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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Monday, August 25th, and this is Evening Wire.
--:-- John Bickley: The Trump administration's efforts to combat crime in the nation's capital are far from over. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The National Guard is now armed and permitted to detain suspects around D.C. At the moment, there are over 2,200 Guard members patrolling key transit hubs and streets as backup for D.C. police. Critics call it federal overreach, but the White House says it's about protecting federal assets and keeping residents safe.
--:-- President Trump: For 11 days, you don't have crime. But before that, everybody was getting hit and mugged. And you people could not walk to your office without security. That's how unsafe it was. So I think we should really let them have their city, let their city go to hell. And when they come and beg us to help, the only problem is we want to save it for the people because the people want us there. The people here, 95 percent of the people here want us.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The office of the DNI is combating claims that the U.S. has halted intelligence sharing with the Five Eyes partners. CBS claimed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a memo late last month ordering that all analysis on the Russia-Ukraine negotiations be kept no foreign. That means the intelligence would be kept even from our closest allies.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: However, the ODNI disputes that report, saying there has been no pause in intelligence sharing. According to a spokeswoman, U.S. intelligence-sharing relationships with our allies have never been stronger. Creating manufactured outrage by manipulating classified information is disgusting and further proves D&I Gabbard's point about the risk deep state leakers pose to national security.
--:-- Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky: Ukraine can now strike deep into Russian territory without the need for prior approval from the U.S. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday that Ukraine can now domestically produce its own long-range missiles rather than rely on the West for such weapons.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Zelensky's comments come after a report in the Wall Street Journal alleging that the U.S. has blocked long-range strikes on Russia for months over ongoing peace talks.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Canada will remove its 25% tariff on about half of the goods entering the U.S. The tax was levied in March, but the country is now backtracking in hopes of securing a better deal with their largest trading partner.
--:-- Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney: Let's be absolutely clear. Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United States. And while it's different from what we had before, it is still better than that of any other country.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The U.S. government is now a 10 percent owner of Intel. The extraordinary agreement will convert $8.9 billion in government grants into equity. The move comes just a few weeks after President Trump called for the firing of Intel CEO Lip Bouton for his ties to the CCP.
--:-- Senator Rand Paul: I'm criticizing the public-private partnership as a step towards socialism, but Trump is standing by the move, suggesting deals with other companies could be made in the future.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Israel struck multiple Houthi facilities in the capital of Yemen on Sunday. The airstrikes targeted a military compound, a fuel depot, and two power stations controlled by the Iran-backed terrorist group.
--:-- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: [Speaking in Hebrew]
--:-- Cabot Phillips: A New York Times investigation found that dozens of tax-exempt non-profit organizations with ties to China have been used to influence local elections in New York City. Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has the latest.
--:-- Zach Jewell: Many of the organizations known as hometown associations have focused on quashing the political aspirations of local leaders who criticize China while backing other politicians who are friendly toward Beijing.
--:-- Zach Jewell: This New York Times report was published just days after the newspaper published another story revealing that red envelopes filled with cash were handed out to reporters at rallies for Mayor Eric Adams, who's running for re-election in a hotly contested race.
--:-- Ghislaine Maxwell: During two days of questioning, I repeated my claim that Jeffrey Epstein did not die by suicide and denied ever witnessing misconduct by any of the powerful men in Epstein's orbit. I specifically said former presidents Trump and Clinton and others like Elon Musk and John Kerry were never inappropriate in my presence.
--:-- Ghislaine Maxwell: I also addressed the supposed client list. There is no list. I'm not aware of any blackmail. I never heard. I never saw it and I never imagined it.
--:-- Georgia Howe: As the Democratic National Committee kicks off its summer meeting today, Democrats are sounding the alarm over their disunity and fundraising shortfalls. The new chair for the DNC, Ken Martin, spoke today in Minneapolis and said that the party's biggest challenges are actually internal.
--:-- Ken Martin: The greatest divide right now in our party is not ideological, but rather, those people who are standing up and fighting and those who are sitting on the sidelines.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The DNC's goal, he added, is using every single lever of power we have to take the fight to Donald Trump.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Democrats in New York and Maryland say they're planning to redraw electoral maps just like California. Maryland Governor Wes Moore, as well as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, confirmed Sunday that they're working to redraw the congressional maps after watching their Democrat comrades in California move to put the issue on the ballot.
--:-- Hakeem Jeffries: I've been in touch, of course, with Governor Kathy Hochul as well as the legislative leaders. House Democrats are going to respond from coast to coast and at all points in between, as has been done in California, forcefully, immediately and appropriately to make sure that Donald Trump cannot steal the midterm elections.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was taken back into custody just days after his release. Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler has more.
--:-- Joel Needler: Illegal alien Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was taken into custody by ICE today after he was released from federal prison in Tennessee, where he was being held while he underwent trial for human trafficking charges.
--:-- Joel Needler: Abrego-Garcia's case sparked debate after the Salvadorian illegal alien was deported to El Salvador earlier this year before then being returned to the United States to stand trial for his alleged role in a human smuggling operation.
--:-- Abrego-Garcia: [Speaking through a translator] This is why I want to thank each and every one of you who marched, lift your voices, never stop praying, and continue to fight in my name.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Texas will no longer offer in-tuition to illegal immigrants, and now the Trump administration is looking to take this policy nationwide. The DOJ filed a complaint against the state of Texas in June, seeking to block the enforcement of a 2001 law that qualifies illegal Texas residents for in-state tuition.
--:-- Pam Bondi: Under federal law, schools cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens. The Justice Department will relentlessly fight to ensure that U.S. citizens are not treated like second-class citizens anywhere in the country.
--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump signed two executive orders on Monday. One punishes flag burning, while the other seeks to end widely criticized cashless bail policies.
--:-- President Trump: If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail and it goes on your record and you will see flag burning stopping immediately.
--:-- President Trump: Trump's other order seeks to end no cash bail jurisdictions, which have become the norm in liberal areas like in New York and Washington, D.C. Trump's order would revoke federal funding from these places until they comply.
--:-- Georgia Howe: An emerging faux pas in England has bar owners putting up signs and has spawned a movement online. Since the pandemic, pub owners have observed a growing trend of patrons lining up in a tidy queue to place their drink orders.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive home updates today. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: And in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including Trump looking to expand his crime crackdown beyond D.C., the latest on the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and Spain doubling down on its pro-immigration policies. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.
