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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Wednesday, August 27th, and this is Evening Wire.
--:-- John Bickley: Good evening, Georgia. Thanks for joining us.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in Minneapolis today after a gunman opened fire at a Catholic school's morning mass.
--:-- John Bickley: That's right, Georgia. Police say a 23-year-old male opened fire with multiple weapons, shooting through church windows before taking his own life.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Of the 17 injured, 14 of those are children, two of whom are critically hurt. Minneapolis's mayor called it a deliberate act of violence against children and worshipers.
--:-- John Bickley: President Trump has ordered flags flown at half-mask nationwide to honor the victims.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The shooter, Robin Westman, who identified as a transgender female, was born Robert Paul Westman and changed his name legally in 2020.
--:-- John Bickley: President Trump is turning up the heat on billionaire activist George Soros and his son, calling for both to face federal racketeering charges.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In a fiery Truth Social post, Trump accused Soros of bankrolling violent protests and fueling chaos, saying we're not going to let these lunatics rip apart America anymore.
--:-- John Bickley: Soros' Open Society Foundations called the claim false, saying they fund democracy and human rights.
--:-- Georgia Howe: It's the latest flashpoint in Trump's push to confront what he calls the radical left machine.
--:-- John Bickley: Ten FBI whistleblowers have secured settlements from the Justice Department.
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, the officials reported waste, fraud, and abuse under the Biden administration.
--:-- John Bickley: In return, they were subjected to demotions, security clearance revocation, and indefinite unpaid administrative leave.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Grassley mediated negotiations between the whistleblowers and the agency.
--:-- John Bickley: Some of them just want their national security right back. Clearance, yeah. Some of them want back pay. Yep. Not all of them want their job back. None. But we're going to fight for whatever they want.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And I think we're making some progress.
--:-- John Bickley: The officials in question were all given lump sum payments. None were forced to resign as part of the agreements.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The arrest toll in Washington D.C. has crossed a new threshold as the Trump administration's capital crackdown continues.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Authorities in Washington, D.C. have made over 1,000 arrests since President Trump federalized a police force earlier this month.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Authorities have also seized over 100 firearms and cleared dozens of homeless encampments.
--:-- John Bickley: Many of the arrested are illegal immigrants. Some have been identified as MS-13 and Trendaeragua gang members.
--:-- Tim Pierce: President Trump doubled down on his enforcement efforts during a Tuesday cabinet meeting.
--:-- John Bickley: If somebody kills somebody in the Capitol, Washington, D.C., we're going to be seeking the death penalty.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The milestone comes as President Trump eyes Chicago to be the next city to receive federal help with law enforcement.
--:-- John Bickley: DHS says an astounding number of illegal immigrants have been arrested since June, and they say they're just getting started.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The milestone arrest was convicted Mexican drug trafficker Gustavo Garcia Miranda, who was nabbed by Border Patrol for illegal re-entry.
--:-- Georgia Howe: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the operation is taking gang members, child predators, and murderers off our streets and vowed, quote, this is just the beginning.
--:-- John Bickley: The crackdown comes amid riots, sanctuary city pushback, and a court ruling blocking Trump's bid to cut federal funds to such cities.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But DHS says federal agents and even National Guard troops will keep going.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Police body camera footage shows the illegal immigrant truck driver who caused a fatal crash in Florida speaking in broken English.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist has more.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: Body camera footage from a New Mexico state police officer shows the illegal alien trucker from India struggling to communicate during the July 3rd traffic stop.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating that truckers demonstrate English language proficiency.
--:-- John Bickley: The illegal alien, named Harjinder Singh, performed an unlawful U-turn that resulted in the death of three Americans just one month after the stop.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: The Trump administration announced this week that it is cracking down on New Mexico, California, and Washington, which it says have not been enforcing the new policy.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Trump administration's bid to deport illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego-Garcia has been blocked again.
--:-- John Bickley: Judge Paula Zinas has scheduled a hearing for October 6th where Trump officials will testify on whether they followed the law when trying to send him to Uganda.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: The hearing means Abrego Garcia's deportation will be delayed until at least October.
--:-- Georgia Howe: His legal team is pushing asylum claims and challenging the re-deportation.
--:-- John Bickley: The parents of missing seven-month-old Emanuel Haro appeared in court this week, facing charges of murder as the search for human remains continues.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has more.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The parents were arrested at their California home last week. Prosecutors say that the couple falsely claimed that their son was abducted during an attack outside of a store on August 14th.
--:-- John Bickley: Investigators say inconsistencies in the mother's story led them to suspect foul play.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Despite extensive searches, including along the 60 freeway with cadaver dogs, Emmanuel has not been found.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Both parents appeared in Riverside County Court on Tuesday for less than five minutes.
--:-- John Bickley: Bail was set at $1 million each, and their arraignment continues September 4th.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A teen girl in Scotland has been charged for carrying a hatchet.
--:-- John Bickley: However, she says the weapon was to protect herself and her sister from men who were harassing and pursuing them.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Police in Scotland confirmed that officers responded to a call Saturday evening in Dundee's Low Key area about a youth with a blade.
--:-- John Bickley: The details are still emerging, but video circulating online that was supposedly posted by a migrant male shows two visibly upset girls warning the men to go away and several adult men nearby.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Some social media accounts claim that the teenager pulled the weapon in self-defense after feeling threatened.
--:-- John Bickley: While those claims have not been confirmed, they've sparked debate about whether the justice system is focusing more on punishing citizens than addressing the behavior that makes neighborhoods feel unsafe.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Elon Musk is taking aim at Britain's rape gang scandal.
--:-- John Bickley: In a post on X, Musk says he's willing to fund lawsuits against corrupt officials who he says covered up crimes linked to child exploitation.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The comment came after an inquiry led by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe reported evidence of abuse across 85 local authorities and accused police and councils of turning a blind eye, sometimes out of fear of being labeled racist.
--:-- John Bickley: Musk, who has previously criticized officials over the issue, says he wants hard justice delivered for survivors and is ready to back legal action to make it happen.
--:-- Georgia Howe: SpaceX just took to the skies again with the successful launch of its Starship rocket.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler has the details.
--:-- Joel Needler: The spacecraft launched from South Texas Tuesday night and deployed several dummy Starlink satellites before splashing back down into the Indian Ocean.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The main purpose of the flight was to test the response of the Starship hull against the heat and pressure of re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
--:-- John Bickley: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said he wants to launch a version of Starship to Mars as early as next year.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Democrat Caitlin Dre won a special election for Iowa's state Senate on Tuesday.
--:-- John Bickley: She received an estimated 55 percent of the vote and will replace the late Republican Senator Rocky DeWitt, who died of pancreatic cancer in June.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Dre's victory breaks the GOP supermajority that has controlled Iowa's Senate for the past three years.
--:-- John Bickley: For Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, the election means that she will need at least one Democratic vote to confirm her nominees to state positions in the final year of her term.
--:-- Georgia Howe: After widespread criticism and backlash, Cracker Barrel is bringing back its old logo.
--:-- John Bickley: In a press statement, the company said, quote, we thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen and we have. Our new logo is going away and our old timer will remain.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Even President Trump weighed in on Truth Social, encouraging the company to take advantage of the, quote, billion dollars of free publicity the fumble created.
--:-- John Bickley: The company's stock prices rebounded on the news that the old logo and aesthetic were coming back.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And a University of Tennessee professor went viral for this moment on Tuesday.
--:-- John Bickley: We have a biochem midterm today, but Taylor and Travis just got engaged. Due to this information, I can't focus, you all can't focus, classes cancel, get out of here.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We need to come to process this information.
--:-- John Bickley: So, John, you were a college professor. Can you confirm, you would have observed that royal wedding protocol?
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm not sure that I can confirm that in all honesty.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your drive home updates.
--:-- Georgia Howe: To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- John Bickley: And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including a Fed governor digging in her heels after President Trump fired her, Trump allowing more Chinese students to enter the U.S., and the DOT slamming the brakes on licenses for non-English speaking truckers.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.
--:-- John Bickley: Voice of fear.
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