(Our show was hit with an electrical / satellite outage this morning… here’s hour one as it was meant to be heard.)
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1892 – Coca-Cola was incorporated
1901 – After reigning as monarch for 63 years, Queen Victoria passed away
1938 – Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’ is performed publicly for the first time in Princeton, NJ
1973 – The Supreme Court legalized some abortions in the Roe v Wade ruling
1980 – ‘The Pina Colada’ song is #1 on the Billboard chart
1984 – The Apple computer was introduced in a stunning, one-time only commercial shown during the Super Bowl
1997 – The Senate confirmed Madeline Albright as the first woman to be Secretary of State
News and The Politics out of D.C.
AFTER MORE THAN 12 HOURS OF BORING DEBATE, THE SENATE FINALLY APPROVED THE RULES FOR THE TRIAL
DID MCCONNELL BLINK? MEDIA IS MAKING A LOT OUT OF THE CHANGE IN MITCH’S RULES
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS ADMONISHED BOTH SIDES IN MARATHON SESSION
REP JIM JORDAN: FOUR KEY FACTS ON IMPEACHMENT THAT DEMS CAN’T CHANGE
BERNIE SANDERS RESPONDS TO HILLARY SAYING, ‘NOBODY LIKES HIM’
BERNIE’S ALSO CHARTERING A PRIVATE JET TO GET TO IOWA CAMPAIGN EVENTS
MAYOR PETE HAS A ‘PLEASE CLAP’ MOMENT
PANDERING? WARREN PROMISED A CABINET FULL OF WOMEN
IRANIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT PUTS A $3 MIL BOUNTY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HEAD
TRUMP RALLY IN NJ HAS MORE THAN 100K TICKET REQUESTS FOR VENUE HOLDING 7400
IVANKA TRUMP GIVES CNN’S JIM ACOSTA THE COLD SHOULDER
HILLARY CLINTON DEFENDS HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN (NOW EXPLAIN BILL AND EPSTEIN)
General News
P-O-Y GRETA THUNBERG DRESSED DOWN DAVOS CROWD: ‘I SAID I WANTED YOU TO PANIC’
CORONA VIRUS OUT OF CHINA HAS GLOBAL HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED — IT’S MUTATING
THIS NEW VIRUS AND THE FLU COULD ALSO MAKE GLOBAL MARKETS SICK
CONGRATS TO DEREK JETER! A NEARLY UNANIMOUS HALL OF FAME VOTE FOR THE YANKEE GREAT
SAUDIS SAY NOPE…BUT, JEFF BEZOS CLAIMS HIS PHONE WAS HACKED, PICTURES GRABBED BY ‘MBS’
KANYE WEST PREACHED TO 12,000 STUDENTS, ‘THE DEVIL HAD ME’
OZZY OSBOURNE ANNOUNCED HE’S SUFFERING FROM PARKINSON’S
Strange News Catching My Eye
WEATHER WARNING: FALLING IGUANAS A REAL RISK IN FLORIDA
(WE’VE SEEN THE FALLING IGUANA STORY BEFORE… DON’T PICK THEM UP, SAYS FL WILDLIFE)
‘FURRIES’ TO THE RESCUE! — CONVENTION GOERS STEP IN, RESCUE WOMAN BEING ATTACKED
THE LATEST STUPID TREND INVOLVES MEN DIPPING THEIR TESTICLES INTO SOY SAUCE…BECAUSE, UM…