Morning Wire - Thursday Afternoon Update | 1.12.23

Episode Date: January 12, 2023

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This show is brought to you by Masterworks. If the current state of the S&P 500 has you worried, you should consider investing in fine art with Masterworks. Go to Masterworks.com and use promo code MorningWire for priority access. That's Masterworks.com promo code MorningWire. See important disclosures at Masterworks.com slash CD. This is Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howl. It's Thursday, January 12th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. An attorney for President Biden announced Thursday morning that a second batch of Class

documents from his days as vice president were found by Biden aides in his garage in Wilmington Delaware. Pressed by a reporter on Thursday about the newly disclosed documents, the president defended his storage choice by saying the garage was locked. Placified material next to your Corvette? What were you thinking? Yeah, we're going to get a chance to speak on all this, God willing, soon. But as I said earlier this week, people, and by the way, my Corvette's in a lock garage. Okay? So it's not like you're sitting out in the street. Shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern time, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to handle the investigation of the classified documents. The Consumer Price Index decreased 0.1 percent in December 2022, marking the largest inflationary decline in nearly three years.

But prices still remain near record levels across America. The House of Representatives passed the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on Wednesday. all but two Democrats voted against the bill. Supporters of the bill, like Virginia Representative Ben Klein, says this is an incredible and important step. Protecting living and breathing babies outside the womb should not be a partisan issue. It should be one around which we all should unite. A day after thousands of flights were grounded across the country, the FAA says they're zeroing in on a cause for the system outage. In a statement released last night, the agency said, quote,

our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file. The agency went on to say that at this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are urging President Biden to revoke any diplomatic visa for former Brazilian President Jayao Bolsonaro, who has been residing in Florida since late December. The letter, sent Wednesday, follows riots in Brazil's capital earlier this week over the election of Bolsonaro's opponent left-wing Luis Anasio Lula de Silva. Bolsonaro has denounced the riots. Nurses at two of New York City's biggest hospitals

ended a three-day strike on Thursday after reaching a tentative deal. Union officials say the agreement offers Mount Sinai Hospital and Montfior Medical Center nurses a 19% raise over three years and better working conditions. The nurses at both facilities walked out earlier this week after negotiations failed.

Each hospital has over 1,000 beds and 3,500 or more union nurses. New York Governor Kathy Hochel greeted nurses as they went back to work at Mount Sinai. We finally reached a resolution to get thousands of nurses back on the job where they want to be. But in a way that's going to be safer for our patients with new staffing ratios, it's going to be a better environment for them. After nine months of captivity in Russia, Taylor Dudley, a 35-year-old U.S. citizen, was released Thursday and allowed to cross the Polish border.

Once across, he was met by a U.S. Embassy official, and Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico, who specializes in detainee negotiations. Dudley was arrested on unknown charges after crossing the border while backpacking to attend a music festival in Poland. The Justice Department announced Thursday that the L.A.-based City National Bank will be required to pay $31 million in the largest redlining settlement in history. After the feds say, the bank refused to provide mortgages and other banking services to families in minority L.A. neighborhoods. As part of the settlement, the bank will create a nearly $30 million loan subsidy specifically for black and Hispanic borrowers. And First Lady Jill Biden underwent a successful procedure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Wednesday

to remove a small basal cell carcinoma or skin cancer above her right eye. 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.