The Vince Coglianese Show

INTERVIEW – CAL THOMAS – Syndicated columnist

Cokie Roberts Dies; Veteran Broadcast Journalist Was 75. She was known to millions for her pioneering work for ABC News and NPR.

Israel’s two main parties deadlocked after election, Netanyahu’s future in doubt. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future was in doubt Wednesday, as Israel’s two main political parties were deadlocked after an unprecedented repeat election.

Mornings on the Mall Podcast - 2019-9-18

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Mornings on the Mall

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

Cal Thomas, Caroline Glick, Hillsdale’s Dr. Larry Arnn and Parkland father Andrew Pollack joined WMAL on Wednesday morning.

5am – A/B/CAbortion Doctor Who Hoarded Fetuses Faulted WWII Bombings For His ‘Perception’ Of Humanity, Filmmaker Says. (Daily Caller) – An abortion doctor who hoarded fetal remains in his home once blamed World War II bombings in Dresden for his perception of “human beings” and “what they do to each other,” a filmmaker said. Family members discovered a collection of 2,246 medically preserved fetal remains in the Illinois home of 79-year-old Dr. Ulrich George Klopfer after the abortion doctor died on September 3. Klopfer ran three different Indiana abortion clinics during his lifetime and performed over 30,000 abortions since he began operating in 1974.

5am – D         Alex Trebek Has Pancreatic Cancer Setback, Needs More Chemo. “Jeopardy!” host says his numbers “went south” after finishing his first round and immunotherapy didn’t work. (Daily Beast) – Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek revealed Tuesday that he must undergo more chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer because the progress he made after the first round was short-lived. In a video message and an interview on Good Morning America, the 79-year-old said that his early treatment was so successful, he thought he was done with grueling chemo sessions. “That was a bit premature and certainly over-optimistic,” he said in the video. Doctors started him on a course of immunotherapy, but “that didn’t go very well,” he said. “My numbers went south—dramatically and quickly.” Trebek was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, the most advanced kind, in March. The prognosis for the disease at that stage is grim—just 3 percent of patients survive for five years or longer. When Trebek announced his diagnosis six months ago, he said he was determined to fight it. And he sounded a hopeful note again Tuesday as he disclosed he is back for more chemo. “Hey, they worked very well the first time so we’re expecting good results again,” he told his fans. “But please keep me in your good thoughts and prayers.” In his GMA interview, Trebek said he’s been battling depression and would get teary-eyed while filming the 35th season of Jeopardy! But, he said, he is not afraid of dying.

5am – E         Scarborough Blasts Kamala Harris for Believing ‘Botched’ and ‘Baffling’ NY Times Kavanaugh Essay. (Mediaite) — Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough took issue with recent comments made by Senator Kamala Harris after the Democratic hopeful reacted to a controversial New York Times report about new and unverified allegations of sexual misconduct made by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh from events that occurred roughly 35 years ago. Harris notably claimed that she thinks we have to believe the victims in these sort of cases. Scarborough believes that take is far too broad and missing a keyword: “allleged.” Scarborough opened with “I heard Kamala Harris say we have to believe the victims,” before chiding Harris with “as a prosecutor she really should put an alleged in front of the word victims, especially in the case in the New York Times essay, the baffling essay, the baffling editing process that they put forward.” He clarified “because, if you believed the alleged victim in the alleged incident, the alleged victim in the alleged incident doesn’t even remember the alleged incident occurring. So if Kamala Harris is believing the, quote, victim, the alleged victim, the alleged victim says, I don’t ever remember that happening, according to friends. So I’m just — again, for a lawyer, I’m confused.”

6am – A         OMAR DELETES MYSTERIOUS TWEETS:

LUKE ROSIAK: Ilhan Omar Deletes 2013 Tweet That Revealed Her Father’s Name — The Same As Her Husband’s

JON LEVINE: A spokesperson for Rep. Ilhan Omar sends me the following statement on her deleted tweet from 2013 (SCREENGRAB)

ANDY NGO: If it is just a nickname, why did Ilhan Omar’s sister list that as her father’s name on a legal marriage document in 1997?

6am – B/C     Undocumented immigrant living in Montgomery Co accused of sexually assaulting woman in car, police say. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – An undocumented immigrant living in Montgomery County is facing decades in prison after being accused of rape. According to charging documents, Josue Gomez-Gonzalez picked up a female friend from her home on September 10.  The two then purchased a bottle of Hennessey and drove to a park in Gaithersburg where police say Gomez-Gonzalez sexually assaulted the woman in the back seat of his car.  Gomez-Gonzalez then took the woman back to his home and sexually assaulted her on his bed, charging documents say. Gomez-Gonzalez has been charged with two counts of second-degree rape. If convicted, he faces up to 50 years behind bars. FOX 5’s Ike Ejiochi reports Gomez-Gonzalez is at least the ninth undocumented immigrant charged with rape or sex abuse in the county since July.  ICE released the following statement Tuesday after filing a detainer on Sept. 12: “Josue A. Gomez-Gonzalez, a native of El Salvador, is the subject of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer lodged with the Montgomery County Detention Center, Md., on Sept. 12, after his arrest for rape.”

6am – D         INTERVIEW – CAL THOMAS – Syndicated columnist

Cokie Roberts Dies; Veteran Broadcast Journalist Was 75. She was known to millions for her pioneering work for ABC News and NPR.

Israel’s two main parties deadlocked after election, Netanyahu’s future in doubt. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future was in doubt Wednesday, as Israel’s two main political parties were deadlocked after an unprecedented repeat election.

6am – E         Merriam-Webster adds the nonbinary pronoun ‘they’ to its dictionary.  Merriam-Webster has officially added the nonbinary pronoun “they” as an entry in its dictionary. Merriam-Webster announced Tuesday that the word “they” can be used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary along with three other separate definitions.

6am – F         Trump goes on $15M fundraising blitz in California, irritating liberals and Hollywood elites. (Fox News) – President Trump sent liberal California activists into a tizzy on Tuesday, as he executed a lunch-dinner-breakfast-lunch fundraising blitz expected to scoop up $15 million from wealthy Republicans in the state in the span of just two days. The president’s undeterred push westward came a day after he headlined a fiery rally in New Mexico, long a reliably liberal state that the Trump campaign has hoped to turn red in 2020. Trump has been looking to find the next Wisconsin or Michigan — states that Democrats generally have won in presidential elections but that could surprise under certain conditions, as they did in 2016. Also on the Trump team’s shortlist in the new strategy: Nevada, New Hampshire and Minnesota. Trump’s West Coast fundraising efforts come as the Republican National Committee (RNC) is expected to announce this week that it raised a record-setting $23.5 million in August and had $53.8 million cash on hand as of the end of that month — signaling growing GOP momentum heading into the 2020 elections.

7am – A         INTERVIEW – CAROLINE GLICK – author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East” and senior columist of Israel Hayom, Israel’s widest circulation newspaper

Israel’s two main parties deadlocked after election, Netanyahu’s future in doubt. (Fox News) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future was in doubt Wednesday, as Israel’s two main political parties were deadlocked after an unprecedented repeat election.  The election’s seeming political kingmaker, Avigdor Lieberman, said he’ll insist upon a secular unity government between Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White parties, who, based on partial results, are currently tied at 32 seats each out of the 120 in parliament.  The 69-year-old Netanyahu, the longest-serving leader in Israeli history, was seeking a fifth term in office but faced a stiff challenge from Gantz. Official results were not expected until sometime Wednesday and the race was still too close to call

Israeli exit polls show Netanyahu short of majority in year’s second election. (Fox News) – Exit polls published by Israel’s three main television stations early Wednesday projected Blue and White to win 32 seats in the Knesset. Channel 11’s poll projected Likud to win 31 seats, Channel 13’s projected Likud to win 30 seats and Channel 12’s poll projected Likud to win 32 seats. Like Likud, Blue and White and its allies were projected to fall several seats short of the 61 needed to form a coalition, meaning there was no obvious winner in the race. Channel 13’s full exit poll projected the conservative bloc led by Likud to have 53 seats and Blue and White’s center-left bloc to hold 44 seats. If the so-called Joint List — a coalition of Arab-dominated political parties that was projected to take 15 seats — endorses the center-left bloc led by Ganz, that would put them just two seats short of the 61 needed to command a Knesset majority and likely signal the end of Netanyahu’s premiership. Official results were not expected until sometime Wednesday and the race was still too close to call. A member of the Blue and White party said that Tuesday’s polls showed “the era of Netanyahu is over,” according to The Times of Israel.

7am –B/C/D              Combative Lewandowski frustrates Democrats, as impeachment-probe hearing descends into disarray. (Fox News) – Democrats, Lewandowski clash in House committee’s first impeachment hearing; Lewandowski slams Dems for ‘disservice to the American people.’ The House Judiciary Committee’s first hearing as part of its Trump impeachment investigation descended into chaos Tuesday as Democrats clashed with a combative Corey Lewandowski as he refused to answer many of their questions. In an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on “The Story,” the former Trump campaign manager slammed the hearing as a “disservice to the American people.” “What we know is that the far-left wing of the Democratic Party has to have these hearings to protect themselves in their congressional districts from further left progressives who want to take them out in their primary races,” he said. “This is all politics.” After five hours of testimony before lawmakers, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told Lewandowski his “behavior in this hearing room has been completely unacceptable,” and said holding him “in contempt” is “certainly under consideration.”

7am – E         Democratic megadonor arrested, charged with running drug den after third man reportedly overdoses at his home. (Fox News) – Ed Buck, the California Democratic megadonor, was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house after a third man reportedly suffered an overdose inside his West Hollywood home last week and survived. Buck was charged with three counts of battery and is accused of injecting the alleged third victim with methamphetamine on Sept. 11, the Los Angeles Times reported. He has faced public scrutiny after two black men died from overdoses 18 months apart inside his home. Buck was not charged in those cases. 

8am – A         INTERVIEW – DR. LARRY ARNN – Hillsdale College President — discussed how the university opened a new grad school program at their Washington, D.C. campus.

8am – B/C     ‘America’s Got Talent’ Finals: Simon Cowell Calls Kodi Lee’s Performance the ‘Most Beautiful’ He’s Ever Heard. (E! Online) – Kodi Lee has been one of the frontrunners on America’s Got Talent since the start of the season when Gabrielle Union awarded him the Golden Buzzer and brought him one step closer to his AGT dreams. On Tuesday, delivering the penultimate performance of the live finals, fans learned even more about Lee and fell even deeper in love with his inspirational story and his incredible voice. Life hasn’t been a smooth road for Lee, or his family. The talented pianist was only a few months old when doctors discovered he was blind, and it wasn’t long after that he was diagnosed with autism. But, as he explains in his finals pre-taped package, music has meant everything to him. To see if Lee ends up winning it all, fans will have to tune in to the America’s Got Talent season 14 finale and results show on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

8am – D         INTERVIEW – ANDREW POLLACK – Parkland School father of Meadow Pollack and author of new book “Why Meadow Died”

Andrew Pollack’s new book searches for answers about why his daughter died in Parkland.  (Sun-Sentinel) — A 19-year-old lunatic shot and killed Meadow Pollack in her school hallway. But in a new book, her dad tries to answer: “Why?” Andrew Pollack quickly became a national figure after the Feb. 14, 2018, Parkland massacre that ended the lives of 14 students. A teacher, football coach and athletic director also died. Pollack channeled his anguish and fury into a public crusade to hold people accountable for systemic failings in school security and in the police response. He sued a school deputy, got a campus watchman fired, and campaigned to elect new school board members and a sympathetic governor. He took to Twitter, gathering up followers with the refrain: #Fixit. And he lobbied to train and arm willing guardians in schools, including teachers. Ultimately, he teamed up with Max Eden, an education researcher at a conservative-leaning New York City think tank, to write: “Why Meadow Died: the People and Policies that Created the Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students.”

Parkland dad uncovers how district enabled deranged student-turned-shooter.  The former student who later shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was such a threat in school that he was searched every morning for weapons, new testimony shows. The search procedure was revealed in a sworn deposition from Kelvin Greenleaf, the security guard who searched Cruz. The South Florida Sun Sentinel obtained a copy of the deposition this week. “Never found a weapon on him,” Greenleaf explained in the testimony July 11. “I think we got concerned when, I think, we found out he drank bleach, tried to hurt himself or something like that, the kid. That’s when we started, like, having the kid come in every morning to be searched by me, but never found a weapon on the kid, never.” His surprising testimony shows the school recognized the extreme danger the gun-obsessed, mentally disturbed youth posed. “They frisked him. … They had to frisk him every day,” said Andy Pollack, father of Meadow. “They knew that he was a threat. And they subjected all the kids and my daughter to this. Where were their rights? They didn’t tell us that they’re letting a kid in the school that he’s so violent and dangerous we won’t let him in with his backpack and we have to frisk him. But they let this kid into the school with our children.”

BOOK EXCERPT: On Nov. 4, after two months of gathering “data” for Cruz’s “Functional Behavior Assessment,” teachers were sent his “Positive Behavior Intervention Plan.” The plan included helpful tips, like:

If Nikolas destroys property at a lower level,

Calmly let him know he has not followed one of the expectations. Remind him what he is working for.

Prompt him to use a cool down pass and walk away to diffuse [sic] the situation.

If Nikolas engages in major disruption/property destruction:

Let Nikolas know, “you’re getting too loud. I need for you to get back into control by using a cool down pass or calming down at your desk. If you get back into control, you can stay in class. If you continue, I’ll need for you leave [sic].”

Walk away and do not pay attention to his behavior.

Do not argue with Nikolas or engage with him.

When class is over, Nikolas needs to go to his next class and behavior plan should re-set with able to [sic] earn reward breaks again.

Teachers were required to implement this plan for at least six weeks until Cruz could become eligible for further evaluation. In late November, Cruz attempted to commit suicide at school by running into oncoming traffic. But that did not accelerate the process.

 

8am – E         Sharpton Eulogizes Cokie Roberts with Picture of Christiane Amanpour. MSNBC host has historical issues with facts, names, spelling. (Washington Free Beacon) – MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton mourned the passing of journalist Cokie Roberts on Tuesday by sending out a tweet with pictures of the still-living journalist Christiane Amanpour. Sharpton tweeted, “Saddened to hear of the passing of legendary journalist Cookie [sic] Roberts. Here is a Easter Sunday special we did in 2011. May she Rest In Peace,” along with several pictures of Amanpour. Aside from the obvious misidentification of the deceased, Sharpton misspelled Roberts’s name. Critics were quick to point out Sharpton’s errors, and he deleted the tweet. Roberts worked for decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News. She died on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., after a long battle with breast cancer. Amanpour is the chief international anchor for CNN and hosts Amanpour & Company on PBS. She lives in London.

Interview - Evan Lambert - Fox 5 DC reporter – discussed how a man was pushed onto DC Metro tracks at Navy Yard by "nearly a half dozen teens." 

Man pushed onto Metro tracks in violent attack. (Fox 5 DC / By Evan Lambert) -- WASHINGTON - Video captured by a witness and obtained exclusively by FOX 5 shows a man attacked by a group of teens and pushed onto the Metro tracks last Friday. The man spoke to FOX 5 about the ordeal, which he says almost cost him his life and broke his knee cap. He is now out of work until his injury heals. The man, who asked not to be identified, said the attack began when a teen slapped him randomly on a train headed toward Gallery Place. He got off at the Navy Yard stop to try and identify the teen who assaulted him and that is when nearly a half dozen teens attack, shoving him into the tracks. Video shows the man falling on to the tracks and appear to touch the electrified third rail. He explained that his hand luckily made contact with the rail's cover. Metro confirmed that Metro Transit Police arrested four juveniles, who now face aggravated assault charges. The man says he does not plan to ride Metro again. "People catch Metro every day from all walks of life and if you can't guarantee people's safety what good is your system?" he asked. Metro did log the aggravated assault on its daily crime blotter, but the details only became known because the victim contacted FOX 5.

Interview - Carrie Severino - co-author of “Justice on Trial” on NY Times new book on Kavanaugh

Kavanaugh Book Authors: NY Times Removed Detail About Alleged Victim Not Remembering Assault. Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, the co-authors of a new book about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said a Times essay about the book initially included a detail about an alleged sexual assault victim involving Kavanaugh. However, was removed in the Times’ editing process. That detail was that the alleged victim has said she did not remember the incident. “The Last Word” anchor Lawrence O’Donnell inquired about the omission. “In your draft, did it include those words that have since been added to the article?” O’Donnell said. Both Kelly and Pogrebin replied, “It did.”

INTERVIEW – CARTER FLEMMING - president of the Seminary Hill Association – discussed Alexandria trading traffic lanes for new bike lanes on congested one-mile stretch of Seminary Road.  

Alexandria City Council votes for controversial bike lanes on Seminary Road. (Washington Post) - Some residents who have lived in the adjoining neighborhoods for decades said all the change will accomplish is to force frustrated drivers down their not-so-quiet streets, where they walk and their children play in their yards. Carter Flemming, president of the Seminary Hill Association, said there’s been a false narrative that the choice is safety vs. speed on the road. She said the vast majority of residents supported leaving the four lanes in place, but a number of residents of her neighborhood contradicted the civic association’s stance.

Some residents who have lived in the adjoining neighborhoods for decades said all the change will accomplish is to force frustrated drivers down their not-so-quiet streets, where they walk and their children play in their yards.

Alexandria City Council backs plan to slim down Seminary Road, add bike lanes. City council members John Chapman and Mohamed Seifeldein were among the council members who opposed it. “We’re going to be left with arterials that don’t really move people,” argued Chapman.

Mornings on the Mall Podcast - 2019-9-17

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Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C/D/E     NY TIMES KAVANAUGH REPORTING:

Kavanaugh Book Authors: NY Times Removed Detail About Alleged Victim Not Remembering Assault. (Washington Examiner) -- Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, the co-authors of a new book about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said a Times essay about the book initially included a detail about an alleged sexual assault victim involving Kavanaugh. However, was removed in the Times’ editing process. That detail was that the alleged victim has said she did not remember the incident. “The Last Word” anchor Lawrence O’Donnell inquired about the omission. “In your draft, did it include those words that have since been added to the article?” O’Donnell said. Both Kelly and Pogrebin replied, “It did.” O’Donnell followed up, “So somewhere in the editing process, those words were dropped?” “It was in editing, done in haste in the editing process — as you know for closing the section,” Pogrebin replied. “I think what happened, actually, was we had her name and, you know, the Times doesn’t usually include the name of the victim. And so I think in this case the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it. And in removing her name, they removed the other reference to the fact that she didn’t remember it.”

Trump demands resignations over Kavanaugh story at New Mexico rally . (Fox News) -- President Trump issued a full-throated call for resignations and changes in management at the New York Times during a fiery rally in Democratic-leaning New Mexico on Monday night, after the paper published a bombshell allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- before later acknowledging, under pressure, that the alleged victim said she had no recollection of the event, refused to be interviewed and has made no other comment.

WAPO PASSED ON THE KAVANAUGH STORY: The Washington Post passed on a thinly sourced, unproven allegation about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before the New York Times published it in a misleading article in Sunday’s paper that has since been corrected.

KEYSER NOW DOUBTS FORD'S STORY: 'Just didn't make any sense': Friend of Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford now challenges her story. Leland Keyser, a high school friend of Christine Blasey Ford, cast doubt on Ford's claims of being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a high school party in the 1980s. “I don’t have any confidence in the story,” Keyser told New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly in their new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Examiner. Last summer, Keyser seemed to say that, although she didn’t remember the event, she still believed Ford. “Ms. Keyser does not refute Dr. Ford's account, and she has already told the press that she believes Dr. Ford's account,” Keyser’s attorney wrote last year. “However, the simple and unchangeable truth is that she is unable to corroborate it because she has no recollection of the incident in question.” But Keyser now says she lacks confidence in Ford’s account. “We spoke multiple times to Keyser, who also said that she didn’t recall that get-together or others like it,” Pogrebin and Kelly wrote. “In fact, she challenged Ford’s accuracy.” "Those facts together I don't recollect, and it just didn't make any sense," Keyser told the authors.  Pogrebin and Kelly, however, say Ford’s story “rings true” and challenged Keyser’s recollections. “It is possible that Ford’s account is wrong and that Keyser’s lack of recollection is proof of that,” they wrote, but said “Keyser’s memory might be affected by her struggles with alcohol and other substances.”

NEW YORKER: “THEY PLAYED IT UP PRETTY BIG”: TURMOIL ENGULFS THE TIMES OVER THE KAVANAUGH DEBACLE:  Sources say Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly initially pitched their reporting to the news side, but top editors ultimately felt that there wasn’t enough juice to warrant a story there—punting the scoop to the Sunday Review section. “In today’s journalistic world, the conversation is a bit irrelevant,” one source said. “Your average reader is not gonna really know or care where it is.”

NYT Attempts 'Answers to Reader Questions' Without Addressing The Stunning Correction....

POLITICO: Times’ handling of Kavanaugh story draws widespread criticism: The Times’s PR team responded to a couple issues Sunday on Twitter, including a now-deleted tweet from the Opinion section promoting the piece. “Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun,” it read. “But when Brett Kavanaugh did it to her, Deborah Ramirez says, it confirmed that she didn’t belong at Yale in the first place.”

“A tweet that went out from the @NYTOpinion account yesterday was clearly inappropriate and offensive,” the Times said. “We apologize for it and are reviewing the decision-making with those involved.”

According to a Times insider familiar with the matter, Pogrebin wrote the offensive tweet, which should have been vetted before it was posted.     “It was really neglectful,” the insider said of the paper’s overall handling. “There were serious errors made along the way.”

CHUCK ROSS: Plot thickens. Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly claim that the qualifier about the other alleged Kavanaugh accuser not remembering an incident at Yale was included in the initial NYT draft but removed. (VIDEO)

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Reporters blame their editors for leaving the single most important detail out of their story. They don’t explain why they signed off on inaccurately edited version or why they didn’t say anything all day yesterday.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: New Book: Christine Blasey Ford’s Friend Leland Keyser Doesn’t Believe Her.  "It just didn't make any sense," lifelong friend Leland Keyser told New York Times reporters about Ford's allegations, adding "I don't have any confidence in the story."

JAN CRAWFORD, CBS: We report tonight the real bombshell: Christine Ford’s close HS friend (who Ford says was at the party when Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her) said Ford’s story is not believable and told the FBI Ford’s allies pressured her, threatened her with a smear campaign to say otherwise

...NYT Chose NOT To Excerpt This Bombshell??

BYRON YORK: New Kavanaugh book says seven people back up Deborah Ramirez allegation. Who are they?  Still, what did those seven people say? Pogrebin and Kelly had the opportunity to describe that at length in their new book. But a look at the book, which will be officially released tomorrow, shows the authors do not offer much there either. [...]  That is the seven. Number 1, Ramirez's mother, based her account on four very unspecific words from her daughter 35 years ago. Number 2, Appold, based his account on a memory of being told something by a "witness" who could not recall the incident at all. Number 3, Wetstone, heard it from Appold. Number 4, Oh, overheard something from someone he doesn't remember that did not connect the incident to Kavanaugh. Number 5, Anonymous, is totally unclear. And Number 6 and Number 7, Ludington and Roche, had "vague" memories that also did not connect an unspecified incident to Kavanaugh.     That is enough for Pogrebin and Kelly, who conclude, "The claims of Deborah Ramirez, while not proven by witnesses, also ring true." Perhaps that will convince some readers. For others: When anti-Kavanaugh partisans cite "substantial corroboration" for Ramirez's allegation, it's good to keep in mind who really said what.

HOT AIR: No, There Aren’t Seven Corroborating Witnesses To Deborah Ramirez’s Claims Against Brett Kavanaugh

6am – A         TRUMP’S ECONOMY:

TRUMP'S ECONOMIC APPROVAL RATINGS TAKE HIT IN BATTLEGROUND STATES: The survey of Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin finds a generic Democrat leading Trump 48 percent to 40 percent, with 11 percent undecided. Thirty-six percent said they would definitely vote for the Democrat, against only 26 percent who said they would definitely vote for Trump.

TRUMP'S OVERALL APPROVAL BACK UP TO 50%: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.

ECON SO GOOD PEOPLE ARE GHOSTING JOBS: The job market is so good, new hires aren't showing up for their first day of work. (CNN Business) -- The labor market is going strong, and job candidates have plenty of opportunities to choose from. So much so that some are bailing on their new employers before they even start. "People are getting multiple offers in a market like today, and they are not showing up on their first day of work," said Paul McDonald, senior executive director at staffing firm Robert Half. He pointed to the strong job market and low unemployment rate as the reason for this surge in ghosting by new hires. Steve Lindner, CEO of employment firm the WorkPlace Group, was ghosted recently by a new hire. The applicant accepted an offer and passed the background check. "We had already shared the name with our support team and had a training program in place. Everything was ready to go," said Lindner. And then no one showed up.

6am – B/C     CHRISTIAN REALOR GETS IN TROUBLE FOR SAYING JESUS LOVES YOU:

Realtor sues real estate board over investigation into Bible verses on webpage. (Christian Post) - A Christian realtor is suing the Virginia Real Estate Board, saying she felt compelled to resign after being investigated for a fair housing complaint related to sharing her religious beliefs on a business website and email signatures.  In the state lawsuit filed in Richmond, Hadassah Hubbard Carter is claiming that her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the VREB, which filed a Fair Housing Act complaint against her in August 2017.    Carter is represented by the American Center for Law & Justice, a Christian conservative legal organization run by Jay Sekulow, who also serves on President Trump’s legal team.  The lawsuit claims that the VREB’s complaint from 2017 accused her of violating a Virginia Fair Housing Law provision regulating unlawful speech. In the initial complaint, VREB cited Carter’s email signature line, which read: “For Faith and Freedom, Jesus loves you and with God all things are possible.” Additionally, Carter was cited for the fact that the personal statement on her webpage quoted the New Testament verse John 3:16, which reads: "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The VREB complaint also expressed concerns that Carter’s biography and the statement on her business website promoted her belief that God blessed her in the realty profession and her goal to put “God first.”  The VREB complaint contested that Carter had used "words or statements associated with Christianity, indicating a preference or limitation based on religion, in violation of the Virginia Fair Housing Law."

Virginia Persecutes Christian Realtor Over “Jesus Loves You.” (The New American) - Under the guise of combating “discrimination,” a rogue government body in Virginia is brazenly persecuting and discriminating against a Christian real-estate agent. Her supposed crime: using the phrase “Jesus loves you” in her e-mail signature and featuring the John 3:16 Bible verse on her website. Seriously. But now, a prominent Christian legal organization is coming to her aid, warning that anti-Christian discrimination cannot be tolerated in America. Until recently, Virginia Realtor Hadassah Carter has never been accused by anyone of “discrimination.” Her clients include Catholics, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Kenyans, and more. And no client has ever suggested anything wrong. But because she is Christian and publicly shares her faith, authorities at the Virginia Real Estate Board put a target on her back. If the government is successful, Carter will either forfeit her God-given rights to free speech and religious liberty, or lose her livelihood. Even more terrifying than the individual persecution of Carter, perhaps, are the broader implications of the case for religious liberty and free speech in Virginia and beyond. If state authorities are successful in silencing or destroying Carter, it could mean that everyone who holds a government license to engage in commerce — from plumbers and barbers to hairstylists and attorneys — could lose their God-given rights to speak, too. Ironically, Carter became a target while reporting a case of suspected racial discrimination to authorities. It seems the email alerted them to her signature pointing out that, as John 3:16 puts it, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." She was never accused of refusing to rent to or represent anyone. Instead, the argument is that a realtor using religious speech could hypothetically make somebody “feel” discriminated against. And so, with officials claiming “Jesus loves you” was a violation of the state's “fair housing” statute, Carter became a target. Among other actions, they forced her employer into an agreement that required them to either fire her or monitor her and report any religious comments she might make to the government. Of course, as a Christian, Carter could not remain silent about Christ, so she resigned rather than be silenced. In response to the flagrant abuse of power and persecution, the non-profit American Center for Law and Justice filed a lawsuit charging Virginia authorities with violating Carter's First Amendment-protected rights, as well as various state-level constitutional and statutory protections.

6am – D/E     INTERVIEW – ROBIN POGREBIN - NY Times reporter and co-author of "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh"

Kavanaugh Book Authors: NY Times Removed Detail About Alleged Victim Not Remembering Assault. Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, the co-authors of a new book about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said a Times essay about the book initially included a detail about an alleged sexual assault victim involving Kavanaugh. However, was removed in the Times’ editing process. That detail was that the alleged victim has said she did not remember the incident. “The Last Word” anchor Lawrence O’Donnell inquired about the omission. “In your draft, did it include those words that have since been added to the article?” O’Donnell said. Both Kelly and Pogrebin replied, “It did.” O’Donnell followed up, “So somewhere in the editing process, those words were dropped?” “It was in editing, done in haste in the editing process — as you know for closing the section,” Pogrebin replied. “I think what happened, actually, was we had her name and, you know, the Times doesn’t usually include the name of the victim. And so I think in this case the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it. And in removing her name, they removed the other reference to the fact that she didn’t remember it.”

7am – A         INTERVIEW – CARTER FLEMMING - president of the Seminary Hill Association – discussed Alexandria trading traffic lanes for new bike lanes on congested one-mile stretch of Seminary Road.  

Alexandria City Council votes for controversial bike lanes on Seminary Road. (Washington Post) - Some residents who have lived in the adjoining neighborhoods for decades said all the change will accomplish is to force frustrated drivers down their not-so-quiet streets, where they walk and their children play in their yards. Carter Flemming, president of the Seminary Hill Association, said there’s been a false narrative that the choice is safety vs. speed on the road. She said the vast majority of residents supported leaving the four lanes in place, but a number of residents of her neighborhood contradicted the civic association’s stance.

Some residents who have lived in the adjoining neighborhoods for decades said all the change will accomplish is to force frustrated drivers down their not-so-quiet streets, where they walk and their children play in their yards.

Alexandria City Council backs plan to slim down Seminary Road, add bike lanes. City council members John Chapman and Mohamed Seifeldein were among the council members who opposed it. “We’re going to be left with arterials that don’t really move people,” argued Chapman.

7am – B/C     Spicer spices up 'Dances With the Stars' with neon green shirt. (Fox News) - Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made his colorful and proudly outlandish “Dancing With the Stars” debut on Monday night wearing a neon-green ruffled shirt as he shimmied to the Spice Girls song “Spice up Your Life” in a salsa routine. GIFs of Spicer started circulating on social media immediately following his performance. Many people also tweeted their reactions to his bold shirt. Spicer's energetic performance concluded with confetti and he got a standing ovation from the audience, but the show’s judges did not seem impressed, giving him a total score of 12 out of 30.

7am – D         Carrie Severino - co-author of “Justice on Trial” on NY Times new book on Kavanaugh

Kavanaugh Book Authors: NY Times Removed Detail About Alleged Victim Not Remembering Assault. Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, the co-authors of a new book about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said a Times essay about the book initially included a detail about an alleged sexual assault victim involving Kavanaugh. However, was removed in the Times’ editing process. That detail was that the alleged victim has said she did not remember the incident. “The Last Word” anchor Lawrence O’Donnell inquired about the omission. “In your draft, did it include those words that have since been added to the article?” O’Donnell said. Both Kelly and Pogrebin replied, “It did.”

7am – E         Man pushed onto Metro tracks in violent attack. (Fox 5 DC / By Evan Lambert) -- WASHINGTON - Video captured by a witness and obtained exclusively by FOX 5 shows a man attacked by a group of teens and pushed onto the Metro tracks last Friday. The man spoke to FOX 5 about the ordeal, which he says almost cost him his life and broke his knee cap. He is now out of work until his injury heals. The man, who asked not to be identified, said the attack began when a teen slapped him randomly on a train headed toward Gallery Place. He got off at the Navy Yard stop to try and identify the teen who assaulted him and that is when nearly a half dozen teens attack, shoving him into the tracks. Video shows the man falling on to the tracks and appear to touch the electrified third rail. He explained that his hand luckily made contact with the rail's cover. Metro confirmed that Metro Transit Police arrested four juveniles, who now face aggravated assault charges. The man says he does not plan to ride Metro again. "People catch Metro every day from all walks of life and if you can't guarantee people's safety what good is your system?" he asked. Metro did log the aggravated assault on its daily crime blotter, but the details only became known because the victim contacted FOX 5.

8am – A/B/C REPLAY: INTERVIEW – ROBIN POGREBIN - NY Times reporter and co-author of "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh"

8am – D         Interview - Evan Lambert - Fox 5 DC reporter – discussed how a man was pushed onto DC Metro tracks at Navy Yard by "nearly a half dozen teens." 

8am – E         Bowser leads rally for D.C. statehood as House hearing nears. Washington Post) -- D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Monday pressed her campaign for District statehood, leading a caravan toward the U.S. Capitol, past 140 newly hung American flags with an extra 51st star to symbolize the city’s quest for congressional voting rights. With a House hearing on D.C. statehood, the first in 25 years, scheduled for Thursday, Bowser (D) hired two double-decker buses to travel a largely barren parade route down Pennsylvania Avenue NW. At the end of the procession, she addressed a rally that included District government employees who were prodded to attend by mayoral aides. At Third Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, where the parade concluded, the mayor pumped her fist as Bernie Siler, 67, a retired Army reservist, climbed a ladder and placed on a lamppost one of the 51-star flags purchased with taxpayer funds.

paul schwartzman @paulschwartzman  17h17 hours ago statehood parade through largely empty streets. At 7th street a man waved.

WMAL INTERVIEW – ROBIN POGREBIN - NY Times reporter and co-author of "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh"

INTERVIEW - TREVOR MATICH - WMAL'S Redskins Analyst

Redskins drop home opener to Cowboys.  (Fox4DC) - LANDOVER, Md. - A late rally by the Redskins wasn't enough to come back against their archrival Dallas Cowboys on Sunday at FedEx Field.   The Burgundy and Gold lost their home opener 31-21. The Redskins started off the game strong for the second week in a row. An early interception by Montae Nicholson set up a touchdown run by Adrian Peterson. The score moved Peterson into 5th all-time for rushing touchdowns, his 107th. He passed Hall of Famer Jim Brown.  The 'Skins lost control of the game though, and gave up 20 unanswered points to the Cowboys. Late scores by receivers Paul Richardson Jr. and Terry McLaurin kept the score close, but it wasn't enough.  The Redskins now move on to Week 3, when they will host the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football.

INTERVIEW - GEN. JACK KEANE - a retired 4 star general, former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army, the chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst.

Trump: US 'locked and loaded' against attackers of Saudi oil facility 'depending on verification'; Iran denies involvement. (Fox News) -- President Trump on Sunday suggested U.S. investigators had "reason to believe" they knew who launched crippling attacks against a key Saudi oil facility, and vowed that America was "locked and loaded depending on verification." While he did not specify in his tweet who he believed was responsible for Saturday's drone attacks, U.S. investigators previously have pointed the finger at Iran. For its part, Iran has denied the allegations. Earlier Sunday, Trump authorized the use of emergency oil reserves in Texas and other states after Saudi oil processing facilities were attacked, sparking fears of a spike in oil prices when markets reopen Monday.

INTERVIEW - TOM FITTON - President of Judicial Watch - in studio – discussed the #StandwithICE Montgomery County rally on Friday and his thoughts on the new Kavanaugh accusations.

Judicial Watch submitted a Public Information Act request to Montgomery County on Friday about Illegal Alien Crimes Committed and Individuals Involved: Judicial Watch, Inc. requests that the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, the Montgomery County Police Department, and the Montgomery County Attorney’s Office produce the following records pursuant to Maryland’s Public Information Act:

All police reports, arrest records, applications for statement of charges, charge and disposition information, or any other criminal history records for the following individuals:

Carlos Palacios-Amaya, believed to be 28 years old form El Salvador, arrested on or about July 25, 2019 for second degree rape, among other charges;

Mauricio Barrera-Navidad, believed to be 29 years old from El Salvador, arrested on or about July 26, 2019 for second degree rape, among other charges;

Nelson Saul Reyes-Medrano, believed to be 46 years old from El Salvador, arrested on or about August 13, 2019 for first degree rape, among other charges;

Nestor Lopez-Guzman, believed to be 21 years old from El Salvador, arrested on or about August 18, 2019;

Kevin Mendoza, believed to be 26 years old from Honduras, arrested on or about August 19, 2019 for first degree rape, among other charges;

Rodrigo Castro-Montejo, believed to be 25 years from El Salvador, arrested on or about August 20, 2019 for second degree rape, among other charges;

Emilio Carrasco-Hernandez, believed to be 37 years old, from Honduras, arrested on or about August 26, 2019 for second degree rape, among other charges;

Oluwakayode Adewole Adebusuyi, believed to be 26 years old, from Nigeria, arrested on or about August 31, 2019 for second degree rape, among other charges;

All Immigration Detainers issued by any federal employee or agent engaged in immigration enforcement, including but not limited to all U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Forms I-247D, I-247N, I-247X, and I-247A, for any of the individuals identified in paragraph A, above.

Any responses to or communications about the Immigration Detainers identified in response to the request in paragraph B, above.

All communications with any federal employee or agent engaged in immigration enforcement, including but not limited to DHS or the U.S. Department of Justice, concerning or relating to any of the individuals identified in paragraph A, above.

The time frame for the records requested in paragraphs A – D is January 1, 2016 to the present.

All Immigration Detainers, including but not limited to all DHS Forms I-247D, I-247N, I-247X, and I-247A, received by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department in 2019.

Any responses to or communications about the Immigration Detainers identified in response to the request in paragraph E, above.

Any records identifying the “exceptional circumstances” in which Montgomery County law enforcement officers may detain or arrest an individual based on known or suspected civil immigration violations. See Montgomery County Executive Order 135-19 at pg. 1, para. 5.