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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Monday, December 19th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: The House January 6th committee recommended Monday that the Justice Department bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump. The panel voted unanimously to recommend charges against the former president on four counts: Obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement, and efforts to incite, assist, or aid or comfort in insurrection. This is the first time that the House has ever recommended criminal charges against a former president.
--:-- John Bickley: The committee's full report will be available to the public on Wednesday.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Amber Heard has agreed to settle her defamation suit against Johnny Depp for $1 million. Heard has agreed to pay several million to Depp as a result of their court case earlier this year.
--:-- Georgia Howe: I can only say thank you from the very recesses of my being for everything. Thank you.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Elon Musk created a poll on Twitter on Sunday asking if he should step down as the platform's CEO and said he would abide by the results. When the informal poll closed Monday morning, 57% of the 17 million voters said yes, Musk should step down. Musk has not yet responded to the poll results.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Extreme turbulence on a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu Sunday resulted in nearly a dozen people being sent to the hospital with serious injuries.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, will start moving some of the 40,000-plus homeless people from the streets of the city into hotels and motels.
--:-- Georgia Howe: You can get 95% of the people housed. People will go. It takes a while. You have to do outreach. Some are profoundly mentally ill. Some are profoundly addicted. So we're going to launch a program called Inside Safe, which is going to address the people that are in the tents.
--:-- Georgia Howe: About 300 tourists to the city of Machu Picchu in Peru are being evacuated. The country has been in a state of emergency after the president Pedro Castillo was ousted and arrested. Civil unrest and protests forced train and air travel to close down. The country says trains out of Machu Picchu, which is a popular destination for international travelers, are now operating on an emergency basis.
--:-- Georgia Howe: One of the most famous actresses in Iran has been arrested on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests in the country. Tarana Aladousti, who starred in an Oscar-winning movie, The Salesman, posted support of Mohsen Shikari on Instagram. Shikari was executed in Tehran earlier this month after being convicted of blocking a street and allegedly attacking police with a machete.
--:-- Georgia Howe: On CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin was asked about changing his party status to become independent after Kyrsten Sinema switched to independent earlier this month.
--:-- John Bickley: I'll let you know later what I decide to do, but right now I have no intentions of changing anything except working for West Virginians.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Well, 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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--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for listening to Morning Wire.
