--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Wednesday, September 6th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: House Oversight Chairman James Comer is requesting unfettered access to documents that show communications between President Biden's office when he was vice president and his son Hunter's business partners.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Comer asked the National Archives and Records Administration on Wednesday for unrestricted special access to a group of redacted records released in response to an open records request.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The redacted versions were posted to NARA's website in response to a lawsuit brought by America First Legal, a group led by Stephen Miller, who was an advisor to former President Donald Trump.
--:-- Stephen Miller: [on Fox News] In the last batch of emails, they redacted, fully redacted, just wiped out, blacked out, disappeared 200 emails relating to Hunter Biden's business operations in Rosemont Seneca.
--:-- Stephen Miller: They asserted executive privilege over 200 separate communications. So we are in court now. We will press this issue.
--:-- Stephen Miller: We must get to the bottom of what is buried inside these redacted emails.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Comer said the complete versions of the documents are relevant to his committee investigation into the Biden family.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The chairman provided a list of specific requests that he asked to be fulfilled by September 20th.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The U is set to announce that it will be sending depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine to assist in the war effort.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Sources told Politico that the Biden administration will be sending the potentially toxic ammunition because, quote, they are considered the most effective way of arming U.S.-made Abrams tanks.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Health organizations say the uranium dust on those rounds can lead to illness, including cancer.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise visit to Ukraine Wednesday to meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
--:-- Antony Blinken: We want to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs not only to succeed in the counteroffensive, but has what it needs for the long term to make sure that it has a strong deterrent, a strong defense capacity, so that in the future, aggressions like this don't happen again.
--:-- Antony Blinken: And we're also determined to continue to work with our partners as they build and rebuild a strong economy, a strong democracy, all of which is necessary to ensure that Ukraine not only survives, but it thrives in the future.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Minority leader Senator Mitch McConnell also implored his colleagues to continue to support Ukraine and to vote in favor of a $40 billion spending bill that would allocate $20.6 billion toward military equipment and other assistance to Ukraine.
--:-- Mitch McConnell: Since Putin escalation in Ukraine President Biden has not been as decisive as many of us would have preferred.
--:-- Mitch McConnell: But this is no excuse for Congress to compound his administration failures with failures of our own.
--:-- Georgia Howe: An activist group filed a lawsuit today that seeks to bar former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado, questioning his eligibility to run under the rarely used 14th Amendment.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Experts say the suit is likely to make its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The complaint was filed by the group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The group has asked the court to expedite the matter so it can be resolved before January 5, 2024, when the state's primary ballot will be set.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Federal Judge Louis Kaplan ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump is civilly liable for defamation against author E. Jean Carroll after comments he made in 2019 against Carroll, who accused him of rape.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, a jury in January will decide the monetary damages that he owes her.
--:-- Georgia Howe: An appeal from Team Trump is expected.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Former Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech on populism versus conservatism in New Hampshire today in an attempt to separate his vision for the country from some of his presidential primary opponents.
--:-- Mike Pence: I believe that now we have a choice our party is facing, Whether we going to produce leadership that is grounded in that timeless conservative agenda that defined our movement for more than 50 years or whether we going to follow the siren song of populism and move our party away from those same principles
--:-- Georgia Howe: Authorities near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are still looking for a convicted murderer who escaped prison last week and has been spotted in the area several times since.
--:-- Georgia Howe: 34-year-old Danilo Cavalcante escaped last Thursday from the Chester County prison.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The latest sighting led officials to move the search area further south on Tuesday, after they determined that Cabal Conte had likely gotten through the perimeter set by hundreds of law enforcement officers.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The manhunt prompted officials in two school districts to cancel classes, citing safety concerns.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Meanwhile, Chester County prison officials are shedding new light on how the escape happened.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The escape by Eager will allow the prison to identify deficiency in the exterior exercise yard where the escape occurred.
--:-- Georgia Howe: This is also the same area, the escape yard, where Cabal Conte was located prior to his escape.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Capoconte escaped at the same location as Eagle Bolt.
--:-- Georgia Howe: It was determined by our security advisors that this one level of security was sufficient.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In fact, what was perhaps overlooked was the fact that addressing the single point of physical countermeasures should have been bolstered by additional means.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We are addressing that.
--:-- Georgia Howe: All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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