Chicago’s Morning Answer Show Notes: Wednesday 4/5/2017

The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman is not ruling out interviewing former national security adviser Susan Rice over allegations that she sought to have the identities of President Trump’s transition team revealed in foreign surveillance reports. National Review Editor and former Chief Assistant US Attorney Andrew McCarthy also joined Dan and Amy with reaction:

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Keith Pekau defeated Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin in Tuesday’s election. He joined Dan and Amy to talk about the race:

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In an interview Tuesday with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, former Obama administration national security advisor Susan Rice denies allegations from Fox News, Bloomberg, and other outlets that she used foreign intelligence intercepts to spy on members of the Trump campaign, including looking at documents whose subsequent leak ended the career of her successor, Gen. Mike Flynn.

 

On Tuesday’s edition of Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and MSNBC political analyst/Mother Jones D.C. bureau chief David Corn were unglued over the Susan Rice unmaskingcontroversy, suggesting that it was racist and sexist for these accusations to be leveled at the former National Security Adviser.

 

A Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that associates of Donald Trump will “probably go to jail” over their connections to the Russian government. Texas Rep. Jaoquin Castro made the explosive claim in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, though he declined to give specifics about why he believes jail time is in the offing for Trump advisers.

 

With the release of the new indie flick, “Landline,” the Chicago Cubs have become the first Major League Baseball team to allow its logo and name to be licensed for a gay-themed movie. The film is a thoroughly Chicago film based completely in the Windy City, and features many of Chicago’s most famous landmarks, including the Cubs’ Wrigley Field.

 

A man in Denver died during an eating contest at his local donut shop. He is the latest in a series of eating contest-related deaths that have made Amy Jacobson pick them as the next thing she believes should be banned.

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