Morning Wire - Biden’s Executive Order & Kansas Sues Pfizer | 6.19.24

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

Biden signs an expansive executive order on immigration, Pfizer gets hit with a big lawsuit, and new polling puts the Democrat party on high alert. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. NetSuite: Take advantage of no payments and no interest for six months at Http://www.NetSuite.com/MORNINGWIRE Shopify: "Get a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/morningwire" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Biden signs an expansive executive order on immigration, sparking backlash from Republicans. There's another giveaway program because they don't qualify for asylum. It's the asylum fraud. But they're not going to leave because they're going to hang around. They'll hide out to the next giveaway. The move comes as police arrest and a legal immigrant on charges of rape of a young teen in a New York City Park. The horrific crime was committed in broad daylight. And our investigators immediately went about filing and apprehending the person responsible. I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Wednesday, June 19th, and this is Morning Wire. Pfizer is hit with a big lawsuit over making several misleading claims about its COVID-19 vaccine.

This lawsuit is simply about withholding, misleading, and deceiving the public. A company has a high obligation to be honest with Americans. And alarm within the Democrat Party grows as former President Trump gains more ground and key demographics turn their backs on Biden. I believe that black voters are over the entertainers and the athletes being the representation of the community. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. To reduce the costs and headaches, smart businesses are graduating the NetSuite by Oracle. NetSuite is the number one cloud financial system bringing accounting, financial management, inventory, and HR into one platform and one source of truth. Over 37,000 companies have already made the move. Why haven't you?

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Here to talk about the specifics of the order is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. Hey, Tim. So we'd seen reports this order was coming. Now it's been signed. First, who exactly does the order apply to? Yeah, Biden's order covers about 500,000 illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. 10 years and are married to a U.S. citizen. Another roughly 50,000 non-citizen children who are under 21 years old and whose parent is married to a U.S. citizen will be covered as well. This order has been billed as the largest amnesty action since former President Obama's deferred action for childhood arrivals program in 2012, known as Doc. And that order sparked a lot of controversy as well. What does this new order do? The major change is it takes a step out of the residency process for the spouses of U.S. citizens.

Under current federal law, an illegal immigrant who marries a U.S. citizen must request parole first before he or she can apply for legal residency. Potentially, that means the applicant has to leave the country for a certain period of time. Biden's order removes that step. There's also what it does for the president politically. CNN reports that Biden hopes the order will oppose. to Latino communities in Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, all places that he is underwater with voters. It is also an olive branch to progressive groups upset with him for his attempt a few weeks ago to suppress

illegal immigration. And what about the response? What's the reaction been to this order so far? It's gotten good marks from Democrats. Colorado Governor Jared Polis commended Biden for stepping up as congressional Republicans fail to pass the bipartisan border security workforce and asylum reform bill. On the other side, Republicans have hammered Biden over it. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton went on CNN and brought up the case of Rachel Moran. That was the case we reported Monday, a Maryland woman who was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant. Recently learned that the murderer of Rachel Morin, a beautiful young mother of five, was a savage degenerate from El Salvador who raped and beat her after doing something similar in El Salvador. Yet Joe Biden, rather than getting serious about immigrant crime, is about to give amnesty to more than a million illegal aliens.

Former President Trump's campaign called Biden's order a power play to give, quote, mass amnesty and citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegals who he knows will ultimately vote for him in the Open Border Democrat Party. The campaign statement also brought up another tragic example of a crime committed by an illegal immigrant, where a 13-year-old girl was tied down and raped in a New York City. Park. And according to the New York Post, the suspect shouldn't have even been in the country. He was ordered out of the country by a judge two years ago. Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Levitt summed up the message when she wrote, quote, Biden doesn't care about American lives. Right. Tell us about that case that really dominated the news cycle yesterday. What happened there?

According to police, an illegal immigrant found two 13-year-olds walking in a park in Queens in the middle of the day. At knife point, he threatened them into a secluded area, tied them up with their shoelaces and raped the girl. He took their phones before running away. NYPD caught up and arrested the suspect on Monday with the help of some Good Samaritans. Here's Chief Detective Joe Kenny announcing the arrest yesterday. His name is Christian Giovanni Inga Landi. He is of Ecuadorian descent. He has no prior arrest history in New York City. However, he does have one arrest out of state in Texas. Since his time in New York City, he's been involved with the police department only three times, involving three summonses and one domestic violence incident in the 107 precinct that did not require an arrest.

And here's Kenny laying out the charges. The charges are going to be as follows. For our female victim, rape, sex abuse, robbery in the first degree, menacing, on lawful imprisonment, kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child and possession of a weapon. For the male victim, robbery in the first degree, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, on lawful imprisonment, kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child. Just really a horrific story. Tim, thanks for reporting. Thanks for having me.

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You do not deceive consumers, and you especially must not deceive consumers when consumers are making an urgent, frantic decision believing that their life might be on the line. That was Kansas Attorney General Chris Kobach announcing that his state is suing Pfizer for making misleading claims about the efficacy of its COVID vaccine and for allegedly cover. up evidence of potential risks. Daily Wire culture reporter, Megan Basham, is here now with more. Hey, Megan. So a major lawsuit here. What are the claims? So Kobach says he's bringing this suit because Pfizer violated his state's Consumer Protection Act. In his press conference on Monday, he especially focused on what he says are the vaccines potential harms to pregnant women,

and also evidence that Pfizer had knowledge it could potentially cause heart issues. So Kobach said that this information only came out because of a previous Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Pfizer. Here's a bit of the evidence he said was revealed as a result of that FOIA suit. Pfizer marketed its vaccine as safe for pregnant women. However, in February of 2021, Pfizer possessed reports for 458 pregnant women who received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. More than half of the pregnant women reported an adverse event and more than 10, 10% reported a miscarriage, many within days of the vaccination. Pfizer consistently denied any evidence of a connection or safety signal between its COVID-19 vaccine

and myocarditis or pericarditis. However, as Pfizer knew, the United States government, the United States military, foreign governments, and others had found that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine caused myocarditis and pericarditis. Kobach also said that when Pfizer urged Americans to get vaccinated in order to, you know, protect their loved ones, the company was quoting, clearly indicating that the vaccine would prevent the virus from spreading. But later, Pfizer executives admitted before Congress that they never even studied the effectiveness of the jab at stopping transmission. And then there's COVID censorship. He also says Pfizer colluded with big tech to silence and intimidate medical experts

who were critical of the vaccines. Now overarching this case is the question of immunity. Didn't the federal government grant the pharmaceutical company's blanket immunity from lawsuits when it comes to COVID vaccines? Yeah, they sure did. And that's one of the major hurdles that Kobach is going to have to clear here. But kind of a wrinkle, Pfizer was not a part of Operation Warp Speed that the Trump administration put in place to develop the vaccines, meaning it only accepted federal funding to distribute them, not to manufacture them. What that means is that Pfizer didn't have the government oversight that the other manufacturers did. So it may be easier to get around that blanket immunity. And Kobach specifically said that immunity, quote, did not free any of the vaccine manufacturers

from their obligation to not mislead the public or make deceptive statements in marketing the vaccines. Do we expect any other states to join Kansas in this? Cobach said in his statement that he is expecting this to become a multi-state effort. In fact, he said that five other states will be joining this suit, but the only other one he has specifically named so far is Idaho. Now, that said, Texas did file its own suit against Pfizer at the end of last year, and it's very similar to this one. And then also at the end of 2022, Florida's Supreme Court granted a request from Governor DeSantis to launch a grand jury investigation into criminal or wrongful activity on the part of the COVID vaccine manufacturers. That investigation is still ongoing.

Yeah. In the meantime, the CDC is standing by the vaccines in its latest recommendation last month. It said that new data shows these vaccines were effective and it is still advising everyone ages six months and older to get both faxed and or boosted this year. The Pfizer vaccine was one of the three that it recommended. Pfizer, meanwhile, says this suit has no merit and that patient safety is their, quote, number one protocol. Well, it's going to be interesting to see what could come out in discovery as this lawsuit moves forward. Megan, thanks for reporting. Anytime.

Democrats and the liberal media are growing more alarmed by Joe Biden's continued weakness in the polls leading up to the November election. Here to discuss the numbers and where they leave the races, Daily Wire contributor, David Marcus. Hey, Dave. So let's start with this Iowa poll. Why is this getting so much attention? Morning, John. Anne Seltzer is one of the highest rated pollsters in the country, especially known for her expertise in Iowa. And she had a shocker this week that showed Trump up 18 points there, a state that he won by only eight in 2020. That is a really huge shift. And while Iowa's not a swing state, its neighbors of the Northeast Wisconsin certainly is. So if there's any spillover into the Badger state, that could prove significant. I mean,

after all, the last presidential election there was decided by about a quarter of the paid attendance at a Packers game. There's also polls showing a much closer race in Virginia than experts expected. And all of this broadens the map of states Biden has to defend. Yeah. Now, we're also seeing a lot of worry from Democrats of the black and Hispanic vote, traditionally bulwarks of support for the party. How big of a problem is this for Biden, really? It's existential to his candidacy. An aggregation of network polls recently found that Biden's support among black voters has fallen to 70 percent compared to 86 percent in 2020. Put simply, if that's accurate, there is very very little chance that Joe Biden can win, especially since the black vote plays a major role

in several swing states owing to major urban areas like Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Detroit. Trump is targeting the minority vote very hard. We saw with his rally in the Bronx and a trip to North Philly this coming weekend. And as you say, it's Hispanic voters too. These are core constituencies in the Democratic Party. And losing this many of them could hurt not just Joe Biden, but Democrats all the way down the ticket. Yeah, it really is a potentially generational shift here. What is the level of panic now that we're seeing, at least publicly, among Biden surrogates and supporters?

Well, to borrow from Spinal Tap, for some prominent Democrats, the knob seems to be up at 11, even if the official Biden campaign is shrugging this data off as nothing to see here. Democrat Congressman Dean Phillips, who ran against Biden early in the primary, took to social media to say of the Iowa poll that, quote, the shift is real and transcends identity and ideology, end quote. Also stressing that Biden needs a very strong performance in next week's debate, and it gets worse. Here's what longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said about the current crop of polls. I don't think people really appreciate how bad Biden's poll numbers are. When you look at them, it's like walking down your grandmother neck. You can't unsee them, no matter how hard you try.

Quite an image. So Phillips mentioned the debate almost as a test for Biden's viability in this race. Is that something that we're hearing from other corners as well? Yes. Axios and a few others have reported on Democrats who think that this debate is make or break, not just for Biden's campaign, but for his nomination and candidacy. There has been speculation, even before Biden took office that he may not actually run for re-election. And it's a plausible explanation for why Democrats want to. wanted an unprecedented June debate. But this is really what is at stake for the president in the debate. It's a chance for him to quiet some of the worried voices. Conversely, a poor performance

could create a cacophony of calls for a new nominee. Yeah, could these rumblings become a deafening chorus at some point, I guess is the concern. Dave, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back this afternoon with more news you need to know.