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--:-- Host John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. It's Thursday, January 18th, and we have a lot to cover today.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The Democrat-controlled Senate has passed the short-term spending bill to fund certain government agencies through March. The bill now heads to the Republican-led House, which hopes to pass it in the evening and will send it to the president's desk. This is the third continuing resolution that the divided Congress has passed since last September.
--:-- Host John Bickley: A recent agreement between House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had brought some early hope of completing the process quickly and well before tomorrow's deadline.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Federal investigators involved in a probe of January 6 asked banks to search and filter customer transactions that use terms like MAGA and Trump. The revelation comes from a letter from the House Judiciary Committee. They also found that investigators warned that purchases of religious texts could indicate extremism.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The committee says they received evidence suggesting banks highlighted transactions at retailers like Dick Sporting Goods, Cabela, Bass Pro Shops, and several others.
--:-- Host John Bickley: According to Chair Jim Jordan, the documents obtained by the committee show that the Treasury Department told financial institutions to look out for certain keywords and that they could result in a buyer being a person of interest.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Iran early this morning in retaliation for Iran bombing Pakistan's Balochistan province on Tuesday, which killed two children.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips reports.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: As Pakistani officials tell ABC, today's strike hit various camps and hideouts of Islamist rebels in the southeastern part of Iran near the Pakistan border. According to preliminary information, several locations were hit and at least seven civilians, including women and children, have been confirmed killed so far.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the action as a precisely executed strike against terrorists.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Iran also conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria late Monday in response to an Islamic State suicide bombing that killed more than 90 people earlier this month in Iran.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: As tensions in the region remain high, neighboring countries worry about the risk of a regional war.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The Department of Justice has released a lengthy report on the 2022 mass shooting at Raab Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, detailing several missteps by law enforcement.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta-Giacomo breaks down the findings.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: The report found that while the school was not prepared for such an incident, many of the responding officers also lacked specialized advanced training and preparation to handle such situations.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: The report also says that the school district relied a lot on locked door policies, which in this case contributed to the challenges in responding.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: As for misinformation, there are reports of families who received incorrect information suggesting their family members had survived when they had not.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: The report's most critical commentary was reserved for the first-on-the-scene officers. The review team found that they retreated from the classroom and treated the gunman as a barricaded subject, not as an active shooter.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: In the report, the review team described this as the, quote, most significant failure.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Kimberly Mato-Rubio, who lost her daughter in the shooting, reacted to the report, saying it only makes clearer that the answers she most wants, she may never receive.
--:-- Kimberly Mato-Rubio: I want to know what happened in her final moments. I want to know if it was fast or if she waited and was scared. Those aren't answers I'll ever receive.
--:-- Host John Bickley: House Republicans are moving forward with impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with their second hearing taking place today.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The hearing, titled, quote, Voices for the Victims, the Heartbreaking Reality of the Mayorkas Border Crisis, saw testimony from families who've been impacted by the Biden administration's border policies.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Here's some of what was said.
--:-- Host John Bickley: On July 27, 2022, I received the worst news that a parent doesn't want to hear, that my newly 20-year-old daughter, Kayla Hamilton, was murdered in her own room and left on the floor like trash.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The details we learned broke us.
--:-- Host John Bickley: At the end of March of 2022, Kayla's murderer was apprehended by Border Patrol crossing illegally into the U.S. at the southwest border in Rio Grande City, Texas.
--:-- Host John Bickley: I am not sure if he was vetted or not but he was a 16 known gang member affiliated with MS in El Salvador.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Meanwhile, the House Homeland Security Committee shined a light on Mayorkas' absence, and so did Josephine Dunn.
--:-- Josephine Dunn: Dunn lost her 26-year-old daughter to an overdose from fentanyl that was tracked from across the border.
--:-- Josephine Dunn: I flew from Arizona to meet him and face him and ask him why, and he's not here today.
--:-- Josephine Dunn: I did not know that until after I landed yesterday. Today is my daughter's birthday. I would have much rather been home with my poor husband grieving her.
--:-- Josephine Dunn: I didn't need to be here today. So whatever he's doing, I hope it's more important than that.
--:-- Host John Bickley: After the federal government demanded that border agents be allowed into a migrant-packed park in Texas, the Lone Star State says they will not comply.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Republican Governor Greg Abbott took over the Eagle Pass Park last week, throwing up fencing to keep federal border agents out.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The move was part of the governor's emergency declaration to combat the migrant crisis.
--:-- Host John Bickley: And Apple says it will remove a blood oxygen monitoring feature on their most popular watch models.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The move is an attempt to comply with a sales ban that was set in motion from a patent dispute.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Back in late October, the U.S. International Trade Commission found that a blood oxygen sensor in the Apple Watch models infringed on another company's patent.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Apple is currently trying to overturn the ruling in an appeals court, but the process could take over a year.
--:-- Host John Bickley: All right, those are your drive-home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- Host John Bickley: And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
