Morning Wire - Colorado Gun Restrictions & Biden’s Student Debt Bailout | Afternoon Update | 8.7.23

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Monday, August 7th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. A new Colorado state gun law took effect today, raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, with exceptions for first responders and members of the military. A flurry of lawsuits have sprung up against the law, which critics say takes away the right of some citizens to defend themselves. Gun shop owner Kevin McClung questioned the logic of it in an interview with a local ABC affiliate. If at 18 you can get called to go die for your country, why can't you have a firearm? Criminals don't follow the law in the first place, so there's no stopping them from having those guns.

The law passed by the state legislature and signed by Colorado's Democratic governor is one of the most restrictive in the nation. A former Minneapolis police officer, Tu Tao, who responded to the 911 call that led to George Floyd's death, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison today. His sentencing came three months after he was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter. The judge cited Tau's, quote, lack of remorse as he handed down the sentence. I think your culpability is less than Mr. Chauvin, but well above Mr. King and Mr. Lane, as an experienced senior officer who was in the best position to save George Floyd. Accordingly, it's my belief that a sentence at the top of the range would be Condine

punishment. You are sentenced to 57 months in prison with credit for 340 days already served. More than 11,000 Los Angeles city workers planned to ditch work on Tuesday as part of the latest labor strike demanding better pay and benefits. Here with Morris Daily Wire's Senior Editor, Joel Needler. The city employees and the L.A. government have been locked in negotiations for months. Now thousands of striking public employees, including sanitation workers, heavy-duty

mechanics, traffic officers, and engineers will walk off the job tomorrow and pick it outside City Hall. Executive Director and SEIU Local 721 Union President David Green stated that the workers planned to shut down the city, but stated that the union will come back to the negotiating table next week. Green added, quote, the message we're sending is that our workers are just fed up. They've reached a breaking point. It's the first such strike in decades for the union. The United Kingdom has has begun moving hundreds of asylum seekers on board a gigantic housing barge docked off the southeast coast of England. The vessel, officially christened the Bibby, Stockholm, could eventually house around 500 men. The move comes as the UK seeks to cut down costs on housing migrants.

Here's Sarah Dines, Under Secretary of State for Safeguarding on Sky News. We need to make sure that it's a basic but proper accommodation and not luxurious. If you come to a country from a safe country and lawfully, you can't expect to stay in a four-star hotel. So this is just one of many measures we're bringing in. The latest version of President Biden's student debt bailout scaled back after its defeat in the Supreme Court is now facing legal challenges again. Here with Morris Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. Biden's latest plan involves for giving the federal student loans of 800,000 borrowers worth roughly $39 billion. That comes after the Supreme Court struck down his initial student debt bailout. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed the legal challenge last week in Michigan

on behalf of the McAnaw Center for Public Policy and the Cato Institute. The lawsuit argues that the Department of Education is overstepping its authority with a forgiveness plan and asked the judge to rule it illegal. For its part, the Education Department slammed the legal action as a desperate attempt from right-wing special interests to keep hundreds of thousands of borrowers in debt. Elon Musk, the owner of X, the company formerly known as Twitter, said on Saturday night that his company would pay the legal bills of any user who was unfairly treated due to posting or liking something on the social media platform.

Musk added that there would be no limit on the amount of legal funding provided. He later added that his company would also wage a public relations war against companies that punish their employees for what they do on X. Musk posted, quote, And we won't just sue. It will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too. Musk has long maintained that he has an ardent supporter of the First Amendment. Three were left dead after two California firefighting helicopters crashed into each other mid-air Sunday night while responding to a blaze in Southern California.

Cal Fire Southern Region Chief David Fulcher addressed the media this morning. While engaged in the firefight, two helicopters collided. The first helicopter is able to land safely nearby. Unfortunately, the second helicopter crashed and tragically all three members perished, which included one Caliphany. Fire Division Chief, one Cal Fire Air Captain, and one contract pilot. The crash caused an additional four-acre fire, which was extinguished. Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.

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