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--:-- John Bickley: President Trump prepares to address the U.N. today after making a series of aggressive moves on the world stage. We're going to keep Bagram, the big air base, one of the biggest air bases in the world. We gave it to him for nothing. We're trying to get it back, by the way.
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, September 23rd, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- John Bickley: The Trump administration is warning pregnant women against using Tylenol, citing a potential link to autism. There are associations between the duration of acetaminophen use and the risk of autism in children subsequently, as well as the proximity to the time of birth.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And President Trump takes what he's calling a historic step to stop companies from, quote, shipping in cheap foreign labor. We need workers. We need great workers. And this pretty much ensures that that's what's going to happen.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Cabot Phillips: Ahead of his highly anticipated address to the United Nations today, President Trump is demanding the Taliban return a key airbase in Afghanistan. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with the latest.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So Cabot, a big week in New York City. President Trump is due to address the United Nations General Assembly today. What are we expecting to hear?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, fireworks. There are usually fireworks when Trump gets before the UN. It sometimes seems like he kind of enjoys ruffling the feathers of diplomats, especially when they're on his home turf in New York City.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So there are a few key storylines that we're tracking. First, whether Trump will commit to more U.S. funding of the United Nations. Remember, he has long questioned the effectiveness of the organization, saying they're inefficient and bloated and too reliant on American dollars.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: After taking office, he withdrew the U.S. from a number of U.N. agencies like the Human Rights Council and World Health Organization. He also rescinded about a billion dollars in funding that Congress had already appropriated. And then he ordered a review of any future funds going to the U.N. saying he wanted to ensure that their mission, quote, aligned with our national interests.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And that funding is still frozen. As a result, the U.N. is facing a serious budget crunch right now. To save money, they've started on plans to move offices from New York and Geneva to more cost-effective places like Nairobi, Kenya. They're also planning to cut thousands of jobs and then consolidate a number of their smaller agencies.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Trump's speech today will reportedly touch on his, quote, vision of how the United States is approaching the world. The Assembly is hoping that approach includes more funding commitments for the U.N.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, coming off of Keir Starmer's announcement last week, are we expecting Trump to talk at all about the Palestinian situation?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, that's the big question. Right now, Trump's speech will coincide with a separate conference on Palestinian statehood that's being hosted by France and Saudi Arabia.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: As we mentioned yesterday, Canada, Britain, and Australia each offered recognition of a Palestinian state for the first time this weekend. They joined about 150 of 193 UN member states who now done so
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But while Trump has seemingly grown a bit more frustrated with Bibi Netanyahu saying he needs to quote wrap up the war in Gaza he is still expected to offer his support of Israel today.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The State Department issued a statement calling the push for Palestinian statehood, quote, a publicity stunt and reward for terrorism. Those comments also come after the U.S. last week vetoed another U.N. resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, which the administration again says would disproportionately benefit Hamas.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, for his part, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will make the case for statehood to the assembly on Thursday, but he'll have to do that remotely, given the fact that the Trump administration canceled his visa.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, the backdrop to all of this is the Senate recently confirmed Trump's new ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz. What do we know about him?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, the former Green Beret and Florida congressman was confirmed by the Senate on Friday and has already hit the ground running. He addressed the UN Security Council yesterday and pushed back on recent incursions into NATO airspace by Russian fighters and sort of drew a clear line in the sand.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The United States and our allies will defend every inch of NATO territory. Russia must urgently stop such dangerous behavior.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: This event falling on the heels of the Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace creates the impression that Russia either wants to escalate and pull more countries into this conflict with Ukraine or doesn't have full control of those who operate its fighter planes and drones.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Either scenario is very disconcerting.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, something John mentioned at the top of this segment is Trump is putting more pressure on Afghanistan. What does he want?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, this went a bit overlooked. But last week, President Trump publicly announced his intention to reclaim Bagram Air Base, which was abandoned and taken over by the Taliban following the bots withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Biden.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: When Trump was asked if he would be willing to use U.S. troops to retake the base, he didn't really give a clear answer. And that was very noteworthy.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Here he is from the White House Saturday. We're talking now to Afghanistan and we want it back and we want it back soon, right away.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And if they don't do it, if they don't do it, you're going to find out what I'm going to do.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Those comments were followed by a post on Truth Social in which Trump warned that, quote, bad things are going to happen if Afghanistan doesn't give Bagram Air Base back to those that built it, the United States of America.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, for their part, the Taliban rejected Trump's plan with one official saying, quote, a deal over even an inch of Afghanistan soil is not possible. We don't need it.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That is going to be very difficult, to say the least.
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--:-- Amanda Presses: President Trump and Secretary Kennedy announced major research findings regarding the spike in national autism rates. Here are the details as Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presses.
--:-- Amanda Presses: So a highly anticipated announcement yesterday. We were really looking forward to this. What exactly did we learn?
--:-- Amanda Presses: Well, you know, there were reports speculating about this for weeks now. But Trump and Kennedy did tie one medication as a potential cause of autism. and another as a potential treatment.
--:-- Amanda Presses: They said that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy is tied to an increased risk in autism. Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, and it one of the most widely used medications globally for pain relief and fever reduction
--:-- Amanda Presses: So taking Tylenol is not good I say it it not good For this reason they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary.
--:-- Amanda Presses: That's, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever.
--:-- Amanda Presses: We were able to speak to FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary about this announcement. Here he is on the importance of letting the public know about this potential risk.
--:-- Amanda Presses: We have an epidemic of autism that has increased 400% in the recent decades, and we don't have a known cause. Now, this may be a cause, but when you have enough evidence to suggest an association and you have no other plausible cause, we have a duty to notify parents and doctors.
--:-- Amanda Presses: Now, the other major part of this announcement was that a drug called leucovorin, also known as folinic acid, can potentially help treat autism symptoms.
--:-- Amanda Presses: Here's more from Dr. McCary. Only recently have we recognized that some kids with autism actually have an autoimmune disease. And some doctors have actually started to test for this folate antibody, and they will then move on to treat some kids with this folinic acid or vitamin B12 that bypasses the receptor.
--:-- Amanda Presses: And just some quick background here. In April, Kennedy promised his findings on autism would drop this month, and that's exactly what happened. He said at the time, the new data showed that autism now affects 1 in 31 children in the U.S. That's nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started these surveys back in 1992.
--:-- Amanda Presses: Even more troubling, Kennedy noted that a lot of these cases are now very severe. 25% of the kids who are diagnosed with autism are nonverbal, non-toilet trained, and have other stereotypical features, headbanging, tactile and light sensitivities, stimming, toe walking, etc. him.
--:-- Amanda Presses: Kennedy added that these alarming rates just can't simply be explained away by better screenings or even genetics. That's why he commissioned this research to see if outside factors could be identified and lower these rates.
--:-- Amanda Presses: So let's get into some of the reactions to this. First, what have we heard from the maker of Tylenol?
--:-- Amanda Presses: So Kirk Perry, the CEO of Kenview, which makes Tylenol, he reportedly had a hastily scheduled meeting with Secretary Kennedy last week over reports about this announcement.
--:-- Amanda Presses: Perry argued in this private meeting that there is no causal link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. He argued that Tylenol is a safe option for pregnant women, especially if they spike a fever, and added that other options actually do have links to birth defects.
--:-- Amanda Presses: Since early September, the Kenview stock has dropped about 15%.
--:-- Amanda Presses: What about the medical establishment? What have we heard from them?
--:-- Amanda Presses: Well, at the outset of this, when Kennedy first announced that he'd be looking into the spike in autism rates, there was outrage from the medical establishment, from legacy media, and some Democrats.
--:-- Amanda Presses: They said that this was about Kennedy being, quote, anti-vax and promulgating dangerous misinformation.
--:-- Amanda Presses: We asked McCary about this tension. We have this odd new political landscape that's penetrated science where you're supposedly not allowed to ask certain questions.
--:-- Amanda Presses: It's created a tremendous amount of distrust. But I can tell you the purpose of science itself is to investigate questions. We've got blind spots. There are sacred cow topics we're not supposed to talk about.
--:-- Amanda Presses: Well, we've certainly seen under Kennedy so far, there's no questions that he's unwilling to ask.
--:-- Georgia Howe: President Trump has signed an executive order that the White House says will curb abuse of a system that's frozen Americans out of good jobs. Confusion over that order, however, has raised questions over how it works and who it applies to.
--:-- Tim Pierce: H-1B visas allow companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs when companies can't find a skilled American to fill that position. Critics of the program, though, say it's been abused to undercut American wages.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here to break down Trump's order and the administration's crackdown on H-1Bs is Tim Pierce.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So, Tim, this announcement came Friday. What kind of changes are coming for this program?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah that question was up for debate over the weekend The last we heard from the White House is that the order places a one per employee fee on any company that wants a new H visa
--:-- Tim Pierce: According to an ex-post from White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, this is not an annual fee, and it does not apply to any current H-1B holders who are outside the country or whose visas are up for renewal.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But that was not the message put out by the White House on Friday. Here's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who is standing just behind the president during the order signing.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, they're $100,000 per year. So the whole idea is no more will these big tech companies or other big companies train foreign workers. They have to pay the government $100,000.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Then they have to pay the employee. So it's just not economic. If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land, train Americans, stop bringing in people to take our jobs.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That's the policy here. $100,000 a year for H-1B visas.
--:-- Tim Pierce: As you heard, Lutnik repeatedly referred to an annual fee, which prompted Levitt to correct Lutnik over the weekend.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And that as reports came out, the companies were hurriedly bringing back their H-1B workers to the U.S. just in case before the order went into effect on Sunday just after midnight.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So this is a one-time charge for new H-1B holders.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, this is kind of a precarious move for Trump, though, because at least in the last election, he forged an alliance with a lot of big tech companies, and they are notorious for using H-1B visas.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That's right. But you know, there might be a lot less disagreement here than you would think.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, yes, there are some of the president's supporters who want to see the H-1B program massively reduced, if not canceled entirely.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But even among the president's supporters in the tech sector, they'll say that the system could use reform.
--:-- Tim Pierce: All the way back in December, Elon Musk, who is a huge supporter of H-1B. Posted on X, the program is broken and needs major reform.
--:-- Tim Pierce: He said many complaints about abuse could be addressed by, quote, raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H-1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Although that would be an even tougher stance than the current executive order.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Right, though the administration is going to do more on this issue. The Department of Labor rolled out Project Firewall on Friday.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's some of the promo. For too long, Washington politicians have stayed silent as employers abused H-1B visas under President Trump. This is coming to an end.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Today, the Department of Labor is proud to launch Project Firewall. Project Firewall is a Labor Department initiative to crack down on abuse in the H-1B program.
--:-- Tim Pierce: According to the department, it will conduct investigations of employers through Project Firewall to maximize H-1B program compliance.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Violations could mean back wages to workers, civil fines, or even disbarment from the H-1B program for a time.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The goal here is to, quote, safeguard the rights, wages, and job opportunities of highly skilled American workers by ensuring employers prioritize qualified Americans when hiring.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That's an important goal, but also you don't want to cramp businesses too much.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for reporting, Tim.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Thanks for having me.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Thanks for waking up with us and if you're watching on youtube don't forget to like and subscribe we'll be back this evening with more news you need to know.
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