Morning Wire - London Stabbing & Marijuana Drug Classification | Afternoon Update | 4.30.24

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by Beam. Try Beam's best-selling dream powder for up to 40% off for a limited time when you go to shopbeam.com slash wire and use code wire at checkout. That's shopbeam.com slash wire. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with guest co-host Mary Margaret O'Lahan, senior reporter for the Daily Signal. It's Tuesday, April 30th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. The judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money case ruled that the former president is in violation of his gag order. Daily Wire's senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest. Judge Juan Mershan held the former president in contempt over nine violations due to a series of social media posts made by Trump

in which he targeted potential witnesses in the case as well as jurors and Mershan himself. Each violation carries a fine of $1,000. Judge Mershahn also warned Trump that more violations could result in jail time. The gag order prohibits Trump from making or telling others to make statements regarding, quote, known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding. Mershahn said that his order was, quote,

lawful and unambiguous, and ordered Trump to remove a number of the social media posts by 2.15 p.m. Eastern Time today. Columbia University has closed down its campus indefinitely as students occupying an academic building now face expulsion. Diliwire reporter Megan Basham has more. So this comes after an anti-Israel mob

broke into an academic building on campus early this morning. Hours later, the university confirmed the incident, saying that the Manhattan campus would stay closed until circumstances allowed otherwise. Now, university officials also said that there would only be one point of entry to campus and that security would be in place to check student IDs. The lockdown on campus started at around 1 a.m. after a mob broke into Hamilton Hall,

smashing windows and barricading the doors. A facilities worker at Colonial, Colombia claims to have been temporarily held hostage by those anti-Israel protesters. This morning, New York City Mayor Eric Adams condemned the action taken by the protesters. Our college campuses cannot be used to a call for the extermination of any group. Some of the terminologies that were used were just really harmful and despicable. That's not who we are as a country. You can't call for a peace by using violence.

That's not acceptable. It may not be illegal to say some of the things that we've heard, but I think it's immoral. The anti-Israel protesters at Columbia and other universities across the U.S. are demanding that their universities divest their financial support of Israel and that protesting students receive amnesty for any consequences. Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green's motion to vacate the House Speaker appears to be dead after House Democrats say they would rescue the Republican Speaker. Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, along with other Democrats,

say their conference will vote to table the motion if it's ever invoked. The statement comes after weeks of rumors that Democrats would save Johnson should his speakership be threatened. A teenager was killed and four others were hospitalized today after a sword-wielding man went on a stabbing spree in London. Daily Wire reporter Zach Jule has more. Police say the 14-year-old died after being taken to the hospital, adding that they had received a call this morning of a vehicle being driven into a house

and several people being stabbed in a northeast neighborhood of London. Video circulating on social media shows a man in a yellow sweatshirt with a large sword outside a row of houses on a residential street. That suspect, who has not yet been named by police, then went on to attack more people in public. Police did say that a 36-year-old man was arrested at the scene. He was tasered here at the scene and arrested 22 minutes after the first call was made to police. shortly before 7 a.m. this morning. I want to confirm at present that we do not believe there is any

ongoing threat to the wider public, and we're not seeking any other persons. This episode is brought to you by fast-growing trees. Right now, as a listener of our show, you get an additional 15% off your first purchase when you use code wire at fastgrowingtrees.com. Terms and conditions may apply. Law enforcement in North Carolina have revealed the identities of the officers who were shot and killed yesterday in Charlotte. The men killed included three U.S. Marshals who've been identified as Alden, Elliott, Samuel Paloshe, and Thomas Weeks Jr. Charlotte Metro PD Officer Joshua Iyer was also killed during the shootout. We saw what I mentioned yesterday officers going into the line of fire to save their brothers in blue who have gone down in the act of trying to keep our community

safe. To me, that's truly heroic. When you hear the gunshot, shots and the rapid fire, and they're running directly into it because they know that there are people that need help, and they risk their own lives to do that. The officers were serving a warrant on a felony fugitive when shots rang out. More than 100 rounds of gunfire were exchanged. The suspect was killed by police. The Biden Drug Enforcement Administration is set to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Dalywire reporter Tim Pierce has the details.

According to the Associated Press, the DEA's proposal, which must still be reviewed by the White House, would acknowledge the potential uses of cannabis while saying it has less potential for abuse than some more dangerous drugs. However, it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use. The shift in the agency's policy would be the biggest in more than 50 years if it's made official. And a 40-year-old man was arrested after allegedly kicking a bison in the leg at Yellowstone National Park. Officials say the man was charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing wildlife, and being under the influence of alcohol to a degree that may endanger oneself. He also sustained minor injuries. Rangers say people in the park should stay around 25 yards away from all large animals, including bison, elk, big horn, sheep, deer, moose, and coyotes, and at least 100 yards from wolves and bears.

You know kidding. The incident remains under investigation. 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.