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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, February 15th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: After a shooting turned a Kansas City Super Bowl victory parade into a tragedy yesterday, Police say the shots fired most likely originated from a dispute between several people.
--:-- Georgia Howe: As Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves told reporters today, three people are in custody, two of whom are juveniles. Graves also said several firearms were recovered. Police say no links to terrorism or extremism have been discovered.
--:-- John Bickley: One person has been confirmed dead and 23 others injured. Officials say five patients have been discharged after being shot and three others remain in critical condition.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The White House confirmed today that Russia has obtained a troubling anti-satellite weapon, but said that it cannot cause physical destruction on Earth and is not currently operational.
--:-- John Bickley: White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U is currently gathering information on the emerging tech while consulting with our allies and partners. Here Kirby President Biden has been kept fully informed and regularly informed by his national security team, including today.
--:-- Georgia Howe: He has directed a series of initial actions, including additional briefings to congressional leaders, directs diplomatic engagement with Russia, with our allies and our partners as well, and with other countries around the world who have interests at stake.
--:-- John Bickley: The White House intelligence clarification comes after a vague warning Wednesday from the head of the House Intelligence Committee, Ohio Congressman Mike Turner. Turner had issued a statement urging the administration to declassify the information so the U.S. and its allies can openly discuss how to respond.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, who is prosecuting former President Trump and several others, is testifying today in response to allegations that she and Special Counsel Nathan Wade engaged in an improper romantic relationship.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo reports. Willis has previously acknowledged that she and the special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, have been involved in a romantic relationship. But Willis has insisted that no impropriety occurred and the relationship started after she hired Wade for the Trump case.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: In today's hearing, however, Willis' friend testified that Willis started seeing Wade in 2019. That was before she hired him as special prosecutor.
--:-- John Bickley: Also during the hearing, Wade claimed he was reimbursed by Willis in cash for those lavish trips they went on together, but does not have bank statements to corroborate the payments.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Here's Wade being questioned about those trips.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And you purchased all of these vacations on your business credit card, correct?
--:-- Nathan Wade: Yes, ma'am.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And you included those in deductions on your taxes, correct?
--:-- Nathan Wade: No, ma'am.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: No, you did not.
--:-- John Bickley: The judge also called out Wade for dancing around the point when he was asked about how much his firm was paid.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So you saying that the law firm of Nathan Wade did not receive checks from Fulton County government over in the year 2022? That's a different question.
--:-- Nathan Wade: A third of the $300,000 came to Nathan Wade.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Again, I'm not asking what went in your pocket. I'm asking, was the law firm of Nathan Wade paid over $300,000 in 2022?
--:-- Nathan Wade: I'm not just asking. I know, but I think we're dancing around the point there.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So final time, misnursion. That's fine. I can move on, Judge. To delay it.
--:-- John Bickley: Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Donald Trump appeared at a New York court this morning as part of a case which centers on hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The new trial schedule, if it stays the course, will open just a week after Super Tuesday, creating a significant scheduling issue during a time when the former president will be looking to lock up support as the Republican nominee.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Trump's legal team cited the upcoming political schedule in their request for the judge to reconsider the March trial date.
--:-- John Bickley: Defense lawyer Todd Blanche said, quote, "We strenuously object to what is happening in this courtroom."
--:-- Cabot Phillips: He also stressed that former President Trump is now going to have to spend the next two months preparing for the trial instead of campaigning, saying that it's, quote, "something that should not happen in this country."
--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump said the following to reporters on his way into the courtroom.
--:-- Donald Trump: How can you run for election and be sitting in a courthouse in Manhattan all day long? I'm supposed to be in South Carolina right now. I shouldn't be in a courthouse or something that virtually every legal scholar says they don't understand that there's no crime. Even if he was guilty of something there no crime
--:-- John Bickley: During an evening address last week President Joe Biden blasted Special Counsel Robert Herr over a line in his report on the president handling of classified documents It stated that President Biden did not remember even within several years when his son Beau died.
--:-- Georgia Howe: How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn't any other damn business.
--:-- John Bickley: But as two people familiar with Herr's five-hour interview with the president tell NBC, the special counsel never asked that question.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the details.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Those sources said it was the president, not her or his team, who first spoke about Beau Biden's death. Biden brought up his son's death while he was being asked about his work in a Virginia rental home from 2016 to 2018 with a ghostwriter who had been helping the president write a memoir about losing his son to brain cancer.
--:-- John Bickley: According to the report, investigators had a recording from 2017 in which Biden told the ghostwriter that he had found, quote, "classified stuff in that home."
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to sources, it was during this part of the interview in which the president tried to recall that period of time by discussing what else was happening in his life, during which he appeared confused about when Bo died.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Biden had said May 30th, which is correct, but he could not recall the year.
--:-- John Bickley: President Joe Biden has received an endorsement from one of the most unlikely places, the Kremlin.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In an interview yesterday with journalist Pavel Zarubin, Russia's President Vladimir Putin says his country prefers the more experienced current president over former President Trump.
--:-- John Bickley: The comments were welcomed by Trump, but brushed off by the White House, which urged Putin to stay out of the election.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Putin was also asked about speculations around Biden's mental fitness, but he said he did not have the right to comment on the issue, but that he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary during the leaders' meeting in Geneva in 2021.
--:-- 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.
