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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, October 24th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Jenna Ellis, an attorney who represented former President Donald Trump after the 2020 election, pled guilty today on charges regarding alleged efforts to overturn election results in Georgia.
--:-- John Bickley: The charges are part of Fulton County's efforts to prove that the former president and 17 others violated the state's anti-racketeering law.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Ellis told the judge today that she never would have represented Trump if she knew then what she knows now. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse. For those failures of mine, Your Honor, I have taken responsibility already before the Colorado bar who censured me, and I now take responsibility before this court and apologize to the people of Georgia.
--:-- John Bickley: Ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and was sentenced to five years probation. She must also pay $5,000 in restitution, write a letter apologizing to the state and testify against the remaining defendants.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now she's the third of Trump former attorneys to plead guilty in the case.
--:-- John Bickley: Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer, the House current majority whip, won the GOP nomination for House Speaker today, beating out six other candidates in a closely contested battle after five rounds of voting.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now Emmer has to secure some 217 votes to win the job. That's a task that evaded Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise.
--:-- Tim Pierce: According to several U.S. officials, Americans living in Israel and Lebanon are of particular concern. But they also stress that an operation like that is considered to be a last resort scenario.
--:-- John Bickley: The Biden administration has turned much of its focus toward preventing escalation and the potential plans for relocation of a large number of people.
--:-- Georgia Howe: This all follows word that Israel will soon begin a widespread ground invasion against Hamas after the horrific cross-border attack on October 7th.
--:-- Tim Pierce: During the attack, roughly 600,000 U.S. citizens were in Israel and around 86,000 were believed to be in neighboring Lebanon.
--:-- John Bickley: French President Emmanuel Macron called for an international coalition to join forces against Hamas saying that the fight against the Islamic terrorists should be without mercy.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Macron also called on countries fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq to turn their aim toward Hamas.
--:-- John Bickley: Macron made the remarks during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu this morning.
--:-- Eli Cohen: I just reminded my people what we discussed about fight against terrorism humanitarian action rules to be respected but as well political process And obviously, I warned against any escalation, and I warned, as Bola and some other regimes, not to be part of what's happening.
--:-- John Bickley: Meanwhile, Israel called for the complete and total destruction of the terrorist group at the United Nations.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here's Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen, who called Hamas the new Nazis. Kill and destroy your own existence.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: A new Daily Wire investigation revealed that nearly 70% of all inmates released by Kentucky's Democratic governor through commutations during the pandemic went on to re-offend.
--:-- John Bickley: The report was produced by Kentucky's Department of Information and Technology Services.
--:-- Georgia Howe: It found that out of the 1,702 individuals whose sentences were commuted by Governor Andy Beshear in 2020, a majority of them, 882, went on to commit felonies.
--:-- Spencer Lindquist: Some of those included violent felonies like assault and homicide. An additional 252 committed misdemeanors leaving just over 500 who committed no crimes after release.
--:-- John Bickley: Bashir will face Kentucky Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron in his re-election.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Cameron has worked to make these commutations a theme of the election battle. Until a couple of days ago, I was saying only a third of those had recommitted felony offenses. Turns out I was wrong. It's more than 50% have recommitted felony offenses, making our communities less safe and our law enforcement's job more difficult.
--:-- John Bickley: Workers at yet another auto plant are on strike, this time in Texas. 5,000 auto worker union members walked off the job Tuesday at General Motors Arlington Assembly Plant.
--:-- Georgia Howe: That brings the total number of striking UAW members to more than 45,000 across the auto industry's big three companies.
--:-- John Bickley: In a recent quarterly update, GM reported the protest has cost the company nearly $800 million in lost production.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The strike has now been going on for 40 days.
--:-- John Bickley: And Game 7 of the MLB's National League Championship Series is tonight as the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks battled it out to represent the National League in the World Series.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Whoever wins will face the Texas Rangers, who knocked off the Astros in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series Monday night.
--:-- John Bickley: This will be the first time in seven years that the World Series will feature neither the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Houston Astros.
--:-- John Bickley: 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 the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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