Morning Wire - Gaza Port Announcement & Texas Wildfire Accusations | Afternoon Update | 3.7.24

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by Birch Gold Group. Diversify your savings with Birch Gold. Their experts can help you turn your 401k into a 401k in gold. Just text Wire to 989898 today. I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, March 7th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. During tonight's State of the Union address, President Biden is set to announce the establishment of a temporary port on the Gaza Coast to help with the flow of humanitarian aid into the

territory. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Press to Giacomo has more. According to anonymous administration officials, the operation will not require American troops on the ground to build the pier, but officials did not elaborate any further on how it would be built. They just noted that the military has the unique ability to do things from just offshore. This comes as aid groups have said it has become very difficult to deliver supplies within most of Gaza due to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. It also comes as the U.S. military recently began air-dropping aid into Gaza. Tonight's state of the union address is at 9 p.m. Eastern. Republican Senator Katie Britt of Alabama will deliver the Republican response. House Speaker Mike Johnson has told his fellow Republicans

to avoid commotion during President Biden's big speech tonight. One of Johnson's deputies Tom Emmer told Morning Wire that he thinks that's a good idea. There is a time to be a professional. time to be an adult. We don't behave like Democrats. Democrats do stupid stuff. They gyrate and wear certain uniforms and make terrible hissing sounds and all this other stuff. You know what? It's time that adults run Congress. And I'm pretty confident our guys will take that attitude tonight. Texas Representative Beth Van Dyne, however, had a slightly different take. I think if it's a productive message, you're going to see him treated with deference of with respect. I think if he's pointing fingers in calling us the devil, then yeah, it's probably

going to get a little luckus. Dr. Jordan Peterson testified today in front of the House Judiciary Committee about the weaponization of the federal government, particularly on the collusion of big government and big banks to surveil private financial information. The Daily Wire Plus, a host, warned the committee that we are in the process of eliminating the private sphere. Governments can and are colluding with these corporate agents to develop a picture, only of our actions, but of our thoughts and words, so that deviation from the desired end can be mapped, rewarded, and punished. The development of a digital identity and currency is nothing

more than the likely consequence of such inclinations, and the combination of both can and will facilitate the development of a surveillance state. Sweden has officially become the 32nd member of NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, with Sweden's prime minister, Ulf Christerson, took part in a ceremony during which Sweden's instrument of accession to the alliance was officially deposited at the State Department. Both countries' officials called the move historic. Blinken said our NATO alliance is now stronger and larger than it's ever been. This, of course, is also built on an extraordinary foundation of partnership between Sweden and

NATO that goes back many, many years. Sweden's long been an active partner with NATO allies, training together, exercise. together, working together. Christerson also visited the White House today and will be a guest of honor at the State of the Union address this evening. A vote attempt on a Senate bill aimed at detaining illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes has been quashed while similar legislation has passed the House. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa attempted to force the vote on Sarah's law, but majority whip Dick Durbin objected. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives just passed a similar. bill named after Lakin Riley, the 22-year-old college student who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. The Lake and Riley Act would require ICE to detain illegal immigrants charged with local theft or burglary, much like the charges the suspected killer in Riley's murder case had on his previous record. Jose Antonio Ibarra, the illegal immigrant from Venezuela charged with Riley's murder, had been arrested in New York prior to the murder, but was not detained

by ICE. The bill will also allow individual states to take action against the federal government if an immigration-related action harms the state or its citizens. Two weeks after Alabama Supreme Court ruled that human embryos have legal rights, the state's governor K.I.V. signed a law to protect IVF providers and patients from liability if embryos are unintentionally destroyed. Operations at some clinics in the state were temporarily halted as a result of legal concerns. And XL energy facilities say they may have been involved in the ignition of the largest wildfire in Texas state history. Daily Wire Senior Editor Joel Needler has more.

The Smokehouse Creek fire is burning well over one million acres, has demolished some 500 structures and killed at least two people, including a fire chief. The cause of the fire is still under investigation by Texas officials, but Excel says it's also conducting its own review. Meanwhile, a homeowner whose home was destroyed has filed a lawsuit accusing Excel subsidiary Osmos utility services of negligence. She claims that the fire was started. it by a utility pole that the company is in charge of maintaining.

Here's her attorney on News Nation. It's a poll that should have been replaced and was not. The pole snapped in high winds on February the 26th. We were out there when the pole was excavated from the ground. It's clearly rotted out in the middle and it snapped in high winds. And that evidence is consistent with what we already knew from Google Earth images, from drone footage that we flew. We knew where the fire started.

The company, however, disputes claims that it acted negative. diligently in maintaining its infrastructure. The Forest Service said this morning the fire was 74% contained, with two other fires nearby, almost contained as well. All right, 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, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.