Morning Wire - Biden Pseudonym Investigation & Brazilian Murderer Captured | Afternoon Update | 8.17.23

Episode Date: August 17, 2023

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House Republicans are looking into President Joe Biden's alleged use of a fake name to mask his identity as they ramp up an investigation into the first family. Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. On Thursday, Oversight Chairman James Comer put in a request to the National Archives and Record Administration for all unredacted records and communications from Biden's time as vice president that over overlapped with his son Hunter's activities in Ukraine. In particular, Comer said he wants communications in which Joe Biden allegedly used a pseudonym to mask his identity. Comer gave NARA until August 31st to turn over the requested documents and said the oversight panel wants unrestricted special access under the Presidential Records Act. A NARA spokesperson told the

Daily Wire that the agency received the request and will respond in accordance with the requirements of the PRA. Washington Democratic Governor Jay Inslee was sued Wednesday by a non-profit legal group seeking to stop the enforcement of a law allowing the state to hide child sex change surgeries from parents. Here with Morris Daily Wire reporter, Zach Jule. America First Legal filed the lawsuit over Senate Bill 5599, which was recently signed into law by Inslee.

The bill was pushed by Democrats as protection of trans-identifying youth and allows host homes to keep parents in the dark about their child's sex change procedure. America First Legal says a legislation, quote, creates a dangerous incentive for minors who disagree with their parents on gender-affirming care to run away to a shelter or host home. The suit also goes after Washington's Attorney General and the Secretary of the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families. America First Legal argues that the new statute deprives certain parents of their fundamental rights under the United States Constitution to direct the care and upbringing of their children. Two conservative bills will take effect in North Carolina as a result of the GOP-controlled legislature

overriding vetoes by the state's Democrat Governor Roy Cooper. One bill bans gender reassignment treatments for minors, and the other limits participation in women's sports to biological women. The veto override makes North Carolina the 22nd state to ban common transgender treatments for anyone under the age of 18. They also overrode a veto on a bill that would give parents the right to be informed of a name change and pronoun change at their school and would allow parents to review course materials and books that their children are exposed to at school. What parents are asking for is what educators are asking for and school staff want as well. They want to be able to welcome

and educate all children from all types of families. Parents need to be brought into the conversation from the very beginning, not treated with suspicion, or as the source of that anguish, unless there is a reason to report it to the Department of Social Services. In the beach town of Rye, New Hampshire, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement arrested an illegal alien wanted for murder in Brazil. Here with Morris Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist. A 29-year-old ex-Brazilian military officer was convicted just two months ago for 11 murders, mental and physical torture, as well as attempted murder over an event known as the Curio Massacre that occurred in his home country in November 2015.

It's believed that in 2019, the Brazilian National fled Brazil and traveled to the U.S. Authorities monitored him for weeks, and on Monday morning, Rye police and ICE agents arrested the murderer while he was working construction at a local home. He will now remain in ICE custody as he awaits trial. Sammy Johnson, a fellow construction worker, told WMUR 9 his eyewitness account, of the arrest. Bam, flashbang and military guys, and it's just like, holy moly, you know. So we're just, you know, okay, okay, okay, you know, we had nothing to do with it.

And so it's a pretty epic way to start your Monday morning, you know. It's just kind of baffling. I think for the most part, what was just crazy to me is that he was able to reside in New Hampshire and have a business. The suspected architect of the 9-11 attacks and his fellow defendants may have their death sentence overturned through a plea deal. The Pentagon and FBI sent a letter on August 1st to notify family members of the deceased of the potential deal.

Daily Wire researcher Trevor Mock has more. Five terrorists involved in the attack have been incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center for years. Among them is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who suggested the 9-11 attacks to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and then planned the attacks. Repeated delays and legal disputes have postponed the death penalty being applied. No trial date has been set.

According to the August 1st letter sent to the families, the office of the chief prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pretrial agreements. The letter stated that although no plea deal has been finalized and may never be finalized, there is a potential that a deal could remove the possibility of the death penalty. The families were given until Monday, August 21st, to respond to the FBI's Victim Services Division

with any comments or questions about the matter. And a flight traveling from Miami to Chile was forced to make an emergency landing earlier this week after one of its pilots collapsed and died while in the lavatory of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The two remaining co-pilots successfully landed the Latom Airlines plane at the International Airport in Panama City, Panama. Those of 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.