Morning Wire - Impeachment Inquiry Resolution & Jamaal Bowman Censured | Afternoon Update | 12.7.23

Episode Date: December 7, 2023

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I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, December 7th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Republicans in the House have released a resolution on their ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Biden. The resolution will help committees enforce subpoenas and give other privileges to the Biden family probe. The resolution is set to go before the House Rules Committee early next week and be brought to a vote as early as Wednesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the House must do their due. diligence for the American people. All the moderates in our conference understand this is not a political decision. This is a legal decision, it's a constitutional decision.

And whether someone is for or against impeachment is of no import right now. We have to continue our legal responsibility. And that is only solely what this vote is about. The White House has dismissed the inquiry's efforts as illegitimate, but has been reluctant to comment further. After giving widely criticized testimony before Congress on Tuesday, day in which they said student calls for genocide against Jews need context to determine if they violate student conduct policies, the heads of two elite universities have issued new statements

attempting to do damage control. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has more. Amid mounting pressure from students, donors, and politicians, both Harvard President Claudine Gay and U-Pen President Elizabeth McGill release statements following Tuesday's hearing in which they condemned calls for genocide against Jews. Here's a bit from a video released by McGill, where she reflects on the hearing. I was not focused on, but I should have been. The irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate.

Following McGill's performance at the hearing, the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting today. As a university spokesperson told CNN, the virtual meeting was not formal and was organized at approximately 2 p.m. Eastern time yesterday. During the hearing, Gay, McGill, and Sally Cornbluth of MIT all condemned anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

in broad terms, saying they were working to better combat hate. But when all three college presidents were asked if calling for the genocide of Jews would break college codes of conduct, they danced around the question. Here's New York Congresswoman Elise Stefaniq, questioning Harvard president Claudine Gay.

Can you not say here that it is against the code of conduct at Harvard? We embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that our... are objectionable, offensive, hateful. It's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying, harassing, and... Does that speech not cost that barrier? Does that speech not call for the genocide of Jews and the elimination of Israel?

A gunman who opened fire yesterday on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas campus, killing three people and wounding another, has been revealed to be a professor who applied to the school but was not hired. Police say the 67-year-old man's application was from 2020 and that currently his motive is unclear. The man was fatally shot following a confrontation outside of the school. Las Vegas Police Sheriff Kevin McMehill says the shooting spanned multiple floors. It originated on the fourth floor of that beam building, went to multiple floors, and the suspect was neutralized on the outside by the UNOV police department. The victims of the attack have not yet been named due to pending notification.

of their families. A Texas judge granted an emergency order Thursday allowing a Dallas area woman to get an abortion due to the baby having a fatal diagnosis. The mother, who is about 20 weeks pregnant, found out last week that her child has a rare chromosomal disorder called trisomy 18. The disorder often has a fatal outcome causing stillbirth or death soon after birth. Due to her history of multiple cesarean births, the woman's doctor warned that a full-term delivery would pose. an undue risk. The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a request for a temporary restraining order that would block the state's abortion ban in the case. New York City Mayor Eric Adams made his way to Washington, D.C. today to meet with several congressional leaders and the Federal

Emergency Management Agency regarding the growing population of migrants in the Big Apple. This marks the 10th time the mayor has traveled to our nation's capital to address the crisis. Adams says his goal is to secure more assistance from the federal government. The House voted to censure Representative Jamal Bowman today for pulling a fire alarm in a congressional building while the chamber was in session in September and considering a vote to fund the government. Three Democrats joined Republicans in voting yes for a 214 to 191 tally. And today is the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the day that will live in infamy. On Sunday, December 7, 1941, life in Honolulu was forever changed.

The Japanese military attacked and pulled the United States into World War II. Today, survivors and veterans from around the world gathered to remember the 2,400 Americans who died in the surprise bombing raid 82 years ago. 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. Thank you.