--:-- John Bickley: Welcome to Morning Wire, I'm John Bickley, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Wire, and I'm here with my co-host Georgia Howe.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for joining us, John.
--:-- John Bickley: Today's Thursday, November 30th, and we've got a lot to cover. Let's start with some breaking news from Jerusalem. Three people were killed and at least six were injured at a bus stop in Jerusalem after two Hamas terrorists opened fire on a small crowd.
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to the Times of Israel, both suspects were shot dead at the scene by two off-duty soldiers and an armed citizen who returned fire.
--:-- John Bickley: Israeli intelligence identified the suspects as brothers who were affiliated with Hamas and had previously been jailed on terror-related charges.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The attack follows a last-minute deal between Israel and Hamas to extend the cease-fire in Gaza by one more day. Hamas has released at least 10 Israeli hostages a day as well as other nationals, while Israel has released dozens of Palestinian prisoners.
--:-- John Bickley: Hamas will likely demand more for many of the remaining hostages.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, let's move on to some other news. Former President Trump's lawsuit against the state of New York is back in place after a state appeals court rejected his lawyer's argument against it.
--:-- John Bickley: Trump and his lawyers argued that a gag order in the $250 million civil fraud case was unconstitutional, while state court officials insisted it's needed, pointing to a deluge of threats directed at the court clerk after Trump slammed her on social media.
--:-- Georgia Howe: On Thursday, a four-judge appeals panel rejected Trump's legal argument and reinstated the order.
--:-- John Bickley: With record numbers of migrants flooding across the southern border, Congress is working to hammer out a deal that could significantly restrict the admission of asylum seekers into the country.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A core group of senators has been working behind closed doors on a deal that would cut back on the number of migrants allowed to pass the initial asylum screening that allows them to stay in the country as their claims are assessed.
--:-- John Bickley: The deal would raise the threshold for the likelihood of the asylum claims to be approved by an immigration judge.
--:-- [Sound of a phone ringing]
--:-- Georgia Howe: On the line is Congressman Byron Donaldson.
--:-- Byron Donaldson: I'm going to be very direct. We have to fund the Department of Homeland Security. It is essential for our nation's security.
--:-- John Bickley: But there are serious questions about why would we give an agency money that doesn't do its job and secure the southern border.
--:-- Byron Donaldson: I'm not for that. A lot of my colleagues are not for that. Joe Biden needs to do his job, secure the border, and that we can talk about Ukraine and other issues after that.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Pro-demonstrators fought with NYPD officers Wednesday night while trying to disrupt the annual lighting of the giant Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
--:-- John Bickley: Before the event, pro-Palestinian groups had issued a call to action in which they insisted Jesus was Palestinian and not Jewish.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The call for action stated, quote, "flood the tree lighting." Seven people were taken into custody, but only one was charged with felony criminal mischief.
--:-- John Bickley: The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a new high for the year on Thursday, with November wrapping up to be the best month in over a year.
--:-- Georgia Howe: After a three-month losing streak, the Dow is closing out November up 8%, with both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ likewise up 8 to 10%.
--:-- John Bickley: Analysts partly credit cooling inflation rates with the positive momentum.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And in other news, Guy Fieri has landed another massive multi-year contract with Food Network, remaining the network's highest paid talent.
--:-- John Bickley: The new contract is reportedly a three-year deal that pays upwards of $100 million, an increase from his previous $80 million deal.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In a statement, the mayor of Flavortown called Food Network his home and praised the Warner Brothers Discovery Universe for working with him to create great TV.
--:-- John Bickley: Food is our most universal language, he said, so being able to unite people through highlighting chefs, restaurateurs, and the folks dishing out incredible meals all over this country and world is a privilege and responsibility that I don't take lightly.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And finally, we're sad to report that famed former U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger passed away Wednesday at the age of 100.
--:-- John Bickley: Kissinger, who was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany with his family as a teenager and became a U.S. citizen in 1943.
--:-- Georgia Howe: During his century of life, Kissinger made his way to the upper echelons of American politics, serving as a national security advisor and secretary of state during the 1970s under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
--:-- John Bickley: British Lord Kim Derrick, former ambassador to the U.S., offered his assessment on Kissinger's years of diplomacy.
--:-- Kim Derrick: His record in international diplomacy was mixed, but there were three big achievements. He created a new detente between America and the Soviet Union. He normalized with China and he negotiated to deal with Viet Cong that ended the Vietnam War.
--:-- John Bickley: On the other side, you have to say that he and Nixon were responsible for the bombing of Cambodia, which killed a lot of people and which paved the way for the killing fields of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
--:-- Kim Derrick: And he and Nixon oversaw the American support for the overthrow of the left-wing government, Allende's government in Chile, in the arrival of Pinochet.
--:-- John Bickley: So a mixed record, but an extraordinary man. And what he achieved on the positive side, I tell you, is enough for any one life.
--:-- Georgia Howe: 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 discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
