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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, October 29th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: Podcast host Joe Rogan revealed Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris's team set strict conditions for her appearance on his show. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo has more.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Rogan says he invited both Harris and Donald Trump to the Joe Rogan experience. Trump accepted and appeared last week for a three-hour interview. In a post on X, Rogan said Harris's team demanded that he travel to her and limit the episode to just an hour, a rare move for the podcast's lengthy format.
--:-- John Bickley: Rogan, however, said that he hopes for a longer in-studio chat, saying he just wants a nice conversation to get to know her. Can you imagine Kamala doing this show?
--:-- Georgia Howe: I could imagine her doing this show. I'd be laying on the floor. She was supposed to do it, and she might still do it, and I hope she does. I will talk to her like a human being.
--:-- John Bickley: The news comes amid reports that Trump running mate J Vance is set to appear on the podcast Daily Wire editor emeritus and host Ben Shapiro is calling out the New York Times for attempting to silence conservative voices on YouTube one week out from the election. Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham has the details.
--:-- Megan Basham: Last night on X, Shapiro posted a number of screenshots of texts from New York Times reporter Nico Grant. Now, Grant said The Times was going to publish a report on ostensible election misinformation on YouTube based on research by the far left media watchdog group Media Matters.
--:-- Ben Shapiro: [Speaking in a separate clip] They are overtly attempting to just shut down all conservative dissemination of information on the biggest video platform in existence one week in advance of an election. If that's not an attempt to rig an election, I don't know what is.
--:-- Megan Basham: USA Today joins the Washington Post and the LA Times in choosing not to endorse any candidate in the 2024 presidential race. Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler reports.
--:-- Joel Needler: A spokesperson says USA Today believes in focusing on local races instead allowing editors across its network to endorse at state and local levels. The decision follows similar moves by the Washington Post and the LA Times, sparking backlash and even resignations among some staff members.
--:-- John Bickley: Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos continues to defend the choice not to endorse a candidate and calls out left-wing bias in the media in an op-ed he penned himself. He maintains that endorsements fuel perceptions of bias, and he's also vowing to revitalize the paper's reputation.
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--:-- John Bickley: Steve Bannon has been released from prison. The former Trump strategist was let go from federal prison today after serving four months for contempt of Congress. Bannon, who was convicted after refusing to comply with a subpoena from the J6 committee, called his imprisonment a fight for his country.
--:-- Steve Bannon: [Speaking in a separate clip] I far from broken And I will tell you if President Trump grassroots forces combine as we can combine right now you going to see unbelievable numbers next Tuesday
--:-- Georgia Howe: Sean Diddy Combs has been hit with two new lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault. One of them alleges that he assaulted a 10-year-old aspiring rapper in 2005. The other claims he abused a 17-year-old auditioning for Making the Band, an early 2000s MTV show. Combs denies the accusations with his attorneys calling them, quote, false and a publicity stunt.
--:-- John Bickley: Combs, who's already facing a sex trafficking indictment, maintains his innocence and has pled not guilty.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And after the media's extreme reaction to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's joke at the Trump rally, John Stewart has also come out to defend the comedian.
--:-- John Stewart: [Speaking in a separate clip] There's something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and have him not do roast jokes, that'd be like bringing Beyonce to a rally and not have...
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth reporting on the biggest stories of the day, tune in to our full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
