!'"

 

8am – A/B/C IMPEACHMENT TRIAL HIGHLIGHTS OF TRUMP’S DEFENSE

 

8am – D         VIRGINIA NEWS:

FAIRFAX COUNTY - SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY?  NOTE FROM VCDL:Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, January 28, at 4:30 pm (today): SHORT NOTICE: Please make plans to attend the Fairfax County Board of Supervisor meeting at 4:30 PM on Tuesday, January 28. Gun Owner of America's Erich Pratt is the fifth scheduled speaker, and he will be testifying in favor of making Fairfax County a Second Amendment Sanctuary County!

Virginia finalizes passage of Equal Rights Amendment, setting stage for legal fight. (Washington Post) - RICHMOND — Virginia's legislature finalized passage of the Equal Rights Amendment on Monday, with women presiding in both the Senate and House of Delegates for the historic votes. Virginia becomes the 38th — and potentially final — state to ratify the amendment guaranteeing equal protection for women, setting the stage for a legal fight over whether too much time has passed to add it to the U.S. Constitution. “We have waited over 400 years, and now is our time,” Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) said at a news conference Monday morning ahead of the vote. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), who usually presides in the Senate, stepped aside so that Lucas could wield the gavel for the midafternoon vote in that chamber, which was 27 to 12, with all Democrats and six Republicans in favor. Lucas is both the first woman and first African American to serve as president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. The House approved the bill, 58 to 40, a short time later, with House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) presiding and three Republican delegates joining all Democrats in voting yes. “Today we are making history,” Filler-Corn said Monday morning. “We are walking down a more inclusive path.” Both chambers of the legislature had approved the ERA on Jan. 15, but under parliamentary rules the measure had to “cross over” so each chamber could approve the other’s version.

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INTERVIEW - MICHAEL PACK - Director of documentary "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words"

ABOUT FILM: CREATED EQUAL: CLARENCE THOMAS IN HIS OWN WORDS / Coming to Select Theaters January 31, 2020 JusticeThomasMovie.com / Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, loved by some, reviled by others, few know much more than a few headlines and the recollections of his contentious confirmation battle with Anita Hill. Yet, the personal odyssey of Clarence Thomas is a classic American story and should be better known and understood. His life began in extreme poverty in the segregated South, and moved to the height of the legal profession, as one of the most influential justices on the Supreme Court. Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words tells the Clarence Thomas story truly and fully, without cover-ups or distortions. The documentary will open in movie theaters nationally on January 31, 2020, followed by a national broadcast on PBS in May 2020.

INTERVIEW - NATHAN BRINKMAN - Arlington, Virginia parent and school choice advocate

TOPIC: Virginia's Only Private School Choice Program Under Threat. Delegate David L. Bulova (D-37) has authored a bill that would abolish Virginia's only private school choice program. More than 4,000 students with special needs or from low-income families currently benefit from the program.  https://choicemedia.tv/2020/01/21/brinkman-virginias-private-school-choice-program-under-threat/