Morning Wire - Evening Wire: More Epstein Secrets Unsealed? & The Louisiana Lockup | 9.3.25

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The Epstein saga continues as tens of thousands more documents are released, China appears to challenge US influence in a massive show of force, and the state of Florida moves to strike all state vaccine mandates. Get the facts first with Evening Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Epstein saga continues as tens of thousands more documents are released. China appears to challenge U.S. influence in a massive show of force, and the state of Florida moves to strike all state vaccine mandates. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley. It's Wednesday, September 3rd, and this is Evening Wire. Nearly 34,000 Jeffrey Epstein-related documents have been released. Daily Wire senior editor, Joel Needler, has more. The surprise late-night drop comes ahead of a House vote on Wednesday to formalize the committee's inquiry.

The files include Justice Department interviews with Galane Maxwell, law enforcement videos from Epstein's Palm Beach home, and a DOJ timeline of his final hours at the Manhattan jail where he died in 2019. That includes the missing minute that set off theories across the web. House Oversight Committee's chair James Comer calls it the most thorough investigation yet, while Democrats say most of the material was already public. That's 3% more than Joe Biden released when he was president. Look, President Trump is complying with our subpoena, with my subpoena.

He's turning over documents. We posted 34,000 last night. We expect to get more documents as soon as we get those documents and review to make sure none of the victims' names are listed who don't want their names listed. Then we're going to put those online as well. And we're going to seek justice for the survivors. Meanwhile, victims of Epstein are calling on Congress to force the release. of sealed government files.

Survivors shared painful accounts, calling on lawmakers and President Trump to act. Here's attorney Bradley Edwards during a rally on Capitol Hill. While we have seen the documents, you have it. And when you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. And the American people deserve to see everything. When you sign this discharge petition, it should mean nothing is off limits.

That means the documents in the possession of the CIA should be made available. made available. Those in the possession of the FBI going back decades should be made available. In an apparent show of force, Beijing hosted the leaders of both Russia and North Korea for China's largest military parade ever. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the details. China unveiled its full nuclear triad, land, sea, and air, plus hypersonic missiles, underwater drones, and even robot wolves. President Xi declared China's, quote, great rejuvenation unstoppable in appointed challenge to U.S. influence.

And that's exactly how President Trump took it. He accused the authoritarian trio of conspiring against the U.S., saying in a social media post that he sent, quote, warm regards, but warned that they were plotting against America. He also urged China to honor the sacrifice of U.S. troops who fought alongside them during World War II. The comments come as Trump extends a fragile tariff truce in Beijing as he pushes for a deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

President Trump is doubling down on his intent to clean up Chicago. Speaking to press this morning, the president expressed frustration at the state's democratic leadership. I want to go into Chicago and have this incompetent governor that doesn't want us. All they have to do is ask us to go into Chicago if we don't have the support of some of these politicians. But I'll tell you who is supporting us, the people of Chicago. And I sort of want them to let it be known.

They have incompetent people. To this point, the White House released a statement yesterday titled, for J.B. Pritzker, when will enough be enough? The statement references several comments from Pritzker downplaying the situation, including, quote, there is no emergency and, quote, big cities have crime. Over Labor Day weekend, nearly 60 people were shot in Chicago and at least nine people killed. The city experienced 572 homicides last year, making it the deadliest city in the U.S. for 13 years in a row. A U.S. crime expert is sounding the alarm about a rise in so-called street takeover.

There have been nine high-profile incidents across the country in the past few weeks in cities like Boston, Tampa, Dallas, and Charlotte, where drivers blocked off traffic with their cars to do donuts and burnouts in the middle of the street. The events usually draw a crowd of spectators who launch fireworks, shoot paintball guns, and some have broken into storefronts. Peter Moskos, the criminal justice professor and former Baltimore police officer, told Fox News that the problem extends beyond blocked off city blocks. It gives the perception rooted in reality in this case that nobody's in control. And that creates fear. It creates a disconnect with what you expect government to be able to do, which is, at a basic extent, just maintain public order. According to Moscow's, the solution is a consistent application and enforcement of law to make the events, quote, not fun for those who participate. A federal appeals court has blocked President Trump from fast-tracking the deportation of members of the brutal Trend de Aragua gang.

The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled two to one that Trump could not use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against gangs like TDA. The act gives a president authority to remove alien enemies in situations of invasion. The Trump administration maintains that the president can treat TDA as a group that poses a danger to the U.S. and that is connected to a foreign government, Venezuela. Alligator Alcatraz, the cornhusker clink, and now the Louisiana lockup. A new ICE detention facility is now open at the infamous Angola Prison. Like its counterparts, Louisiana lockup is designed to house the worst of the worst criminal illegal migrants. Fox News reports that 51 migrants have already been moved there.

Angola, which is actually named the Louisiana State Penitentiary, used to be called the bloodiest prison in the South for its brutal conditions before getting cleaned up in the 70s. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is making a point of celebrating the NYPD's gang database, a database that Democrat Socialist Zoran Mondani vowed to abolish. Daily Wire reporter's actual has more. The database, Commissioner Tisch said, is crucial in the fight against rising gang violence in the area. She said, quote, much of the violence of what we've seen over the last few weeks in the

Bronx is gang related. We know who the gang members are. thanks to criminal group database and know where they operate. We know who the people are and are going after them. As a New York Post explains, the gang database, which was created in 2013, contains thousands of entries and intel that includes distinctive tattoos linked to criminal groups and gangs. But in 2022, Mamdani, now the Democrat mayoral candidate, joined a trio of council members

calling for the dismantling of the gang database. Newsmax has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News. claim that Fox has abused its dominance in the right-leaning pay TV news market for years by coercing distributors into unfair carriage agreements designed to exclude or marginalize competitors like Newsmax. The suit, led by high-profile antitrust lawyers and filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeks damages under the Sherman Act, the Florida Antitrust Act, and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. Fox News Media responded to the lawsuit in a statement saying, quote,

Newsmax cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to chase headlines simply because they can't attract viewers. The CDC downplayed COVID vaccine efficacy concerns according to newly released internal emails. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Press-Azacamo has the details. Top officials at the CDC discussed how they could downplay concerns about COVID vaccine efficacy, and they labeled questions about possible mRNA vaccine harm as misinformation. In one email, officials wanted to make sure public information wasn't, quote,

too precise. This way people wouldn't be able to infer an exact risk or protection score. The communications were uncovered by the Public Health Reform Alliance through FOIA requests. The director of that group, Martin Hoyt, said the emails show that the CDC wasn't acting like a scientific body. It was operating as a, quote,

PR arm of the vaccine manufacturers and federal policy agenda. The revelations followed demands from President Donald Trump for big pharma companies, namely Pfizer, to release data to the public on COVID vaccine efficacy. Vaccine mandates are becoming a thing of the past in Florida. The state's Surgeon General Joseph Lodapo said this morning that his office will work with the governor and the legislature to remove any and all state vaccine requirements from the Florida law books. Here's Lodopo. The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law. All of them. All of them. Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.

Dr. Robert Malone, a member of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, praised Lodapo on X as, quote, a measured scientist who is on fire to change the system. for the better. Florida currently allows non-religious exemptions from vaccines and leads the Southeast in exemptions for kindergartners. Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Talib is facing a censure resolution for remarks she made at a pro-Palestinian conference over the weekend. Congressman Buddy Carter, who filed the resolution, accused Talib of vilifying her colleagues, endangering the lives of Jewish people, and celebrating terrorism. Other speakers at the event included Nadal Jabor, founder of Doctors Against Genocide. who told the conference that American, Israeli, and European leaders ought to be locked up or taken out.

And Aisha Nazar, a Palestinian activist who suggested sabotaging America's F-35 supply chain. European censorship laws are impacting American tech companies, and free speech advocates are calling on Congress to intervene. Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the European Union's Digital Services Act, which allows EU authorities to fine companies up to six percent. of their global revenue if they aren't proactive enough in countering, quote, disinformation. Lorcon Price of the Alliance Defending Freedom International told Congress that Europe's, quote, obsession with harmonization and regulation is at odds with the values of free speech and a free press. Those are universal human freedoms as well as traditional European values, but increasingly they are

being treated by some as a social ill that should be purged from enlightened society. Six candidates from Germany's right-wing AFD party have died within a 13-day span. As local elections approach, officials say that at least two deaths were confirmed to be the result of natural causes and that no foul play is currently suspected. The six candidates for the populist anti-immigration party were set to appear on ballots in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the upcoming September 14th elections. And one of the world's most active volcanoes is added again. Kilauea volcano resumed erupting yesterday, launching lava 330 feet in the air.

All lava is contained within the volcano's summit crater. No one is in danger, and it's a remarkable sight from a distance. All right, those are your drive home updates to learn more about these stories. Go to Dailywire.com, and in case you missed it this morning, we covered some major stories, including the U.S. striking a cartel boat from Venezuela, the major rightward shift in Europe's three biggest countries, and Trump demanding that Pfizer release all. the vaccine data. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.