Morning Wire - Israel Strikes Beirut & Venezuela Gang Warnings | Afternoon Update | 7.30.24

Episode Date: July 30, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by NetSuite. Back by popular demand, NetSuite has extended its one-of-a-kind flexible financing program for a few more weeks. So head over to NetSuite.com slash MorningWire. That's NetSuite.com slash MorningWire. NetSuite.com slash Morning Wire. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Vickley with Georgia Howl. It's Tuesday, July 30th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

Israel says it carried out a strike on a terror target in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. The strike came in retaliation to the Hezbollah attack that killed 12 children in northern Israel. Reports suggest the target was a senior advisor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. A loud blast and smoke were reported in Beirut's southern suburbs. In a post on X, the Israeli Defense Force stated that they carried out the strike on a commander responsible for the murder of children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians. The acting Secret Service Director told the

Senate today that the attempt on former President Trump's life was a, quote, failure of the Secret Service, not local law enforcement. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce says more. Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. appearing before the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees cited a drone detection system failure on July 13th. The system, which depends on public cell phone service, faced bandwidth issues, delaying its activation until after the shooter had surveyed the area by drone. During questioning from Senator Chuck Grassley, Roe is a questioner.

acknowledge the failure and committed to ensuring future operational integrity. That is something that has cost me a lot of sleep. It is something that I have struggled with to understand, and I have no explanation for it. It is something that I feel as though we could have perhaps found him. We could have maybe stopped him. Maybe on that particular day, he would have decided this isn't the day to do it, because law enforcement just found me flying my drone. In another heated exchange, Senator Josh Holly press row over why several agents involved

have not been relieved of duty. I cannot. A lot of people didn't do their jobs. I cannot put my thumb on the scale. What do you mean put your thumb on the scale? You're asking me, Senator, to completely make a rush to judgment about somebody failing. I acknowledge this was a failure of the secret. Is it not prima facie that somebody has failed?

A former president was shot. Sir, this could have been our Texas school book depository. I have lost sleep over that for the last 17 days. Then just like you have. And I will tell you, Senator. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper says he has removed himself from consideration as the running mate for Kamala Harris. In a post on X last night, Cooper expressed his strong support for Harris but said, quote, this just wasn't the right time for North Carolina and for me to potentially be on a national ticket.

Following his statement, Cooper spoke on an organizing call titled White Dudes for Harris. and focused on boosting Harris's candidacy. Here's a bit from that. You've seen it with congressional leaders who have called Vice President Harris a DEI candidate. Real men respect women, their decisions, their careers. Other potential running mates for Harris include Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Get a $1 per month trial period at Shopify. Shopify.com slash morning wire. That's Shopify.com slash morning wire. A Homeland Security memo obtained by the New York Post states that violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has been given the green light to attack Denver cops. Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta Giacomo has the latest. The gang has been linked to numerous crimes, including the shooting of two NYPD officers. Members of Tren D'Aragua have reportedly posed as asylum seekers in order to gain entry to the U.S. The memo warns of the gang's presence in Chicago and urges vigilance. This comes as the city of

Denver has just received 42,000 migrants, many of whom are Venezuelan. The Biden administration recently designated Tren Dioragua as a transnational criminal organization, offering a $12 million reward for its leader's arrest. Here's former Border Patrol agent to Aeman Blair explaining the gang's typical crime patterns. They typically operate mostly on migrant smuggling. and human trafficking. Those are their two big criminal enterprises. They also use forms of extortion by going to local businesses that are owned by these migrant communities.

And if they don't pay a tax, they extort that money from them. The Kids Online Safety Act easily passed the Senate today in a 91-3 vote, here with Morris Daily Wire, Senior Editor, Joel Needler. The bill was co-written by Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal, a Republican and Democrat respectively. It would hold tech companies liable to a, quote, duty of care to protect children from harmful content online, everything from cyberbullying to self-harm to sexual exploitation.

Morning Wire spoke with Blackburn about why the bill is important. In the physical world, we have laws that protect children. You can't sell a child, alcohol, tobacco. You can't take them to a strip club. But in the virtual space, they're exposed to that every day. When our kids are online, they're the product. And big tech is making a lot of money off of our kids when they are online. That's how they make their revenue with advertisers.

And they are putting profits over our children, and it has to stop. The bill has been opposed by activist groups across the political spectrum who worry about topics such as transgenderism and abortion being censored in the name of child safety. Republican Senator Rand Paul said that, the bill has, quote, a number of vague provisions and undefined terms, suggesting First Amendment concerns. Still, it won't be enacted anytime soon as it heads to a house currently on a six-week recess. And two Olympic boxers are being allowed to compete against women despite being biological males. The boxers from Algeria and Taiwan were banned from the International Boxing Association World Championships last year,

after the president said DNA tests, quote, proved they had. X-Y chromosomes. Despite the controversy, the International Olympic Committee allowed the men to participate in the women's division. 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.