America’s Morning News

In case you didn’t tune into The Washington Times’ nationally syndicated radio show, “America’s Morning News” - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network - here’s what four of Tuesday’s guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin:

- Former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey: Mr. Mukasey, a retired chief federal judge in New York, blasted his successor, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., for proposing that five Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of war crimes be brought to New York City to stand trial in a civilian court.

- Dr. Keith Ablow, a best-selling author: Dr. Ablow said New Yorkers could be harmed psychologically by the media, if not the propaganda circus, around the civilian court trial of five 9/11 terrorism suspects within blocks of the World Trade Center site in New York City.

- Alan Sipress, author of “The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of the Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic”: Mr. Sipress warned that, with a mortality rate of 50 percent, H5N1 (avian, or bird, flu) is far more deadly than the much-publicized H1N1 (swine flu), striking young and otherwise healthy adults with a lethal, lung-suppressing virus that is nearly impossible to stop.

- Dan Kennedy, an advisory member of the Business and Media Institute: Mr. Kennedy said that if you think the economy is bad now, wait until the government has its way with health care: The country could see 16 percent unemployment or worse.