Morning Wire - DOJ Sues Gov. Jim Justice & Virginia's National Guard | Afternoon Update | 5.31.23

Episode Date: May 31, 2023

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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Wednesday, May 31st, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Republican West Virginia Governor Jim Justice's coal businesses on Wednesday. The DOJ says the businesses possess millions in unpaid civil penalties. Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. The lawsuit targets 13 coal businesses operated by the Justice family, as well as the governor's adult son. The DOJ said the amount of penalties, interest, and expenses owed is nearly $8 million. Governor Justice is the top challenger to incumbent Democrat Senator Joe Manchin.

According to an East Carolina University poll released earlier this week, Justice Leads Manchin by over 20 points in a head-to-head matchup. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which backs GOP candidates for U.S. Senate, said of the DOJ's lawsuit, Joe Biden's Department of Justice has gone totally rogue. The NRSC added that weaponizing the federal federal government to attack the family of a Senate candidate is a complete abuse of power. A former staffer who accused President Biden of sexual assault back when he was a senator has defected to Russia. Tara Reid made the announcement during a Russian state press conference while she sat next to a Russian spy, Maria Butina, who was previously sentenced to prison

in the U.S. for conspiring to act as an agent of Russia inside the U.S. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Reid accused Biden of sexually assaulting. her during her time working for him when he was a senator. Reid has also said she will be requesting Russian citizenship. Thanks in part to the surge in artificial intelligence, which requires specific hardware and software, chipmaking corporation NVIDIA saw its market value rise above $1 trillion on Tuesday. Founded in 1993, originally with a focus on video games, Nvidia joins just nine other companies to have reached that high water mark. Just five companies, Apple, Amazon, alphabet, Microsoft, and now NVIDIA are currently above $1 trillion.

The National Eating Disorders Association disabled its AI chatbot, nicknamed Tessa, due to harmful advice it gave people who requested information about how to deal with their eating disorders as well as how to lose weight. Here with more is Daily Wire researcher Trevor Mock. The NEDA was set to cancel its long-running telephone hotline to help individuals with eating disorders on June 1st by shifting operations over to the artificial intelligence chatbot. Tessa. However, several reports indicate that Tessa failed to provide the nuanced support users needed and even gave advice that could inadvertently exacerbate existing eating disorders. For example, one user was given weight loss advice and told how to measure her body with calipers even

after the chatbot was told she had an eating disorder. For its part, the NEDA said that it hadn't seen those sorts of responses to the 2,000 plus individuals who've tried it. The association is now looking into options for how to fix the chatbot. Two elderly pro-life advocates were reportedly attacked by an unidentified male in front of a planned parenthood in Baltimore on Friday, leaving one victim hospitalized for a fractured bone in his face. Now police are searching for suspects. Daily Wire reporter Brandon Dre has the latest. 80-year-old Dick Schaefer and 73-year-old Mark Crosby were assaulted and seriously injured outside the Baltimore abortion facility in an unprovoked attack last week. Schaefer reportedly has been recovering at home while Crosby.

is currently receiving treatment for his injuries in the shock trauma facility at the University of Maryland. Per the Baltimore police, the suspect could be seen passing Crosby and Schaefer before turning around and having a, quote, visibly aggressive conversation with Schaefer, which then turned into a physical altercation. So far, police have made no arrest. Virginia Governor Glenn Yonkin announced that the state will be sending 100 National Guardsmen to the southern border to assist Texas in the ongoing border crisis.

On Wednesday, Yonkin cited the ongoing opioid crisis as one of the driving factors. We have five Virginians a day that die from fentanyl overdoses. And we know that fentanyl is coming across the southern border, mostly in Texas. We will deploy the Virginia National Guard 100 troops in July, and they will serve to help secure our border. We cannot allow Texas to take on this sole responsibility by themselves. Those are 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,

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