In the 7 AM Hour: Larry O’Connor and Bethany Mandel discussed:

• WMAL GUEST: 7:05 AM - INTERVIEW - NICK MINOCK - WJLA ABC 7 Reporter

SOCIAL MEDIA: https://x.com/NickMinock

Nick Minock on X: "🚨New: Hours after a Loudoun County Public Schools employee allegedly hit and killed a student while driving a maintenance vehicle, the Loudoun County School Board didn’t discuss a plan to improve student safety, ask questions about how to make students safer walking to school,

• "Roma Daravi on X: "In less than 1 year, Trump has balanced the budget, raised over $130 million from donors, and secured $257 million from Congress. We are financially stable yet the building is still physically in trouble. Decades of gross negligence left this institution with a broken budget," 
• WMAL GUEST: 7:35 AM - INTERVIEW - ANTHONY HUSTON - (Hew-ston) - CEO of Graphite One, a graphite/critical minerals company in Alaska

WEBSITE: https://www.graphiteoneinc.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA: https://x.com/GraphiteOne

TOPIC: Trump launches ‘Project Vault’ — $12B rare earth stockpile to reduce US reliance on China

FLASHBACK: NOVEMBER 2025: New Arctic discovery could deal massive blow to Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals

• Savannah Guthrie set to pull out of hosting Winter Olympics opening ceremony as mom Nancy remains missing
• Blood found in Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom’s home, which showed signs of forced entry: report

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Episode: Tuesday, February 3, 2025 / 7 AM Hour