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--:-- John Bickley: I'm John Bickley, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire, with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, December 7th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Republicans in the House have released a resolution on their ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Biden. The resolution will help committees enforce subpoenas and give other privileges to the Biden family probe.
--:-- John Bickley: The resolution is set to go before the House Rules Committee early next week and be brought to a vote as early as Wednesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the House must do their due diligence for the American people.
--:-- Mike Johnson: All the moderates in our conference understand this is not a political decision. This is a legal decision. It's a constitutional decision. And whether someone is for or against impeachment is of no import right now. We have to continue our legal responsibility, and that is only solely what this vote is about.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The White House has dismissed the inquiry's efforts as illegitimate, but has been reluctant to comment further.
--:-- John Bickley: After giving widely criticized testimony before Congress on Tuesday in which they said student calls for genocide against Jews need context to determine if they violate student conduct policies, the heads of two elite universities have issued new statements attempting to do damage control.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more. Amid mounting pressure from students, donors, and politicians, both Harvard President Claudine Gay and UPenn President Elizabeth McGill released statements following Tuesday's hearing in which they condemned calls for genocide against Jews.
--:-- Elizabeth McGill: I was not focused on but I should have been. The irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Following McGill's performance at the hearing, the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting today. As a university spokesperson told CNN, the virtual meeting was not formal and was organized at approximately 2 p.m. Eastern time yesterday.
--:-- Georgia Howe: During the hearing, Gay, McGill, and Sally Kornbluth of MIT all condemned anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in broad terms, saying they were working to better combat hate. But when all three college presidents were asked if calling for the genocide of Jews would break college codes of conduct, they danced around the question.
--:-- Elise Stefanik: Can you not say here that it is against the code of conduct at Harvard? We embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful. It's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying, harassment, and intimidation. Does that speech not cross that barrier? Does that speech not call for the genocide of Jews and the elimination of Israel?
--:-- Tim Pierce: A gunman who opened fire yesterday on the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus, killing three people and wounding another, has been revealed to be a professor who applied to the school but was not hired.
--:-- Kevin McMayhill: Police say the 67-year-old man's application was from 2020, and that currently, his motive is unclear. The man was fatally shot following a confrontation outside of the school.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The victims of the attack have not yet been named due to pending notification of their families.
--:-- John Bickley: A Texas judge granted an emergency order Thursday allowing a Dallas-area woman to get an abortion due to the baby having a fatal diagnosis.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The mother, who is about 20 weeks pregnant, found out last week that her child has a rare chromosomal disorder called trisomy 18. The disorder often has a fatal outcome, causing stillbirth or death soon after birth.
--:-- John Bickley: Due to her history of multiple cesarean births, the woman's doctor warned that a full-term delivery would pose an undue risk. The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a request for a temporary restraining order that would block the state's abortion ban in the case.
--:-- Georgia Howe: New York City Mayor Eric Adams made his way to Washington D.C. today to meet with several congressional leaders and the Federal Emergency Management Agency regarding the growing population of migrants in the Big Apple.
--:-- John Bickley: This marks the 10th time the mayor has traveled to our nation's capital to address the crisis. Adams says his goal is to secure more assistance from the federal government.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The House voted to censure Representative Jamal Bowman today for pulling a fire alarm in a congressional building while the chamber was in session in September and considering a vote to fund the government.
--:-- John Bickley: Three Democrats joined Republicans in voting yes for a 214 to 191 tally.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And today is the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the day that will live in infamy. On Sunday, December 7th, 1941, life in Honolulu was forever changed. The Japanese military attacked and pulled the United States into World War II.
--:-- John Bickley: Today, survivors and veterans from around the world gathered to remember the 2,400 Americans who died in the surprise bombing raid 82 years ago.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive-home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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