Morning Wire - House Tik Tok Bill & RFK’s VP Short List | Afternoon Update | 3.13.24

Episode Date: March 13, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by Balance of Nature. Go to Balance of Nature.com and use promo code Wire for 35% off your first fruits and veggie set, plus $10 off each additional set. That's Balance of Nature.com promo code Wire. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Wednesday, March 13th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. The House passes a TikTok ban in a largely bipartisan vote. On this vote, the yeas are 352.

The nays are 65. One present. Two-thirds being in the affirmative. The rules are suspended. The bill is passed. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest. Today, the House voted in favor of bipartisan legislation that would give TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, six months to divest from the popular platform or face a nationwide ban.

Essentially, app stores would prohibit access to TikTok if ByteDance refuses to sell off ownership. The bill passed without the support of House progressives, including Alex. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 13 conservative Republicans. Here's Republican Representative Thomas Massey, who says he's concerned over the bill's constitutionality. Americans have the right to view information. We don't need to be protected by the government from information. Some of us just don't want the president picking which apps we can put on our phones or which websites that we can visit. We don't think that's appropriate.

Meanwhile, members who support the measure, such as Republican Representative Mike Gallagher, say TikTok is a national security threat. It takes no position at all on the content of speech, only foreign adversary control of what is becoming the dominant news platform for Americans under 30. This is a common sense measure to protect our national security. I urge my colleagues to support this critical bipartisan legislation.

The bill now heads to the Senate where its future is currently uncertain since Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hasn't committed to putting it off. on the floor. President Biden has said he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk. The judge overseeing Trump's election interference case in Georgia dismissed some of the charges facing the former president today. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestiakamo has more. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has voided six counts in the indictment, including three against former President Trump. The judge said prosecutors failed to provide enough detail about the alleged crimes. The rest of the racketeering indictment stands

with Trump still facing 10 charges. Prosecutors could seek a new indictment to try to reinstate the charges Judge McAfee dismissed, or they could appeal the ruling. Both, though, would further delay the case. The judge's decision comes the same week he's expected to decide on the potential disqualification of Fulton County DA Fannie Willis from prosecuting the case. Willis is accused of misconduct due to her romantic relationship with her subordinate Nathan Wade. Hunter Biden rejected an invite today from House Republicans to appear in a public hearing.

Biden's attorney Abby Lowell dismissed the hearing as a carnival show. In a letter obtained by the Associated Press, Lowell blasted the effort after Hunter sat for a nearly seven-hour deposition last month. The president's son would have appeared alongside several of his former business associates who are facing their own legal issues. The dismissal of the invitation comes after Hunter Biden and his lawyer insisted late last year that he appear for public hearing instead of a private deposition, citing concerns that GOP lawmakers would distort his interview. This episode is brought to you by Ramp. Get $250 when you joined Ramp.

Just go to ramp.com slash wire. That's ramp.com slash wire today. The police chief in Uvaldi, Texas has resigned. His decision comes just days after a report cleared several officers of wrongdoing during their response to the deadly shooting at Rob Elementary School. Chief Daniel Rodriguez did not address the report or the shooting itself in his statement. The report cleared law enforcement of wrongdoing when they waited 77 minutes for tactical gear to arrive on scene before intervening in the mass shooting while students remained locked inside a classroom. 19 students and two teachers were killed.

The investigator who wrote the report did note a clear communication issue between responding officers and the school district police. At a Uvaldi City Council meeting Tuesday, parents voiced their disappointed. over the council's previous statement saying they may not accept the report. As far as the chief's resignation, that doesn't absolve y'all of y'all's responsibility to terminate the three officers I mentioned last week. That's Javier Martinez, Louis Landry, and Eduardo O'Connellis. A presidential rematch is officially set. Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have clinched their party's nominations. Trump worked his way through a crowded primary defeating 14 Republican challengers.

while Biden ran virtually unopposed. The nominations set the stage for the first presidential election rematch since 1956 and will be the longest general election campaign ever, with 238 days until the November election. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving a preview into who might be his running mate. The short list reportedly includes NFL quarterback Aaron Rogers and former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura.

According to the New York Times, Mr. Kennedy says both men top his list, though it remains unclear if either Rogers or Ventura have formally been offered the post. And UFC Hall of Famer and former heavyweight champion Mark Coleman is in the hospital battling for his life. This comes after he ran into a burning building to save his parents whose house caught on fire earlier this week. According to a social media post from Coleman's daughter, he went into the burning house several times and was able to bring out both his mother and his father. Over the past few days, there's been an outpouring of well-wishes from combat sport athletes. Here's what friend and current UFC fighter Matt Brown told WBNS in Ohio. Coleman's one of the strongest, most savage guys I know. He's just always a positive person, optimistic to the very end.

So we know that he's going to get through this. We know that he's going to get stronger from this. So we're just all got him in our thoughts. 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 the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.