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--:-- Host (John Bickley): Welcome to Only Murders in the Building, the official podcast. Join me, Michael Ciro Creighton, as we go behind the scenes with some of the amazing actors, writers, and crew from season five.
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--:-- Host (Michael Ciro Creighton): The audience should never stop suspecting anything. How can you not be funny crawling around on a coffin? No, that's true.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Monday, December 11th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court today to weigh in on whether Donald Trump has presidential immunity. Smith is hoping to keep Trump's federal election interference trial on track by bypassing the appeals court process and going directly to our nation's highest court.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): The earliest the court could consider the appeal would be on January 5th.
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--:-- Host (Megan Basham): Following the resignation of UPenn President Liz McGill, Harvard President Claudine Gay, who has also faced backlash for her recent congressional testimony, is receiving some support on campus. Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham has more.
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--:-- Host (Megan Basham): Over 650 faculty members have signed a letter asking administrators to resist forcing Gay to resign Calls for the Harvard president ouster increased over the weekend after the resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz McGill Gay McGill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth have fielded heavy criticism after a congressional hearing where they danced around the question of whether students calling for the genocide of Jews is worthy of punishment.
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--:-- Host (Megan Basham): Here's Gay being questioned by New York rep Elise Stefanik last week. Do you believe that type of hateful speech is contrary to Harvard's code of conduct, or is it allowed at Harvard?
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--:-- Host (Megan Basham): It is at odds with the values of Harvard. Can you not say here that it is against the code of conduct at Harvard?
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--:-- Host (Megan Basham): We embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful. It's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying, harassing...
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--:-- Host (Megan Basham): Does that speech not cross that barrier? Does that speech not call for the genocide of Jews and the elimination of Israel?
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--:-- Host (Tim Pierce): The Air Force says it has disciplined 15 airmen for dereliction of duty and not taking the proper action after becoming aware of Massachusetts Airman Jack Teixeira's alleged leak of several intelligence documents last year. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more.
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--:-- Host (Tim Pierce): According to an investigation released Monday Teixeira immediate superiors were reportedly unaware that the 21 was sharing some of the country most sensitive secrets online But the Watchdog report does detail a great deal of holes in oversight from Air Force officials
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--:-- Host (Tim Pierce): The 15 servicemen who have been removed from their positions span a large range of military ranks and have received non-judicial administrative punishments. The internal Air Force review is separate from the Justice Department's criminal investigation, which led to the eventual indictment of Teixeira earlier this year.
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--:-- Host (Tim Pierce): Teixeira pleaded not guilty and is awaiting a trial date.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is said to be missing after his allies and lawyers say they haven't heard from him in six days. Navalny, who's currently serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges of extremism, missed his court appearance today.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): According to a spokesperson for the politician, the prison where Navalny is being held cited electrical problems for the lack of communication, though his lawyers also haven't been able to access him.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): The 47-year-old Russian opposition leader has been locked up since January of 2021. He was arrested after returning from Germany, where he recuperated from poisoning by a nerve agent, an attack he blames on the Kremlin.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): He is seen as one of Vladimir Putin's greatest foes and has organized many anti-Kremlin protests.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): A new study published in the scientific journal Nature found that one in four mRNA COVID shots accidentally created so nonsense proteins in people that were supposedly harmless As The Telegraph reports the study found that 25 to 30 percent of people injected with the mRNA COVID jabs suffered an unintended immune response created by a glitch in the way the vaccine was read by the body.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): But the study also claims that no adverse effects were caused by the creation of the jumbled proteins.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): While mRNA vaccines are supposed to mimic a COVID infection to spur the creation of antibodies, the study claims they at times accidentally created a nonsensical and harmless protein, which the body attacks and leads to an immune system flare-up.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): The authors also say there's a way to prevent that from happening as much in the future.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): A trapped hiker was rescued after spending seven hours with his leg pinned underneath an estimated 10,000-pound boulder in California. Officials say the man was hiking in the Inyo Mountains before the incident.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Inyo County Search and Rescue was called to conduct the rescue mission after the local sheriff's office was notified about the trapped hiker.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): According to a press release from Inyo County Search and Rescue, rescuers used a system of ropes, pulleys, and leverage to shift the boulder and rescue the hiker.
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--:-- Host (Georgia Howe): Due to the seriousness of his injuries, officials decided to extract him via helicopter. He was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated.
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--:-- Host (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.
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