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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe. It's Monday, July 15th. And this week, I'll be reporting from studio while John, Cabot, Megan, and others from our team will be reporting from the RNC in Milwaukee. We'll be dropping interviews throughout the week as part of our RNC Extras series. And now for your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Donald Trump has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance, long considered a frontrunner in the veep stakes, is expected to shore up support across the GOP and with blue-collar workers, but may struggle to reach disaffected Democrats and independents.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Vance, who served in the Marine Corps, studied political science and philosophy at Ohio State University and law at Yale University. He worked in both technology and finance before rising to prominence in 2016 after publishing Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about his family roots in Appalachia.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Vance was critical of Trump during the 2016 election, but walked back his criticisms, eventually gaining Trump's endorsement during his 2022 Senate race.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In his announcement on Truth Social, the former president said, quote, As Vice President J will continue to fight for our Constitution stand with our troops and will do everything he can to help me make America great again
--:-- Georgia Howe: In more Trump news a federal judge dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump today in a huge victory for the former president
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Here with the details is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
--:-- Tim Pierce: U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, ruled that Attorney General Merrick Garland had unlawfully appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Cannon said that the Attorney General does not have the power to appoint an inferior officer as special counsel, and that Congress never authorized funding for Smith's investigation.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Without an appeal, the ruling could toss 40 felony counts alleging Trump unlawfully kept classified material from the White House.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The ruling also delays a separate case brought by Smith over the 2020 election.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Trump championed the decision on social media, writing, quote, this dismissal of the lawless indictment in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly by the dismissal of all the witch hunts.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Biden administration has granted U.S. Secret Service protection for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Kennedy has long sought Secret Service protection, but until recently had been denied.
--:-- Georgia Howe: His concerns were substantiated by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump himself advocated for Kennedy's request earlier this morning, writing on Truth Social, quote, Given the history of the Kennedy family, this is the obvious right thing to do.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers reportedly planned to introduce a bill that would increase Secret Service protection for Biden, Trump and Kennedy ahead of the November 5th election.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said earlier today that Saturday's shooting at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Pennsylvania marked a failure of security.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The United States Secret Service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has been heavily scrutinized for allowing the shooter to gain access to a roof around 140 yards from the stage where Trump was delivering his remarks.
--:-- Georgia Howe: While the FBI is leading the official investigation into the assassination attempt Mayorkas reiterated that there will also be an independent DHS investigation
--:-- Georgia Howe: We will carefully analyze in an independent and thorough fashion what occurred Recommendations will be made. Those recommendations will be implemented.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle also released a statement today saying that the agency will participate fully in the investigation and will work with Congress on any oversight action.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Cheadle has been asked by the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to testify at a public hearing on July 22nd.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Rust actor Alec Baldwin's three-year-long legal saga concluded over the weekend with a district judge dismissing his involuntary manslaughter case.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Baldwin was on trial for the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Helena Hutchins.
--:-- Georgia Howe: New Mexico judge Mary Marlowe Sommer tossed the case after discovering prosecutors had suppressed evidence, specifically ammunition that a witness had turned over to the state, but was not entered into the case file or revealed to the defense.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Prosecutors said they believed the ammunition did not have evidentiary value in the case, but upon examining the evidence herself, Judge Sommer disagreed.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The state's willful withholding of this information was intentional and deliberate. If this conduct does not rise to the level of bad faith, it certainly comes so near to bad faith as to show signs of scorching prejudice.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning Baldwin cannot be charged again over Hutchins' death.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Top Chinese officials are holding a critical meeting on the economy this week after months of delay and looming financial crisis
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here with the details is Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler.
--:-- Joel Needler: Almost 400 Chinese Communist Party officials including leader Xi Jinping are meeting in Beijing for a week-long economic overhaul.
--:-- Joel Needler: This kind of discussion is known as the third plenum and occurs every five years, often signaling vast economic reforms and policy directives.
--:-- Joel Needler: The meetings, held behind closed doors, come in the wake of reports showing China's economic growth has sharply slowed.
--:-- Joel Needler: China has the second largest economy in the world behind the United States, but is suffering from an imploded housing market, trillions in local government debt, waning consumer demand, and skittish investors, not to mention friction with Western countries.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Texas Governor Greg Abbott is demanding an investigation into the power company that services the Houston area for their slow response to restoring power after Hurricane Beryl.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Nearly 300,000 homes and businesses have been without power since July 8th.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The failure of power companies to provide power to their customers is completely unacceptable.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Power companies along the Gulf Coast must be prepared to deal with hurricanes.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And two of the top international soccer tournaments wrapped up yesterday.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Argentina won South America's Copa America tournament over Colombia, though their record 16th title was overshadowed by crowd control issues.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The game was delayed almost an hour and a half as thousands of unticketed fans pushed through the gates, hopped fences and even crawled through vents to enter the stadium.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In the European Football Championship, Spain topped England to secure their fourth title, which was also a record for that team.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
