The Vince Coglianese Show

Friday 5/24/19: Joe Mantegna, WJLA's NAthan Baca, Raheem Kassam, MD State Highway's Charlie Gischler and Rolling Thunder's Mike Wolff

6am – A         INTERVIEW – JOE MANTEGNA – Co-host of The National Memorial Day Concert

Tony winner Joe Mantegna and stage and screen star Mary McCormack will co-host the 30th annual broadcast of PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert, airing live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol May 26 at 8 PM ET. The line-up of performers and presenters includes Hamilton Tony nominee Christopher Jackson, Olivier-winning Dreamgirls star Amber Riley, Grammy winner and Broadway alum Patti LaBelle, General Colin L. Powell, singer and songwriter Gavin DeGraw, Grammy-winning bluegrass icon Alison Krauss, Golden Globe-nominated actor Dennis Haysbert, country music star Justin Moore, American Idol finalist Alyssa Raghu, TV star Jaina Lee Ortiz, and Patrick Lundy & The Ministers of Music. The performers will be backed by the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Pops conductor Jack Everly. Also participating in the event are the U.S Joint Chiefs of Staff with the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets, the U.S. Army Chorus and Army Voices, the Soldiers’ Chorus of the U.S. Army Field Band, the U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters, the U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants, the Armed Forces Color Guard and Service Color Teams provided by the Military District of Washington, D.C.

6am – B/C     USDA staffers quit en masse as Trump administration eyes moving offices out of DC. (Fox News) — Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway. Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA – are unhappy with Perdue’s plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country’s agricultural centers. “This move does not serve a public purpose,” Peter Winch, a representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents ERS workers, told Fox News. “Employees don’t want to move, and it doesn’t make sense for them to move.”

6am – D         INTERVIEW – NATHAN BACA – Investigative Reporter, ABC7 News WJLA-TV Washington

Preview the Metro summer shutdown and Metro summer shutdown platform project: It’s coming. Six Blue and Yellow Line Metro stations in Virginia close this Saturday for the entire summer.  WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Metro is preparing the final stages of a major summer shutdown that will impact all Blue and Yellow Line stations south of Reagan National Airport from May 25 until Sept. 8. The 100-plus-day shutdown will allow crews to work around the clock, expediting repairs that would otherwise take years to complete. Metro has timed the shutdown during its lowest ridership with the goal of impacting as few riders as possible. Metro plans to close and rebuild crumbling station platforms at Braddock Road, King Street, Eisenhower Avenue, Huntington, Franconia-Springfield and Van Dorn.

Here’s what you need to know about riding the VRE during the Metro shutdown. by Nathan Baca/ABC7 / WOODBRIDGE, Va. (ABC7) — 7 On Your Side joined passengers riding VRE Train 300 leaving just after 5:40 a.m. at the Woodbridge station. Finding a seat was easy, although it was the first train into Washington, and some decided to extend their sleep in the train car’s upper deck. “It’s a more direct route. You can read, watch your phone, you can do work if you have to. It’s a pretty calm, peaceful ride when you take the VRE,” said Tina Vey, a commuter from Woodbridge to L’Enfant. VRE is not without problems. Its own CEO admitted in a letter to Manassas-area delegate that on-time performance has slipped these past months, blaming track maintenance and problems switching to a new federally mandated safety system called Positive Train Control. Riders tell us delays are worse in the afternoons. Because all freight and passenger trains have to share one narrow bridge to cross the river, VRE simply can’t add more trains to its service. The CEO’s letter calls for additional funding to build a second bridge.

6am – E/F      TRUMP-PELOSI FEUD:

POLITICO: Why Pelosi is so good at infuriating Trump. The speaker stands firm against the president like few others. “It’s a disaster,” said a senior Republican on the Trump-Pelosi confrontations. “It plays right into her hands.”

Washington Post’s Aaron Blake: Does President Trump actually want to be impeached?

Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson: Pelosi has Trump frantic and rattled — again

PELOSI TROLLING TRUMP: Nancy Pelosi: “I pray for the President of the United States. I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country.”

Nancy Pelosi Calls for Trump Family Intervention During Weekly Presser

Speaker Pelosi: “There’s a question of the American people understanding that what [President Trump’s] doing is an assault on the Constitution of the United States.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “I truly believe that the President has a bag of tricks and the White House has a bag of tricks that they save for certain occasions.”

Speaker Pelosi: “In any event, to inoculate against presentation, [President Trump] pulled a stunt.”

“I’m an EXTREMELY stable genius!’ Trump fires back at Pelosi after she demands his family stage an ‘intervention’

Trump uses event with farmers to have aides vouch that he didn’t storm out of Pelosi meeting

“Very sort of a nasty type statement,” President Trump says when asked about Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying Trump’s family should stage an intervention. “I have been watching her for a long period of time. She’s not the same person. She’s lost it,” he adds

“You were very calm.” Pres. Trump asks multiple aides to describe his demeanor at yesterday’s White House meeting on infrastructure. They told him he was “calm and straightforward” and there was “no temper tantrum.

Trump says Robert Mueller and his “group of 18 killers” has gone over virtually every aspect of his life. “They don’t feel they can win the election, so they’re trying to do the thousand stabs. Keep stabbing.”

Donald Trump had Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow and Mercedes Schlapp — all present at yesterday’s meeting — give their accounts of the event. They all affirmed he was “calm,” refuting Schumer and Pelosi’s claim he had a “temper tantrum”

“She is a mess,” Trump says of Pelosi

“I think she’s got a lot of problems,” Trump said of Pelosi when explaining his account of yesterday’s White House meeting with top Democrats. “She is a mess,” he continued

Trump says he has been predictable since getting elected President. “I haven’t changed very much. Been very consistent. I am an extremely stable, genius.”

Trump rips “crying Chuck” and “crazy” Nancy Pelosi, who he calls “a mess.” He says he was very calm during their meeting yesterday and asks members of his staff to give their version of what went down.

Trump: Every time I go into a room, if there aren’t cameras, [Democrats] come out and say ‘Oh he was yelling, he was screaming.’ Kellyanne, what was my temperament yesterday? Kellyanne Conway: Very calm. No temper tantrum

Friday 5/24/19: Joe Mantegna, WJLA's NAthan Baca, Raheem Kassam, MD State Highway's Charlie Gischler and Rolling Thunder's Mike Wolff

5am – A/B/CTrump gives Barr the green light to unseal documents on the 2016 surveillance of the Trump campaign. President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016. Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the move as an attempt to “weaponize law enforcement and classified information.” Trump has long claimed his campaign was the victim of “spying,” though the intelligence community has insisted it acted lawfully in following leads in the Russia investigation. Last month, Barr ran into a buzz saw of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and media figures for testifying that “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign. But despite the backlash, the attorney general appeared to be referring to intelligence collection that already has been widely reported and confirmed.

Trump Gives Attorney General Authority To Declassify Russia Probe Documents. (Daily Caller/Chuck Ross) — President Donald Trump has directed the heads of several government agencies to cooperate with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the origins of the Russia probe. In a memo sent out Thursday, Trump also authorized Barr to declassify documents related to the Russia investigation. The memo grants Barr the authority to “declassify, downgrade, or direct the declassification or downgrading of information or intelligence” related to the Russia probe as he sees fit. Barr has said that he is investigating whether government agencies improperly surveilled members of the Trump campaign. In testimony to Congress, Barr has asserted that the FBI and other agencies spied on the campaign by using informants and surveillance warrants. Trump’s memo directs the heads of several federal agencies, including the CIA, FBI and State Department, to “promptly” provide assistance and information to Barr to complete his review. “Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information.” It is not clear from the memo when information will be declassified, and whether it will be made public soon.

5am – D         WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange charged in new US indictment with receiving and publishing classified information. WASHINGTON (AP) — In a case with significant First Amendment implications, the U.S. filed new charges Thursday against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing secret documents containing the names of confidential military and diplomatic sources. The Justice Department’s 18-count superseding indictment alleges that Assange directed former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history. It says the WikiLeaks founder, currently in custody in London , damaged national security by publishing documents that harmed the U.S. and its allies and aided its adversaries.

5am – E         Media Reports On Transgender Athletes All Seem To Be Missing One Thing. (Daily Caller/Rachel Stoltzfoos) — A slew of liberal reports on the dispute over transgender athletes competing in women’s sports have one thing in common — they don’t include the voices of the female athletes they want to compete with. Story after story celebrates the record-smashing successes of transgender athletes in a range of women’s sporting events, including wrestling, track and field and powerlifting. Sometimes the reports include criticism from parents or high-profile athletes who have weighed in on the dispute, but they don’t include anything from the female athletes these biological men are dominating, or even indicate the reporters have made an effort to talk to them. An ABC News report on two biological boys who destroyed the female competition in a Connecticut track and field championship is perhaps the best example of this trend. The network sent a reporter in person to talk to the students, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, after they finished first and second in the competition, and put together a five minute video sympathetic to their views. A brief interview with one parent who thought it was unfair for them to compete with girls is also included in the video, but the girls themselves appear only in footage of them losing to Yearwood and Miller. Instead, the segment ends with the reporter inviting Yearwood and Miller to consider the situation from the perspective of a hypothetical version of girls they are competing against: “Just imagine that you were both born girls, and then all of a sudden you had two boys who identify as being girls, and they said ‘Hey, we’re going to be on your team.’ And maybe now you’re not performing as well, because they are better.”

INTERVIEW - MARY LOU MCDONOUGH - director of the Prince George's County Department of Corrections

Two teenagers charged in the death of a 14-year-old Maryland girl were arrested by Prince George's County police in another case last year and should have been detained, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Corrections Says ICE Failed to Provide Warrant to Hold Gang Members Now Accused in Maryland Girl's Death. The Prince George's County Department of Corrections is defending itself after federal immigration agents blamed it for releasing two suspected gang members last year, giving them the opportunity to kill a 14-year-old girl in April. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Josue Fuentes-Ponce, 16, and Joel Escobar, 17, were in the country illegally when they were arrested May 11, 2018, on several charges, including attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and participation in gang activity, ICE said. They were released on an unknown date despite an ICE detainer, according to ICE. But after working their way through the justice system, a judge said it was against the law to do anything other than release them. “It's basically a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution to hold someone without due process and a warrant,” Prince George's County Department of Corrections Director Mary Lou McDonough said. She said ICE detainment requests are civil requests and not actual warrants.

INTERVIEW - Adam Kennedy - Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Deputy Director of Communications at the White House

Pelosi says Trump is 'engaged in a cover-up'

Pres. Trump: "I told Sen. Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, 'I want to do infrastructure. I want to do it more than you want to do it. I'd be really good at that, that's what I do.' But you know what, you can't do it under these circumstances. So get these phony investigations over with."

INTERVIEW - LT. COL. TONY SHAFFER – a CIA trained former senior intelligence officer and president of the London Center for Policy Research

John Walker Lindh, American ex-Taliban militant, set to walk free Thursday.  John Walker Lindh, who is currently behind bars in Terre Haute, Indiana, is set to be discharged May 23, several years before he would complete the prescribed 20-year prison sentence he received for joining and supporting the Taliban. The former Islamist fighter and enemy combatant, named “Detainee 001 in the war on terror,” was arrested in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan, along with a group of Taliban fighters who were captured by U.S. forces.

Father of slain CIA officer calls for investigation of comments by “American Taliban” fighter John Walker Lindh ahead of his release. 'Slap in the face': Daughter of CIA officer killed after 9/11 blasts 'American Taliban' release

In letter, 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh said ISIS 'doing a spectacular job'

INTERVIEW - SAAGAR ENJETI - Chief Washington Correspondent & Host at The Hill – discussed the Chuck and Nancy and judge rules on Trump’s financials.

Thursday 5/23/19: Saagar Enjeti, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, White House's Adam Kennedy and Mary Lou McDonough of Prince George's County Department of Corrections

7am – A         INTERVIEW - SAAGAR ENJETI - Chief Washington Correspondent & Host at The Hill – discussed the Chuck and Nancy and judge rules on Trump’s financials.

7am – B/C     Corrections Says ICE Failed to Provide Warrant to Hold Gang Members Now Accused in Maryland Girl's Death. (NBC Washington) - The Prince George's County Department of Corrections is defending itself after federal immigration agents blamed it for releasing two suspected gang members last year, giving them the opportunity to kill a 14-year-old girl in April. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Josue Fuentes-Ponce, 16, and Joel Escobar, 17, were in the country illegally when they were arrested May 11, 2018, on several charges, including attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and participation in gang activity, ICE said. They were released on an unknown date despite an ICE detainer, according to ICE. But after working their way through the justice system, a judge said it was against the law to do anything other than release them. “It's basically a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution to hold someone without due process and a warrant,” Prince George's County Department of Corrections Director Mary Lou McDonough said.  She said ICE detainment requests are civil requests and not actual warrants. “On warrants, we'll hold you as long as we can, and that's what we've told ICE in the past,” she said. “If they really want somebody, get us a warrant and we'll hold them for them.” Escobar had been held by Prince George's County, while Ponce was held at a juvenile facility that says it did not receive a detainer to hold him. Ponce, Escobar and 14-year-old Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi were arrested last week and charged with first-degree murder and related charges in the death of 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz, of Adelphi, whose body was found April 19 in a creek in the 6300 block of 64th Avenue in Riverdale.

7am – D         INTERVIEW - LT. COL. TONY SHAFFER – a CIA trained former senior intelligence officer and president of the London Center for Policy Research

John Walker Lindh, American ex-Taliban militant, set to walk free Thursday.  John Walker Lindh, who is currently behind bars in Terre Haute, Indiana, is set to be discharged May 23, several years before he would complete the prescribed 20-year prison sentence he received for joining and supporting the Taliban. The former Islamist fighter and enemy combatant, named “Detainee 001 in the war on terror,” was arrested in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan, along with a group of Taliban fighters who were captured by U.S. forces.

Father of slain CIA officer calls for investigation of comments by “American Taliban” fighter John Walker Lindh ahead of his release. 'Slap in the face': Daughter of CIA officer killed after 9/11 blasts 'American Taliban' release

In letter, 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh said ISIS 'doing a spectacular job'

7am – E         Head of Virginia governor's medical school knew about racist photo but kept quiet. (Fox News) -- A probe into Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook -- which featured a racist photo of a man in blackface standing next to someone in Ku Klux Klan garb -- revealed that the school's president, who donated to the Democrat's campaign, knew about the image but decided against taking action. The law firm investigating the origin and content of a racist photo, which appeared on Northam's page inside the 1984 yearbook, said Wednesday that investigators were unable to determine whether the governor is one of the people seen in the photo or has any other direct connection to it. But the EVMS investigation report disclosed that school President Richard Homan -- a donor to Northam's campaign -- had learned about the racist yearbook photo from his staff, raising questions about whether politics was taken into consideration in Homan's decision not to address the matter. “The staff members were advising the president at the time of the photograph and asking if EVMS had an obligation to or should do something about it, such as notifying Governor Northam about it,” the report read. “The president of EVMS decided that the school should not take steps to publicly announce the photograph or to call Governor Northam's attention to it.”

Thursday 5/23/19: Saagar Enjeti, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, White House's Adam Kennedy and Mary Lou McDonough of Prince George's County Department of Corrections

8am – A         INTERVIEW - Adam Kennedy - Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Deputy Director of Communications at the White House

Pelosi says Trump is 'engaged in a cover-up'

Pres. Trump: "I told Sen. Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, 'I want to do infrastructure. I want to do it more than you want to do it. I'd be really good at that, that's what I do.' But you know what, you can't do it under these circumstances. So get these phony investigations over with."

8am – B/C     CARSON CLAPS BACK AT OMAR: ‘I Know What It’s Like’: Ben Carson Fires Back At Ilhan Omar Over ‘Sleep’ Barb.  Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson traded barbs with Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar over Carson’s testimony before a House committee. Omar took a shot at Carson for his response to Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley in a hearing Tuesday. During a tense exchange, Carson dodged Pressley’s answer by saying he was “reclaiming [his] time.” “Not sure he was fully awake, maybe he meant to reclaim his time back to sleep,” Omar wrote in a tweet Tuesday evening. Carson fired back Wednesday in a tweet directed at Omar. “Since you brought it up … I know what it’s like to actually be sleepy, especially after 18-hour surgeries and operating on babies in the womb,” Carson, a former pediatric neurosurgeon, wrote. “I hope @IlhanMN knows I care about all people, even those she doesn’t recognize as having a right to life,” he added.

8am – D/E     INTERVIEW - MARY LOU MCDONOUGH - director of the Prince George's County Department of Corrections

Two teenagers charged in the death of a 14-year-old Maryland girl were arrested by Prince George's County police in another case last year and should have been detained, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Corrections Says ICE Failed to Provide Warrant to Hold Gang Members Now Accused in Maryland Girl's Death. The Prince George's County Department of Corrections is defending itself after federal immigration agents blamed it for releasing two suspected gang members last year, giving them the opportunity to kill a 14-year-old girl in April. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Josue Fuentes-Ponce, 16, and Joel Escobar, 17, were in the country illegally when they were arrested May 11, 2018, on several charges, including attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and participation in gang activity, ICE said. They were released on an unknown date despite an ICE detainer, according to ICE. But after working their way through the justice system, a judge said it was against the law to do anything other than release them. “It's basically a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution to hold someone without due process and a warrant,” Prince George's County Department of Corrections Director Mary Lou McDonough said. She said ICE detainment requests are civil requests and not actual warrants.

Thursday 5/23/19: Saagar Enjeti, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, White House's Adam Kennedy and Mary Lou McDonough of Prince George's County Department of Corrections

6am – A/B/C TRUMP-PELOSI-SCHUMER FEUD:

Pelosi says Trump is 'engaged in a cover-up'

Pres. Trump: "I told Sen. Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, 'I want to do infrastructure. I want to do it more than you want to do it. I'd be really good at that, that's what I do.' But you know what, you can't do it under these circumstances. So get these phony investigations over with."

6am – D/E     Investigators could not determine if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is in racist yearbook photo. (Washington Post) - NORFOLK — A four-month investigation into a racist picture on Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page wrapped up with the central mystery unsolved, as investigators announced Wednesday that they have not determined whether the governor is in the photo. The lingering question could cast a long shadow over the Democrat, who defied widespread calls for his resignation when the photo resurfaced in February. He has vowed to serve out the remaining 2½ years of his term, devoting himself to the cause of racial equity. Investigators also said they could not figure out who was responsible for placing the photo on Northam’s yearbook page.

6am – F         John Walker Lindh, American ex-Taliban militant, set to walk free Thursday.  John Walker Lindh, who is currently behind bars in Terre Haute, Indiana, is set to be discharged May 23, several years before he would complete the prescribed 20-year prison sentence he received for joining and supporting the Taliban. The former Islamist fighter and enemy combatant, named “Detainee 001 in the war on terror,” was arrested in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan, along with a group of Taliban fighters who were captured by U.S. forces.

Thursday 5/23/19: Saagar Enjeti, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, White House's Adam Kennedy and Mary Lou McDonough of Prince George's County Department of Corrections

5am – A/B/CAVENATTI INDICTED ON DEFRAUDING DANIELS: Avenatti, 48, faces one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. He faces up to 22 years in prison if convicted of those charges. Daniels is not named in the indictment, but a federal law enforcement official confirmed to Fox News that she is the client prosecutors claimed Avenatti defrauded.

5am – D/E     TRUMP'S TAXES:

Mnuchin Says It’s ‘Unlawful’ to Give Congress Trump Tax Returns. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin responds to questions from Representative Alma Adams, a North Carolina Democrat, during testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. (Source: Bloomberg)

Judge rules banks should give Trump’s financial records to Congress

In a statement to CNBC after the ruling, Deutsche Bank said, "We remain committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations and will abide by a court order regarding such investigations."

Wells Fargo, TD Bank have turned Trump's financial records over to House (Washington Examiner)