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--:-- John Bickley: President Biden signs an expansive executive order on immigration, sparking backlash from Republicans. This is another giveaway program. They don't qualify for asylum. It's an asylum fraud. But they're not going to leave. They're going to hang around. They'll hide out for the next giveaway.
--:-- John Bickley: The move comes as police arrest an illegal immigrant on charges of rape of a young teen in a New York City park. The horrific crime was committed in broad daylight. And our investigators immediately went about filing and apprehending the person responsible.
--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Wednesday, June 19th, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- John Bickley: Pfizer is hit with a big lawsuit over making several misleading claims about its COVID-19 vaccine.
--:-- John Bickley: This lawsuit is simply about withholding, misleading, and deceiving the public. A company has a high obligation to be honest with Americans.
--:-- John Bickley: Alarm within the Democrat Party grows as former President Trump gains more ground and key demographics turn their backs on Biden.
--:-- John Bickley: I believe that Black voters are over the entertainers and the athletes being the representation of the community.
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--:-- John Bickley: President Biden announced what is being called a sweeping amnesty order on Tuesday. The president took unilateral action to provide a pathway to legal residency for an estimated half a million illegal immigrants.
--:-- John Bickley: Here to talk about the specifics of the order is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Hey, thanks for having me.
--:-- John Bickley: So we've seen reports this order was coming. Now it's been signed. First, who exactly does the order apply to?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah, Biden's order covers about 500,000 illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. 10 years and are married to a U.S. citizen. Another roughly 50,000 non-citizen children who are under 21 years old and whose parent is married to a U.S. citizen will be covered as well.
--:-- Tim Pierce: This order has been billed as the largest amnesty action since former President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, known as DACA. And that order sparked a lot of controversy as well.
--:-- Tim Pierce: What does this new order do?
--:-- Tim Pierce: The major change is it takes a step out of the residency process for the spouses of U.S. citizens. Under current federal law, an illegal immigrant who marries a U.S. citizen must request parole first before he or she can apply for legal residency. Potentially, that means the applicant has to leave the country for a certain period of time.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Biden's order removes that step.
--:-- Tim Pierce: There's also what it does for the president politically. CNN reports that Biden hopes the order will appeal to Latino communities in Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, all places that he is underwater with voters.
--:-- Tim Pierce: It is also an olive branch to progressive groups upset with him for his attempt a few weeks ago to suppress illegal immigration.
--:-- Tim Pierce: What about the response? What has the reaction been to this order so far?
--:-- Tim Pierce: It's gotten good marks from Democrats. Colorado Governor Jared Polis commended Biden for stepping up as congressional Republicans failed to pass the bipartisan border security workforce and asylum reform bill.
--:-- Tim Pierce: On the other side, Republicans have hammered Biden over it. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton went on CNN and brought up the case of Rachel Morin.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That was the case we reported Monday. A Maryland woman who was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Recently learned that the murderer of Rachel Morin, a beautiful young mother of five, was a savage degenerate from El Salvador who raped and beat her after doing something similar in El Salvador.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yet Joe Biden, rather than getting serious about immigrant crime, is about to give amnesty to more than a million illegal aliens.
--:-- Tim Pierce: It's former President Trump's campaign called Biden's order a power play to give, quote, mass amnesty and citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegals who he knows will ultimately vote for him and the open border Democrat Party.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The campaign statement also brought up another tragic example of a crime committed by an illegal immigrant where a 13-year-old girl was tied down and raped in a New York City park.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And according to the New York Post, the suspect shouldn't have even been in the country. He was ordered out of the country by a judge two years ago.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Levitt summed up the message when she wrote, quote, Biden doesn't care about American lives.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Right. Tell us about that case that really dominated the news cycle yesterday. What happened there?
--:-- Tim Pierce: According to police, an illegal immigrant found two 13-year-olds walking in a park in Queens in the middle of the day. At knife point, he threatened them into a secluded area, tied them up with their shoelaces and raped the girl.
--:-- Tim Pierce: He took their phones before running away. NYPD caught up and arrested the suspect on Monday with the help of some good Samaritans.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's Chief Detective Joe Kinney announcing the arrest yesterday.
--:-- Joe Kinney: His name is Christian Giovanni Inga Landi. He is of Ecuadorian descent. He has no prior arrest history in New York City. However, he does have one arrest out of state in Texas.
--:-- Joe Kinney: Since his time in New York City, he's been involved with the police department only three times involving three summonses and one domestic violence incident in the 107 precinct that did not require an arrest.
--:-- Joe Kinney: And here's Kinney laying out the charges.
--:-- Joe Kinney: The charges are going to be as follows. For a female victim, rape, sex abuse, robbery in the first degree, menacing, unlawful imprisonment, kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child, and possession of a weapon.
--:-- Joe Kinney: For the male victim, robbery in the first degree, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, unlawful imprisonment, kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Just really a horrific story, Tim.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for reporting.
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--:-- John Bickley: That was Kansas Attorney General Chris Kobach announcing that his state is suing Pfizer for making misleading claims about the efficacy of its COVID vaccine and for allegedly covering up evidence of potential risks.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham is here now with more.
--:-- Megan Basham: Hey Megan. So a major lawsuit here. What are the claims?
--:-- Megan Basham: So Kobach says he's bringing this suit because Pfizer violated his state Consumer Protection Act. In his press conference on Monday, he especially focused on what he says are the vaccine potential harms to pregnant women and also evidence that Pfizer had knowledge it could potentially cause heart issues.
--:-- Megan Basham: So Kobach said that this information only came out because of a previous Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Pfizer.
--:-- Megan Basham: Here's a bit of the evidence he said was revealed as a result of that FOIA suit.
--:-- Megan Basham: Pfizer marketed its vaccine as safe for pregnant women. However, in February of 2021, Pfizer possessed reports for 458 pregnant women who received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy.
--:-- Megan Basham: More than half of the pregnant women reported an adverse event and more than 10 percent reported a miscarriage, many within days of the vaccination.
--:-- Megan Basham: Pfizer consistently denied any evidence of a connection or safety signal between its COVID-19 vaccine and myocarditis or pericarditis.
--:-- Megan Basham: However, as Pfizer knew, the United States government, the United States military, foreign governments, and others had found that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine caused myocarditis and pericarditis.
--:-- Megan Basham: Kobach also said that when Pfizer urged Americans to get vaccinated in order to protect their loved ones, the company was, quoting, clearly indicating that the vaccine would prevent the virus from spreading.
--:-- Megan Basham: But later, Pfizer executives admitted before Congress that they never even studied the effectiveness of the jab at stopping transmission.
--:-- Megan Basham: And then there's COVID censorship. He also says Pfizer colluded with big tech to silence and intimidate medical experts who were critical of the vaccines.
--:-- Megan Basham: Now, overarching this case is the question of immunity. Didn't the federal government grant the pharmaceutical companies blanket immunity from lawsuits when it comes to COVID vaccines?
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah, they sure did. And that's one of the major hurdles that Kobach is going to have to clear here.
--:-- Megan Basham: But kind of a wrinkle. Pfizer was not a part of Operation Warp Speed that the Trump administration put in place to develop the vaccines, meaning it only accepted federal funding to distribute them, not to manufacture them.
--:-- Megan Basham: What that means is that Pfizer didn't have the government oversight that the other manufacturers did. So it may be easier to get around that blanket immunity.
--:-- Megan Basham: And Kobach specifically said that immunity, quote, did not free any of the vaccine manufacturers from their obligation to not mislead the public or make deceptive statements in marketing the vaccines.
--:-- Megan Basham: Do we expect any other states to join Kansas in this?
--:-- Megan Basham: Kobach said in his statement that he is expecting this to become a multi-state effort. In fact, he said that five other states will be joining this suit.
--:-- Megan Basham: But the only other one he has specifically named so far is Idaho.
--:-- Megan Basham: Now, that said, Texas did file its own suit against Pfizer at the end of last year, and it's very similar to this one.
--:-- Megan Basham: And then also at the end of 2022, Florida's Supreme Court granted a request from Governor DeSantis to launch a grand jury investigation into criminal or wrongful activity on the part of the COVID vaccine manufacturers.
--:-- Megan Basham: That investigation is still ongoing.
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah. In the meantime, the CDC is standing by the vaccines in its latest recommendation last month. It said that new data shows these vaccines were effective and it is still advising everyone ages six months and older to get both vaxxed and or boosted this year.
--:-- Megan Basham: The Pfizer vaccine was one of the three that it recommended.
--:-- Megan Basham: Pfizer, meanwhile, says this suit has no merit and that patient safety is their, quote, number one protocol.
--:-- Megan Basham: Well, it's going to be interesting to see what could come out in discovery as this lawsuit moves forward.
--:-- John Bickley: Megan, thanks for reporting.
--:-- John Bickley: Anytime.
--:-- John Bickley: Democrats and the liberal media are growing more alarmed by Joe Biden's continued weakness in the polls leading up to the November election.
--:-- John Bickley: Here to discuss the numbers and where they lead the race is Daily Wire contributor David Marcus.
--:-- David Marcus: Hey, Dave. So let's start with this Iowa poll. Why is this getting so much attention?
--:-- David Marcus: Morning, John. Ann Seltzer is one of the highest rated pollsters in the country, especially known for her expertise in Iowa. And she had a shocker this week that showed Trump up 18 points there, a state that he won by only eight in 2020.
--:-- David Marcus: That is a really huge shift. And while Iowa is not a swing state, its neighbors in northeast Wisconsin certainly is. So if there's any spillover into the Badgers state, that could prove significant.
--:-- David Marcus: I mean, after all, the last presidential election there was decided by about a quarter of the paid attendance at a Packers game.
--:-- David Marcus: There's also polls showing a much closer race in Virginia than experts expected.
--:-- David Marcus: And all of this broadens the map of states Biden has to defend.
--:-- David Marcus: Yeah. Now, we're also seeing a lot of worry from Democrats over the black and Hispanic vote, traditionally bulwarks of support for the party.
--:-- David Marcus: How big of a problem is this for Biden, really?
--:-- David Marcus: It's existential to his candidacy. An aggregation of network polls recently found that Biden's support among black voters has fallen to 70 percent compared to 86 percent in 2020.
--:-- David Marcus: Put simply, if that's accurate, there is very little chance that Joe Biden can win, especially since the black vote plays a major role in several swing states owing to major urban areas like Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Detroit.
--:-- David Marcus: Trump is targeting the minority vote very hard. We saw with his rally in the Bronx and a trip to North Philly this coming weekend.
--:-- David Marcus: And as you say, it's Hispanic voters, too. These are core constituencies in the Democratic Party, and losing this many of them could hurt not just Joe Biden, but Democrats all the way down the ticket.
--:-- David Marcus: Yeah, it really is a potentially generational shift here.
--:-- David Marcus: What is the level of panic now that we're seeing, at least publicly, among Biden surrogates and supporters?
--:-- David Marcus: Well, to borrow from Spinal Tap, for some prominent Democrats, the knob seems to be up at 11, even if the official Biden campaign is shrugging this data off as nothing to see here.
--:-- David Marcus: Democrat Congressman Dean Phillips, who ran against Biden early in the primary, took to social media to say of the Iowa poll that, quote, the shift is real and transcends identity and ideology, end quote.
--:-- David Marcus: Also stressing that Biden needs a very strong performance in next week's debate.
--:-- David Marcus: And it gets worse. Here's what longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said about the current crop of polls.
--:-- David Marcus: I don't think people really appreciate how bad Biden's poll numbers are. When you look at them, it's like walking down your grandmother naked. You can't unsee them, no matter how hard you try.
--:-- David Marcus: Quite an image.
--:-- David Marcus: So Phillips mentioned the debate almost as a test for Biden's viability in this race. Is that something that we're hearing from other corners as well?
--:-- David Marcus: Yes. Axios and a few others have reported on Democrats who think that this debate is make or break, not just for Biden's campaign, but for his nomination and candidacy.
--:-- David Marcus: There has been speculation even before Biden took office that he may not actually run for reelection.
--:-- David Marcus: And it's a plausible explanation for why Democrats wanted an unprecedented June debate.
--:-- David Marcus: But this is really what is at stake for the president in the debate. It's a chance for him to quiet some of the worried voices.
--:-- David Marcus: Conversely, a poor performance could create a cacophony of calls for a new nominee.
--:-- David Marcus: Yeah, could these rumblings become a deafening chorus at some point, I guess is the concern.
--:-- John Bickley: Dave, thanks for joining us.
--:-- David Marcus: Thanks for having me.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back this afternoon with more news you need to know.
