Morning Wire - Potential Biden Subpoenas & Iran’s Imprisoned Americans | Afternoon Update | 8.10.23

Episode Date: August 10, 2023

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I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Vickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, August 10th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Representative James Comer told Fox's Maria Bartaromo that he will be subpoenaing Joe and Hunter Biden to testify about their alleged scheme to sell Biden influence. The announcement comes one day after the House Oversight Committee released a bombshell report detailing evidence that the Biden family received at least 20 million from foreign countries, including Russia. Comer says this was always going to end with the Biden's coming before the committee. We are going to subpoena the family. I mean, we're putting the case together to win in court. We've shown the bank records. If I had subpoenaed Joe and Hunter Biden the first day I became chairman of the committee,

it would have been tied up in court and the judge would have eventually thrown it out because at that time, the narrative was, well, they never took anybody in one of these vice president. Five Americans imprisoned in Iran have been moved from a notorious prison in the country to house arrest as part of a planned swap between Tehran and Washington. According to one of the prisoner's lawyers, the deal will include the release of roughly $6 billion in Iranian government assets that were held up by U.S. sanctions. If the proposed agreement goes through, it will need to abide by existing sanctions that only allow Iran to use the money to buy food, medicine, or for other humanitarian purposes.

Special Counsel Jack Smith proposed a January 2nd start day. today for former President Donald Trump's trial regarding his alleged effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith's office has estimated that its case would take no longer than four to six weeks to present to jurors. Right-wing Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villa Vecencio was assassinated by drug traffickers on Wednesday night. President Guillermo Laso said he was outraged and shocked by the murder. He said that those behind the assassination would not go unpunished. Philippeficencio, a former journalist, had been highly vocal about the ties between organized

crime and government officials in the South American nation. Thousands of people have been displaced, and at least three dozen people are dead after wildfires ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui and overwhelmed firefighters. Here with the latest is Daily Wire reporter, Zach Jule. The blazes erupted on Tuesday and continued to wreak havoc on the community on the western part of the island, while flames raged in other areas. The fires have already engulfed thousands of acres and have killed at least 36 people. The cause of the fires is still unknown, and President Joe Biden has declared a FEMA disaster. And Virgin Galactic's first commercial space flight

took off successfully from New Mexico today and carried three passengers to the edge of the cosmos. Among the passengers was a mother and her daughter who won their seats in a drawing at a fundraiser event. The historic flight took off from Virgin Galactic's spaceport where the passengers bordered VSS Unity as it sat attached beneath the wing of a massive mothership. Like an airplane, the mothership sped down a runway before lifting off. Once above 40,000 feet, the spaceship detached and continued its ascent to more than 50 miles above Earth's surface. 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 story

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