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--:-- Georgia Howe: This episode is brought to you by Fume. Kick your bad habits today by going to tryfume.com slash wire and you'll get 10% off with promo code wire. That's tryfume.com slash wire. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Friday, March 8th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: A bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. gains unanimous support in Congress. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 50 to 0 to advance the measure that would ban the widely popular app from app stores in the U.S. unless it's sold off from Chinese-controlled parent company ByteDance. TikTok urged its 150 million U.S. users to contact their congressmen to protest the crackdown on the app. Congressional offices were flooded with calls up to 20 a minute. Some even had to shut down their phone system.
--:-- [Washington State Representative Kathy McMorris-Rogers speaks]
--:-- Kathy McMorris-Rogers: It is foreign adversaries that are using apps to collect, to manipulate, to surveil on Americans through the data that they are collecting. And we had a classified hearing yesterday and we're moving quickly on the floor because of the national security threat that's posed by these apps. This is not a ban. This would be a choice for TikTok, whether or not it remains controlled by the CCP through ByteDance or if it decides to divest and to continue to be operational in the United States of America But it's their choice.
--:-- John Bickley: The bill has widespread bipartisan support and will likely be voted on next week.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A Gold Star father was arrested last night for yelling out during President Biden's State of the Union speech. Take a listen.
--:-- [Audio clip of President Biden's speech plays]
--:-- Georgia Howe: The year before I took office, murder rates went up 30 percent. 30 percent they went up. The biggest increase in history.
--:-- Steve Nakui: [yelling] Remember Abbey Gate and 13 Marines.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Steve Nakui, who lost his son Lance Corporal Kareem Nakui, yelled out, quote, remember Abbey Gate and 13 Marines. Abbey Gate is the location where an explosion killed 13 Marines during President Biden's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nakui was removed from the gallery, arrested and charged with misdemeanor protest.
--:-- John Bickley: He and other Gold Star families say they have waited three years for the president to take responsibility for their children's tragic deaths and address the failed withdrawal. Morning Wire spoke to several Gold Star families before Biden's speech.
--:-- [Audio clip of Gold Star family member speaking plays]
--:-- Georgia Howe: So it was OK for all of our kids to die and all the other kids wounded and all the other people that were shot and killed that day and blown up. That was all OK. That was acceptable. How is that acceptable? How is that a success? It wasn't a success. But for the work that our kids did before they died, that was the only successful part. It had nothing to do with them. Because everybody at DOD and the state and the White House, they all let everybody down.
--:-- John Bickley: We just got three more both of our families. Not too long. Five. The two SEALs and the three Army that we've lost now because of the incompetence of this bumblebeen buffoon that's in the White House. And I'll call it like it is. I don't care.
--:-- Georgia Howe: You know, you've got Austin. You've got Milly, you've got McKenzie, and I'll even go down Lieutenant Colonel Whited, who is now a colonel, and Captain Ball, who's now a major. None of them turned their stripes in the company Everybody got from Washington
--:-- John Bickley: A Washington state trooper has been killed by a man who entered the illegally Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler has more.
--:-- [Audio clip of Joel Needler speaking plays]
--:-- Joel Needler: 27-year-old officer Christopher Gad was inside his patrol vehicle on the shoulder of a Seattle freeway when he was hit by a speeding car. The suspect, Raul Benitez-Santana, has been charged with vehicular homicide. According to arrest documents, the suspect admitted to smoking marijuana and having a beer before he drove the vehicle. Santana has been arrested for domestic violence in the past, but law enforcement officers were not allowed to ask about his citizenship status because Washington is a sanctuary state.
--:-- John Bickley: Officer Gad leaves behind a wife and a two-year-old daughter. Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste remembered Officer Gad, whose father is a Washington State Patrolman and sister is a Texas State Patrol officer.
--:-- John Batiste: Chris's passing is a devastating loss to his family, who knows all too well about the risk of public safety service. That was one of the things that his wonderful wife wanted me to know, that as a family, they accepted the risk that comes along in serving in this profession.
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm deeply moved by that. Deeply moved by that.
--:-- John Bickley: A United Airlines flight departing from Houston's Bush International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing Monday night after flames appeared to shoot out from the rear of the left engine. The 21-year-old Boeing 737 was 15 minutes into a trip to Fort Myers, Florida when flames engulfed the left side engine and the body of the aircraft began to shake.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A passenger captured the harrowing incident on video. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, we realized something happened outside.
--:-- John Bickley: The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.
--:-- Georgia Howe: An independent lab says it has found cancer-causing material in several popular acne treatments. Connecticut lab Valashur says it found high levels of benzene in Proactive Clearasil Target brands Up and Up and Walmart Equate brand acne treatment The lab has informed the FDA and asked them to recall the products.
--:-- John Bickley: In a statement, Clearasil's parent company said their products are safe, quote, when used and stored as directed.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A 21-year-old college student has defeated a 10-term state representative in a North Carolina primary. Wyatt Gable is a college junior who says he was motivated to run because of how he was treated during the pandemic after refusing to be vaccinated. He reached out to his representative and never got a response. Now he has unseated that same representative, 81-year-old George Cleveland.
--:-- Wyatt Gable: The biggest thing for me was my first year at ECU, you didn't get vaccinated for COVID, which I did not. You had to get tested every week. And if you didn't get tested, they turned off your ID. So, you know, I couldn't get food at the dining hall, things like that. And then the real big one was like, you know, you got to wear your mask, bus, class, everywhere you go. But then you can go to the basketball game where there's 4,000 people and you don't have to wear one.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Gable will face a Democrat in the November election, but says he's ready to put in the necessary work to win.
--:-- John Bickley: And a Long Island, New York native became the first American female to sail solo around the world. 29-year-old Cole Brower completed the 26,000 nautical mile race in 130 days. Brower began the Global Solo Challenge in Spain back in October. 16 skippers started the race last year. Brower was the youngest and the only female. By the end, more than half of the others had dropped out. She took second place in the race, being bested only by a French sailor.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The 5'2", 100-pound Brower popped a giant bottle of champagne and celebrated with family and well-wishers when she reached land again.
--:-- John Bickley: 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.
