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--:-- Georgia Howe: The fallout over a brutal North Carolina murder continues as President Trump weighs in. Just viciously stabbed. She's just sitting there. We have to be able to handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have a country. Is this yet another consequence of soft on crime policies?
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, September 9th, and this is Morning Wire. As the Five Eyes allies look to crack down on illegal immigration, the Supreme Court allows for Trump's big city ice raids to continue. It's going to be good for us to be able to go out there and use this ruling to apprehend more people that should not be in the country.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And RFK Jr. is firing back at Democrats demanding he step down, vowing to deliver new blood and integrity to public health. What the Trump administration is going to do is return gold standards science and make this agency a lead agency for public health in the world once again.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman, a lunatic. That was President Trump addressing the shocking video of the deadly stabbing on Charlotte's light rail.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The attacks raising questions about crime prevention failures in America's inner cities. Here with the details is Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham.
--:-- Megan Basham: So Megan, first off, as a Charlotte resident, I just want to ask, how's the community doing?
--:-- Megan Basham: Well, you know, what you're seeing is a lot of shock and anger from people. They're starting to question the policies that helped contribute to this crime that really has appalled the entire community.
--:-- Megan Basham: I really want to set the scene for you here, Georgia, and say that this is not a dangerous area where this crime took place. It's in South End. It's an area of bustling boutiques and shops, very trendy restaurants.
--:-- Megan Basham: My family and I go there frequently. But really, the character of the area has started to change in the last couple of years. You're starting to see more homeless people on the streets. You're seeing them camped out, congregating.
--:-- Megan Basham: And so a lot of people have talked about how they no longer feel safe riding on that train where Irina Zerutska was killed.
--:-- Megan Basham: And I'm going to show you a little bit of that video. For those who are watching, this is disturbing, so I want to give you that warning.
--:-- Megan Basham: And if you just listening what we seeing is an image of the alleged killer DeCarlos Brown rising with the knife in his hand getting ready to attack Zyritska
--:-- Megan Basham: And then to give you some hard numbers here Georgia Charlotte saw a 25 increase in the homicide rate last year. It was the second highest year on record.
--:-- Megan Basham: The previous high was in 2020, same year that saw those Black Lives Matter riots. Robberies in our inner city are up 54%, and general violent offenses are up nearly 10%.
--:-- Megan Basham: And then most shocking, perhaps, shootings into occupied property is up 42%. So it appears to fit into a troubling pattern that's been going on for a few years now.
--:-- Megan Basham: What policies do people feel are playing a role in these crimes?
--:-- Megan Basham: Well, I actually want to start by highlighting the response of Charlotte's mayor, Democrat Lye Viles, because a lot of this was really surprising to people.
--:-- Megan Basham: Her initial statement did not mention the victim at all. Instead, she spoke about the perpetrator, and she said this, we will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health.
--:-- Megan Basham: I want to be clear that I'm not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or who are unhoused. Mental health disease is just that, a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence, and commitment as cancer or heart disease.
--:-- Megan Basham: So portraying this man as a real victim here, North Carolina Congressman Mark Harris was fairly astonished at Lyle's comments, and this is what he told us.
--:-- Megan Basham: I'm not even sure that she understands what she means by that. I'm not sure anybody does.
--:-- Megan Basham: The bottom line is that this is a criminal that had an incredible rap sheet. I mean, 14 arrests. I understand that there was a mental health issue here, and I think that doesn't excuse the crime.
--:-- Megan Basham: But Lyle's sentiment has been reflected in North Carolina policies that were implemented starting back in 2020.
--:-- Megan Basham: So two weeks after George Floyd was killed, North Carolina's governor, then AG, Josh Stein, announced a task force for racial equity in criminal justice.
--:-- Megan Basham: We will review law enforcement recruitment, training and accountability, as well as court issues, including pretrial release and the use of fines and fees.
--:-- Megan Basham: So after that announcement, the Racial Equity Task Force did indeed recommend increasing pretrial release and decriminalizing homelessness and quote-unquote public behavior.
--:-- Megan Basham: So basically being a menace on public streets. It also implemented implicit bias training for judges and prosecutors.
--:-- Megan Basham: So these are the very factors that played into the alleged killer, DeCarlos Brown, being on the streets.
--:-- Megan Basham: He had at least 14 previous arrests, including armed robbery, felony breaking and entering, and assault with a deadly weapon.
--:-- Megan Basham: Though he did serve five years for that robbery, on most of these arrests, he was credited with time served and received probation and community service.
--:-- Megan Basham: His most recent arrest was in January for misusing 911. And in that case, a judge, despite his long record, did once again give him pretrial release.
--:-- Megan Basham: So that really goes to decriminalizing homelessness and public behavior and how these policies left him on the streets, though he was known as a violent threat.
--:-- Megan Basham: Well, just a reminder, Zarutska escaped from Ukraine totally intact, and this happened to her on American soil. So shameful.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: The Trump administration's border policies are back in the news this week, thanks to a major Supreme Court decision and a high-profile international trip.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here to break it all down for us is Daily Wire Washington editor Tim Rice.
--:-- Tim Rice: Say, Tim, it's been a minute. We haven't seen a bit. So lots of border news already this week. Where should we start?
--:-- Tim Rice: Well, John, how about we start overseas? Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is in London for a meeting of the Five Eyes.
--:-- Tim Rice: That's the intelligence sharing alliance that includes the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
--:-- Tim Rice: This week's meeting is all about border security, specifically efforts to crack down on international human smuggling.
--:-- Tim Rice: Britain's Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is leading the talks. Despite only joining Prime Minister Keir Starmer's cabinet on Friday.
--:-- Tim Rice: Her office said that the Five Eyes will devise policies to, quote, smash criminal smuggling gangs, as well as stop the opioid trade.
--:-- Tim Rice: Days before the summit, Mahmoud pledged to crack down on illegal immigration in the UK.
--:-- Tim Rice: And on Monday, she said that the British government could soon suspend visas to countries that refuse to accept citizens turned away by British authorities.
--:-- Tim Rice: That seems like a pretty major shift for the UK, at least in tone, correct?
--:-- Tim Rice: Yeah, that's right. Mahmoud's only been on the job for a few days, but she already seems to be positioning herself closer to the Trump administration on this immigration question.
--:-- Tim Rice: Like most of Western Europe, the UK has seen record numbers of immigration. In fact, Mahmoud's first day on the job actually saw the highest number of people crossing the English Channel ever.
--:-- Tim Rice: Britain has also been grappling with the revelation that thousands of young girls were systematically groomed and raped by groups of predominantly Pakistani immigrants, and that officials not only failed to stop this abuse, but in many cases punished the victims instead of the abusers.
--:-- Tim Rice: So we'll have to see exactly what comes out of this Five Eyes Summit, but so far it seems like good news for the White House.
--:-- Tim Rice: It does. Now back here domestically, we have a significant win for the Trump administration related to its immigration agenda.
--:-- Tim Rice: Tell us about this SCOTUS ruling.
--:-- Tim Rice: Yeah, that's right. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that federal immigration officials can continue their sweeping raids in the Los Angeles area, raids that a judge had blocked, calling them indiscriminate.
--:-- Tim Rice: The court's ruling means that federal officials like ICE will be able to detain people on the suspicion that they are in the country illegally, and they'll be able to weigh things like accents and ethnicity in their decisions.
--:-- Tim Rice: Writing for the liberal trio, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a characteristically, let's say dramatic dissent, writing that the court was quote, needlessly subjecting people to the indignities of being grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact that they make a living doing manual labor.
--:-- Tim Rice: As if anticipating Sotomayor's rebuke, border czar Tom Homan made it clear over the weekend that he had no sympathy for those here in the country illegally.
--:-- Tim Rice: ICE is sending a message to the whole world that there are consequences for entering the country illegally. There are consequences of being here illegally. And there are consequences, especially for being here illegally and committing crimes.
--:-- Tim Rice: So ICE is focusing on public safety threats. And I looked at the numbers this morning. 70 percent of everybody ICE arresting is a criminal.
--:-- Tim Rice: The other 30 percent are gang members who don't have criminal histories, natural security threats.
--:-- Tim Rice: As we've reported on this show, Trump's immigration crackdowns in blue cities are definitely yielding results, not only in places like L.A., but also now here in D.C.
--:-- Tim Rice: His takeover has yielded over 1,600 arrests, with many of those being illegal immigrants, including suspected gang members and other violent offenders.
--:-- Tim Rice: And numbers the administration has been touting in its bid to send more troops to more cities. That's right.
--:-- Georgia Howe: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is standing up for the Maha agenda as Democrats amp up calls for the secretary to resign.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So Amanda, a bit ironic that Democrats have really zeroed in on Kennedy as their most hated cabinet member. What are they asking for?
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Well, at least a dozen Democrat senators have called on Kennedy to resign.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And if you caught any legacy media shows this past weekend, you might have noticed that it pretty much all the same message. The knives are out for Kennedy.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The focus from Democrats is largely on the CDC and vaccines. There have been some shakeups at the CDC and resignations. We've covered those here.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And Kennedy has routinely said that trust in the CDC in particular is broken. That's something he's trying to fix.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Kennedy said during last week's Senate hearing that he had to fire people at the agency because they simply weren't doing their jobs.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: At least 11 Democrat senators on the finance committee signed onto a letter demanding Kennedy resign. They argued that he has a dangerous anti-health and anti-science agenda.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Senators Ron Wyden, Bernie Sanders, though technically an independent, Elizabeth Warren, and Raphael Warnock all signed onto that letter.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: On one of those weekend shows, Chris Christie attacked Kennedy too. He called him a joke.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, Christie was a Republican governor and presidential hopeful, but he's become a very fierce Trump critic.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And this attack on RFK, unsurprisingly, is centered around Trump. The president's smart enough to know RFK Jr. doesn't belong in that job.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: But after he won, he wanted to show everybody, I can do whatever I want to do because this Senate will be compliant no matter what I do.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And I'll put the greatest vaccine and public health denier of the last 20 years in charge of public health America.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: We're also seeing a lot of opposition to Kennedy on the state level. New York Governor Kathy Hochul, she signed an executive order on Friday, and this is going to allow all New Yorkers, including very healthy young children, to access prescription-free COVID shots.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, under new FDA guidance, healthy people under 65, they'll have to talk to their doctor first before getting that shot. This order overrides that.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. He recently signed legislation that allows full access to the highly controversial chemical abortion pill called mifepristone.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The idea here is to override the FDA if they were to assess that that pill is not safe for young women or not safe without certain regulations.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Wow. So let's talk about RFK's response to all of this. Has he addressed any of these things directly?
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Yeah, well, we know that Kennedy is no shrinking violet. We've seen him in hearings fiercely defend himself and the Maha Agenda, which, by the way, has wide support among the American people if you look at polling.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Kennedy has recently called out major medical organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics. He says they have too much influence from big pharma corporate sponsors.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: These groups routinely oppose Kennedy and the Maha Agenda.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Here's a bit of Kennedy defending recent changes at the CDC. He's going after the medical establishment here.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: These people are the people who ordered our children to walk around in mass. They're the people who closed our schools. They're the people who imposed social distancing with no science, shut down our businesses, and they need to go.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: We need new bloody, and we need new people who are committed to public health and integrity and gold standard science.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And the Trump administration is going to make sure that happens.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In addition to fiercely fighting back, Kennedy is moving at an unprecedented pace at HHS.
--:-- Georgia Howe: So far, the department has reformed baby formula standards. They've worked with major companies to phase out artificial food dyes.
--:-- Georgia Howe: HHS is now requiring transparency so Americans can compare drug prices and out-of-pocket costs.
--:-- Georgia Howe: They've stopped funding for gender surgeries and treatments for minors.
--:-- Georgia Howe: They're working right now to reform nutrition guidelines.
--:-- Georgia Howe: They've most recently cracked down on medical information blocking.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And next on the horizon for HHS is an upcoming vaccine panel meeting that's ASIP.
--:-- Georgia Howe: They're going to look at the childhood vaccination schedule.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Democrats are already furious over that meeting, which, you know, has yet to happen.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And we'll also have an update this month on research related to the potential causes of the massive spike in autism.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We'll be keeping tabs on all of those forthcoming updates. Certainly a lot to keep your eye on.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Amanda, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: You're welcome. Thanks for waking up with us.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And if you're watching on YouTube, don't forget to like and subscribe. We'll be back this evening with more news you need to know.
