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--:-- Georgia Howe: Good evening, I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Monday, June 16th, and this is Evening Wire.
--:-- John Bickley: Welcome to Evening Wire. We've got a lot to cover tonight, so let's get right into it.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The man accused of carrying out a politically motivated assassination in Minnesota faces a mountain of federal and state charges. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the details.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Prosecutors say Vance Bolter posed as a police officer before killing state rep Melissa Hartman and her husband. He also wounded state senator John Hoffman and his wife at their home. Authorities found a hit list in Bolter's vehicle with dozens of Democrat officials, including Governor Tim Walz and Rep Ilhan Omar.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: During a press conference today, law enforcement says officers actually arrived at the Hartman residence while the victims were still alive. When Bolter saw the officers get out of the car, he drew his weapon and began firing. He rushed into the house through the front door, firing into it. He repeatedly fired into the house. And when he entered, he murdered Representative Hortman and her husband, Mark.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The Brooklyn Park police officers fired at Bolter as he rushed into the home, but he escaped into the home and out the back. Officers recovered Bolter's 9mm Beretta along with the body armor and the mask behind the home along his path of flight.
--:-- John Bickley: Cabot, can you tell us more about the investigation and what we know about Bolter's motives?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yes, John. From what we've gathered, Bolter had been stalking his victims for weeks, wearing body armor and using a realistic silicone mask to deceive his targets. A two-day manhunt ended with his arrest near a Minnesota farm Sunday evening.
--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney today as the G7 summit got underway. Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice has the latest.
--:-- Tim Rice: Talks between the leaders come amid tensions between their two countries due to tariffs and Trump comments about Canada becoming the 51st state. Speaking to reporters before the meeting, Trump talked about ongoing conflicts around the world, saying it was a big mistake to exclude Russia from the G7 and suggesting that including the Russians may have prevented the Ukraine war.
--:-- Tim Rice: Trump also said that Iran is ready to talk about ending the conflict with Israel, but warned Tehran that it should have acted sooner. They had 60 days, and on the 61st day, I said, we don't have a deal. They have to make a deal. And it's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this war. And they should talk and they should talk immediately before it's too late.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thousands of Iranians are fleeing Tehran as Israel warns of more strikes to come. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Iranian officials have dismissed the Jewish state's warning as psychological warfare. But on the ground, many citizens blame the Islamic regime's regressive policies for putting them in danger. This comes after Israel claimed aerial superiority over Tehran and killed off top Iranian intelligence leaders in targeted airstrikes.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That includes strikes that killed Revolutionary Guard Intelligence Chief Mohammed Kazemi, his deputy, and top Quds Force leaders responsible for directing Iran's terror networks across the Middle East. Israel's military also released a statement claiming it had taken out more than 120 missile launchers, constituting one-third of the Iranian regime's total launchers.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran has labeled President Trump enemy number one and actively plotted his assassination. He said, made it very clear, including now, you cannot have a nuclear weapon, which means you cannot enrich. He's been very forceful. So for them, he's enemy number one.
--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump plans to flood big cities like LA in New York with ICE agents and the single largest mass deportation program in history. Writing on Truth Social Sunday, the president said that millions upon millions of illegal aliens reside in a small number of Democrat-controlled enclaves and claimed Democrats are protecting these illegals to facilitate election fraud and grow the welfare state.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The FBI has captured two of the four illegals who escaped an ICE detention facility last week. They were apprehended on Sunday, three days after escaping from the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark by breaking through a wall. Two fellow escapees, Franklin Norberto Bautista Reyes and Andres Pineda Mogollon, are still on the run.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A man wielding a knife barged into a New York courthouse this morning and attacked two officers. The man slashed the officers on the face and neck inside the Manhattan criminal courthouse. Another officer was shoved into barricades. The suspect has been known around the court previously, regularly saying he wanted to kill the officers.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A Christian pro-life center is taking its free speech case to the nation's highest court. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has the details.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The Supreme Court will hear the First Choice Women's Resource Center's case against the New Jersey Attorney General. The AG, who works closely with Planned Parenthood, subpoenaed records from the nonprofit and alleged it was misleading women about offering abortion services.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The nonprofit said the subpoena shows bias against pro-life groups and called it invasive of its free speech rights. Lower courts had previously rejected the case, but now the Supreme Court will determine if the case falls under federal jurisdiction.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Teachers union leader Randy Weingarten has quit the DNC in the latest blow to Democrat party leadership. In her resignation letter, she says she doesn't align with the way chair Ken Martin's leadership operates and that she wants to engage more with Democrat communities.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Weingarten supported Martin's opponent, and some anonymous DNC employees say they weren't surprised by her decision to step down. Here's newly elected DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta speaking with MSNBC about the resignation.
--:-- Malcolm Kenyatta: I love Randy Weingarten, and I respect the decision that she made in this moment. But one thing is crystal clear. I know where she's going to be, and I know where we must be as a party, and that's on the side of working people and working families.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The resignation comes after progressive Democrat David Hogg announced he would not seek re-election for vice chair of the DNC.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Competitive eater Joey Chestnut is back and ready to chow down at this year's Nathan's hot dog eating competition. He was banned from the event last year over a dispute related to a sponsorship deal with Impossible Foods, which is a rival brand of Nathan's that had just launched a plant-based meatless hot dog product.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines announced she and her husband are expecting a baby girl. As an advocate for young girls and women, particularly in sports, Gaines said she thinks of having a baby girl as providential.
--:-- Georgia Howe: That's all for tonight's Evening Wire. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.
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