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00:02The man who attacked an ice facility in Manhattan has been identified.RFK Jr. is pulling Medicare funding from key blue states.And former President Biden's attempt to seal audio and transcripts recorded by his ghostwriter has been rejected.I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley, with Georgia Howl.It's Tuesday, July 21st. This is Evening Wire.The suspect accused of a Monday attack on a Manhattan ice facility has been identified as 43-year-old military veteran Andrew Arabaaca.Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Tear has more.Erabaca was arrested outside 26 Federal Plaza with a sign that read, quote, ice off our streets.
00:42The building houses the New York City Field Office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Authorities said the veteran poured what is believed to be gasoline on the ground and set it on fire with fireworks.Arabeca also allegedly pushed a cart that contained two axes, a hammer, a machete, and multiple knives.The FBI said he yelled derogatory terms to ICE while he was being arrested and described him as an anti-American anti-government extremist.The Pentagon has identified the third U.S. soldier killed in the weekend attack by Iran as a second blockade is formed in the Red Sea.Daily Wire Foreign Affairs reporter Cassia Kiva has the latest.The Pentagon on Tuesday identified a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq as Sergeant Michael Swinton, a 30-year-old Army Air Defense soldier from North Carolina.Swinton was killed Saturday while disposing of an unexploded ordinance from a downed Iranian attack drone,
01:37leaving behind a wife and two young children.His wife wrote, quote, I will never recover from this.Meanwhile, President Trump met with Lebanese President Joseph Island at the White House today,where both pledged to work towards permanently ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.In the Red Sea, two tankers carrying Saudi crude oil turned around after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi terrorist groupthreatened to target ships calling at Saudi ports.Trump delivered a blunt warning to the Houthis if they tried to implement a blockade.We take care of things. If something like that happens, we take care of it.
02:09You know, we've done that with the Houthis before.And we haven't heard from them in a while.Health Secretary RFK Jr. is pulling Medicare funding to California and Minnesota over fraud concerns.Kennedy said this morning that, quote,we are not sending Medicaid dollars out the door until we have confidence that they're being spent lawfully and appropriately.Last month, the Justice Department announced that hundreds of individuals were to be charged in Medicare fraud schemes, totaling more than $6.5 billion.Until the two states can prove that the funds will be allocated legitimately, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services will withhold around $200 million from Minnesota and roughly $850 million from California.California Governor Gavin Newsom responded to the news, claiming the decision was purely political and had nothing to do with fraud.
02:56A Missouri County prosecutor has been ousted after the state attorney general accused her of a series of inappropriate relationships.The latest allegation against former prosecutor Camille Johnston involves a relationship she allegedly carried on with an illegal immigrant accused of sexual assault.Johnston's office was responsible for the investigation into the Mexican National and court documents say she ultimately did not charge him because of their relationship.Johnson is also accused of carrying out two more inappropriate relationships that created conflicts of interest for her work.She also allegedly took steps to cover them up in exact retribution on employees who found out.Candy giant Mars Riggly is moving out of New Jersey.The iconic maker of such brands as M&Ms, Twicks, and Skittles will be moving to a new $100 million complex in Chicago.Upwards of 300 New Jersey-based positions will be eliminated as a result.
03:50The decision follows a trend of corporations moving away.from coastal states for a variety of reasons, including more regulations and tax burdens.According to the state's Business and Industry Association, New Jersey has lost nearly10,000 jobs to corporate departures in the last year alone.Something that never gets old to me, and I think I can say safely for Georgia, too,is when friends send us photos of them drinking their morning coffee from their morning wiremugs or tagging us on Instagram with their merch.If you've ever picked up a mug or T-shirt or one of our other products from the Daily Wire
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05:08slash wire. Shopify.com slash wire to start your free trial. Pandemonium erupted Friday ashordes of Disney fans turned theme parks and retail stores into battlegrounds, all to snatch up new releasesfor a hit trading card game.Daily Wire Associate producer Garrett Van Team has the story.The madness was sparked by the highly anticipated release of two brand new card sets forDisney Lorkana, the mega hit deck building game.Thousands of frantic collectors and ruthless scalpers unleashed pure bedlam at Walt Disney Worldin Florida, Disneyland and California and Disneyland Paris.
05:45Video from Disneyland Paris showed shoppers leaping over security barricades to bypass the queue.In England, the official Disney store on London's famous Oxford Street was forced to scrapthe product launch entirely after violent mobs attempted to storm the front doors, triggering a heavypolice response.The store later apologized to fans who endured the lines in chaos only to leave empty-handed.Darlene Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Senator Lindsay Graham, has officially enteredthe race to fill her brother's U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina.During an interview with Sean Hannity, Nordone said she felt, quote,
06:21an inner peace about the decision after praying and consulting with her family, adding thatnearly three decades of public service prepared her for the job. Her announcement comes just daysafter President Trump publicly endorsed her candidacy, urging her to quote, run Darlene Run.Graham's sudden death earlier this month upended the race, but several Republicans have sincestepped aside, including Congresswoman Nancy Mace, clearing a path for Nordone ahead of the August11th Republican primary. The seat is widely expected to remain in Republican hands in November.A federal appeals court has rejected former President Biden's attempt to keep audio records and transcripts of his interviews with his longtime ghostwriter sealed.Daily Wire Associate producer Wyatt Harms says more.
07:02The appeals court ruled that the public interest of the transcripts outweighs concerns over his privacy.The recordings were obtained during Special Counsel Robert Hur's classified documents investigation, which ended without charges but described Biden as a, quote, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.The court paused the release until August 3 to give Biden time to seek further legal action.A dissenting judge argued that the interviews conducted in Biden's home during a criminal investigationthat did not result in indictment deserve greater privacy protections.The transcripts released in 2024 showed Biden struggling to recall key dates, including the yearhis son, Beau died, fueling renewed scrutiny of his mental fitness during his reelection campaign.Potential 2008 presidential candidate Don Lemon,
07:48compared MAGA to the Nazi party. Lemon has been running the podcast circuit, presumably to gaugepublic interest in his candidacy. In an appearance on the Can't Be Censored podcast, Lemmon took stabsat President Trump, calling the MAGA movement, quote, the closest thing to the modern versionof the Nazi party, without the Holocaust and all that stuff. Lemmon continued to assert thathe was fired from CNN because they, quote, wanted to get rid of the gay black guy. When askedabout his potential presidential run, Lemon said, quote, people keep asking me to do it.None of those alleged people could be reached for comment.And an old feud between rock stars is flaring up again as longtime journey band member Jonathan Kane called out far-left activist Bruce Springsteen, basically telling him to stop talking politics and perform.
08:34Take a listen.And guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up.Honestly, shut up, Bruce, you know.Him and Robert De Niro.I mean, who cares, guys, you know, really?Bruce, I mean, what you have?I used to like him.and now he's just annoying.
08:49He's an annoying, bitter old man.I mean, stop it.Really.You were born in the USA, weren't you, dude?So act like it.But even that song, if you look at the lyrics,I mean, it's kind of a diss or a country.It is, yeah.
09:01Kane himself is a proud, conservative, and Christian,and added that his fans, whether they agree or not, don't care.He doesn't, quote,preach about it on stage for 10 minutes.The Don't Stop Believing co-writer is there to perform.Those are your drive home updates this evening.To learn more about these stories,go to Dailywire.com. And in case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories,
09:22including the escalation of U.S. strikes on Iran, the UK officially minting a new prime minister,and how the Odyssey conquered the box office. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morningwith another full edition of Morning Wire.