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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, October 5th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Welcome back to Morning Wire. I'm Georgia Howe.
--:-- John Bickley: The Biden administration will begin building some of the southern border wall, the same wall it once blasted as not a serious solution.
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--:-- Zach Jewell: This week, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will be waiving 26 federal laws through power granted by Congress to construct a border wall in Starr County, Texas. That's the Rio Grande Valley sector where there have been over 245,000 migrant encounters in this fiscal year alone.
--:-- John Bickley: In his announcement DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that it is quote necessary to waive certain laws to ensure the construction of the border wall.
--:-- Zach Jewell: Opposing the wall was one of Biden's signature issues on the campaign trail and in office. Shortly after his inauguration in January of 2021, President Biden stopped construction of the border wall after promising as a candidate that there would not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.
--:-- John Bickley: Biden condemned Trump's construction of a wall along the southern border as misplaced priority and a failure to manage migration in a safe, orderly and humane way.
--:-- Zach Jewell: Now the White House is saying that they have to use the appropriated funds from Congress by law to build the structure.
--:-- John Bickley: What I can say is that there's a law that the DHS is complying with. We believe in the rule of law and that's what we're moving forward to with.
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--:-- Jim Jordan: If I become the next Speaker of the House, I'm against sending another aid package to Ukraine.
--:-- John Bickley: Why should we be sending American tax dollars to Ukraine when we don't even know what the goal is?
--:-- Jim Jordan: No one can tell me what the objective is. Is it some kind of negotiated peace? Is it driving them out of eastern Ukraine? Is it driving them out of Crimea, which they've had for 10 years now?
--:-- John Bickley: Until you can tell me the goal, I don't think we should continue to send money there, particularly when we have the problems we have on our border.
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--:-- Cabot Phillips: An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of Brooklyn community activist Ryan Thorson Carson.
--:-- John Bickley: Carson was stabbed on the street while waiting for a bus with his girlfriend at 3:50 a.m. on Monday morning.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: No motive has been released, but the suspect has been described as mentally disturbed by family and has a reported history of threatening behavior.
--:-- John Bickley: The wife of indicted New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, Nadine Menendez, reportedly hit and killed a man with her car in 2018 while driving in New Jersey.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The incident occurred in December 2018 while Nadine was driving through a poorly lit area at night and resulted in the near instant death of 49-year-old Richard Koop.
--:-- John Bickley: Just days after that crash, Nadine allegedly reached out to a businessman connected to the senator about her need for a new car.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Prosecutors claim Senator Menendez came to an agreement with that unnamed businessman agreeing to quote intervene with a federal prosecutor to influence the prosecution of the New Jersey defendant in exchange for a car.
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--:-- John Bickley: An American fighter jet reportedly shot down a Turkish drone in Syria on Wednesday.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Military sources told Reuters that the flying device was deemed a threat to U.S. forces in northeast Syria.
--:-- John Bickley: It's the first time in history that the U.S. has shot down an aircraft from Turkey, which is a NATO ally.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And amid growing legal pressure, California repealed a misinformation law this week that attempted to punish doctors who gave information about COVID-19 that the state deemed false.
--:-- John Bickley: The law, which went into effect in January, empowered the state's medical board to revoke licenses of any physicians who did not parrot what they called, quote, contemporary scientific consensus on COVID.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The law was quickly suspended by a federal judge and faced being fully struck down in federal court before California Democrats repealed it this weekend.
--:-- John Bickley: It's unclear if any doctor was ever punished as a result of the now defunct law.
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--:-- 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.
