Morning Wire - Thursday Afternoon Update | 2.2.23

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

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This is Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, February 2nd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. Hunter Biden's lawyers are demanding state and federal investigations into the dissemination of personal material from Hunter's laptop. Critics say the demand is a tacit admission that the contents are legitimate. The owner of the store where the laptop was left says he had the legal right to the contents after Hunter left it stranded. Well, on the document that Hunter signed, it clearly states about it. bottom after 90 days, the product becomes my property. At that point, I mean, there's, there's, what's the saying? It's, uh, there's no, um, assumption of privacy when it comes to

things that you abandon. So I knew that this laptop became my property and I, by then, and this was what, mid-July, it became my property. I knew that, that I needed this thing out of my shop. Federal law enforcement officials are planning to search the home a former vice president Mike Pence in the coming days after Pence's legal team found classified material inside the residence last month. That's according to the Wall Street Journal. Pence directed his team to search his home in Indiana as well as the office of his political advocacy group advancing American freedom after the discovery of documents associated with President Biden. No classified papers turned up at the search of Pence's offices at AAF.

A New Jersey Republican Councilwoman Eunice Jumfer, a 30-year-old partner. time EMT and business analyst was shot dead in her SUV outside her home in Sarville, New Jersey, Wednesday evening. Authorities say that it was a targeted attack and she had multiple gunshot wounds. No more details have been released. The Republican-led House voted to remove Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar from the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Committee today, citing her anti-Israel rhetoric. Democrat critics, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, say the move is political revenge.

This is about targeting. women of color in the United States of America. Don't tell me because I didn't get a single apology. Time is expired. My life was threatened. Thank you. While ice storms continue to pummel the south, the Northeast is expected to be slammed by an Arctic blast bringing the coldest wind chill in decades.

Hazardous conditions are expected Friday night through Saturday. Even exposure for as little as a minute is enough in these frigid temperatures to begin to develop frostbite. Mortgage rates on the average 30-year loan dropped below 6% today to 5.99% for the first time since September. The drop from 6.21% earlier this week would save a borrower nearly $300 on a $400,000 home loan.

Two GOP senators have been removed from their committee spots after challenging minority leader Mitch McConnell's leadership position. Florida Senator Rick Scott challenged McConnell for the GOP top spot, and Utah Senator Bill Lee endorsed Scott. Both have been removed from the Commerce Committee. Groundhog, Punksitani Phil, made his annual prediction

about whether or not the country will have an early spring or a long winter in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning. Here's a reading from his determination at the annual tradition. I see that everyone knows their part, and I am merely the sage. But above all else, I see a shadow on my stage. And so, no matter how you measure, it's six more weeks of winter weather. Well, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.

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